I will attend MenderCon 2024—a remote conf for people who deal with legacy codebases
📅 May 16
📍 Remote
🎫 Pay what you want (suggested $5)
There will be open-space sessions: you can bring up a topic you want to discuss
Interested? Join us 😉
Details & registration: https://mendercon.com/
protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation
Remarkably consistent pattern as to who still masks, at least in the anglo countries I've been in over the last two years:
Mostly people of color, older folks, and when it's young white people usually disability is involved.
Common thread, I suspect, is that these are the folks who stand to lose more if they get sick. I would that there were a greater showing of solidarity, but rugged individualism and all that 🤷🏻
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Did you know that Open Tech Fund has a NEW grant program just for FOSS projects? You can apply through May 17th!
Join me, @senficon@ohai.social, Laura Cunningham, and Susan Kennedy on May 7th to learn more about the FOSS-maintenance-focused fund and how to apply: https://gh.io/otf-github
Please help spread the word about this great initiative!
Some people think scalability is the biggest challenge in tech. Some think it’s data privacy.
I think the biggest challenge in tech is the constant internal battle between ideals and a fat pay check.
a lot of people don't get this but
software rots. Just like a physical piece of wood or machine, software rusts, software rots.
It's content doesn't change, sure, but the world around it does. The same database you release today, wont work 10 years later perfectly. It'll rust. It won't handle new formats, old formats will introduce new features that will confuse and break your databases algorithm
software rusts and rots. The only way to keep software from rusting, just like a good metallic tool, is polishing it, maintaining it, making sure it's nice and working
Once you've "made it", keep the network going. And give back.
Give back to the nonprofit that lifted you up.
Stay in touch with the people who helped you out.
Pay it forward to another person in need.
Don't just disappear once you've "got yours."
Everything is temporary.
Stress awareness month is officially over.
Please stop being stressed, it is illegal for the next 11 months.
Get your fucking Cortisol under control or you will start incurring fees.
Happy International Workers' Day to the entire Proletariat and to tech workers who just got laid off again but still don't think they have any pressing reason to unionise especially.
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holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.
Don't know if I reach any game developer. But games need a "adult mode" as in "I haven't played the game for weeks because life happened. Please give me a ramp up of the story so far and an option for a short tutorial with all the controls and mechanics".
If your enemy is literally hiding behind children, you don't say, "My enemy made me kill children." You say, "I couldn't kill my enemy, because there were children in the way."
Unless, of course, you don't think the children are really human in the way that your children are human.
Did MKBHD ruin an AI company and their product because of their negative review of it?
No, the bad AI product ruined itself and its company. Just because someone created a business, found funding and created a thing doesn’t mean they should get instant recognition, and a pass for crappy stuff.
Entrepreneurs aren’t your friends, they aren’t superior, they don’t deserve to be coddled. When they make sh*t products, they should be told that they made sh*t. MKBHD did their job.
We need to lend a hand by giving back to the projects we use.
Ideas about giving back (and how Fastly does) are in this blog from @anildash@me.dm https://www.fastly.com/blog/what-can-you-actually-do-to-reduce-the-threat-of-hacks-like-xz
Can people please use tone indicators such as /j and /srs when appropriate
Please
I'm begging people I'm to autistic for this shit
I will take you 100% seriously otherwise and that is not fun for anyone
Opposing genocide isn’t antisemitic.
Saying that opposing genocide is antisemitic is antisemitic.
You know what’s inhumane? Genocide. You know who’s committing genocide? Israel.
You have zero moral standing to assess me. Those who commit and are complicit in genocide never do.
So yes, most definitely, goodbye.
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/112268942430540187