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Attached: 1 image Yikes, bailing on the platform you funded because they are worried about safety is quite the stand. https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug. Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc. https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/ The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me. In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre. Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification. Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions. The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools? While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

nothing is apolitical. hope this helps

Devs: We've finally got the thing that's definitely not a Torment Nexus you and running. That's awesome! We're gonna make a ton of money from tormenting people. They keep asking for it for any reason. Devs: Speaking of money, I think I deserve a raise. Absolutely not? Did you even do any work? Also, this thing requires the power of a small country to do even a small amount of tormenting. It's costing us billions. We're gonna have to let you go.

Will you help us build the Torment Nexus? Devs: What?! Absolutely not! What if we paid you $1 million a year? Devs: It's not about the money. My reputation is at stake! You could tell people you had no choice. Devs: I won't be responsible for building the Torment Nexus. It's evil! Oh... well you know it won't look like a Torment Nexus until much later. Right now it's just a cool toy that makes up answers to silly questions. Devs: Haha, this thing is cool. Wait, what were we talking about?

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The question of whether CSS is a programming language serves only one purpose: to demote those who write it. There is no confusion that needs to be clarified, and no other purpose in asking, beyond the most trivial kind of pedantry. The debate itself is an act of gatekeeping, whether intentional or not. Its only significant effect is to elevate some work over other work, despite their essentially identical nature. The only meaningful function of the question is segregation. #css

you can only call it a "bank holiday" if you're travelling to Halifax or Santander, otherwise it's just a sparkling day off

Attached: 1 image Protest still not peaceful enough for US gov

Fresh new OSS Hell just dropped https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/

I will attend MenderCon 2024—a remote conf for people who deal with legacy codebases 📅 May 16 📍 Remote 🎫 Pay what you want (suggested $5) There will be open-space sessions: you can bring up a topic you want to discuss Interested? Join us 😉 Details & registration: https://mendercon.com/

protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation

Attached: 1 image May the 4th be with you.

Remarkably consistent pattern as to who still masks, at least in the anglo countries I've been in over the last two years: Mostly people of color, older folks, and when it's young white people usually disability is involved. Common thread, I suspect, is that these are the folks who stand to lose more if they get sick. I would that there were a greater showing of solidarity, but rugged individualism and all that 🤷🏻

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Attached: 1 image From a friend's discord #infosec #starWars

handing every lesbian a copy of ISO8601 so they can tell what is and isn’t a date

Attached: 1 image Did you know that Open Tech Fund has a NEW grant program just for FOSS projects? You can apply through May 17th! Join me, @senficon@ohai.social, Laura Cunningham, and Susan Kennedy on May 7th to learn more about the FOSS-maintenance-focused fund and how to apply: https://gh.io/otf-github Please help spread the word about this great initiative!

(the correct answer to "what is the plural of kubernetes" is "clinical depression", by the way)

Some people think scalability is the biggest challenge in tech. Some think it’s data privacy. I think the biggest challenge in tech is the constant internal battle between ideals and a fat pay check.

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a lot of people don't get this but software rots. Just like a physical piece of wood or machine, software rusts, software rots. It's content doesn't change, sure, but the world around it does. The same database you release today, wont work 10 years later perfectly. It'll rust. It won't handle new formats, old formats will introduce new features that will confuse and break your databases algorithm software rusts and rots. The only way to keep software from rusting, just like a good metallic tool, is polishing it, maintaining it, making sure it's nice and working

Grateful that Kendrick Lamar has no idea who I am

🎶 duh duh duh duh fuck the tories duh duh duh duh fuck the tories 🎶

bring your child to work day except you’re the child

Once you've "made it", keep the network going. And give back. Give back to the nonprofit that lifted you up. Stay in touch with the people who helped you out. Pay it forward to another person in need. Don't just disappear once you've "got yours." Everything is temporary.

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Attached: 1 image Brits: Hands up if these French train fines are cheaper than your actual train ticket.

Stress awareness month is officially over. Please stop being stressed, it is illegal for the next 11 months. Get your fucking Cortisol under control or you will start incurring fees.

Happy International Workers' Day to the entire Proletariat and to tech workers who just got laid off again but still don't think they have any pressing reason to unionise especially.

Labour day! I wish you a decent salary, strong unions, and rest.

Attached: 1 image From https://existentialcomics.com/comic/247 (Edited to credit orginal artist properly.)

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Really really love this: The Millennial Captcha (make sure you try it out) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

Attached: 1 image holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.

i’m not sure which source control system needs to hear this but .. nobody has ever wanted to commit a .DS_Store file.

Attached: 1 image We made a comic about a job interview.

Don't know if I reach any game developer. But games need a "adult mode" as in "I haven't played the game for weeks because life happened. Please give me a ramp up of the story so far and an option for a short tutorial with all the controls and mechanics".

Attached: 1 image "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

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I always write in the present tense. It's the present, and I'm tense

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If your enemy is literally hiding behind children, you don't say, "My enemy made me kill children." You say, "I couldn't kill my enemy, because there were children in the way." Unless, of course, you don't think the children are really human in the way that your children are human.

What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly created any shareholder value today

Did MKBHD ruin an AI company and their product because of their negative review of it? No, the bad AI product ruined itself and its company. Just because someone created a business, found funding and created a thing doesn’t mean they should get instant recognition, and a pass for crappy stuff. Entrepreneurs aren’t your friends, they aren’t superior, they don’t deserve to be coddled. When they make sh*t products, they should be told that they made sh*t. MKBHD did their job.