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So how does Mastodon pay its engineers? Mostly...it doesn't. Eugen and Claire are the only paid devs on Mastodon. Everyone else is making updates *for free*, as a hobby, on the side, after their day job. People are building CalcKey for free. People are building just about every fediverse product for free, as part of the open source community. It was particularly amusing when Elon said he wanted to open source the algorithm-- Jack Dorsey saying he wanted to create an open source protocol-- Nearly all of the Fediverse is open source. The algorithms are already open source. The protocol is a W3C standard (ActivityPub) just like HTML. The future these dopes have been trying to build already exists. There's just no money or power in it for them, so they have no interest and pretend it doesn't exist.
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Jack Dorsey enthusiastically co-signed the deal that betrayed 200 million Twitter users and handed their accounts over to a fucking right wing egomaniacal billionaire. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not eager to sign up for another one of this dude’s schemes.
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Well I had a delightful evening watching Paramore, with Bloc Party supporting! Kele and Hayley even did a duet and it was amazing.
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And so begins the flight home. It’ll be nice to spend some of 2023 in London!
Week Notes 23#16 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-17?
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BEEEEEEEP
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Attached: 1 image I found a bot which was hammering my site. So I asked the author if they could make it opt-in. Apparently consent doesn't matter if it's for the greater good. The #AI brainworms are strong! https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293
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You're not "falling behind" if you're not learning AI. Please don't listen to these engagement grifters trying to manipulate you with FUD.Post details
If you aren't learning AI, you're falling behind. Luckily, Harvard (4.5% acceptance rate) & Stanford ($78,898 yearly tuition) offer free courses. No application or fee required. Here are 10 FREE courses you don't want to miss:Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0)Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:33 +0000
Kurt Kemple (@theworstdev)Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:52 +0000
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Today's test of the UK emergency broadcast system is going to be disappointing, isn't it? I mean, I have become excited by the geek aspects of the whole thing - but the wall-to-wall coverage has really built this up now to the point of hype. It's a shame, we had wine in and were planning a "emergency alert party"
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As mentioned in the above toot yesterday, the UK government are going to be scaring the pants off half the country at 3pm today with an emergency alert test. If you have a hidden phone you don't want someone finding out about, turn off emergency alerts in that phone's settings or turn the phone off. Otherwise it's very likely to make a loud noise once the test commences. Edit: Going through the replies suggests it's best to turn the SETTING off and NOT just the phone.
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Tailscale is amazing. But you already knew that, right? There’s nothing more satisfying than being able to set up a secure network in seconds, almost like magic — except maybe realizing it’s Friday when you thought it was Thursday, but I digress.
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#Cookie had her first grooming session at Otis and Chums this week and she looks super cute, and we found some markings under her fur that we'd never seen before 🙀
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Unlike left and right, port and starboard refer to fixed locations on a vessel.
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The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.
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With me looking to get back to a bit more public speaking, I've revamped my talks site so it's a little easier to see the previous talks I've done, as well as moving content from my site to the talks site.
Deffo still needs work, but it's better than what was there before 😅
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Attached: 1 image When I'm elected as Queen of the Universe, I'm going to ban lunch time meetings. Until then, I just won't go to them :blobfoxnomdonut:
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Getting the commit author details for a GitHub App account (1 mins read).
How to retrieve the git commit author details for a given GitHub App.
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How to verifiably link npm packages to their source repository and build instructions.
FYI this does mean folks following your feed no longer see the Week Notes posts 👀 https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbarryfrost.com%2F
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AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.
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"King Charles' Coronation service will be four hours longer than his mother, due to his limited mobility."
Casual UK (@CasualUK_)Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:20 +0000
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if you gaze into the scroll, the scroll gazes also into you
Amy Hoy (@amyhoy)Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:26 +0000
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Exciting news! Yesterday, $86 million in settlement checks were sent out to women covered in our class action against Google. All women deserve equal pay for equal work. PERIOD. I am really proud of my role in making them PAY UP!!Kelly Ellis (@justkelly_ok)Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:45 GMT
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Attached: 1 image Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table
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In a conversation on reddit today someone asked if other languages have phrases like "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc. And one person answers that in Spanish, the phrase is: "La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera." or: "The right oppresses, the left liberates." (Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)
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Software engineer and artist
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Attached: 1 image I paid for the whole PC, I'm gonna use the whole PC
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We really missed an opportunity to call logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability LMAO 😹
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Attached: 1 image I've always hated this and just realised my own company does it. I hate it soooo much This makes me feel we've given up on the web. It's not that the app provides a better experience, it's that we've not invested in a good web experience because "reasons"...
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Attached: 1 image censorship
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MillerKnoll says a video of CEO Andi Owen telling employees to stop "thinking about what you’re going to do if you don’t get a bonus" was taken "out of context."
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zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
Warren Commission Test Skull (@conzmoleman)Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:49 +0000
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Attached: 1 image I made mango marshmallow ice cream, and it's as delicious as it sounds.
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Attached: 1 image Hey #btconf, find me if you want Accessibility Woke Platoon stickers!
I will be attending
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Week Notes 23#15 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-10?