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

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. :(

We disclosed this #hackerone report against #curl when someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability, and it hallucinated together something: https://hackerone.com/reports/2199174

Attached: 1 image scientific breakthrough: a thermometer that can tell the temperature with no sensors needed by measuring the proximity between my two cats, who do not normally like to snuggle with one another, you can tell that the heat in my house is broken #cats #catsofmastodon

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According to Google Search Console, this little web app of mine is performing very well! https://boroughs.dpope.uk All it does is tell you which London borough you’re in, which is apparently something that hundreds of people search for every month!

sorry but I won't let tech bros take the term "optimist" and turn it into their own thing

Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto.

Dear #OpenSource contributors: do not reformat the code. It takes a second to run the formatter, but it requires hours to review the massive patch to ensure there aren't any bad changes hiding among all the spaces and brackets moved around.

It's an "use this custom API that we built" instead of "follow this standard that worked since the 1990s" kind of day.

So many men’s first instinct is to be condescending, because they think it will immediately place them in a power position over me. But, like, you just told me this interaction matters to you – and you’re emotionally invested in winning it for some reason. With that knowledge alone I could crush you, baby boy

On October 11th, WireMock Inc together with the London Java Community organised a hack day in our new office in London. This event was held as a part of Hacktoberfest. We got 16 participants and worked together on a few projects like YAML configuration support in WireMock, OpenTelemetry integrations, improving documentation and Kotlin DSL, and more.

I'm way too old to realize that people can't read me (which, come on, should be no surprise, kids never got me either) - I have realized that a bunch of people in my life think I am unhappy with them. When the truth is: I am in absolute awe of them, and feel deeply deficient in comparison. It does not help that I never realized this. How does one convince people that you think they are wonderful? Asking for a me.

What’s funny about being non-binary is that, to me, I’m the normal one. I think our whole thing just kind of works, no? You’re all just being silly about colors and stuff. We’re the main characters of gender, just admit it.

My supervisor complains that everyone is sick on any given day half the office is empty and yet he has noticed that I am always at my desk so he asks what my secret is and so I reply that I must be lucky as I adjust the straps on my mask.

Writing my thoughts down as I start a potentially long process of something and writing "Whatever and whenever it happens, I'm still me :)" just felt nice, a reminder to myself that ultimately I'm still the same, I might just have some more answers to some things in my life #Journalling

Attached: 1 image I really try not to be overly critical of local government, having worked there and knowing the pressures. But this advice in this day and age is indefensible. The service itself has a load balancer in front of it. All it needs is an HTTPS certificate and a routing rule to terminate HTTPS connections.

Tomorrow, toddler permitting, I will have time to update my talks page (https://ohhelloana.blog/talks/) to include my latest and future talks as well as the link to my most recent interview! I really enjoy doing the interviews & guest writing - I love the prompts and that I don't have to rush doing it. So yeah, I'm keen to do more of it! Let me know! 💖

I had a chat with @proactivepaul@mastodon.social about Barcamp. Turns out it’s not hosted in a bar, nor is it a camping trip. It’s a gathering of people geeking out over whatever they want to talk about. I’m looking forward to learning a lot of random facts next month! #bclxii

I don’t want to alarm you but we are getting dangerously close to the 10 year anniversary of The Force Awakens

bad game idea: French French Revolution whether that's a rhythm game involving deep tongue-kissing or guillotines is up to you

Ring fit fucking slaps

Another day, another HN comment thread that's mostly full of people complaining about someone's use of furry art in a technical post. This time, however, it's not me, Xe, or Cendyne that they're bitching about! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887426

Summary: we are leaving Twitter because Elon Musk is encouraging hate and division. See you on LinkedIn and Mastodon!

You don't need to mansplain, you need a good pegging and to STFU. 💀​

Attached: 1 image This is why the GOV.UK Prototype Kit is so important https://twitter.com/ahiggi/status/1625596779688239116 #accessibility #govukPrototypeKit #design

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Attached: 1 image There seems to be a small pricing error at this bar. Which we are totally not abusing.

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I've been sent some bone-conducting Bluetooth headphone which - so the manufacturer says - are waterproof. I don't have a swimming pool at home (😢 ) so I'm going to try them out in the shower. There won't be any videos - but if this thing electrocutes my head please know that I died doing what I love; dicking around with weird gadgets from China.

The second annual Petaluma Pride Festival was a wild success, and waaay bigger than anticipated. Now it's time to rest, recover, ... and do the bookkeeping.

This is the 7th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Ana …

I spend an unreasonable amount of time making sure my blog renders well even if CSS isn't loaded. Whether it's a dodgy Internet connection, a text-only browser, or something else - it's nice knowing that my blog is in a logical order and perfectly usable without decorations. So fire up Lynx or w3m and take a look at your site. What do you need to change?

Just found the Google Sound Amplifier app for people who need ambient noises amplified. Really useful! Needs headphones in but definitely boosts. Except it only uses the phone microphone. You can't attach a different microphone and set it to use that. Alternatives?

"Why women dey less likely to ask questions for public?" - BBC News Pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c72d7rrr989o

"Unleash your Creativity with the power of Leonardo Ai " Maybe change that to "unleash your ability to generate images based on the *actual* talents of others with unethical art sourcing while claiming that you're a creative person because you don't care"

@cadey@pony.social Confluence is /dev/null as a service, but with added CVEs

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I found explainxkcd a useful source when I made my own xkcd searcher (now a dead project) The transcript sections would be a good source for real alt text e.g. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2840:_Earth_Layers Edit: explainxkcd is still alive; my searcher doesn’t exist anymore

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me still a WIP but the author of “alt text reminder bot” has been working on this for a few years https://my.alt-text.org