I’m like The Count on Sesame Street (looks evil but just autistic and trying to be helpful by giving unnecessarily granular information).
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@neatnik@social.lol it simply doesn't take that much money to develop a distro, however sophisticated. It's basically a political donation disguised as a technology partnership.
I wonder if Candace Owens is just going to fess up to being gay. She's capturing what's left of the right-wing media (obsoleted because another lesbian, Bari Weiss, turned the MSM into the right-wing media) and I suspect it's because she captured young people who got into conspiracy thinking during the pandemic and might not have a self-image as being right-wingers.
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@mcc@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop conservatives in academia/tech/alt spaces be like:
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social I relate to a lot of what you’re saying but also my experience of being a coder who cares about ethics makes me at least a little suspicious of other coders. At the very least it’s bad to have *only* coders in an ethics discussion. So many of us have weird blind spots. Although often when a tech company does evil things, it’s above the objections of coders who tried to stop it from happening.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone local governments especially always fall for "this will bring business to your area" sells. E.g., expensive stadiums. If only they at least listened to locals who don't want their electric bills to go up.
I couldn't find this story by searching "boy" or "kid" and maybe that's because the media likes to adultify black minor victims of police brutality. There was one article that echoed speculation on the part of law enforcement that this was suicide-by-cop in the headline. This person being an unarmed minor is the bigger story than that he allegedly pretended to draw his water bottle.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/police-17-year-old-had-water-bottle-not-gun-in-fatal-austin-officer-shooting
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I would explore the shit out of a forest floor. I’d be afraid of all the insects but per movie logic, it would just be a lot of close calls and me befriending one of the bugs.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social the way gh works as a "LinkedIn for programmers" means yeah, it would be huge if federation was finally rolled out!
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@cwebber what helped me was realizing I could just... stop taking it if I don't like the effects. And to not think of it as strictly for binary trans people. Or what really helped was hearing about trans women who "boymode" for years. Because even if they're doing it for safety reasons or whatever I was more just worried I'd lose my ability to pass as male because I still like being able to do that. I don't mind people knowing I'm trans!
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@lzg@mastodon.social if only people who have too much interest in food (like me) had a way of donating some to people who have too little.
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@mattblaze I hate these cowardly businesses that comply in advance. They have the capital and the lawyers to do the right thing
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@bellosoph @lina everything's I also wished I could just delete replies even when I'm not blocking the person. Maybe the permissions structure is weird about this, but I think if you made the toot, then you should be able to delete replies to it through multiple means.
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@parkermolloy.com there are so many things wrong with the post, but it drives me nuts when people suggest that it can't possibly be the case that a majority of the population are bigots. Incredulity isn't an argument.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win my theory is that in many cases, consciously or not, parents' gayday or transdar susses out their own kids early on and the subtle conversion therapy starts. Many queers (myself included) have stories that strongly suggest it doesn't start with any coming out.
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@cwebber@social.coop I hate how the AI boom is leading to false AI allegations (including ML that people used to be totally fine with). I used to mirror websites all the time. It was useful back during the dialup days to have backup and sometimes I'd be paranoid about useful websites disappearing. And hey, some people who aren't AI startups want to do research on data!
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@lzg average fediverse user when they see a post they mostly agree with but was said in the wrong way: 💢😠💣
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@giflian @futurebird only you can know if you can sauté them and if so, you'll never be able to tell a soul how delicious the forbidden ancient giant garlic mushrooms were.
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@Hex@kolektiva.social This idea is also a customer-hostile belief that you really wouldn't get away with if you were actually trying to gain market share. Henry Ford (to whom this quote is often incorrectly attributed) wasn't a genius who knew what people wanted better than they themselves knew. "Visionaries" almost never know better than the end-user what the end-user really wants and even when their products take off, it's being used in a totally different way from what they imagined.
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org that sucks for people with social anxiety or mobility issues, children stuck in lifeless suburbs, people out in the middle of nowhere. Although there are communication tools other than forums that are getting overrun with slop. So I'd say at least supplement any additional face to face interaction with DMing old friends and such...
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@peter_mcmahan@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run this shit creeps me out so much. Either AI is sentient and it's fucking wrong to enslave it or it's not and the advice in the article is superstitious nonsense.
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@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf at some level, I wonder how people who knew me back then could stand me at all, but then again they were also cringe so it's like we grew together. I'd probably tell young me to quit being a giant brat. I can't do anything about teenage me having cringe speech patterns (like all the phonetic spelling of words).
Positive: I got Windows 98 with ICQ and Winamp running in a VM, with ICQ connecting to Open Oscar.
