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Wooooo! Looks like my #FOSDEM lightning talk was accepted for the BOF track 😃 Guess I'd better start packing!
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Wooooo! Looks like my #FOSDEM lightning talk was accepted for the BOF track 😃 Guess I'd better start packing!
True story: my mum worked for the MoD. She was in the kitchen at Sandhurst once and Prince Andrew walked in. Everyone was surprised, no one reacted. He said. 'hm, let's try that again shall we?', then he left the kitchen and walked back in, just to make them all bow properly. Prick.
Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste #GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.” https://www.smh.com.au/technology/every-time-you-use-chatgpt-half-a-cup-of-water-goes-to-waste-20241128-p5kubq.html
Whenever I write a TIL (Today I Learnt) post, it’s because if I don’t, it’ll also be that Today I Forgot (TIF). I’ll still forget, but at least it’s written down somewhere I’ll never look.
Luigi Mangione shocked health insurance CEOs who could never imagine working for free or stopping at killing just one person.
Attached: 1 image i just stumbled upon this picture online and it instantly took me back to high school, when i used to hide the earphone cable under my hoodie and my hair, clip this very radio to my jeans and listen to the radio in class

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"hey hazel how do you know when you need to rest??" dont worry babes, my body has a really cool way of just shutting me the fuck down for two days whenever it wants, so thats usually when i schedule the rest time
golang.org/x/crypto security updateGo 1.24 draft release notesBlog: What's missing from Golang Generics? by Nick TobeyLightning RoundBlog: Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now by Phuong LeOrchestrion: Compile-time auto-instrumentation for GoBuilding a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines...

cats will scream at bathroom doors instead of just going to therapy 🙄
Friday thoughts:
Attached: 1 image And yes of course it is literally the paper that gives us this incredible FIGURE 1, which you have CERTAINLY seen if you have ever heard ANYONE talk about ANY "decentralized" or "distributed" system ever CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED You know this image. You could never forget this image

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Today was "upgrade my personal fleet of Alpine Linux systems to the latest (3.21) release" day 🥳 I upgraded 5 systems in about 30min! It was boring! 🎉 Upgrading to newer releases was always an annoying experience for me on other distros, but the #alpinelinux folks have done an incredible job making this Just Work twice per year, every year. I have a few silly system configs that always seem to survive release upgrades without needing changes, it's really amazing. @alpinelinux@fosstodon.org crushed it!
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The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.
UKF 15 tomorrow at Drumsheds and I don't know if I'll survive this lineup
i've been increasing shareholder value like you wouldn't believe
apt? I don't know her.💅
Attached: 1 image Anytime you're looking to criminalize homelessness, I think you should be required to put a pricetag on it #OnPoli Source: https://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/costofhomelessness_paper21092012.pdf

I am deeply alarmed for the trans and gender expansive community in the UK. What the fuck: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/united-kingdom-bans-puberty-blockers-indefinitely-its-a-death-sentence/ (Yes also alarmed about what's happening in the US, esp in Florida right now, and what the next four years may bring.) #UKPol #USPol #Trans #LGBTQ
Exploiting mansplaining as tradecraft during WW II: “If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” From Elyse Graham's “Book and Dagger”, describing a training school for the SOE.
Attached: 1 image As far as manifestos go, this is pretty short and concise. I think killing people is wrong, especially if it's premeditated, carefully planned, and carried out with cold detachment. There are no heroes in this story as far as I'm concerned; just one killer encountering a killer of a different stripe. Still, news organizations suppressing this manifesto is a dereliction of duty. So, here you go.

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In this episode, CRob talks to Michael Winser, Technical Strategist for Alpha-Omega, an associated project of the OpenSSF that with open source software project maintainers to systematically find new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open so...
uhc.ceo this was absolutely worth ten bucks https://uhc.ceo
it's only erotic if it's from the Eroti region of Italy, otherwise it's just fizzy porn
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Panic At The Disco is so 2014. Welcome to Dissociative Disorder At The Bukkake
This week on the Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on-site at KubeCon SLC last month with Cole Kennedy, co-founder of TestifySec. We kicked off the conversation with a discussion about software development practices in the US Department of Defense and the US government at large...

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If you have to stream it, you don’t own it. If you have to log in to it, you don’t own it. If you have to “activate” or “register” it, you don’t own it. If you have to connect it to somebody else’s computer EVER, for ANY REASON, then YOU. DON’T. OWN. IT. Any and all of these methods will be used against you for somebody else’s profit. If you yell about personal property rights but you don’t sign on to these statements, you are not serious about property rights. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/
With so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work?
And now, mastodon.social sends referrers! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214 (Don't worry, it is up to your instance to opt in to this. Your Mastodon install is private by default.)
In every job I've had before, I put in 100% effort, but ended up exhausted after a few months and hating work. Started a new job last year and consciously decided to only put ~50-60% effort from the off. Manager happy, no burnout and I don't hate work. 10/10, would recommend.
"How did you get to where it doesn't feel so awkward" hahaha bad news
not a big fan of murder as a political tool, naturally, but i am a fan of big symbolic gestures, and shooting the CEO of an insurance company with bullets that have 'deny', 'defend', 'depose' written on them is... *respectful whistle*
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if your corporation requires you to use your phone for work, they need to provide you a phone fuck you if you're going to require me to allow you to remotely wipe my personal phone, what the fuck?
Just say no to AI generated blog content/articles/media. Keep what little we have left of humanity on the web, with actual humans.
My trick for alt text is I use speech to text and I speak the description like I would describe it to someone over the phone I don’t always do it well but it’s been working for me better that typing
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my neck my back my CEO attack
It always amazes me what a positive mood booster having a productive day is