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Chandler Carruth
chandlerc@hachyderm.io
Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.
If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.
Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997
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Timnit Gebru (she/her)
timnitGebru@dair-community.socialWeb Summit CEO was forced to resign over this tweet:
“shocked at the rhetoric & actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception...of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing."
“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, & should be called out for what they are,”
The fascism of the tech industry knows no bounds. Anything other than aiding & abetting a world sanctioned genocide is not acceptable apparently.
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Heather Buchel
hbuchel@hachyderm.ioOpen source people: "We don't get any contributions from people who will help us with accessibility 😢 😢 😢 what do? "
Also open source people: "We're using FuzzBingBang Style library so you never have to leave the DOM and or know CSS! also React, also, here is a really complicated state machine that controls way too much, also please make sure to weed through our types that look like ABSOLUTE GARGLED JIZZ we spit out into a file! Oh, were you looking for the HTML? HAHAHA what HTML!?"
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tante
tante@tldr.nettime.orgDave Karpf's takedown of Marc Andreessen's manifest/pamphlet is marvellous
(Title: Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?) https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
larsmb@mastodon.online“What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home."
That #OpenSource is a crucial part of modern public infrastructure that should not be profit-maximized by a single vendor, but be a public good.
Build value around *that*, not a fence.
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xssfox 
xssfox@cloudisland.nz
Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves
I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872
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Molly White
molly0xfff@hachyderm.ioDay six of the trial against Sam Bankman-Fried was largely spent with the prosecution questioning Caroline Ellison, who testified about "alternate" balance sheets, bribes, Saudi financing, and her painfully intertwined personal and professional life.
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Randahl Fink
randahl@mastodon.socialA principle is a fundamental truth which guides your beliefs.
If your beliefs related to war crimes changes dependent on who the war crimes hurt, then you have a problem with your principles.
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Robin Riley (fka Josh)
josh@josh.telI'm proud to call Bradley Kuhn a friend and am celebrating him joining the growing community of out-and-proud FOSS leaders.
But it is a tragedy when someone is forced out.
I've watched as Eben Moglen and SFLC have abused the legal system and attacked SFC, wasting the scarce resources of one of FOSS's most important charitable nonprofits, and am devastated to learn about the personal abuse Bradley has endured.
FOSS friends: please take the time to read this. https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html
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a very weeny construct 💀
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.websiteother portentous unix timestamps (los angeles timezone)
1696969696 Oct 10 '23 01:28p 🎉
1700000000 Nov 14 '23 02:13p 🔜
0x66666666 Jun 09 '24 07:35p 🤘
0x69696969 Jan 15 '26 02:25p
1777777777 May 02 '26 08:09p
1800000000 Jan 15 '27 12:00a
1888888888 Nov 08 '29 07:21p
1987654321 Dec 25 '32 10:12p 🎄
1999999999 May 17 '33 08:33p
2000000000 May 17 '33 08:33p
0x77777777 Jul 06 '33 08:01p
0x7fffffff Jan 18 '38 07:14p 
Microsoft, quietly, has published a guide on how to download and install Linux.
No... Seriously... It is not a joke...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).
The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.
That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯
#Microsoft #Windows #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian
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John Regehr
regehr@mastodon.social"Fast and Clean: Auditable high-performance assembly via constraint solving"
a superoptimizer for ARM64 assembly, cool!
https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1303.pdf
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Shoq
shoq@mastodon.socialWhich is no surprise to those of us who have been trying to tell early fediverse settlers that discovery has to be prioritized over safety. Unless we can find news and information to begin with, finding it safely becomes moot. Bluesky clearly gets this, which is why the big news accounts are now starting to gravitate there. If the fediverse doesn’t improve in that regard, it will soon become the Linux of social media. Beloved by thousands, ignored by millions.
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Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)
jzb@mastodon.socialWhat do #Linux books fail to cover that you'd like to see in a book? What is covered too much? (Please boost for reach, I'd love to get a lot of feedback on this if possible.) #OpenSource #Documentation
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Charlie Loyd
vruba@everything.happens.horseDear software people,
Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.
It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.
Sincerely,
Charlie
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Kernel Recipes
KernelRecipes@fosstodon.orgVideos are finally online! We hope you will enjoy it!
Thanks you to our great speakers and our sponsors
Big thumbs up to @_syam for the audio/video, Frank Tizzoni for the caricature, Emma Tizzoni for our new mascot, @Aissen for the live blog, @erwanaliasr1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ8PmP_dnN7Ida3J3tzO-yqrxuF-yEQtI
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beka valentine
beka_valentine@kolektiva.socialyou know the @pluralistic episode of XKCD? do you remember what it's about or just that it has a Cory Doctorow joke in it?
because you should read it. it was fucking prescient.
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Sven Slootweg
joepie91@pixie.townShow content
Let's do a round-up of a couple!
THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
The burning down of this library is often seen as one of the biggest losses of culture in history. In reality, it seems that the library mostly stored copies of works, and while big, it stored very few *unique* things - therefore, not much was actually lost.
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT
The claim is that when there are many bystanders of an incident, none will take responsibility. This is based on the murder of Kitty Genovese, where it was claimed that there were many witnesses, but none of them did anything.
That's false - in fact, the amount of witnesses was limited due to the location, and multiple people alerted the police, but the police failed to respond in a timely manner. More recently, research into the bystander effect suggests that the entire theory is wrong - people *do* consistently come to the aid of others.
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
Claimed to 'prove' that given power, people will turn malicious and start abusing others. In reality, the experiment was fraudulent, and proved no such thing - the guard in the experiment were actively *encouraged* by the researcher to be abusive.
THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY
This is often seen as some sort of 'scientifically proven fact' about human behaviour; if you leave vandalism or other "anti-social" behaviour untreated, it will invite more of it.
In reality, this was just made up by a cop in New York, never proven, and used as a justification for violent and oppressive policing tactics. There's no evidence that this is true, or ever was.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This theory claims that when a group of individuals are given access to a common shared resource, they will each act selfishly and collectively exhaust the resource, whereas it would've been fine if one party controlled access. Usually reference over-grazing.
In reality, this concept (in its current form) comes from a thought experiment where it was just *assumed* to be true, rather than from actual research; and instead there is a long history of shared resources being effectively collectively managed without giving any one party total control over access or distribution.
This doesn't stop authoritarians from using the tragedy of the commons as a justification for their accumulation of power; claiming that otherwise, the resources would be exhausted.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
This theory claims that victims of crime and/or abuse will develop an irrational attachment to the perpetrator, implying that they can no longer be trusted to have agency in determining how to deal with the situation.
In reality, rather than being based in rigorous research, this concept was coined by a criminologist based on a single bank robbery in (as the name implies) Stockholm.
Crucially, the victims were quite clear about the reason for their trust towards the robbers; the police were acting irresponsibly in this incident, endangering people unnecessarily, and therefore the robbers were the more rational and less dangerous party in the conflict. Not quite the 'irrational attachment' that's so often claimed...
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Kristoffer 🍄
krig@6510.nuPerhaps the most insightful part of https://davidgraeber.org/articles/punching-the-clock/:
"Historically, human work patterns have taken the form of intense bursts of energy followed by rest. [...] This is typical of how human beings have always worked. There is no reason to believe that acting otherwise would result in greater efficiency or productivity. Often it has precisely the opposite effect."
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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