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evacide, 1 day ago to random

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

mttaggart, 1 day ago to random

Listen.

It's not about whatever Microsoft is doing with these features today. Maybe it's apocalyptic, maybe it's not. But what we're seeing is next-level disregard for user choice about their OS. Yes, even for Microsoft, this is exceptional.

And in the constant pursuit of monetizing our data or extracting training sets, we must confront the question of what they will push on us next, without consent or reasonable recourse.

This is not an OS under owner control, and as such, should not be trusted for any purpose where data security is a concern.

I struggle to think of a use case where it isn't.

tef, 1 day ago to random

i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

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hazelweakly, 3 days ago to random

Tell me you're doing the GitOps thing without telling me you're doing the GitOps thing

jwillia2, 2 days ago to random

So-called progressive/liberals and conservatives as outlined by Malcolm X: 'The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to

phillmv, 3 days ago to random

pouring one out for a true one:

bengerman, 3 days ago to random

"infrastructure [is] by definition something that people depend on without knowing they depend on it" @brainwane at #PyConUS

norootcause, 3 days ago to random

The hard thing about distributed systems is that "turn the whole thing off and on again" isn't an option.

graham_knapp, 3 days ago to random

Women are less likely to die if their hospital doctor is a woman. This will not surprise @mekkaokereke
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-3163

RuthMalan, 3 days ago to random

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matthewskelton, 4 days ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

🤬

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

diana, 5 days ago to random

@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

CSLee, 5 days ago to random

THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

https://developer-success-lab.gitbook.io/code-review-anxiety-workbook-1

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4) & distills it into a self-paced workbook for you. It's designed for you to read & work through as many times as you wish and provides you with the tools you need to mitigate & manage your anxiety about giving or receiving code reviews.

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SRLevine, 5 days ago to LGBTQ

Cross-posting for a friend.

"Hey queer and trans friends! An academic group is doing research on why some members of the LGTBQ community disproportionately leave STEM careers, so they need people to interview! If you're interested in participating, or have friends that are, fill out the quick screening+contact form here, (they want to make sure they are sampling a wide range of backgrounds and identities, so they won't contact everyone):

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#STEM #LGBTQ

aral, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to fedora

This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487

grimalkina, 6 days ago to random

"Each assemblage gains emergent properties produced from interactions between its components and relies on those interactions to continue existing. For instance, a tight- knit neighbourhood can build a collective memory about the reputation of all of its members and develop norms to promote prosocial behaviour. "

(still reading this paper https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112440065311802043 )

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

I've been waiting for this day 🥲. I'm so proud of all that @CSLee and @KFosterMarks have accomplished with this -- the FIRST science-backed workbook from the Developer Success Lab based on our carefully empirical research into code review anxiety. Completely yours to use.

https://mastodon.social/@CSLee/112456425795414721

yosh, 8 days ago to random

Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.

HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.

forrestbrazeal, 7 days ago to random

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anthrocypher, 7 days ago to random

One of the things that was really exciting for approximately 20 minutes (aka 2021-2022) was an understanding and embrace of developer experience as a form of accessibility, especially in an open source/public dev tools context.

hazelweakly, 1 month ago to random

"The most valuable code in the world is often glue code" -- Ok yeah, so then why are we so fucking bad at it, huh?

Seriously. You know what would make my whole life right now? A flow chart. With a sarcastic paperclip or a snarky stapler or some other anthropomorphic substitute for soulless capitalism.

"Hey! Listen! What do you wanna build?"
Door 1: A CRUD server
Door 2: A CRUD client
Door 3: A CRUD to CRUD pipe

"Well you came to the right place! How much CRUD are we talkin'?"

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