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judeswae

@judeswae@toot.thoughtworks.com

Europe Head of Social Change and #MastoAdmin at https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@thoughtworks

Passionate about computational art, responsible tech and hacktivism.

Opinions, my own.

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driusan, to random

I'm going to start using the verb "Googled it" to mean "to take a widely used and well liked product and turn it into something horrific beyond HP Lovecraft's wildest imagination while coasting on inertia and the nostalgic memories of my users"

driusan,

Google (trans v.) (goo-gul)

  1. To destroy a product while coasting on your reputation
  2. To take a well liked product and cancel it
  3. (Archaic, obsolete) To search on the internet
kjaymiller, to random
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Okay y'all showed out!!

Yesterday I ask about 3000 folks at (In-person and virtual) along with folks on social media. 200 of y'all rose to the occasion and donated making us smash our hopeful goal for the first day of the event.

That funding will continue to support our initiatives - https://blackpythondevs.com/initiatives/.

That goal always day one and y'all did it! Day two we're continuing the push.

Let's we add $4000 as our goal today to help support Black Python Devs.

cford, to random
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Don't trust anyone selling Spanish street food. There's no such thing.

thoughtworks, to random
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Through our partnership with Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT), we've empowered their clean water mission. Our research led to valuable insights, enhancing user interactions.

Learn more here: https://ter.li/a9n94m

bagder, to random
@bagder@mastodon.social avatar

Please consider donating a few minutes of your time and answer the user survey 2024:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

renegadejade, to random
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Is it too early for Pride memes?

cford, to random
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I thought the ad was fine. I like that people are analysing and discussing things like this though.

judeswae,
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@cford “the development of recent social and scientific history has created a world in which man seems to be made for technology rather than the other way around.” - Aldous Huxley
https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/aldous-huxley-explains-how-man-became-the-victim-of-his-own-technology-1961.html

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

mcc,
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".

mfowler, to random
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My thoughts are with my colleagues (and others) in southern Brazil who have been hit with devastating floods

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/flooding-death-toll-brazil-rio-grande-do-sul-state-missing-people

cford, to random
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Only about 60% of people living in Europe live in the EU. Please don't confuse the two.

bassistance, to random
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Can't wait for this trend to die

evan, (edited ) to random
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What is your relationship with your instance owner?

SURF, to twitter Dutch
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As of 2 May, we will stop using X (formerly Twitter).

The reason is that X no longer matches SURF's public values such as humanity, autonomy and justice.

Also, the reach is declining on X and more and more academics and researchers are leaving the platform.

Read more about our decision: https://www.surf.nl/en/news/surf-stops-using-x-twitter?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2024-04-social&utm_kwd=surf-stops-using-x-twitter--&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=surf

nik, to random

@jcalpickard "Jailbreaking Black Box Large Language Models in Twenty Queries" https://jailbreaking-llms.github.io/

mcc, to random
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Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.

Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"

mcc,
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Anyway as of fifteen minutes ago I have an empty but functional bsky data server with no users or posts and a "ticket" with a discord bot to be added to federation (the way you get federated on bsky is you send a message to a discord bot)

TechCrunch, to random
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Open-source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse https://tcrn.ch/3UiGv8l

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

stefan, to random
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CSS quick tip: if you're adding quotation characters use open-quote and close-quote as content because they consider the document language. 💪

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/how-to-use-language-dependent-quotes-in-css/

ricci, to security
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Hey! Let's talk about #SSH and #security!

If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A lot of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing.

The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to one of @cloudlab s clusters over a four-year period. It peaks at about 3.4 million login attempts per day.

This is part of a study we did on our production system, using logs of more than 640 million login attempts, covering more than 1,500 hosts on our side and observing more than 840 thousand incoming IP addresses.

A paper presenting our analysis and a new, highly effective means to block SSH brute force attacks ("Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them") will be presented next week at #NSDI24 by @sachindhke . The full paper is at https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-nsdi24

Let's dive in. 🧵

infobeautiful, to random
@infobeautiful@vis.social avatar

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick? (by Leniolabs)

seraph, to random
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this shit is so funny

Are you serious, X Corp? Ahoy there, welcome to roblotwitter! I assure you, there's nothing fishy going on here, so feel free to read on. Yeah, it's a "honeypot". Sorry about that. I'm not trying to apologize and get away with it, though. But when you clicked on this link, you probably thought you were looking at something like "roblox.com". Simple URL substitution can cause this kind of thing to happen, so I made this site. So let's shout it out. "Are you serious, X Corp?"

BeAware, (edited ) to fediverse
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So, I'm curious about exactly how much of Fedi is blocking threads.

Boost for reach please. So the poll gets good info.

PS. This isn't a debate post or anything. Just want info if you're willing to share. Thanks!

#Fediverse #Threads #Meta #Fedi #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Polls

digiphile, to fediverse
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On the one hand, it’s a good thing that @potus joined the #fediverse https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse so that everyone can subscribe to official statements posts without having to use Twitter, AKA X. On the other hand, that namespace should be @potus & be announced with a blog post that shares a strategy for a federal open social web & online Q&A. The void of policy here is frustrating.

penpot, to opensource
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Get your tickets for Penpot Fest 2024🎉

Don't miss out on the early bird discount!

A 3-day event in Barcelona (June 5-7th) blending Design, Code & Open Source. Workshops, networking & local cuisine!

https://eventbrite.es/e/penpot-fest-2024-tickets-859331883797

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thoughtworks, to random
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We're so excited to bring you the 30th edition of Thoughtworks Technology Radar today.
Fifteen years. Thirty editions.
It's been a long journey but well worth it — thank you for reading!

Get the latest edition here: https://ter.li/rlf039

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