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i’m too old to have to spell!

Happy sama getting sacked for cause day for all who celebrate.

Sam Altman: AI companies will take your job and leave you unemployed Sam Altman: ... wait not like that

How is the OpenAI board gonna fire Sam Altman just because he gave answers that sounded plausible but weren't actually accurate?

Fuck Google. Fuck the executives who signed off and pushed this. Fuck the people who hadn't pushed against this and kept up this long battle of the digital attention economy through ads. I'm not terribly forgiving of those in favor of digital advertisment's rise — any business that requires nonconsentual engagement (and uses it to remain as profitable as possible) is unethical. Surveillance capitalism is one of the grossest things to exist and despite it being coined recently, that shit is old. As old as overseers. https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111426154930652642 (https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/4xxP)

It’s easy to say with hindsight that NFTs are a stupid scam, but it was also pretty easy to say at the beginning and through the middle too.

I've given it a lot of time now, and for the record, I still despise the @SlackHQ interface changes. They have taken what used to be at-a-glance or at most 1-click and made it all 3-4 clicks and difficult to find. For no purpose other than "we could". 0 ⭐️ Do not recommend

Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural. Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering. Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society. In this "free range software manifesto" I will -

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Yes, I could employ coping mechanisms and strategies to improve my life as someone with ADHD. But I also could not 😌

Sex work is work. :sexworkiswork:

The new Slack UI still pisses me off daily!

Attached: 1 image Yogg-Saron ("Yoggy") at 6 weeks! #dachshunds

Every time I work on a project like that I end up having to put myself through more ceremony to keep the atomic changes and commit messages, and I feel "if y'all would just let me rebase-and-merge or …

In my experience, multiple concepts invariably end up in a non-trivial PR. When a repository uses squash-and-merge then those concepts end up in the same single commit on main and any context is lost. https://indieweb.social/@lornajane/111425261462048360

Attached: 1 image Introducing Liz Rice as the CFP Host for the Open Source Software track at #SOOCon24! 🌐 If you have insights on Open Source Software, we want to hear from you! Submit your papers and be a part of the conversation! 📝

When you work on a project with squash-and-merge as a strategy, you end up splitting concepts across multiple pull requests to make coherent git history that could be untangled later if needed. Teams throw away the context because they have poor git commit practices, but they have poor git commit practices because they throw all that context away ...

Activity is not the same thing as progress. You can be extremely busy and do a lot of work but after taking stock, realize you are no closer to your goals and in some cases, you may actually be further away from them.

@mhoye@mastodon.social there was a really good blog post that I can't find now, about how many (most?) feminine-coded hobbies/tasks like sewing, knitting, cooking, lots of housework, etc - are just straight up pure engineering tasks. you don't even have to squint to see it, but society likes to pretend that if it isn't made of concrete or steel, it doesn't count.

I'm pretty sure if a family member had hit my kid with a car causing him to be in a wheelchair & miss a year of school, they'd feel some remorse about it. But because it was done with Covid there's zero societal expectation they'd even think about the impact they had.

Any sufficiently advanced systems thinking is indistinguishable from premature optimization

If taking care of yourself means letting someone down, then let someone down. Your mental health is more important. YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT.

@james@strangeobject.space Ah, a fellow neurospice collector. Can't have just one of them! 😂

- We really appreciate the work you do for the common good. Enough to pay us for it so we can continue to exist? - Don’t be ridiculous, of course not! What do you think we are, communists?

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Attached: 1 image I’m so glad CircleCI now has the power of AI to tell me how to fix my test failures

why don't I get tax breaks for not finishing my creative projects

This whole thread is a lot. Expecting better of GH but React inertia is a powerful reality distortion field. https://ruby.social/@camertron/111394216953156643

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My request to unsubscribe from your newsletter falsely implies that I subscribed in the first place. What is the point of all the anti-spam legislation and all the regulatory bullshit all over newsletter services when it still seems to be impossible to stop this sort of mass spamming?

If your organization actively discourages you from asking questions, digging deeper, or seeking improvements, do the following in order: 1. Get 2. The 3. Hell 4. Out If you stay too long, the corpo brainworms will make it easier to just do the things that have always been done.

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I feel like the economy's endgame is everyone's on Patreon, supporting each other through Patreon

1.7 million seconds ago was October 25th (~20 days ago). 1.7 billion seconds was January 1st 1970 (53 years ago). Remember that when people say you should be allowed to be a billionaire.

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Attached: 1 image It’s worse than that lads, she’s DEAD.

New blog post up: please don't ask if an open source project is dead. The best-case scenario is that you annoy the maintainers and delay development. The worst-case scenario is that you give the maintainers an opportunity to reconsider if it's worth it. https://minimaxir.com/2023/11/open-source-dead-github/

Attached: 1 image Finally got a proper watch face for my watch!

You can’t intimidate someone into kindness, you can't abuse someone into believing in themselves, why would you think you can bomb anyone into peace?

A reminder. Religion and traditions are just peer pressure from dead people who maybe have never even existed.

If Gaza was in your city, how much would be destroyed? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/11/13/if-gaza-was-in-your-city-how-much-would-be-destroyed

Imagine being the kind of person that *thinks* that homelessness is a lifestyle but actually coming out and broadcasting it???????

Unionize all the engineers!

Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. Programming is doing this because it's the standard way to uncover intermittent bugs.

Who else allowed themselves 0.5 seconds of joy having seen Suella being sacked before the rot immediately set back in with David Cameron being appointed Foreign Secretary

Hey guys, how is capitalism going? It's going great! Thanks to profit motive based innovation and hard work, the ransomware industry has grown to a $250 Billion(!) industry, with "Ransomware As A Service" (RaaS) now being a very real business service offered by actual companies and resulting in probably multiple times more in costs in down time, and other costs. Where do we get this incredible boost to productivity and efficiency from? It's as if by an invisible hand! https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/ransomware-as-a-service-raas/

Apparently mathematicians think I should use the term "large positive integers" and not "big naturals"

Attached: 1 video My closing suggestion was to support open source projects you depend on by reaching out to their maintainers and offering to pay them money to speak to your team! Ask them for an hour over Zoom or similar. Here's a clip with this idea in more detail

Attached: 1 image Smart Quotes and Coding Examples Every so often, I copy and paste some code from a website and it utterly fails. This is probably a good reminder not to practise ✂️ & 📋 development, but it is also a reminder that "smart" formatting often trips up new students. Here are a few examples I've seen recently - produced as a result of computers trying to be cleverer than humans, and huma https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/smart-quotes-and-coding-examples/ #/etc/ #code #education #NaBloPoMo