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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

bojacobs@hcommons.social ("Bo Jacobs") wrote:

Open access:

"Piling Horror Upon Horror" by Michelle Goldberg

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/opinion/israel-palestine-mass-death.html?unlocked_article_code=4QqRmDWxuKZh2LBA-tMsdOC1FGlSRLO3a5yAKLgUooI8wdv2GN3RW7zYDrzNyorwGVpnqKNEqh8zgR9FLv1DvO8_wRAxYOyjpS5lbRQ__x3y0od9iTqWSqYq7tiasPr7Ui9EQnyHQ0bysebm1L8p-DuOaw5soQBUttLnB0y_vLnykMW5VwzrYw4Rj2MoJ6Cy4opBYgxGVJJ9JfxNODtnDYhLR51mbXKGdegwgdYHZ3CzblNFWN6KSvdbFTGp1HsXkQDcV9CQUZM6t0i_d7GPctqqYwyksFS536jWf1QP2WRKJ19MmM2MfxxtkZPnZVPiU8QgE931G3BJk-La2In-aYR8GLmY&smid=url-share

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

yarkot wrote:

With 90% of the vote counted, it's clear the democratic opposition in Poland just defeated the national-conservative autocratic ruling party.

I know that there are a lot of terrible things happening right now, but this, finally, is actual good news:

🎁 article (accessible for 14days):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/poland-parliamentary-election-autocracy-tusk/675656/?gift=vgGG9ZUNBmD_We5Zd_3wgFvDxUYDbfq_BpYdQk2s_pY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“According to an analysis by The New York Times, metadata contained within the video file indicates that some of the footage was filmed at least six days ago.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-video-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=bqnSohmjKe7JVIAjDaLReTJwYgB5g9dw1z7eIDyjBgyoHtn-HjkRizFkiYLPELhYkKtWtZSyruJ1tBVMZHh0q2EiN5yeAzN6R-CFbDxTSv3cvEtEuQvad5ygYGnriVduY6L6fpPqtcv-WUeWlMfPU993Hdp04-98vB3s-mdluH1-Hy1Dnnb8hE-0hJnyDnVVoqbNW6fhpaqEsgJYiW8aKXy391Q5gXCCKKiOcd91wLtagXzMwaPLrF5b2qDFmADv40tDZ8TAQALawgnZEqU4CySIPY29LdUo2rhX-BfDWmrgGfxKfrK14XJMTSfQSm3UoK4yfSG9fJ6pd2ss5kg_TlWAhoiKBqO2gLED&smid=url-share

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Who called it bloated old legacy code and not Dad Prod

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The attitude of coworkers to necessary-but-not-sufficient switchbacks on the way to a strategic objective is a pretty good indicator of organisational capacity to manage more than one OKR cycle out.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

In 2023, the frontend hiring pro-move is to zero your budget for additive JS and spend it on hiring and/or retraining for modern CSS, HTML, and SVG skills.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

is now a good time to say that the IMG tag was a mistake

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Attachments:

• A painting of a rabbit drowning in water. (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

also if you have a rec for something interesting in basically-only-immediately-downtown raleigh, esp after 5pm on a weekday, please share

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

one small consequence of free transit that I find interesting, though others may find sorta tautological: no fare evasion. everybody on the bus is an equally "valid" passenger, and that feels a little different!

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

visiting raleigh right now and the buses are all free of charge (and have been since 2020). it's not a great transit city! but free buses have had some real nice knock-on effects, and it's such a nice simplification for me as a visitor

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Proud to be on Marc Andreessen's enemies list

Tag yourself, I'm "tech ethics"

Attachments:

• “Our enemies are not bad people—but rather bad ideas,” he wrote in a post published on a16z’s website. “Our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization campaign for six decades—against technology and against life— under varying names like ‘existential risk’, ‘sustainability’, ‘ESG, ‘Sustainable Development Goals’, ‘social responsibility’, ‘stakeholder capitalism’, ‘Precautionary Principle’, ‘trust and safety’, ‘tech ethics’, ‘risk management”, ‘de- growth’, ‘the limits of growth’”

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

selzero@syzito.xyz ("Deniz Opal") wrote:

If you are following me, here are 5 things you should know.

1- I'm building an army for world domination, to smash the patriarchy, free the proletariat from their chains, the usual, yada yada.

2- The Robot AI Monkeys are almost complete.

3- There will also be Cyborg Werewolves, and Algebraic Velociraptors.

4- As well as a necromanced kung-fu Audrey Hepburn (long story)

5- I like vodka.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

disaster averted, resupply mission successful

Attachments:

• 4 bottles of Sylvia’s Hot Sauce (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Hey Seattle! There's a good #progressive candidate running for the City Council seat in D1, Maren Costa, a climate activist. We talked with her on the phone, and she seems to be for all the right things: housing homeless, holding police accountable, investing in public transport.

You know what to do: vote if you're in #Seattle D1, donate if you're anywhere in US (especially if in or around Seattle), spread the word if you're anywhere in the world.

https://www.marenforseattle.org/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

playing around with 30 Watts using JS8 mode on the 20 meter band netted me a conversation with a random stranger in Kentucky. this is why I love #AmateurRadio

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

pawelgrzybek ("Paweł Grzybek") wrote:

“No crypto.” 🫶

https://www.rustjobs.fyi

#rust

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

which one are you?

Attachments:

• It is a cartoon of three different types of workers: remote, hybrid, and office. The image is titled "Types of Workers" and was created by Irina Blok. All three works are at sitting at a desk in their home, home office, or office and in-front of a computer screen and doing video conferring meetings. The cartoon is humorous, but it also reflects the reality of the modern workplace. Many people now work remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, and the traditional office worker is becoming less common.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

This is an article. I read the whole thing and so shouldn't you https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

From the originator of a "malicious" open source strategy comes the tragedy of open source foundations!

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

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• HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet on open source foundations, explaining that they are "tragic open source innovation."

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I end up explaining over and over again that #rustfmt is not good for being applied unconditionally to human-maintained code.

Unlike gofmt-like tools that correct bad formatting, rustfmt forces a canonical form of everything. It replaces all human direction with its own primitive heuristics. It doesn't have common sense, and does not allow to be corrected. This frequently leads to absurdly misformatted code, and pointless changes for the worse.

I'm going to snap and write my own formatter…

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The detritus from narratives based on bad-fit tech popularity contests is everywhere in our consulting work.

Teams can easily paint themselves into a corner with stacks they do not fully understand or own. Shallow understanding of stacks is common, and every increment of underappreciated complexity is a stochastic unhappy surprise.

Avoiding bad times for a team means being skeptical about stacks, running bakeoffs, and ruthlessly matching user needs to tech choices:

https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

An important habit of mind for PMs to break is the siren song of tech-stack popularity contests.

Popularity of a stack is not an asset to your team *unless the stack's essential properties matches your user's needs*.

BigCo's using a stack is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.

A large community is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.

Documentation is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.

The ability too hire is not a reason to adopt...you get the idea.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1wwGcu0Dk

#np #nowplaying

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

How about no?

#hacktoberfest #digitalocean

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• 17bc27f457e5e873.png

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Dear #OpenSource contributors:

do
not
reformat
the
code.

It takes a second to run the formatter, but it requires hours to review the massive patch to ensure there aren't any bad changes hiding among all the spaces and brackets moved around.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A good read:

https://gener8ads.com/blog/the-dmcc-bill-an-appeal-to-common-sense/?trk=comments_comments-list_comment-text

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'll be Batman (in about 12 hours)

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• ad0d52b8221d91c5.mp4

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Half a year ago: "I know how to solve this using this ingenious one-liner!"

Today: "What is this weird line of code doing?! Let me rewrite that so it's understandable!"

Half a year from now: "I know how to solve this using this ingenious one-liner!"

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Never read Denyse O'Leary, she's such a vacuous, incoherent nobody that it'll suck your brain out through your eye sockets.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/16/the-vortex-of-madness-that-is-denyse-oleary/

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• Denyse O'Leary (remote)