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Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team return & bring Nicola Murino with them to continue catching us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. This is everything we didn’t cover + deep dives from Part 1!

Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team return & bring Nicola Murino with them to continue catching us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. This is everything we didn’t cover + deep dives from Part 1!
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Reminder to use @mozilla@mozilla.social Firefox: it works, it respects your privacy, and you should do your part in stopping the web from becoming a glorified Webkit workspace.
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Attached: 1 image I used to be enthusiastic about technology. Was a teen when people made homepages. I could talk to people around the world. Mobile phones were neat. You could text your friends. Then with smart phones you could practice language and play genuinely innovative games for a couple of bucks. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited by tech. Maybe it's a factor of becoming a jaded old piece of shit.
The problem w mental health care is the tendency to prioritize help only when individuals are on the brink of crisis. If people were believed and their concerns prioritized during the descent rather than waiting until they hit rock bottom, it would be a game changer for the mental health epidemic
Open source projects only get really good when they receive funding. Consider donating to your favourites! 🪙 #FOSS #OpenSource
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I know some people hate them, but I love end of the year "Best of" or "Year in Review" lists.
Emily Omier talks about positioning strategy for open source startups and how to maintain a well-performing team in the same feedback loop.
Ben Rometsch is the CEO and Founder of Flagsmith, an open-source feature flagging platform. In this conversation, we explore how he landed on the idea to develop an open-source feature flagging project and how that has snowballed into running a full-time SaaS company. Ben describes the challenges...
Instagram sensation and satirist Munya Chawawa is this week’s guest. But, as he has another restaurant booking to get to, will he leave us wanting more? Follow Munya on Twitter and Instagram : @munyachawawa Visit Munya’s website munyachawawa.com Recorded by and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions. Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations). Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram : @offmenuofficial. And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show. Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“click this button to track your shipme—” put the tracking number in the email “visit our website to get delivery notifi—” put the tracking number in the email “open your account page on the night of a waxing gibbous moon to get the driver’s locatio—” put the tracking numbe
Attached: 1 image I just got the news that Andre Braugher died on Monday. I loved him in Brooklyn Nine-Nine so much that the series became one of my comfort shows. I have no idea how many times I saw the series, but Captain Holt was always one of my favorite characters. He will be genuinely missed. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/andre-braugher-dead-brooklyn-nine-nine-1235835771/
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Executive dysfunction really sucks ass on some days. I simply can’t get shit that will take 5 seconds done. I know how to do it. I know what needs to be done. I know it’ll not take a lot of time. I just can’t get it done. @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe
in a cost of living crisis - where all the food we buy has at least doubled in price over the last year - to force people into trading their privacy for food, to then turn around and do this, is next level evil shit: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/13/sainsburys-boss-sell-customers-nectar-card-data-tesco
I really dislike the common line of reasoning that "being gay/trans isn't wrong because they were born this way/it's not a choice". That's not why it isn't wrong. It isn't wrong because it doesn't cause any harm to anyone. If being gay was a choice it'd be just as okay morally! This is important because sexual attraction and gender identity can naturally change over the course of one's life. Under the framework of "it's only ok if they're born like this" that can be seen as problematic. It forces people to stay quiet about their experiences if their identity changes at all and especially if some external factor is a catalyst for that. And so what if it is? What if some experience "made you bi"? There's still nothing wrong with that!
https://www.time.gov For all time. On all frequencies.
lot of "technically correct" going on in my API design over here which is of course the best kind of correct
Bryan highlights GitLab's support for open source via GitLab for Open Source & GitLab Open Source Partners, and emphasizes transparent documentation, and policies for open-source success.
The only legitimate use of privilege is to help bring about the kind of world where you would not have had it to begin with. #privilege
Anyone recommend a good graphic designer or artist who'd be up for a (paid) commission to create a logo for an Open Source project of mine?
Attached: 1 image But I thought they had to raise prices to combat revenue loss due to inflation and wage increases. Does this mean—wait, no, but maybe corporations are lying to us?
