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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. 🚫

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.

Make tech completely unbearable for Nazis

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?

No web without women https://nowebwithoutwomen.com

Attached: 1 image Israel is an apartheid state, glad I don’t have to argue this anymore with internet randos.

Attached: 1 image 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.

No one is getting fired over this, right? Correct. HR systems are down too.

@ticky@queer.party Don't shorten links. Links were not meant to be shortened. They have played us for absolute fools.

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

Happy Y2K everyone!

Good luck to the Lionesses men's team this evening #EURO2024

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

Attached: 1 image #AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him. Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.

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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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Content warning: transphobia, cis people who vote Labour read this, ukpol

Attached: 1 image 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

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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

ICYMI: Burnout can happen at any point in everyone's career. But, what happens when burnout is taking place amongst other things? Burnout++ https://chrisshort.net/video/cloud-native-rejeckts-eu-2024-burnout-plus-plus/ #mentalhealth #burnout

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Inside of you there are two engineers. One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the right tool for the task. Please, they cry, avoid the awful hacky workarounds! One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the same tool for the task. Please, they cry, make information actually discoverable! Both sob in commiseration together as they end up using 5 separate tools, duplicating the data 3x, and suffer all of the hacky workarounds with none of the discoverability.

I despair at the fact that you fucks have normalized catching Covid.

Look, I drink a LOT of #tea. And I mean gallons of the stuff every day. People expect on Zoom that they'll see my massive mug appear on camera because I always have a cuppa to hand. I have two of @smolrobots@mastodon.social' Teabots. So you'd think I'd have strong opinions about how you should make it or drink it, wouldn't you? But no. Make it how you like it. Drink it how you want to. Stop getting all bent out of shape because someone makes it differently to how you do. What the hell is wrong with you?

I have come to realize that one cannot do everything. Also, not everything can be important all at once. It is ok to say no and to prioritize what you can do today, tomorrow, and the coming week, Also, not knowing something is totally fine and not filling up every second of your day can be a good thing.

Attached: 1 image When HR asks you to spend a few minutes taking the “anonymous” survey they’ve made.

engineers will write 200 lines of code to avoid writing a single line of code twice

Now is an excellent time to visit https://github.com/settings/applications Revoke all those unused and unloved applications which have access to your GitHub account.

computers used to scream when you connected them to the internet. this was correct

As a programmer, I'll likely be making off-by-one mistakes until the day after I die

Turned on my PC. Was just about to log in when I did a painful double take. The picture displayed by Windows 10 is a Toucan with the words “AI is playing a critical role in the preservation of the Amazon rainforest” You are correct. It’s fucking nuking it. You fucking shit lords. #AI #Microsoft

Attached: 1 image I don’t know who to credit for this because it’s been stolen so much, but I love it.

Subnets imply the existence of Domnets

If your technical interview process selects for quick thinking over deep thinking, what does that say about your workforce?

The @oggcamp@mastodon.social CFP is open! #oggcamp https://oggcamp.org/news/cfp/

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Tell me about your Boring Technology that gets the job done and gets out of your user's way. Tell me how you made your app or service easy to use and hard to misuse. Tell me how you're encoding an understanding of the importance of consent into your architecture. Tell me how you're treating your employees better than your competitors are treating theirs.

slow.fyi is a handy little microsite that you can insert into a message when you don’t want the recipient to feel pressured to quickly respond. Perfect for commenting via email on personal blog posts! #Junited2024 https://slow.fyi/

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Attached: 1 image This Pride, is your child texting about Blåhaj? #Queer #Trans #Transgender #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT

Attached: 1 image This is such a good illustration of what privilege looks like.