@lukas@indieweb.social @lornajane@indieweb.social @Philsturgeon@mastodon.green How about a swear jar for API conferences. Every time a speaker says Swagger, they have to pay Phil to plant another tree.

PLEASE stop calling them "soft skills" unless you're talking about the ability to whisper or properly fluff pillows. They're "core skills", the skills we need to communicate with, mentor, inspire, and manage others.

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💧️ ppl with ADHD are not in a hurry because they're impatient. they're in a hurry because they know if they don't do this now they're just gonna forget about it

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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.

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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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

Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $248,800,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $160,900,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $105,200,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

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.

I too aspire to be provided as-is, without any warranty of any kind

Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable! Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

Given that my entire wardrobe consists of #hacktoberfest t-shirts, I'm a little upset by this news. https://hacktoberfest.com/about/#digital-rewards I get the challenges (and the annoyance of drive-by contributors) but I'll miss the fun of getting a random prize in the post.

Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving them the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI." Elon Musk's. "AI." If you're still over there, now is the time to request your archived data, delete your posts, and stop using that site. view-source:https://twitter.com/en/privacy

why does everyone want to own the libs as an open source developer i own multiple libs i would happily pay people to take them from me you do not want to own libs. its so much work