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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.
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.
Iāll 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 āinactiveā. 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 āItās been a while since I last wrote to youā were the ones people cherished the most You donāt 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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š¬š§ Manchester Go Meetup, April 3Proposalsš Declined: time: add "1136214245" as layout string for unix timestampšŖ Active: promote windows/arm64 to first class portGo Blog: More powerful Go execution tracesDesign document: Execution tracer overhaulNeovim plugin for gopls documentation linksOn...
Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Letās find out!
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/
Itās 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 ā¦
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We talked about some things that I entirely agree with, and then there were some points I challenged...
Very excited to be speaking at the @TheLeadDev webinar Does your org need platform engineering? in a few weeks! Hope to share some of my experiences with #PlatformEngineering and #DeveloperExperience
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Attached: 1 image Ok Iām 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 āgee I should apply to one of theseā? Iām here to tell you: ITāS A TRAP! š§µ
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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Iāve been through close to a dozen reorgs. This article contains the advice I wish Iād been given earlier in my career when I didnāt yet have that experience. Reorgs are disruptive, and nobody really tells you what to do in the wake of one. Itās easy to feel adrift, scared for your future, and uncertain about how to behave. Some of that fear is warranted: your job security probably goes down in the months following a reorg. But confusion and chaos arenāt necessarily signs that the reorg will go poorly, and there are things you can do to help give you and your team a better chance of emerging successfully.
No #WeekNotes tonight as I'm celebrating my 30th birthday in Rome šš„šš·
If you wanted to do something nice to honour it, you could support my work on the Open Source projects I maintain as well as the content on my blog. But I'd also love to see y'all pay it forward to other creators or maintainers for the stuff you use, and work with your companies to pay to support the Open Source you so heavily rely on!
I'll be posting my Week Notes some time next week, when I get to relive the lovely ~10 days we've been having š„°
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 š https://changelog.com/friends/31Subscri...
Please don't call it FOMO: please call it ODARA (Organizers Didn't Allow Remote Attendance).
Who called it āintellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Modelsā and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?
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Yāall 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. Itās not your machine ITāS THEIRS. All you do, all your access, itās 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
Theyāre 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/
āBut AI is cheap!ā Itās not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; itās 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 moreāwith inferior resultsāthan, you know, hiring the writers and artists itās 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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Week Notes 24#10 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-03-04?
Listen to Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Usersā Data to Train AI Tools from The 404 Media Podcast. Tumblr and WordPress are set to sell posts to OpenAI and Midjourney. And cops are wearing body cameras in libraries. In this episode, Jason, Sam, and Emanuel try to explain what it means for OpenAI and Midjourney to scrape Tumblr's posts, broader chaos at the company, and whether AI is going to run out of things to ingest. Then we talk about the war on libraries, which is taking place all over the country.
Ryan Barrett talks about protocols for the social web, and how to make them talk to each other.
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A corporation is a family in the same way a hostage situation is a family.
In this episode, Asim Razzaq defines what is toxic heroism in the field of software engineering. Many engineers do not see this trait, and for Asim, it is important that he shows how this trait manifests and how it could affect the performance and output of a company on a long-term basis. [01:37] Problem of Hero Hailing Engineers [02:50] Why it gets Toxic [03:17] Asimās Experience [07:18] Solution Going Against Morale While it is important to credit engineers for all the daily tasks and solutions they provide for companies, it is still important to check in on them and see if these little success stories arenāt going to their head. When someone is afflicted by a ātoxic heroā state of mind, theyād often take shortcuts or rely on small and temporary wins, these achievements are materialized externally to a point that how they think is always right. This, in return, creates a bad environment for colleagues who may be discouraged to work as a team or craft new ideas to solutions, which may not be aligned with the aforementioned āhero'sā point of view. Taking a Step Back When you feel like these wins are getting to your head or if you notice that your colleagues are no longer contributing ideas to your group huddles, then it is definitely time to take a self-evaluation on whether or not you are creating a toxic hero environment for your workplace. The sooner you identify these signs, the better it is to help reconnect with your team. Got questions or suggestions for future episodes? Just visit www.alwaysanengineer.org
Autumn and Justin are joined by Chris Swan to discuss tech industry trends like AI and sustainability, gamifying the software development process and motivating devs to write more secure code, OpenSSF Scorecards and how they offer a way to measure and improve the security and compliance of GitHub repos, the scoring sys...
If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think ādamn you, I canāt use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what Iāve built on top of what youāve 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 yoursā (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning. #foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl
Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant ā they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!
This week weāre talking about DNS with Paul Vixie ā Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a ālove/hate relationship with DNS.ā We discuss the limitations of current DNS technologies and the need for revisions to support future internet scale, the challenges in doing that. Paul s...
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"De-anonymising data is surprisingly easy: if you know Tony Blairās date of birth (a matter of public record) and the two dates during his term in office in which he was treated for a heart condition (ditto), you can pick him out of any āanonymisedā pool of NHS data in seconds, and then discover all those facts about his health that arenāt a matter of public record... Dr Ben Goldacre and his team at Oxford created OpenSAFELY, a āTrusted Research Environmentā that allows researchers to write programs that analyse NHS data in situ. These programs would be dispatched to run against the data held by NHS trusts, and then the system would return the results to the researchers without ever letting them handle the data ā which never left the trustsā own servers." https://goodlawproject.org/cory-doctorow-health-data-it-isnt-just-palantir-or-bust/ #dataProtection #research #NHS #privacy PS #Palantir, ... is literally named after an evil, all-seeing magic talisman employed by the principal villain of Lord of the Rings (āSauron, are we the baddies?ā)
š”ļø Security releases. Upgrade now!Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0š Happy International Women's Day!Upcoming meetups & eventsš¬š§ London Gophers, March 20š®š± Go Israel, March 12š¬š§ GopherCon UKConference, August 14-16CFP is open!Accepted proposals: Migrate x/crypto packages into...
Whenever I work on a side project, I can't help but daydream of it taking off in a big way. For today's guests, something like that did happen. When Nadia started building her side project, she didn't know that it would end up spreading virally. She didn't know that it would end up competing with an Amazon product. She didn't... [ā¦]