I'm at the point where people complaining about projects that are underfunded & consequently understaffed not moving "fast enough" is just going to start resulting in blocks.
I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with you because thing's didn't happen at your pace.
Seriously, these projects take an absolute tonne of work.
You want stuff to move faster, start throwing money at it so people can dedicate full time towards doing things.
been a busy weekend preparing for LincolnHack https://2024.lincolnhack.org .. I easily forgot how so good for my sense of belonging being deep in the tech community (behind the scenes or otherwise) is ❤️ #techcommunity
I've just been accused of missing the "nuance" of what's happening in Gaza.
Can anyone explain to me the nuance of killing tens of thousands of people, most of them children?
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After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the #StarWars 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.
🕺 It’s a new Changelog & Friends!
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me (who has a website) joins @jerod & @adam to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org.
🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/31
#indieweb #adhd #dependencies #podcast
The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption ...
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I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.
phone calls are all spam. emails are all spam. text messages are all spam. if you want to reach me, pin a note to my door with a jeweled dagger or don't waste my time.
I love owning a house now it's like should we do preventative maintenance on (a million things) or should we put motorized blinds in to the family room for when we watch tv and films.
This also explains why all software is bad.
Shower thought:
With all the data breaches, no matter how private you may be, somewhere in the world exists a hacker that knows exactly what kinks you're into, but is too shy to say hello.
Would you like three months FREE Trade Union membership?
Join Prospect between 12-18 February - https://prospect.org.uk/join/
I'm a member and they've been very useful to me in my professional life.
If you're kind enough to mention my name when joining, I get a tenner.
Happy to answer any questions.
#JoinAUnion #TradeUnions
To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the startYes, we were aware that pol...
@shockwaver@strangeobject.space I really like the term "temporarily-abled" for describing abled people for this reason. All abled people are only temporarily abled, unless they die suddenly while their bodies are still intact. The more people recognize the ephemeral nature of ability, the more compassionate we become as a society, I hope.
“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”
Maintainer: *introduces commercial features*
“Not like that”
Maintainer: *works for a large tech co*
“Not like that”
Maintainer: *takes investment*
“Not like that”
Lots of men in tech
see women in tech either
as sexual tensions for their own enjoyment or as mentoring opportunities,
but never as their equals.
This needs to stop.
#WomenInTech
There's this course called the Missing Semester (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) that teaches you the practical stuff like using the CLI, shell scripting, Git, Vim, etc. It was created for CS students who apparently don't learn these things in class. But as a biochemistry/microbiology major turned bioinformatician, I need the CS course instead!
I've got a lot of web dev content in my feed reader and that's cool but every once in a while someone posts something completely unrelated to tech and I AM HERE FOR IT!
Don't be afraid to write about your hobbies, music, movies, life. I love to read that. 💜
ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to).
Oh so now I have to remember to use a whole NEW set of pronouns? What's next, memorizing everyone's individual name out the billions of possible names???
I get that white guys have absolutely no reason to have to understand that their experience is not everyone’s considering the entire planet is catered to their perspective, but it is 2024 and the rest of us are very tired.
Massive thanks to our cohort of friendly, helpful and collaborative volunteers who made #SOOCon24 possible. Thanks for giving up your time to support the event 👏🏻
Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that.
Raising retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder.
Far as I'm concerned it should be 59.
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Join us tomorrow afternoon at State of Open Con for a meetup of the Women of Open Source community!
2pm at the back of the delegate experience area, near the job board.
See you there!
#WomenOfOpenSource #WOOS #SOOCon #SOOCon24 #StateOfOpenCon
This isn't a subtoot of anyone, I'm just responding to something I read earlier and immediately forgot the source of:
The reason that queer and trans people are so afraid right now is not because it's necessarily *worse* for us than it was in the 1990s.
For me, it's worse now because it represents such an incredible backslide from the very recent past. It's also worse now because of how violent, specific, and individual the threats are.
There is a sense that the gloves are off, and hurting us is overtly the point - the veneer of civility is gone. The fact that most people (off the Fediverse, largely) are not responding uniquely to this unique level of hostility is worrying, to me!
There's also a demographic problem happening right now that was never present before: As we come out, and as we choose to be visible, our true number becomes more apparent. The other side doesn't seem very chill about the fact that like three queer or trans people could simultaneously citizen's-arrest every cop in the US!
The transphobes are responding to the actuality of trans people now, not the fictional idea that someone, somewhere, was transgender. That is new, and I think it's dangerous.
#trans #queer
It's truly an astounding failure of our society to let large companies just openly steal all information they can and then sell it on as if it's something they're making and the whole thing is totally normal and ethical.
The wonders of the tech industry never cease.
Framed this way, I feel like any team that has had layoffs needs to be very deliberate about not performing heroics to keep things running. **Let things fail** if they require going above and beyond. Otherwise the floor will be raised and it will no longer be “above and beyond”, just the expecta
Shared this privately, but it's worth repeating it publicly:
As a platform showing advertisements, you MUST have controls in place to allow people to opt out of certain categories of ads, e.g., those featuring violence, casinos/gambling, weight loss/AI body tuning, or alcohol/drug consumption.
Not having that makes your platform unsafe and promotes an unhealthy society.
Jamie Tanna
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#open-source.
