Likes from 17 October 2023

Attached: 1 image Okay but there’s a really useful lesson here about meeting your customers/users where they’re at. Food is meant to be eaten. And people might want to eat it in the *wrong* way. And the company that says “well, we should probably make it safe for them to do so” is going to have an advantage over the companies that insist people behave “properly”. Insert cyber analogy here.

I am beyond thrilled to see the OSI stepping up with https://opensource.net/ and filling the gap after RH stopped supporting opensource.com. If you want to write a blog post about open source and need a place to publish it, the OSI team was super helpful and easy to work with!

The thing about Conehead’s manifesto is, before even getting to the arguments, the technology he wants everyone to be optimistic about is FUCKING APPS and SCAMS. He’s equating himself and his pals to the biggest paradigm shifts in history when what he means is a new way to make the internet shit

The Pokemon Go programming language

Axenado: 1 imaxe

"We set the story points to zero at the end of the sprint" These new scrum techniques are amazing, yo!

having serious #AllThingsOpen FOMO today now thinking I should have gone even if it meant using my own budget

So, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like: - protocols not platforms - coops and unions - technology should not actively hurt us - people not users - seven generations, seven continents - free markets require antitrust enforcement

it’s funny that billionaires fascists are self publishing their own manifestos even the unabomber got in the nyt

sorry i just find it hilarious that either the nyt developed standards for their op-eds, or a fascist tech billionaire can’t buy their way into popular media

Marc Andreessen's manifesto: https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

but seriously i think with marc andreessen going full-on jackbooted fascist with his fingers in all the cryptocurrency and machine learning artificial intelligence pies, we get a free pass at an "i told you so" when we say that all of this stuff is a stalking horse for the advancement of white supremacy

ROFL WTF https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ 🤣 I know what the 16 in a16z stands for now: this could have been written by a 16 year old libertarian.

Watching S7E1 of Rick and Morty. The new voices aren't quite right, but on the plus side, they're also not being voiced by an abusive sex pest.

What I love about Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that that they love being loud and wrong. If I had spent the last few years shilling crypto as the next big thing in tech only for a bunch of my portfolio companies to turn out to be Ponzi schemes & grifts, I’d never write publicly again. I definitely wouldn’t write Bond villain style speeches about how AI ethics and trust & safety teams at tech companies are the enemy preventing you from colonizing the stars. 😬 https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

It happened here on Mastodon for the first time: I got made angry by something other people were angry about, and which *I would never have heard of it wasn’t for other people being angry*. Social media induced rage has arrived in my happy place. :(