@docpop
STOP DOING EMBEDS
Things dreamed up by the UTTERLY DERANGED:
<iframe src="...site that is not yours...">
<script src="https://mastodon.social/embed.js">
"Hello I would like to mine bitcoin for you"
"Thank you for the tracking cookies and single point of failure"
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS
The UK's largest free culture and free and open source community unconference is back, after a 5 year hiatus. Come along and take part! #OggCamp #OggCamp2024 #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload
http://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/20/return-of-the-oggcamp/
if there's one thing i hate more than not having executive function to do the thing it's finally having the executive function to do the thing but then being blocked by external factors outside my control
Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning.
Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter.
(Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)
OK! I *think* I've finished.
You can now "rescue" any embedded Tweet and recreate it as simple HTML - no tracking.
Includes:
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🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original mp4
🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co
#️⃣ Hashtags & @ mentions linked
🔄 Includes reply threads & quote Tweets
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🔍 Schema.org metadata
🖼 Cards
📊 Polls
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Feedback *very* much welcome!
Hey you! Yes! *YOU!*
Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13.
It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference.
Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things.
Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/
@simon@simonwillison.net
every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR,
and eleven years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine”
The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.
An important lesson is that you can never easily tell who is “vulnerable” to COVID. Olympic champions are at risk from COVID. In different ways COVID poses a risk to all of us. This is why it’s important for everyone to take measures to protect themselves and others from COVID.
I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.
All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.
#crowdstrike
Dependency Management Data v0.102.0 is out 🚀
Check out the release notes at https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/releases/v0.102.0
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Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit https://x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.
I used to just block ads and leave it up to others to handle the Digital Panopticon.
But now I ask myself, “Why am I giving these people oxygen? If they feel their creativity is best presented with a popup that is surrounded by a blur to force you to interact with it, and then when you make it go away there are header and footer ads, and every two paragraphs there is an ad… I can take a moment and find a different page.”
I no longer link to pages that are ads interrupted with content.
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I keep making satire of The Onion's series on gun safety because "software engineers" are not engineers and we keep fucking up society-critical things by using unsafe tools to make them.
Want that series to end? Make the madness stop.
**Concerning CrowdStrike:**
We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday.
If something similar had been caused by an OSS component, we would see congress discussing a ban on open software in critical infrastructure already.
OMFG newspapers are quoting this asinine Twitter thread as analysis. Fuck me. Why have I ever had imposter syndrome when guys like this get hired at Google?
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In 6 months to 30 April number of people whos code was accepted into open source projects (committers) from the UK increase increased by 1,600 compared to 1,700 in the previous 12 months. Read the OpenUK report to understand OpenUK's plan to build more contributors to open source projects from the UK and our Skills ask of the government.
https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/state-of-open-the-uk-in-2024-phase-2-the-open-manifesto
#opensource #theopenmanifesto #openuk
Also, quick note for crowdstrike execs: everyone can see you looking over at that bus, considering your options, limbering up your throwing arm... Just a note that the people you probably want to hire are watching reeeally closely how you're going to handle this, and are taking notes. The shareholders may be into human sacrifices, but the people you need to run your business aren't. Choose wisely.
I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.
Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
https://social.kernel.org/objects/39125e2b-0997-4c90-86f9-b16229bf4b52
It's interesting that people keep talking about the Trump incident as a "shocking act" when it really wasn't shocking at all if you've been paying attention to American gun violence and the Republicans' constant calls for political violence and death threats against Democratic politicians and journalists (though these are mainly targeting female, Black and queer journalists and a lot of the targets are women in politics, so maybe straight White male journalists aren't being subjected to nearly as much of this and just don't believe their colleagues).
I wish one journalist would just honestly say 'in a not unexpected act of political violence in our landscape of constant gun violence" or something that acknowledged reality. This kind of gun violence is now terribly mundane in the US and Trump and the GOP helped make it mundane.
Dependency Management Data vv0.101.0 is out 🚀
Check out the release notes at https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/releases/v0.101.0
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#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.
Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.
If you have a personal website, which I assume you do if you're following me here, you should add yourself to the Internet Phonebook while the call for websites is still open! They even have an "indie …
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10 July - Second OpenUK Digital Meet-up!
Join Dr Dawn Foster, James Humphries and host Jamie Tanna, in their talks on high-profile forks, their impacts and the challenges of launching a fork.
Register https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301139203/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link
#openuk #digitalmeetup #opensourcelondon
If there's one thing I've learned as a browser-engine dev: Everything is political!
The most mundane things (e.g. how we answer "what time is it?") has the weight of historical politics behind it.
Software freedom is a political project, you can't "leave politics out of it"!
It makes a lot more sense to ask "how is this political?" than "is this political?". Because it is!
Technology is political.
If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.
It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a place of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.
There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”
If you view changing documentation to use generic “they” instead of “he” text as too political to be acceptable, then I’m sorry but your project is deeply unserious.
“The generic user is a man” is a deeply political statement, and hiding behind “we’re apolitical” is bullshit.
https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/112718515777208791
Jamie Tanna
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#shitpost.
