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📝 Open source enthusiasts, we want to hear from you! 🚀 Submit your papers to the Open Source Software Call for Papers and contribute to the collective knowledge of the community. 🌍 Deadline: December 1st.
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. #FOSDEM is by far my favorite event, there are no words to describe it. IF you are a #gopher or know someone, please submit your talk before 1st Dec https://github.com/go-devroom/cfp/blob/main/README.md and see you there 🍻
I don’t need “ai” in my terminal, I’m perfectly capable of typing something that looks plausible but does something completely unexpected myself thanks
Poverty shouldn't exist. For anyone. Ever. Too often I hear 'No one with a job should live in poverty.' True. But let's go further. No one should live in poverty, job or not. Jobs should be a ticket to more than just survival.
Think thriving, not surviving; buying fun, not life.
Wow. https://archive.is/wAt0i, an archived copy of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/nlrb-files-case-against-mozilla-for-not-hiring-labor-activist. This is really what I'm afraid of. And I'm stupid findable on the Web (thanks to not using an alias — that bit me in the ass very fast — like in 2013, but whatever).
I'm hoping Cher wins this case; I'll be following it closely. Especially because I've applied like four times at Mozilla with not as much as a reply if the role was closed or anything. Sidenote, though, I hate the fact that's this idea that we can sign away rights because we have a contract — and that's never clear if it's actually the case. I really am glad she stood up. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/Zwc5)
I'm seeing someone doing this doubling down of staying with Google's ecosystem and I'll put the one link that made the process simple: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
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This is a great example of how our minds are terrible at assessing risk because here it’s the same in both cases (until you get to the last platform).
Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
my biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"
I think the real reason our culture stigmatizes children who ask "why" a lot is that most adults are deeply ashamed of how infrequently they actually have good answers.
New short documentary from @openuk@hachyderm.io all about the state of #OpenSource in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWy_qgMa50
And, yes, the video is CC BY-SA 😄
(I'm a board member at OpenUK)
"You shouldn't project modern gender labels back onto historical figures" OK great! I will no longer be calling them "men" or "women". Those are modern, socially constructed categories of person, and using them uncritically encourages us to assume that past cultures shared our expectations for appropriate gender performance.
Why are the turkeys being pardoned? Never understood that. The turkeys didn't commit a crime. You're deciding not to EAT the damn bird and acting like you're forgiving it for doing something wrong. That has to suggest something about power.
Given my extensive experience with video games, it’s disappointing how few pressure plates we bump into in regular life. I’d like to drag a big rock over a pressure plate to escape the office one day
You put your Altman in,
You take your Altman out,
You put your Altman in,
And you shake him all about,
You do the hokey-pokey and you move VC around,
That's what tech's all about
For modern "subscriptions," all the money you spent provides no value after you end the subscription.
That's not a subscription, that's club membership. You're only paying for access.
That means they can and will change what access means. They'll add or remove things. They'll change the price. But in the end, when you stop paying, all the access is revoked.
I really hate how that feels, and would like to move away from that in any place I can, to be honest.
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When I work at the computer all day, my back gets stiff and sore. To prevent this stick a soft, warm cat in the crook of your back. Follow me for more work hacks. #cats
Remember everyone, if you're delulu enough, you too can fire, hire, fire, rehire all in a few days at your non problematic at all company. If you're really audacious you can remove women from your board, and replace them with *checks notes* problematic whyte techbros.
#tech #infosec #nerd #ai #techbros
Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.
And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).
The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.
Stop treating open source projects and foundations like consumer-facing businesses.
Unless you've got a paid support contract that's being neglected, or there's a grave concern, it's inappropriate to escalate issues to massively public forums.
Maintainers and the staffers and volunteers at foundations are already overworked.
Don't make it harder for them to address your issue by ALSO making them waste time firefighting in public.
#OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
Dropping a speaker a message (via pretty much any means of communication they make available to you) that you genuinely liked their talk is a very kind thing to do, and I can assure you that it never goes unheard or unnoticed.
Jamie Tanna
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