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estherschindler, 5 months ago to random

Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed internet service pioneer CompuServe
https://news.wosu.org/2023-12-21/ohio-gives-historical-status-to-building-that-once-housed-internet-service-pioneer-compuserve

estherschindler, 8 months ago to random

estherschindler, 3 months ago to random

Do you have a grassroots effort to promote community control over data and tech? Are you building something new?

Apply for the Data Empowerment Fund: $50K or $100K
🚨🚨🚨Proposals due March 5!🚨

(Found elsewhere, I have no affiliation) https://dataempowerment.fund

estherschindler, 5 months ago to random

Levels fyi collected over 200,000 submissions from techies across thousands of companies to put together its 2023 Annual Pay Report: top paying companies, cities, trends, and so on. https://www.levels.fyi/2023/

estherschindler, 4 months ago to random

It’s a bad idea to use existing internal data for a starter project. Banging on real customer data raises privacy concerns, particularly when you aren’t using it for the reasons it was gathered. But you can use THESE, I wrote. https://redis.com/blog/datasets-for-test-databases/

estherschindler, 4 months ago to random

One-in-three blamed leadership figures “not understanding and putting roadblocks up, either knowingly or unknowingly”, closely followed by “teams not empowered to be self-organized and/or self-sufficient”.

The theme I see here is "Management is clueless."
https://www.itpro.com/software/agile-development-is-fading-in-popularity-at-large-enterprises-and-developer-burnout-is-a-key-factor

estherschindler, 5 months ago to random

The challenge is an effort by the FTC to monitor and stop scammers from exploiting voice cloning technology. https://therecord.media/ftc-contest-to-tackle-voice-cloning

estherschindler, 5 months ago to random

Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

Users have grown increasingly frustrated at having to hunt and peck through a universe of different, often terrible streaming services just to find a single film or television program.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/piracy-is-surging-again-because-streaming-execs-ignored-the-lessons-of-the-past/

estherschindler, 4 months ago to random

Okay okay so it HAS been a while since I cleaned out that file cabinet.

estherschindler, 8 months ago to random

Application form: “Tell us why you want to work at ThisCompany.”

BECAUSE YOU HAVE A JOB OPENING WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HEAR.

estherschindler, 4 months ago to random

That explains everything.

estherschindler, 1 year ago to random

How painful are these buzzwords? When I surveyed developers online, more than 800 people told me which marketing terms most make them want to scream.

https://redis.com/blog/the-marketing-buzzwords-that-developers-hate/

estherschindler, 3 months ago to random

The number of no-kill shelters is at an all-time high with Vermont, New Hampshire and Delaware now operating as 'no-kill' states. In 2022 nearly 57% of US shelters achieved no-kill status, which is amazing progress considering that number was 24% in 2016.

https://bestfriends.org/stories/julie-castle-blog/best-friends-2022-dataset-points-no-kill-progress

estherschindler, 5 months ago to random

"Centuries before 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' hit theaters, a medieval priest transcribed three brutal tales from a traveling minstrel with one recounting how a deadly run-in with a killer bunny ended with villagers bringing out their dead." https://www.courthousenews.com/comedic-history-found-in-sobering-tale-of-medieval-scribes-private-library/

estherschindler, 9 months ago to random

Dogsplay is an interactive TV optimized for dogs. The colors, video frame-rate and sound system have been optimized for dog vision and dog hearing. https://www.dogs-play.com/

estherschindler, 8 months ago to random

Now THIS is how you quit a job.

>> Instead the woman who had bounced from department to department, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”
https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021

estherschindler, 8 months ago to random

The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things our best and brightest have studied. https://newatlas.com/science/2023-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

estherschindler, 8 months ago to random

"The Pennridge school district illustrates a story that hasn't gotten much attention: Fed-up parents and educators, without anything close to the resources of their conservative opponents, are organizing a grassroots effort to restore American schools to their intended purpose, that of educating children to be citizens of a democracy." https://www.salon.com/2023/10/10/moms-for-liberty-meets-its-match-parents-in-this-swing-suburban-district-are-fighting-back/

estherschindler, 9 months ago to random

The ancient art of Japanese Noh mask making https://aeon.co/videos/how-a-noh-mask-maker-summons-a-lifelike-face-from-a-single-block-of-wood

estherschindler, 6 months ago to random

A fault originating in a New York switch cascaded through the network due to a software bug in a recent update. Testing had been bypassed as per management’s request because the code change was small. https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-one-line-of-code-caused-a-60

estherschindler, 10 months ago to random

A Tesla Model X totaled in the U.S. late last year suddenly came back online and started sending notifications to the phone of its former owner months later. (This is about data privacy, not particularly Tesla.) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/10/how-totaled-tesla-sold-for-parts-in-us-came-back-online-in-ukraine.html

estherschindler, 6 months ago to random

Wait WHAT? To make their lineup look diverse, the conference used AI to generate fake images and resumes of female speakers. https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/devternity_conference_fake_speakers/

estherschindler, 10 months ago to random

Pioneering NASA 'Hidden Figure' Evelyn Boyd Granville dies at age 99 https://www.space.com/nasa-hidden-figure-evelyn-boyd-granville-mathematician-obituary

estherschindler, 1 year ago to random

Software company CEO says using ChatGPT cuts the time it takes to complete coding tasks from around 9 weeks to just a few days

Sure. About that QA...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/software-company-ceo-says-using-112009294.html

estherschindler, 5 months ago to opensource

Do you use #OpenSource as a part of your job? Please take the 2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey from Open Source JobHub and Linux Professional Institute (LPI). It's only 6 questions and shouldn't take more than 5 minutes of your time. https://surveys.lpi.org/index.php/513232?