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Listened to Cup o' Go | Conferences galore for Q4, Alien Abduction 🛸, and interview with Peter Seebach aka Seebs on Go performance
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Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!So many conferences!🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28🎟️ Tickets still available🏨 Hotel discount extended to Monday, September 18🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland, Dublin, November 2🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Fyne Conf, Edinburgh, November 3CFP open until October 6🇸🇬...

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Listened to Type War (what is it good for?) (JS Party #292)
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Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced deci...

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TIL that I can use my fingerprint to log in with i3lock-color🕵️ I thought it'd not worked before last time I looked, but similar to logging in on a TTY, I just need to enter an empty password, then I can auth via my fingerprint 👏

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Has anyone else noticed that the #reddit mobile web app is useless? Often get white screens if I try to load it, often have to choose a subreddit to go to first, then I can go back home. Wouldn't get that with excellent third party apps 😥

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Reposted Jean :donor: (@bohemianchic@infosec.exchange)
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I've been asked to comment on what I think the biggest tech trend in 2024 will be? Short answer: Slavery and let me tell you why. Data is the lifeblood that allows any machine learning model to perform its task. It’s not magic. It’s not the so-called “AI” being intelligent or intuitive. It’s statistics. And as the tech sector delves into rapid developments of specialised LLMs that they can further commoditise, they will require vast amounts of diverse data to train—leading to what some have called as data hunting. And unfortunately, all of us who have posted even a single piece of content online are all part of this—whether we like it or not. We are now part of a universal digital sweatshop that transcends international borders. Our labour is ignored and uncompensated based on the capitalist belief that since we shared content freely, companies have the right to monetise it whenever they want. Time and time again, as we have seen in recent news, companies have collected our data without explicit consent. And when they do ask for ‘consent’, they give us word salad in the user agreements or just ask us to opt our way out of the inferno that they manufactured. The aggressive collection of data paves the way for a future where a few corporations will have disproportionate control over vast datasets, which they can exploit for unwarranted targeted advertising, surveillance and practices that would reinforce biases or unfairly influence individual choices and behaviours. And let’s not forget the second step in the process where people (they call as taskers), mostly from the Global South, are hired for 2 USD a day to classify images, videos and texts so that your LLMs will not spew out gibberish. This is the reality behind your glamorous “AI” models. While “AI” companies in the developed world reap huge profits, the groundwork is outsourced to workers in Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines and India. But it is fine, isn’t it? As long as we don’t see them. Out of sight, out of mind.

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New release of deepmap/oapi-codegen 🚀 v1.15.0 comes to downgrade the version of Go in use by a couple of dependencies, which was leading to build issues for folks running Go 1.21 🔧

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Tool{chain}s of the trade, meetup war stories, and OpenTF/HashiCorp discussion with env0 CEO Ohad Maislish
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Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🆕 Go 1.21.1 & 1.20.8 released⚒️ Related: Tool dependencies proposal has been accepted, and here's the design document link. We got you covered ;)🎫 Conference updates🇮🇳 GopherCon India TOMORROW - shoutout Rishi Chandwani for bringing it to our attention🇬🇧...

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Reposted Dave Rahardja (@drahardja@sfba.social)
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Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off. - You’re damaging your life and health. - Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.) - Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources. - When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway. Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment. #FridayDevAdvice

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Two years ago, I posted my salary history - in an impulsive move - and I absolutely do not regret it. I know directly of some the great impact having this data has had (including leading to others sharing their own), and I'm so glad to be able to use my privilege to help others

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Reposted Estelle Weyl (@estelle@front-end.social)
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Normalize talking about about income, menstruation, mental health, and everything. Shameful , aka “taboo”, topics are a form of control; a way to keep people in their place. Shame benefits the patriarchy and the predator class. That’s why calling it what it is — the white supremacacist capitalist patriarchy— is proscribed as well. Normalize it all

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Listened to Ep136: Dan Moore by The Geek Within
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Today's guest is Dan Moore. He is the head of Devrel at FusionAuth and the author of "Letters To A New Developer", which is subtitled, What I Wish I Had Known When Starting My Development Career. Episode 136 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1C1q-o6DtPU You can engage Dan here: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mooreds/ Website - https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ Book - https://www.amazon.com/Letters-New-Developer-Starting-Development-ebook/dp/B08FD7DG943 Substack - https://ciamweekly.substack.com The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu List of past episodes: https://tgwlink.net/episodes

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Reposted Daniel (@dznz@cloudisland.nz)
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PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive. Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.

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Listened to Configuring Identity - CoRecursive Podcast by Adam Gordon Bell 
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Today we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massively popular DevOps tool. But despite Chef's success, Adam constantly battled self-doubt and finding his footing as a leader. In this raw episode, Adam shares how the pressure of going from sysadmin to startup CTO caused an... […]

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