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"'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." bell hooks

I still think corporations have Pride Month backwards: this isn't a month to make money off me, this is a month to give me discounts for doing the public service of being this gay! I should be able to walk into any Target and get 30% off by kissing another girl or showing the cute bandaid from where I did my HRT shot! I should get free coffee at starbucks for walking in with carabiners and a fanny pack! I should be able to demand any random driver pull over and become a free uber by waving a rainbow flag so I can go spread my gayness across the city! Strangers should just hand me a twenty because I'm slouching bisexually in public!?! #RainbowCapitalism #Queer #PrideMonth #Pride

The other day at work, in an online meeting, a fuckhead said the phrase “Well, it’s probably because she’s a woman and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about”, referring to an external contractor. I’m not out, but I stopped the meeting and said “You don’t get to talk like that in front of me. Now, I have to call HR.” There was laughter. To which I replied sternly, “It is not funny. Do better.” There was no laughter then. I don’t put up with that shit. Misogyny, any kind of trans- or queer- based phobia, racism. None. That’s how you ally - you speak up. You challenge the notion that these fuckers are in a safe place. You DO have power to create change. Be the voice for the voiceless. Afterwards, two of the other attendees reached out to me to thank for my courage to stand up to one of the “cool kids”. I don’t need thanks, I need people to be better. BE BETTER.

I got let go from my current role. To say I saw it coming would be half true, but I was not expecting to be out in the blinds this soon. Open to a lot right now, more info at https://jacky.wtf/work. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/20Fw)

Attached: 1 image '“The union” is an organization you build with your coworkers, not a service you receive. Say it again. And again. And again.' #Union

Things that should burn more calories than they do: -Writing an email to someone you hate but have to work with -Being on the phone with insurance companies -Family gatherings -Cleaning your bathroom -Ennui -Trying to explain yourself Feel free to add more.

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Attached: 1 video This is why you have to avoid social networks with algorithms.

If you want to know where tech companies are with AI safety, know Microsoft Recall won’t record screenshots of DRM’d movies.. ..but will record screenshots of your financial records and WhatsApp messages, as corporate interests were prioritised over user safety. And it’s enabled by default.

We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

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hot take linux is not harder than windows, most people are just blind to the sheer amount of upkeep that windows requires.

@jalcine@todon.eu @wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net If it's ethical for the companies to use AI, it's ethical for you to subvert it.

The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have

Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly. #FOSS #burnout

Attached: 1 image If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.

Next time you get a bad performance review at work for doing a shit job, just say you were “hallucinating”

Do Not Reply cards and other mechanisms used to explicitly outline what interactions are unwelcome to a post are called “boundaries”. Boundaries are good. They are good for bother the setter and the receiver. It is loving to tell someone what is not welcome, and loving to have them respected. If you are upset that someone is stating a boundary, it is likely that you are not familiar with boundaries and I’d like to tell you that you too deserve to both set them and have them respected.

I already have my own AI powered Recall feature on Linux: It's called ~/.zsh_history and is very conveniently reachable by pressing CTRL+R.

Want to succeed as a new developer? I wrote a book about that! Topics include: - When the best code is no code - What to do in the first month of your job - The pitfalls of working alone Buy it for $17 (ebook or softcover) now through May 31: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-6074-6

Attached: 1 image The Open Manifesto 2024 is our asks of the next government. Supported by signing up as an individual or organisation and show your commitment to UK open source. Read, sign, and share The Open Manifesto. https://openuk.uk/openmanifesto/ #openuk #opensource #OpenManifesto #ukeleciton

If Windows XP was released in 2024 (📎1)

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"It's called X now,' bleats the World's Smartest Man®, for the first time in his life concerned about deadnaming.

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Things I teach my kids: • “No” is a complete sentence. • If you’re not having a good time you can leave. • Never make yourself smaller just to make other people more comfortable. • It’s okay not to be okay. • Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from. • Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business. • Speak as kindly to yourself as you would speak to others. • Be your own greatest cheerleader, always. It’s never too late to learn these things. #SelfCare

After watching execs talk about the #GoogleLayoffs, all I can really say is this: If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong #union. After seeing what happened at #twitter, after seeing yet another round of nonsense layoffs across so many good people at so many companies, we need unions and we need them yesterday. If you are in a union already, build strength. We are going to need it. #AWU #CodeCWA #CWA

We need unions. And we also need employee-owned collectives that reject eternal growth, increased production, and shareholder profit as the goals of our labor. The infinite growth model is destroying our world. We can build alternatives.

So one of my first conference trips after focusing my research on software teams, I'd worked really hard & shared innovative science in a talk that was widely acclaimed. But what I remember most is I was crossing the street with a bunch of men in tech and a car pulled up on us really close to me and I jumped and they all laughed and mocked me for the next block and said it revealed my "real personality" Anyway that DID perfectly describe every day as a queer woman in tech 10/10 no notes

moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

The double-edged sword of my ADHD procrastination strikes again. Pro: I'm very good in a crisis. Con: I'm only good in a crisis.

Attached: 1 image Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓 Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it! @piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go! :yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

Tired: Closing issues with "won't fix" Wired: Closing issues with "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT."

Anyone working for BigCorp and have 15-27k they wanna use to sponsor an event in two weeks, to make it as accessible as it has been in previous years? To a sexy hunky luscious BigCorp like you, it’s a forgettable line item and you probably spent 10x more on useless crap this year. Go on, give it to me. 😬 https://www.emfcamp.org/

Attached: 1 image Join the first OpenUK Digital Meetup celebrating GitHub's Maintainer Month on May 22nd (Wednesday) — 12 to 1 PM. Hosts @lornajane of Redocly and @JamieTanna of Elastic will be joined by a number of project maintainers sharing their stories. Register for this free event: https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-online-1-maintainers-maintainers-maintainers/ #openuk #openukmeetup #maintainersmonth #opensource #community #opensourcemeetup

and the good software development methodology is also laziness because i don't wanna deal with bug reports from broken releases

Want to take a vacation from open source maintenance? You should. Did you know that GitHub has a profile status feature to mark yourself as busy, mute notifications, and prompt folks who mention you that you're busy for a while? Before today the longest (optional) "automatically clear this status" preset was a week. Now the longest preset is a month. Because let's face it, a week is not always a long enough break from the demands of other people. #OpenSource #GitHub #OSS

Capitalism is an economic theory that posits that a relative handful of greedy fucks gorging themselves is how we provide adequate nutrition to the population at large.

I do wish I could tell recruiters that I’ll never apply to a company that reports record profits and also lays people off. Like why are we wasting each others time talking about corporate mottos and exciting projects? Your leadership treats people like disposable cups. That’s all I need to know. #tech #layoffs

There is no war that can be fought with a trapped civilian population. That is not war. If you destroy all infrastructure, bomb the hospitals, ban all media, disrupt the food supply and corral the remaining population into a tiny area and then go after them. That is not war.

I know have separate Mastodon lists of bridged #BlueSky accounts I follow here (thanks @snarfed.org@snarfed.org), Flipboard accounts I follow here (thanks @mike@flipboard.social), federated WordPress blogs I follow here (thanks @matthias@pfefferle.org ), federated Podcast feeds I follow here (thanks @dave@podcastindex.social ) and Threads accounts I follow here (thanks @jessel@universeodon.com & @pcottle@cyberplace.social ) ... and that fact that we can do this at all, and now feels like the new normal, should be an Internet history milestone of some kind.

SREs, dev ops, and other on-call folks, I am literally begging you to unionize

New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo. https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

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