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Reposted Owen (spoopy aspect) (@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)
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If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

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Reposted Marco Rogers (@polotek@social.polotek.net)
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In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because I know if that if you're not trying to understand business outcomes, your judgment about the technical issues is going to be much worse. Many engineers fundamentally do not believe this to be true. And it's one of the things that sets them at odds with leadership.

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Reposted VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)
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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy

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Reposted unimplemented!("free the imagination") (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/

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<p>Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.</p><p>Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.</p><p>But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:</p><img src="https://goblin.band/files/ccae0c7e-bcad-4df8-833e-198c82647f14" alt /><p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf">Link to the full letter</a></p><p>Some extracts:</p><blockquote><p>Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the <a target="_blank" href="http://Wordpress.org">Wordpress.org</a> site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.</p></blockquote><p>They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&amp;A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up</p></blockquote><p>They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time.</p><p>All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.</p><p></p><p>Holy. Fucking. Shit.</p><p>HOLY FUCKING SHIT.</p><p>They are going to toast him alive</p> 📎

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Listened to Ep 258: Phil Dunster | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Restaurant this week. And don’t forget, tune in to Comic Relief. Phil Dunster stars in ‘Oklahoma! in Concert’ at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 19th and 20th August. Get tickets at oklahomaconcert.co.uk Follow Phil on Instagram and Twitter @phildunster Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 447 - The Tidelift 2024 open source maintainer report
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and talk about the 2024 Tidelift maintainer report. The report is pretty big and covers a ton of ground. We focus in a few of the statistics that should worry anyone who uses open source. We've known for a while developers are struggling, and the numbers back that up. This one feels like the old "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas". Show Notes

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Listened to API Evangelist Conversation with Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze by The API Evangelist Conversations by Kin Lane 
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This is the first actual edition of the API Evangelist Conversation podcast with my friend Pat Patterson, the Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Always enjoy learning from Pat as we dove into the meaning behind his title, as well as how Backblaze has standardized their API around the Amazon S3 storage API--essentially treating the API as the industry standard for storage.

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Reposted Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)
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Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important. https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany). #economics #tax

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Reposted Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com)
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Remember everyone: if your CEO insists that you can only work at the office, only work when you’re at the office. Leave when your contracted hours end. Do not work at home. Take whatever your contracted breaks are. Oh and join a union. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio