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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am stunned by the absurd excesses of some people objecting to the existence of feeeemales in a game's mythology. Many humans are ridiculously irrational.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/18/wokehammer/
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uniinnsbruck@social.uibk.ac.at ("Universität Innsbruck") wrote:
Expansion of activities in the Fediverse:
We are opening the university's own Mastodon instance social.uibk.ac.at to all 5,000+ employees today: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/
This step is based on the communication team's fundamental commitment to non-profit, data protection-friendly and open-source media - set out in the position paper "Open Science Communication": https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-relations/kommunikation/open-science-communication/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻") wrote:
Psst, someone tell #democrats that no amount of AIPAC money will save the election if they vote for the #TikTok ban on Saturday. It may just be a bigger election issue than Palestine. #uspol
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Anyone else notice some accounts get an automatic phantom boost whenever they post?
I call them boost goblins.
I know specific hashtags are monitored and auto-boosted into private channels, like posts with #Threads and #fediverse in them (notice this post will likely have one of those boosts).
That's weird too.
But there seems to be boost goblins assigned to specific accounts, unbeknownst to the user. Are we monitoring sentiment?
*Jerry Seinfeld voice* What's the deal with boost goblins?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately because I've noticed we in tech get to make so many of our own decisions, in a way few other fields enjoy.
Whether I'm talking to a contractor who's going to work on our house, a teacher at my kid's school, or a doctor guiding me through medical issues, I *always* have a say. And in the rare cases I don't, I get a full briefing on the choice and why it had to be made.
I think we forget what a privilege that is, and often, abuse it.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I think it's a useful thought experiment, at the very least.
Imagine your users knew everything you do.
How many of them would say "yes, sure, make the decision that's easiest for you. I don't care how long the page takes to load. I don't care how much data is transferred."
How many would disagree?
What would be the commonality in those groups?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Have you ever stopped to consider that simply by virtue of being developers, we already make a better salary than a significant portion of our users ever have, and experience technology and the web in a way many of them never will?
Have you ever thought about how often we just ask those people—the ones using shittier phones than we'd ever look at, on shittier networks than we'll ever experience—to pay the price for our privileged decisions?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
We as developers often get to make our own technology decisions.
But have you ever imagined what it would be like if our *users* could vote on how they wanted the things they use to be built?
Have you ever stopped to think what a massive privilege we enjoy, being allowed to pick what *we* think is best for us, over what any user might pick for themselves, given the requisite understanding?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Insightful graffiti.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/18/on-a-wall-in-austin/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
New blog post: We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-04-18-calendar.html
Mastodon Feedbcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
who likes their job and is hiring in security engineering (bay area / remote)? asking for a friend!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The public relations decision to make Mark Zuckerberg look like he sells shrooms out of a surf shop is objectively fascinating.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Obscurest Vinyl is the best account on the web
https://obscurestvinyl.bandcamp.com/track/this-baptism-fucking-blows-dunk-the-kid-already
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Today Edge is launching a new dashboard that, together with Interop '24 (wpt.fyi/interop-2024) , provides a more complete picture into what we have heard from developers about their pain-points:
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/04/18/2024-web-platform-top-developer-needs-dashboard/
Dashboard here: https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Fun read from a 1996 Wired Article
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/when-web-and-chaos-theory-meet-the-future-could-be-weird/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
FirefoxNightly@mozilla.social ("Firefox Nightly") wrote:
Networking decompression (gzip, brotli) have been moved off-main-thread as part of ongoing efforts to reduce main thread contention. This work has delivered huge performance wins on our high level page load metrics, reducing FCP and LCP by 10%. See https://bugzil.la/1356686
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Here we go, the dire consequences are already being rolled out in the UK.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/18/the-proof-is-in-the-damnable-pudding/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kennwhite ("Kenn White") wrote:
Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)
A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!
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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:
Is there a sci hub for ISO standards? I’m asking for a friend.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
There are so many innovations in the modern tech industry, it's easy to lose track. I knew about the fake unregulated taxis, the fake unregulated hotels, the fake unregulated banks, and the fake unregulated gambling, but I did *not* know about the fake, unregulated student loans.
Thanks, Y Combinator!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Worst. Teaching. Job. Ever.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/18/how-desperate-are-you-for-a-job-as-a-teacher/
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junglegeorge@mastodon.africa ("Jungle George 🌿🌳🌴") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Opinion: "In many ways Mr. Trump’s success outside of New York is a function of a characteristic he has that the city itself does not: an inferiority complex. Even when confronted with evidence of his wrongdoing, he insists that he is a victim, and now so are the people who vote for him. "
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Mr. Yass is financing a libertarian group that is defending TikTok. He is also the largest donor this election cycle, with more than $46 million in contributions through the end of last year"
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
kenobit@livellosegreto.it ("Kenobit") wrote:
Ho pubblicato la puntata di #NuovoBarettoUtopia con @pluralistic Cory Doctorow.
È stato un onore e un piacere parlare con lui. Abbiamo parlato di The Bezzle, il suo nuovo libro, ma anche di temi affascinanti come il sistema carcerario americano, gli abusi di potere, le truffe, le bolle tecnologiche e l'IA.
La puntata è in inglese, ma sono disponibili i sottotitoli. Sono felicissimo di pubblicare un contenuto così solo sul Fediverso, senza regalarlo a YouTube.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
cryspen@ioc.exchange ("Cryspen") wrote:
Our very own Karthik is at the Matchpoints conference in Aarhus today! 🇩🇰
He's presenting his talk on "High Assurance Post Quantum Cryptography," diving deep into the future of secure communication.
If you're attending Matchpoints, stop by and connect!
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
We really need better calendar software for desktops (especially Windows, Linux) that supports multiple calendars from different providers + CalDav and has a good user interface, but who wants to write that? Likely thankless work.
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astory@tilde.zone ("Alec Story") wrote:
Google just notified me that they have terminated my employment.
Please see https://www.instagram.com/p/C54qFvUtuzY for No Tech for Apartheid's statement on this. I do not want to say much publicly.
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tim@union.place ("Tim W (admin (and human))") wrote:
I don't have enough characters here to express my frustration and sadness at Google's decision to have nine of their own employees arrested for a peaceful protest yesterday, so I wrote more about it on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timwilde_no-tech-for-apartheid-activity-7186353758476357632-cU_G?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Google, I'm so sad, angry, and disappointed at you. This is not the company I signed up for. I'm spending today in serious contemplation of my next steps and path forward.
#NoTechForApartheid #Union #Solidarity #GazaGenocide #Labor #Google #AWU
