Attached: 1 image At "Into the multiverse: a parallel universe where neurotypicals are the weird ones" with Parul Singh, in Cotton Theatre. #OggCamp2024 #OggCamp24 #OggCamp

Attached: 3 images I’m at @oggcamp@mastodon.social today, immersing myself in my FOSS community! The unconference is shaping up nicely and the schedule is on joind.in! #oggcamp2024

Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.

Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? 🤯 For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.

The ".io" top level domain might be gone soon. https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! It’ll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it. Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because it’s in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that aren’t in London pls. #oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation

mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit

My to do list: Do everything! My desire for the day: Do nothing! Our compromise: Do something counter-productive!

Them: Someone ought to do something! Me: You're someone! What are you going to do? Them: ₙₒ. ₙₒₜ ₗᵢₖₑ ₜₕₐₜ. (Yes yes, structural inequality. Limited powers and knowledge. Access to tools. Etc.)

With OggCamp one week away, we thought we'd share some useful information you should know before next weekend! https://ogg.camp/news/know-before-you-go/ #OggCamp2024

Start submitting your pull/merge requests, Hacktoberfest is here! If you haven't already, make sure you've registered for Hacktoberfest so that your PR/MRs created + accepted throughout October can be tracked. Get started: https://hacktoberfest.com/participation

"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no," He declined. So, fuck him. And fuck his site. I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647

In light of the whole word press situation, I would like to reiterate that free software institutions should be giving the same kind of attention and support to project governance as they do to licenses. It's badly overdue. I think we can say it's dereliction not to.

If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

Attached: 1 image "just roll with it" genuinely the best advice

In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because I know if that if you're not trying to understand business outcomes, your judgment about the technical issues is going to be much worse. Many engineers fundamentally do not believe this to be true. And it's one of the things that sets them at odds with leadership.

Just realised Sam Altman is the Willy Wonka of AI.

The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy

I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/