Negative: As part of this, I restored my old ICQ db and now I'm depressed because I hate teenage me so much.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange and it's very up and down. Right now I'm making the most in terms of monthly income, but I was making some of my lowest income for several years in a row prior to this year. I think I do have fairly good reason to think I started getting discriminated against.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange for mine, it's absolutely before. I would have been way happier in my body if I transitioned way the fuck earlier, but I'd also almost certainly be poorer. Like, I make more money right now than I ever did before but that's from building on the connections I made beforehand. I absolutely had a harder time getting hired after starting HRT, though it could be a coincidence (usual caveats about applying overarching models to individual cases).
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@cwebber I agree with the blog post that "agentic" isn't much of a middle ground. But I don't think FOSS needs to compete with enterprise head-on in terms of code volume. We've always found ways to punch above our weight and should think harder about this.
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@brass75 perfect. Makes me think of off-by-one errors that cause something to crap out only on Monday mornings or something like that.
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@PermaSolarPotter I’m convinced 80% of dragonfruit sales in temperate countries comes from children with unrealistic expectations about what it will taste like because my kid begging is the cause of the only time I’ve bought one.
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@tamami@sfba.social my kids love this place because of all the plants. It's like something 11 year old me would have designed.
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@kibcol1049@mstdn.social yeah this is the one area where using LLMs to write ostensibly human-readable prose has paid off for me. They need form letters. Letters that have been fired off over and over over the years. As you say, it's usually not even being read by humans anyway and AI likes the look of its own output (hopefully we can get a db of which insurance companies use which models to auto-deny).
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I feel like my desktop is like that because I never stop using Winamp-skin compatible audio players alongside much newer stuff. I think people give up too easily when they seemingly lose access to apps they like.
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@sysop408@sfba.social I don't like the insinuation that people only have issues with VCs out of ignorance. Many people dislike them specifically because of their experiences with the perverse incentives many of them create. But I agree that this is the wrong distinction. After all, plenty of businesses are wholly privately owned by genocidal maniacs.
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@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online one of my unblockers is "if you can't do something productive, do something stupid" weirdly effective as long as the frivolous task doesn't take a life of its own. It's so much worse to end a day with *nothing* done.
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@tom@tomkahe.com @cwebber@social.coop well, their answer is "they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era" which means... nothing. Seriously, it makes me wonder if an AI wrote that too.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd want to make business decisions based on customer satisfaction and controlling my costs, not "defining" things for a mythical "era" I allegedly find myself in.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange there was so much misogyny at one of my first major jobs in tech too. Women getting treated worse, sexual harassers not facing real consequences, etc. This is the sort of thing that's hard to generalize because there some trans fems, even some who transitioned as adults who were never truly treated as men. But I think I kinda was. Maybe not 100% but I think I was mostly put in the man bucket.
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@elizayer yup. I’m tired of people acting too much like this is the cause of everything wrong rather than a symptom. Agents weren’t the first thing and, importantly, won’t be the last thing either to commoditize expertise.
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@baldur@toot.cafe This is an issue I've had with fellow devs well before the AI boom - too many think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed tech moguls so don't feel any urgency about fighting for themselves as workers. And not enough would be bothered about us being treated better than other workers. And ironically, most of these people who frustrated me the most never even tried to strike out on their own to start their own businesses or have very good understanding of the business side of things.
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@lzg me: *73 minutes late to work, sipping iced coffee* AI
coworker: *shaking head* why would AI do this?!
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@cwebber their follow-up argument is then that anyone who's not an early adopter will miss out on low-hanging fruit. Honestly, I've never been glad I hopped on a bandwagon early and never regretted waiting until it matures (or is discarded when it turns out not to be a good tool).
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Haha, it's funny how that happens. I wasn't the last to know (about me being trans) but people knew before I told them, including my wife.
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@veronica@explains.social I've seriously considered doing something a little more extravagant and storing a kanban (that works with obsidian or vimwiki's kanban plugins) in a text file. But I have had a TODO.md in the repo many times before.
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@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt I think if I didn't find my wife, I'd probably still be alone. I think there's more luck and randomness in it than a lot of people admit. And yeah, I think being trans is a contributing factor. When I was a kid, straight girls didn't like me for ~some mysterious reason~.
(If you moved to Portland, OR, USA you will probably immediately find a trans girlfriend, the only catch is she might be kinda weird, and also our federal government is evil and scary)
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@kirakira very real. So many companies could quite literally pull the plug on everything and just live off the inertia of autopayments in corporate budgets and the occasional IP trolling.
Blue states: ending child marriage
Red states: beginning child genital inspections
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@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden indeed I wish I could donate my extra thoughts to thoughtless people
@ianthomasmalone@threads.net she's sacrificing it so it can be buried with him, like a faithful servant.