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Reposted Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
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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 ā€œinactiveā€. 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 ā€œIt’s been a while since I last wrote to youā€ 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

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Reposted Miah Johnson (@miah@hachyderm.io)
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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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Reposted Sara Safavi (@sara@hachyderm.io)
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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 ā€œgee I should apply to one of theseā€? I’m here to tell you: IT’S A TRAP! 🧵

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Bookmarked So you've been reorg'd... - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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I’ve been through close to a dozen reorgs. This article contains the advice I wish I’d been given earlier in my career when I didn’t yet have that experience. Reorgs are disruptive, and nobody really tells you what to do in the wake of one. It’s 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 aren’t 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.

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No #WeekNotes tonight as I'm celebrating my 30th birthday in Rome šŸŽ‚šŸ„‚šŸšŸ·

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 🄰

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Reposted SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange)
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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.

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Reposted RyanšŸ’‹ (@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social)
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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/

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Reposted Thomas šŸ”­āœØ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)
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ā€œBut AI is cheap!ā€ 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.

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Reposted Tinker ā˜€ļø (@tinker@infosec.exchange)
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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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Listened to Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools | The 404 Media Podcast
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Listen to Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ 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.

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Listened to Ep. 1: How heroes kill culture by Always an Engineer
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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] Asim’s 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 aren’t going to their head. When someone is afflicted by a ā€œtoxic heroā€ state of mind, they’d 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 ā€œhero'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

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Reposted Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think ā€œdamn 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 yoursā€ (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning. #foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl

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Listened to It's not always DNS with Paul Vixie (contributor to DNS protocol design) (Changelog Interviews #581)
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This week we’re talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a ā€œlove/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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Reposted &2i (@pneumaculturist@hcommons.social)
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"De-anonymising data is surprisingly easy: if you know Tony Blair’s 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 ā€œanonymisedā€ pool of NHS data in seconds, and then discover all those facts about his health that aren’t a matter of public record... Dr Ben Goldacre and his team at Oxford created OpenSAFELY, a ā€œTrusted 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 – which never left the trusts’ 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 (ā€œSauron, are we the baddies?ā€)

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Listened to Cup o' Go | šŸ›”ļø Focus on security & crypto w/ Filippo Valsorda
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šŸ›”ļø Security releases. Upgrade now!Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0šŸ‘­ Happy International Women's Day!Upcoming meetups & eventsšŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ London Gophers, March 20šŸ‡®šŸ‡± Go Israel, March 12šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ GopherCon UKConference, August 14-16CFP is open!Accepted proposals: Migrate x/crypto packages into...

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Listened to The Story Graph - CoRecursive Podcast by Adam Gordon Bell 
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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... […]