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cdlhamma

@cdlhamma@hachyderm.io

Senior Reliability Engineer Azure / Technologist / Gamer / Amateur Photographer. Washington by way of Massachusetts. Here you can find my latest #Photography and thoughts on the world of #Tech and occasional #Politics

These are my personal thoughts.

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arstechnica, to random
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RTO mandates led to “pronounced exodus” of senior workers at top tech firms

"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/rto-mandates-led-to-pronounced-exodus-of-senior-workers-at-top-tech-firms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

glass, to photography
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Okay, so it turns out that Spring ended up being a sequel to Flowers. Which, you know, it pretty wonderful. Watching the world wake up through your lenses this month was a special treat. You can enjoy Daniel walking through the favorites on the Glass YouTube channel, or you just enjoy your scroll solo.

https://glass.photo/highlights/spring-favorites

ProjectPhysX, to random
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About an hour ago, the sky turned blood red over Bavaria, Germany. It's the first time I've ever seen an #Aurora in my life. It was so bright to be easily visible with the naked eye. An absolutely jawdropping experience. 🖖😳✨
#polarlights #northernlights #solarstorm
cc @tagesschau @DLR @dlr_next @stim3on

at 22:29 they got a lot brighter, covering half if the sky; even some green visible at the bottom; another 10s exposure
vertical 10s exposure at 22:37
before fading again, they moved westward in front of the moon, here an 10s exposure at 22:46 showing distinct lines shaped by the magnetic field

polygon, to random
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Sony revokes widely despised Helldivers 2 PSN linking policy https://www.polygon.com/24150011/helldivers-2-playstation-psn-linking-policy-revoked

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The Helldivers 2 furore is bonkers. If you missed it, Sony, seemingly against wishes of the dev studio, pushed to add a mandatory PSN Network sign-in months after launch on one of their biggest, most popular games on PC, and not only did the community revolt (dropping review score into the teens), but the game is now pulled from 177 storefronts and Steam are issuing refunds (as PSN only works in certain countries). The studio has told players to make their voices heard

https://www.eurogamer.net/helldivers-2-has-been-pulled-from-sale-in-177-countries-as-its-psn-linking-requirement-rolls-out

andybaio, to random
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404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

And Apple removed multiple AI “nudify” apps from the App Store.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/

(Note: 404 Media articles are all free to read, but you have to register.)

waldoj, to random
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I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.

If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!

waldoj,
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Browsers should refuse to respect paste-disabling. This is not something that any user wants.

MastodonEngineering, to mastodon
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We are looking for a new member for our #Mastodon core team to work with @Gargron, @renchap and @Claire on building the Mastodon #backend and web app!

This is a #remote #fulltime position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.

Ideally:

For more info and to apply:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/de1e4d8a-5639-4b6a-86d7-97bd9c768b02

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring

charlotteclymer, to random
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A lot of much smarter folks will have other things to say about the legacy of O.J. Simpson, but I will say this:

His murder trial marks a pivotal moment in the decline of American broadcast news. It accelerated in our media environment an unapologetic centering of flash over substance, spin over good faith, and provocation over consideration.

It permanently damaged broadcast news in ways from which it has never recovered, nor have we.

eniko, to random
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April fools doesn't work anymore because reality is already so frustratingly and painfully absurd

thomasfuchs, to random
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Happy “stay off the Internet for a day” day to those who celebrate

epidiah, to random
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Hi, yes, we leaked your data. To protect yourselves from the consequences of our incompetence, use this other company that leaked your data a few years back. Thanks.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Offering this free through my subscription:

"McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News"

https://wapo.st/3TyPTDi

I may write about the irony of all of this for my weekend blog post.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited )
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This is the problem right here:

"In a friendly call between Jones and McDaniel, the two spoke about the . . need to have differing views on the airwaves."

People don't need "differing views."

They need facts.

The way MSNBC presents "news" the facts gets lost in an avalanche of opinions, speculation, and conjecture.

They are making their viewers less informed and angrier.

404mediaco, to random
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New: Oregon's gov has signed the strongest right to repair law ever passed, which forbids Apple's "parts pairing" regime for iPhones. this is a v big deal

https://www.404media.co/oregon-passes-right-to-repair-bill-that-would-make-apple-redesign-the-iphone/

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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RSS is making something of a comeback (it never went away, though Google and Facebook did their best to kill it), in part because forward-looking publishers see the value.

The excellent @404mediaco news site explains "How We Built a Full Text RSS Feed" on the Ghost newsletter/blog software, and shared the process with all Ghost users. Kudos all around.

https://www.404media.co/email/4e6c0b81-03f6-4370-8fc8-98dab30bfd45/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

dbattistella, to random
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End-stage capitalism is when things really start to fall apart.

TechCrunch, to random
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Threads opens beta to let users connect their accounts to the fediverse https://tcrn.ch/3INBFsZ

TexasObserver, to photography
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From the archives: The rules of barrel racing, the only female-dominated rodeo sport, are simple. It’s the execution that’s hard. https://www.texasobserver.org/on-a-dime/

@photography

JenMsft, to random
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This is the way

GossiTheDog, to random
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    evacide, to random
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    Listen, I understand that people believe I exist in an endless state of incandescent rage, but they are going to have to invent new words for how angry I am about Glassdoor adding real names without users' consent.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

    petrillic, to random
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    Capitalism distilled.

    evacide, to random
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    I see that we are in for another round of "the US govt banning TikTok is good because I don't like TikTok" discourse, so it's a good time for me to be on vacation.

    willoremus, to random
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    AI companies are swimming in billions.

    The government agency overseeing AI safety is so underfunded that its offices are leaking and mold-infested and their internet barely works.

    Our society in microcosm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/06/nist-ai-safety-lab-decaying/ by @cqz

    BBCRD, to news
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    The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.

    This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.

    Read about how it works and why we're doing this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news-journalism-credentials

    | @BBC_News_Labs

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