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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.

at what point does the industry in need of disruption become the tech industry

it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware

This Recall thing is a prime example of how bad we are at understanding when something is a systemic problem. It doesn't matter if *you* disable it. It doesn't matter if *you* install Linux. It doesn't matter if *you* set your computer on fire and move to a Luddite commune. If you have *ever* sent sensitive data, no matter how securely, to another person who now has this shit enabled, and they find your data and look at it, your data is compromised, and there's nothing you can do about it.

*fixes ties and brushes pants* *clears throat* You want a software engineer. I know it (lol). But fr, if you know of a place looking for a fullstack dev, swing them https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-alcin%C3%A9-6a9ab730a/ (or e-mail me at jackyalcine@fastmail.com) #LookingForWork #GetFediHired

rage, rage against the dying of the weekend

You don't owe anyone a follow (this includes me). Not even people you've been mutuals for a while. Not even people you know on real life. Not even people whose profile you check often. Sometimes they just post too much. Or post stuff you don't want pop up on your list (but want to check on your terms). Or they start (re-)posting hate (you don't owe them a call out; especially not if you don't think it will go well). Sometimes they are lovely folks but just bore you with their favorite sports.

I hope this email finds you unprepared for the work of the day.

Attached: 1 image It's June 1st, stay strapped y'all. #pridemonth #pride #lgbtqia #safety #security

Y'know how there's a pattern of behavior where someone says something is bad about the tech industry or community or OSS software or something, and then every single nerd within a 50 square mile radius says *WELL ACKTUALLY*?? I just realized that if, like, even 10% of them just... Sat down and spent some energy fixing the problem instead of insulting someone for experiencing it, we would've solved all those issues by now

If you’re ever thinking about posting “any updates on this?” in a GitHub issue that hasn’t seen any activity in years: there aren’t any updates on this.

With the events in the US overnight I think it’s a prime time to remember that sex work is real work.

I've been using the Chromium browser for certain websites, and that's about to end. Google's greed-fueled moves -- this time to disable vital extensions that provide better privacy and security -- are unacceptable to me. The stakes here are quite high. If Google succeeds what it's attempting to do -- forcing us to use only Google-approved privacy and security choices -- we're in trouble. Firefox looks like the best way forward at this point.

Attached: 1 image This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink. Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women

Also it's ironic that they keep giving AI traditional women's names when it clearly should be a white man given how much it is promoted on potential

So #emfcamp had a pop-up #MathsJam evening, and of course I brought another lightning talk — enjoy! https://youtube.com/watch?v=GfCRA6zmRFo

Basically if you’re losing sleep over the fact you don’t like a Q* or you think there are too many groups represented on a flag then I’d like to congratulate you on your comfortable life and suggest you put the energy you have for arguing against representation into something more useful. If it doesn’t hurt anyone beyond making you personally uncomfortable that is decidedly a YOU problem. *I am aware of the “queer was used as a slur against me and thus it’s painful for me to see” but your discomfort can be healed through reclamation of language and community support, rather than force others to be uncomfortable and disincluded because you don’t like the way they refer to themself. I am not aware of any valid arguments on why we should not add black, brown, trans, intersex and whatever future styleguide updates come to the progress flag.