Can web designers PLEASE STOP with the thing where the bulk of the website loads first and then things on the top load last so you invariable end up clicking on something you didn't mean to

@aral@mastodon.ar.al My little lad had a bad leukaemia when he was 20 months - in 2002. He had care at Great Ormond St - I calculated at the time (I’m an accountant) at somewhere between £250k and £500k, entirely free to us. And he lived. The US families sometimes didn’t fare so well. After they’d drained all insurance & resources their kids often died of something entirely treatable. Folks need to think very hard before voting for either #Tories or #Labour. @nhsactivistrn

Source Available != Open Source That's not an opinion. If it's SSPL, BUSL, etc., it's categorically not "open source" according to the Open Source Definition.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates It means that every post published was important to the writer Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

$1 million budget: 90% test coverage, comprehensive DevOps pipeline, all work rooted in user research, delivery every two weeks, all code in an open repo. $300 million budget: No tests, no CI/CD, no user research, delivery on an annual cadence, code is a secret because it's a trash fire.

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Remember folks. When VC is funding Corporation that releases a Open Source project its only a matter of time until they take it back. Their goal is to get their product embedded into your organization and abuse you for free work in the hopes they can eventually sell their corporation and cash out. Its always good for them, and rarely good for you.

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If you're using Glassdoor, stop right now and delete your account. This company just made it completely clear it can't be trusted. Read this from @arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

It’s Long COVID Awareness Day. An estimated 65 million people suffer from it globally. Remember that the risk of long-term health issues in multiple organs increases after each infection, even if your …

Attached: 1 image Ok I’m doin the thread I said I wanted to do last week. (feel free to mute unless you enjoy a little second-hand drama as a Monday morning treat) Attn #devrel people! Are you job hunting? Does this pic of search results look familiar? Have you ever seen a bunch of job postings like this from Canonical and thought “gee I should apply to one of these”? I’m here to tell you: IT’S A TRAP! 🧵

Hot take: if I can say "they just tested positive" and you don't have to ask "for what?" then the pandemic isn't over.

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Radical salary transparency FTW? https://youtu.be/Bzmu5bcR3HQ?si=xcfkyVopAxahSMdh via @changelog@changelog.social @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me

@JamieTanna talks about his decision to share his salary publicly on the "Changelog & Friends" podcast. Full audio 👉 https://changelog.com/friends/31Subscri...

Please don't call it FOMO: please call it ODARA (Organizers Didn't Allow Remote Attendance).

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?

Y’all realize everyone in Helpdesk at your job can just import your browser cookies into their machine remotely and browse your Facebook at their leisure, right? Like, you understand what Administrator means? It means unquestioned god from anywhere. It’s not your machine IT’S THEIRS. All you do, all your access, it’s stored to be stolen. Anything hackers can do to ruin your life, IT can do better.

"Hopefully I will be less busy starting next week" will be written on my tombstone

They’re children. And their government is keeping them from doctors who practice a type of medicine that cures suicidal ideation at near miracle rates. If those kids do find relief, it'll be via their parents paying exorbitant out of pocket costs or by covertly ordering those drugs online with cryptocurrencies from sketchy overseas labs. Please don't play the Harry Potter video games and it defend it by saying they brought *you* childhood joy. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/12/trans-puberty-blockers-nhs-england-prescribe-gender-affirming-healthcare/

“But AI is cheap!” It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.

girl are you the ipv4 address space because you seem completely exhausted

Descriptions of autistic folks as having "trouble in social situations" but all my autistic friends get along great with each other in their social situations. This reads like all the "introverted people just need to learn small talk" instead of having articles where "extroverted people just need to learn to be quiet". Most of my friend AND professional colleague groups are filled with neurospicy folks. And we seem to get along just fine thank you very much. Anyhow. I imagine this isn't new to many folks here in the fediverse... Don't mind me. Just falling into a new research dive. - This research dive feels very meta, by the way.

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A corporation is a family in the same way a hostage situation is a family.

If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning. #foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl