Oh come *on* USA, what the fuck.

My feed right now is mostly scared trans folks, but I do have a message to the business leaders I know follow me: you can make a lot of the anxiety better for your employees by establishing a contingency plan to protect them. I'm not saying to give up, just have a plan.

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#npm is 14 years old - 8 years ago I wrote a first proof of concept of a supply chain attack, Microsoft have owned it for 4 years and have done absolutely nothing to secure it. (That supply chain attack - https://github.com/tanepiper/steal-ur-stuff)

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Outside of the whole fascism thing, I have loved ones that are autistic and loved ones that are trans. I’m personally disgusted by MAGA talking points, and all the people pandering to them.

never underestimate what someone with decades of finely-honed adhd can accomplish in the seven minutes before a hard deadline

Good luck to those in the US. For those you can, please vote it matters. More importantly, can we please, please end these pointless wars and murder of so many people and refocus our collective energy, creativity, and intelligence on saving our only home?

Does sustainable open source means more professional maintainers or does it mean more paid time for maintenance? I think the true revolution comes when every developer is encouraged and empowered to collaborate with the wider world. We need the contribution of the masses, not the professionalisation of the few.

Hello USA citizens. If you are choosing not to vote this year, or are voting for Trump, please unfollow me and then go and have your asshole violently filled with wasps.

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It’s not particularly surprising - I assume a lot of this is motivated by the fact that people building language models are training them on data they don’t have the rights to, but that doesn’t mean we should encourage it, or come close to defining it as open 🙃