Hey folks, I've seen a lot of talk going around about adblockers lately. I worked in the advertising technology and security industry for five years and the one core piece of advice I have is: Holy fuck never give an advertiser your data. You cannot believe how bad it is. Don't. I run three layers of ad block protection and I'd run more if it was feasible. If you want to support creators give them money.

Attached: 1 image Don't know who took this or where it is...but it's spot on. #graffiti #fear #politics #life

Support trans women. That includes the woman from the hood. The loud one.The sexworker. The dropout. The one whose hair aint laid and outfit ain't always on point. The one with clear mental health issues. The one with nowhere to go. Not just the models, writers, and public figures. - Devin Lowe #trans #queer #DecoloniseGender #TransWomen #SistaGirl #SistaGirls #SistersNotCisters

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.

The I in LLM stands for Intelligence.

Content warning: Ranting. Swearing.

Attached: 1 image We run CI on our code. We should do the same for docs too! @lornajane@indieweb.social’s talk on DocOps at Tech Mids is full of great info on this.

Attached: 1 image I of course forgot to take a picture of the lovely audience in attendance at my #TechMids2023 talk, so here's a shot of the size of the crowd ... Great fun giving this "Protecting a k8s cluster with @theotterize without knowing k8s" talk!

1/ Hallway Track 003 You Deserve A Union is open for registration! Adhoc free Zooms, recreating the best bits of conferences: the hallway chat after a great session. Thursday 26 October 2023 2:30pm Pacific | 5:30pm Eastern | 10:30pm London With: * Jacky Alciné (https://jacky.wtf), Union organizer, ex-Code for America * @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com of You Deserve a Tech Union * Clarissa Redwine, ex Kickstarter United * Johanna Weststar, Associate Prof. Weestern University [cont] https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

Attached: 1 image Understanding why you can't fall asleep... #infographic #meme #funny #notFunny #anxiety

fedi tip: be considerate! if you're making an annoying post, try to make it annoying for the widest audience possible

Attached: 1 image Great opening talk at TechMids this morning. Loved this point by Molly Barnes that disabilities are acquired by people later in life. Sight and hearing loss, along with mobility issues come to most older people, not *old* people. #accessibility

Greatly enjoying this #techMids talk from @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me about software dependencies, but we haven’t got into SBOMs yet … it’s all good info!

Attached: 1 image TIL about https://endoflife.date from @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me! Part of a great talk about understanding your dependencies at TechMids.

The difference between nudes posted to OnlyFans for subscribers and the same nudes leaked to the public for the purpose of embarrassing one of your critics is consent, you moron.

the "i would never buy an NFT, just think of all the energy they pointlessly burn through" crowd sure has come around fast on "haha i got ChatGPT to write a poem about my butt"

Earlier I was thinking about smaller companies that sell themselves to big ones, and how sometimes no one cares or even notices (e.g. 7digital) that they sold out, vs companies like Bandcamp or flickr where everyone freaks out. It’s a sign of how special the company is to the people who use it. If you’re starting a company, that should be your goal: to create something that would make people freak out and sad if you sold out. A business loved that much is an accomplishment that can’t be measured in $ I started SomaFM because I couldn’t find what I wanted to listen to on the radio. I wanted to create something i would love rather than simply found a startup to make a bunch of money. Creating/Doing something people care about is much better than “increasing shareholder value”.

There are people who are still alive who were alive when it was illegal to be gay. Actually, if you're reading this you're one of them because its STILL illegal to be gay in about 70 countries and in the USA in only the past few days culturally controlling figures like Matt Walsh have supported "conversion therapy" for gay and queer people. Do not take sexual diversity for granted. Because its violently coercive enemies don't. 🏳️‍🌈 #gay #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #nonbinary #queer

anyone who declares every problem can be solved by technology is not a serious person 🙄

Every single commit message can be “WIP” for all I care if commits are small changes of well factored, simple code driven by well-written tests co-authored by people having face to face conversations and each one is safely delivered to production.

Please stop referring to Copilot and ChaptGPT as an amazing pairing partner. If you think your mob/pairing partner is there to help you type code in then you’ve misunderstood the real value of mobbing/pairing.

If you're fairly old & grew up in the UK you'll probably find this site fascinating http://cerealoffers.com

Attached: 1 image The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky. https://skyview.social Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless. But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs. All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design. The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise. Here are my last 100 posts. https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post

Major VC writes manifesto: "Building the Torment Nexus is Good, Actually."

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IF your product is available under an #OpenSource license and some other company uses it to create a more compelling product offering than your own, THEN the problem is **not** the license or open source, it's that your company is failing at doing #business as well as your competitor is.

It is tempting to dismiss that manifesto as incoherent and self-serving, but it is important to remember that this it is also a list of beliefs the founders of tech companies will need to recite if they want investment money from that guy and his friends.

It's okay to publish code under a free software / open source license without starting a "project". Not every act of sharing code for others to use and/or build on is a "project". Which is something …

I’ll write a fuller response later, but when billionaire tycoons who profit from genocide say that they want to become “supermen” while explicitly endorsing colonialism, that’s not optimism. That’s fascism with a smile. I actually make stuff, and help other people make stuff, and genuine optimism (technological or not) looks like community, nurturing, organizing and empowering — not indulging billionaires who profit from genocide.

[The CEO of Hashicorp speaks after the BSL shenanigans](https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/): > He claimed that “My phone started ringing materially after we made our announcement from every open source startup in Silicon Valley going ‘I think this is the right model’.” I'll take "shit that definitely didn't happen" for $1,000

Change your pronouns frequently, make sure they aren't easily guessed and use different ones for different accounts

Attached: 1 image I’m joining the war on conventional changelogs (or whatever other names they go by)

The United States is like a villain from a scooby doo episode. In every episode the “monster” is a person of color, or illegal immigrant, or an LGBTQ person. But when they catch the “monster” and pull its mask off. It’s old man US government every god damn time.