Reposts from 4 April 2024

“trans people don't want equality, they want special treatmen-” Special treatment would be if LGBTQ+ people didn't have to pay taxes. You know, like churches. :trantifa:

I have a lot more to say, but I'll hold it for now and simply wonder aloud... Which BigTech clouds are the "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" AI systems running on? What APIs are they using? Which libraries are they calling? What work did my former colleagues, did I, did *you* contribute to that may now be enabling this automated slaughter? (Also, content warning. This is some of the sickest shit I've ever read.) https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source maintainers still owe you nothing: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does. Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment" and honestly, where is the lie

... next month... Me: "Dear maintainer, can you please bump package XY?" Maintainer: ...furiously starts looking into the git diff looking for a backdoor.