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Liked Terra: Chaos Lesbian (@Terra@chaosfem.tw)
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Sitting in a restaurant in Portland while two guys next to me talk about bear hunting, when to go, what to shoot, whether to shoot grizzly or polar bear, when you can shoot juveniles and females … I'm starting to cry when one says "I can't really shoot polar bear too late in the season because I don't have the right lens." They are photographers. I love you Portland.

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Liked Luna (@luna@pony.social)
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“so Luna, what did you get up to today?” I’m so glad you asked! I spent the afternoon figuring out all sorts of css crimes to give an interactive light hypnotic induction the “copying the website UI” visual treatment it needed. How was your day? https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/4325452-cw-hypnosis-hypnok

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Liked Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@hachyderm.io)
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I’ve helped organize two meetups in London. Only a few would show up for the first one. “Because it’s raining, people rather not go outside”, the other organizers told me. So the next one I hosted was in the summer. Only a few would show up for that one. “Because it’s not raining, people rather be outside” the other organizers told me.

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Liked Chris Hardie (@ChrisHardie@mastodon.social)
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People say content is being locked up in proprietary silos but look all I had to do to get an RSS feed of articles on a certain site was install a mitm proxy to intercept their mobile app's requests, fake an SSL certificate to inspect them, reverse engineer their internal APIs, then write a script to discretely query aforementioned APIs and generate an RSS feed file on a schedule. Simple! 🙄 #indieweb #rss

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Liked Kat (@KatS@chaosfem.tw)
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Watching Return of the Jedi, and something grated on me for a moment. "It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I *was* about to let them through." Surely the Empire would have better OpSec than this? ...oh, wait. Gigantic Enterprise-scale operation, driven by fear and tight deadlines, with lots of silos and mini-empires with a culture of internal rivalry for Dear Leader's favour? Never mind. It checks out; I'll let it through.

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Liked Jenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)
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PSA: Do not put git repos inside other git repos. Git is not a package manager. You will make yourself sad. It doesn't matter how many conceptual primitives they share. Don't do it. Just use a package manager. You don't even need a package repository. You can still download things directly from git repos if you want to. Just list them in a package.json or something, and let npm do it. Or go.mod. Anything. Please. For your own sake. And everyone who comes after you.

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Liked Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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The EU response to this should be simple: Tell Apple it will be barred from trading in the EU unless it commits to implementing EU requirements globally. Will the EU understand it does not require global jurisdiction in order to have global impact? Let’s wait and see. #eu #apple #maliciousCompliance https://mastodon.social/@verge/111824614624891170

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Liked Simon Willison (@simon@simonwillison.net)
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The best management advice I ever got is to try and figure out what good management looks like and then put on a performance - try and act like a good manager, go through all of the required motions Because it turns out imitating a good manager and actually being a good manager are mostly the same thing (I think about this sometimes when I encounter debates about whether or not LLMs can reason about or understand content)