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Listened to Oxide and Friends | Cultural Idiosyncrasies

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The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide! Some might even sound good enough for you to try out! Demo Fridays, morning water-cooler, no-meet Wednesdays, recorded meetings, dog-pile debugging (aka CSPAN for debugging), RFDs (requests for...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:04 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Podcast: The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis

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The fascinating Xz backdoor; a looming AI crisis in peer-review; and news around the infamous Lena image. That's all on this week's episode.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:51 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Decipher Podcast: Dan Lorenc Returns

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Dan Lorenc, co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the recent XZ Utils backdoor incident, the implications for the open source ecosystem, and what can be done to avoid similar incidents in the future. Then they discuss the problems facing NIST’s National Vulnerability Database and the CVE ecosystem.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:36 by Jamie Tanna .

Reposted Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied: (@ErikUden@mastodon.de)

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“trans people don't want equality, they want special treatmen-” Special treatment would be if LGBTQ+ people didn't have to pay taxes. You know, like churches. :trantifa:

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:01 by Jamie Tanna .

Reposted Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

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I have a lot more to say, but I'll hold it for now and simply wonder aloud... Which BigTech clouds are the "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" AI systems running on? What APIs are they using? Which libraries are they calling? What work did my former colleagues, did I, did *you* contribute to that may now be enabling this automated slaughter? (Also, content warning. This is some of the sickest shit I've ever read.) https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:48 by Jamie Tanna .

Reposted Mike McQuaid (@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social)

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Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source maintainers still owe you nothing: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does. Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:43 by Jamie Tanna .

Reposted Sara Safavi (@sara@hachyderm.io)

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accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment" and honestly, where is the lie

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:39 by Jamie Tanna .

Reposted David Heidelberg (@okias@floss.social)

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... next month... Me: "Dear maintainer, can you please bump package XY?" Maintainer: ...furiously starts looking into the git diff looking for a backdoor.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:36 by Jamie Tanna .

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