I'm open to being wrong, but for my money, "identify as"/"identifies as" is almost always a useless phrase. "She identifies as a woman" => "She is a woman." "They identify as Catholic." => "They are Catholic." And so forth. The only utility I can see is to distance the act of identification from actual belonging (as in the classic journalistic twist, "Name Lastname, who identifies as non-binary, [proceeds to misgender them]"), or to discuss the fallibility of survey results ("well, 50% of the cohort identified as sanitation workers, but it's possibly because you said 'garbage people' instead"). In my opinion, it's just not a phrase you should use, unless you can articulate why a simple "is" or "are" doesn't work.
For a long time I had trouble with the concept of unionizing programmers, because it felt like we're already so privileged compared to blue-collar workers. What I realize now is that all that privilege vanishes like a mirage the moment people start talking about unionization. Or the moment interest rates go up.
Attached: 1 image Newsflash: Workers have never been motivated by making money for shareholders. This is what motivates CEOs and senior executives.
You know what they say: Mostly words, usually in sentences
I think about this quote from @andy@bell.bz a lot: ‘P.S if you think “no one will want to read my posts”, you’re wrong, because I do.’ It’s just a sweet sentiment. It’s important to remember—someone will read your website. A tweet is dead on the vine. No one is gonna read your old Facebook note from years ago. But your website is timeless and someone will eventually read it. Making your own website is rewarding in a way that a corporate social media profile never will be. https://andy-bell.co.uk/just-post/
Week Notes 23#49 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-04?
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If a person directly affected tells you directly that someone is being racist, or sexist, or genderist, or ableist, or colonialist, or ageist, or sizeist, or displaying some other form of bias or bigotry, or that something is problematic along those lines and you "don't see it", two things are probably true. 1) you probably aren't looking carefully enough at the situation the person's telling you about 2) the person cares enough to tell you, this time, but will probably never trust you again with that feedback about that topic. So if you don't actively engage, learn, and make amends, they will probably never talk to you again about it. Not because they've given up. What they've done is give up on _you_. If that doesn't bother you, then honestly, I don't want to know you.
Let me be clear, the data you put online is as much a part of you as your physical being. It is a construct, but it IS YOU. Why should anyone own you but you? For profit social media is nothing but a perversely incentivized version of serfdom at best, but somehow permissible because your intellectual construct is believed to be somehow less valuable than your physical being. Both the physical and intellectual versions of you, are you. Deny them.
Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and steal something from there anyway. But the categorical difference is that in the old way, there was a non-zero chance of getting caught. The Plagiarism Machine makes that impossible because it is a copyright laundry.
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Attached: 1 image If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...
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Okay, #ADHD folks - what symptom suddenly makes sense, now that you understand ADHD better? I'm not talking about general stuff, like difficulty concentrating, I'm talking about specific phenomena, like having trouble following a conversation at a party. I always thought I had this problem because my ears are about a foot higher than the people speaking, but now I'm starting to think that the real difficulty is that my brain has trouble turning the volume down on all the other talking in the room. (I will occasionally repost this, along with whatever new symptom I've thought up... Apologies for the repetition) #ItAllMakesSenseNow
OpenUK @openuk@hachyderm.io is asking for volunteers to help to run State of Open 2024 - a celebration of open technologies (#opensource software, hardware, and data) in #London in early February. You get to attend the #SOOCon24 conference, alongside working for a portion of the time. https://stateofopencon.com/volunteer-2024/
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Scalable software today means software working on many machines owned by a single entity. Instead, it should be reclaimed to mean software that works across machines owned by many different people. Let's take 2024 to stop building The Plagiarism Nexus and focus on human empowering technologies. And do that again in 2025. And every year afterwards.
Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 releasedGo Developer 2023H2 survey results are inProposalsaccepted: deadcode command is on the waynew: Add localization support to go docnew: Allow compile-time override of constantsBlog: Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples by Alex BledeaThis week's...
If somebody asks you to take part in an icebreaker game, your only responsibility is to make them regret it
This was a really great episode for everyone doing APIs of every sort 👀
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?