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Reposted Josh Simmons (@josh@josh.tel)
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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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Reposted Kara Sowles Deloss (@feynudibranch@xoxo.zone)
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Attached: 1 image 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!

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Reposted Jolene (eepy moder) :heart_trans: (@tjhexf@tech.lgbt)
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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

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Listened to What to Say to a New Developer with Dan Moore | Ep. 19
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Dan Moore is the head of developer relations at FusionAuth, a startup simplifying authentication and user management for developers, as well as the author of Letters to a New Developer. Dive into topics such as what is developer relations, how to grow a tech community, how does one even publish a book, what should you say to a new developer and much more. Hosted by Perry Tiu.

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Has anyone else started getting spam from a Substack they definitely didn't subscribe to? It's for with an email I wouldn't have signed up to, and it's a language I don't know (Spanish)

I've now unsubscribed and marked it as spam - I didn't seem to get a "are you sure you want to sign up", but I did get a "thanks for subscribing" post (in Spanish)

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Friends and folks working with #SBOMs - how do you conceptually think about them in terms of ingesting them into tools?

I.e. I like to think of an SBOM having a source repository or component it relates to, but sometimes you don't know that up front, and all you have is the result of a scan, which could be the source repo, a container image, or a built binary.

Considering whether:

  • I try to guess what repo/component it is based on the filename
  • Just store the filename in the database and allow querying with that (and leave repo info optional)
  • Retrieve metadata from the SBOM that known tools use to define this
  • Some 4th option?

Trying to tweak how Dependency Management Data works with SBOMs and trying to find how other folks do it and consider them

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Does anyone know if there's a good way of getting a historical storage of queries that users put into #Datasette? Trying to get some stats around common queries and usage, couldn't see a plugin for it, but not sure if my searching just missed it

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Listened to Bruce Perens, Post-Open | IT Ops Query by PodBean Development 
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Bruce Perens created the definition of open source and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998. He has said in recent public interviews, however, that open source has failed, and called for its overhaul under his Post-Open project. In this episode, Beth caught up with him to hear more about his ideas for the world after open source.

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Listened to The AI Conundrum: Implications for OSPOs by CHAOSS Project 
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In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Dawn Foster brings together Matt Germonprez, Brian Proffitt, and Ashley Wolf to discuss the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), including policy considerations, the potential for AI-driven contributions to create workload for maintainers, and the quality of contributions. They also touch on the use of AI internally within companies versus contributing back to the open source community, the importance of distinguishing between human and AI contributions, and the potential benefits and challenges AI introduces to open source project health and community metrics. The conversation strikes a balance between optimism for AI’s benefits and caution for its governance, leaving us to ponder the future of open source in an AI-integrated world.

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Listening to Tulips - Minotaur Shock Remix is forever going to remind me of the last few chapters of Leviathan Falls. It happened to be what I was listening to at the time, and the lyrics seemed to fit so perfectly with the grand finale, and listening to it just now brought that all back, including all the feels around the events.

Deffo need to re-read #TheExpanse series, what a great series.

See also: previous thoughts on the way #music can remind you of things.

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