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So: Mu. Ask a different question. You have dependencies. You will always have them. Choose them thoughtfully. Invent where it matters most to you, and re-use where it does not, and where you can benefit from somebody else's care & testing. Talk your employers into sponsoring the important ones if you can, because that will improve their quality. Probably. There is no such thing as free-as-in-lunch software. FIN

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data. Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of... - "website owner has no respect for consumer rights" - "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry" #GDPR

no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.

Also, if you're like me, and were raised to scoff at people who needed to hire cleaning services as it is a "rich lazy" person thing, I urge you to absolutely let go of that. The last two years I've been incredibly burnt out both from work and from, idk, probably 39 years of undiagnosed autism. If you can pay for an accommodation like this to help give yourself some space to breathe, do it.

Get ready to celebrate open-source once again with Hacktoberfest! Whether you're going to be creating pull/merge requests, maintaining a participating project, or hosting a community event, check out the site for all the information you'll need: https://hacktoberfest.com

My no-nuance take on the recent discourse: I am not less than the other people in the IndieWeb community for not having a fancy, automated, cool setup on my personal website. Nobody has ever made me feel that way. It doesn't matter if all you have is a simple page with your name and email. If there is one place where you can do whatever you want and how you want is your personal website. I'm lucky to have found a community that supports this.

The Field Notes motto: I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.

Contributing to open source is a privilege. It doesn't mean you have cheated to do it or that you don't deserve praise for doing it! It only means that not everyone can do it. You need the skills, time and will to do it in addition to doing whatever you need to have a good life. Not everyone has that time. Not everyone works in the field. We must acknowledge it to meaningfully convey the value of open source in society. #opensource #privilege

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If I ran a dentist practice in 2024 I would simply advertise that we're ADHD-friendly and say up-front that we would just see you and treat you, and would never, ever remark on or shame you for the state of your teeth or how long it's been since you've last seen a dentist

@docpop STOP DOING EMBEDS Things dreamed up by the UTTERLY DERANGED: <iframe src="...site that is not yours..."> <script src="https://mastodon.social/embed.js"> "Hello I would like to mine bitcoin for you" "Thank you for the tracking cookies and single point of failure" THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

Depression is when you lose all your enthusiasm for enthusiasm, and you can't even tell.

The UK's largest free culture and free and open source community unconference is back, after a 5 year hiatus. Come along and take part! #OggCamp #OggCamp2024 #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload http://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/20/return-of-the-oggcamp/

if there's one thing i hate more than not having executive function to do the thing it's finally having the executive function to do the thing but then being blocked by external factors outside my control

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Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning. Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter. (Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)

Remember to keep pirating Disney content so they aren't allowed to kill your wife

Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text #pollution

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One thing I for sure think about every night as I climb into bed is how I owe everyone on earth a return email

OK! I *think* I've finished. You can now "rescue" any embedded Tweet and recreate it as simple HTML - no tracking. Includes: 🗣 Avatars inlined as WebP 📸 All attached photos inlined 🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original mp4 🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co #️⃣ Hashtags & @ mentions linked 🔄 Includes reply threads & quote Tweets 🕰 Semantic time 🔍 Schema.org metadata 🖼 Cards 📊 Polls ♥ , ♻ & 🗨 counts One command. No API key needed. Code at https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed Feedback *very* much welcome!

@mttaggart@infosec.town Distributed Denial of Executive Function

I don't have ADHD; I am under a massive DDoS attack.

Hey you! Yes! *YOU!* Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13. It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference. Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things. Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/

@simon@simonwillison.net every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR, and eleven years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine”

The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.

An important lesson is that you can never easily tell who is “vulnerable” to COVID. Olympic champions are at risk from COVID. In different ways COVID poses a risk to all of us. This is why it’s important for everyone to take measures to protect themselves and others from COVID.

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure. All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy. #crowdstrike

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In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need utopias

Dependency Management Data v0.102.0 is out 🚀 Check out the release notes at https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/releases/v0.102.0

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I used to just block ads and leave it up to others to handle the Digital Panopticon. But now I ask myself, “Why am I giving these people oxygen? If they feel their creativity is best presented with a popup that is surrounded by a blur to force you to interact with it, and then when you make it go away there are header and footer ads, and every two paragraphs there is an ad… I can take a moment and find a different page.” I no longer link to pages that are ads interrupted with content. 🚫

I keep making satire of The Onion's series on gun safety because "software engineers" are not engineers and we keep fucking up society-critical things by using unsafe tools to make them. Want that series to end? Make the madness stop.

**Concerning CrowdStrike:** We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday. If something similar had been caused by an OSS component, we would see congress discussing a ban on open software in critical infrastructure already.

Make tech completely unbearable for Nazis

OMFG newspapers are quoting this asinine Twitter thread as analysis. Fuck me. Why have I ever had imposter syndrome when guys like this get hired at Google?

No web without women https://nowebwithoutwomen.com

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Attached: 1 image In 6 months to 30 April number of people whos code was accepted into open source projects (committers) from the UK increase increased by 1,600 compared to 1,700 in the previous 12 months. Read the OpenUK report to understand OpenUK's plan to build more contributors to open source projects from the UK and our Skills ask of the government. https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/state-of-open-the-uk-in-2024-phase-2-the-open-manifesto #opensource #theopenmanifesto #openuk

Also, quick note for crowdstrike execs: everyone can see you looking over at that bus, considering your options, limbering up your throwing arm... Just a note that the people you probably want to hire are watching reeeally closely how you're going to handle this, and are taking notes. The shareholders may be into human sacrifices, but the people you need to run your business aren't. Choose wisely.

No one is getting fired over this, right? Correct. HR systems are down too.

@ticky@queer.party Don't shorten links. Links were not meant to be shortened. They have played us for absolute fools.

I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects. Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen. https://social.kernel.org/objects/39125e2b-0997-4c90-86f9-b16229bf4b52

Happy Y2K everyone!

Good luck to the Lionesses men's team this evening #EURO2024

It's interesting that people keep talking about the Trump incident as a "shocking act" when it really wasn't shocking at all if you've been paying attention to American gun violence and the Republicans' constant calls for political violence and death threats against Democratic politicians and journalists (though these are mainly targeting female, Black and queer journalists and a lot of the targets are women in politics, so maybe straight White male journalists aren't being subjected to nearly as much of this and just don't believe their colleagues). I wish one journalist would just honestly say 'in a not unexpected act of political violence in our landscape of constant gun violence" or something that acknowledged reality. This kind of gun violence is now terribly mundane in the US and Trump and the GOP helped make it mundane.