There's a lot of folks complaining (rightfully) about the money being thrown toward Omarchy while other FOSS projects are struggling for funds.

I'm not a tech billionaire or millionaire (thousandaire, maybe?) but all this reminds me I could do better at donating to things I use myself. So I'm going to throw some money at two projects I use, and try to remember to keep doing that more regularly. I humbly suggest other folks do the same. It'd be great to see a few FOSS projects report a big bump in donations as a protest against DHH.

A lot is being said about DHH's politics and the silliness of throwing money at what amounts to a pile of configuration scripts -- but there's something else at play here: it is an us-against-them play by a minority of wealthy folks who like keeping other people divided.

FOSS isn't about that: open source became mighty because of its community. If we lose that, we lose everything. A handful of people with too much money have managed to funnel something like $13 million into Omarchy for the next few years. What can millions of people do? Let's see.

#OpenSource

On the bright side: genAI’s sure making developers and other software folks talk about their

🌈 feelings ☔️

and that is, honestly (100%!), a good thing.

It’s OK to feel things.

NOT feeling things is what gets us in massive trouble. Again and again.

So, please feel, and act accordingly.

I’m just happy that trickle-down economics has finally arrived…

https://oligarchy.fyi/

You've 1.5 days left to snatch PyCharm for less (as cheap is relative to your purse) and support Django in a single atomic transaction!

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/promo/support-django

"In the software engineering industry the division of the workforce has been the most brutal and successful of them all. No other field of human activity is today as atomized and disbanded as software. No other worker is as unaware of their status as a software worker. No other worker is more prone to harass, dismiss, belittle, and supress unions and unionized workers in their own field of activity as the software worker.

This is, in retrospect, probably the greatest success of the capitalist system in all of its history, and the statistics of software tycoons and their abominably huge fortunes are there to prove it."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/divide-et-impera/

Seeing posts about wanting "Caves of Qud multiplayer."

I sagely look out the window, a tear down my cheek.

"The Children yearn for MUDs. They do not know the language yet they call out for you, old friend."

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Giving Bitwarden a try. Importing my passwords was flawless. Figuring out what an organizations, collections and folders do was more challenging.

Throwing https://www.dashlane.com/ into the #1Password replacement mix. Recommended by a colleague I trust; haven’t tried it yet.

I’m in the market for a 1Password replacement. Do you fine folks have suggestions for hosted alternatives? I don’t have the bandwidth to host something myself or do local stuff at the moment.

Edit: I’m on macOS/iOS

The Matrix but instead of harvesting energy corporations harvest thoughts for training the AIs.

Raise your hand if you emigrated at a young age and had to severe most of your emotional ties to your home country to quiet the pain of leaving.

Me? I still tear up when listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3645Er9gJlA&feature=youtu.be

Coding one feature a day keeps the brain rot away.

Lately, I keep seeing people being upset about the changes that were introduced in #CodePen 2.0.

If you’re looking for a local-first alternative which focuses more on writing code snippets than the social aspects of hosting them publicly, maybe my app Quadrants (https://quadrants.amxmln.com) is for you. 😊

Conversely, I wish we'd spend as much energy (and money) in advancing humanistic/communal ways of being.

On some* days I wish genAI would go the Quantified Self way.

* most**

** all

RE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/117134048567780192

Tapbots and Iconfactory have been around before MacStories. (Iconfactory much longer!). We were on Twitter since the beginning of its inception.

I'm not going to speak for Iconfactory here, but leaving Twitter has been a HUGE blow to our company and yes we have been struggling financially ever since we left. Every business not on Twitter is sacrificing reach and potential customers for the sake of doing what is right.

FOMOmaxxing is a marketing strategy.

I kept forgetting the locker numbers that I got from my local swimming pool’s system when I went for a swim.

To remember them, I taught my mind a trick: link them to a fact from my life. These days the associations appear automatically.

I got the number 9 tonight, and my mind flashed 50 at me.

Nine years till I’m fifty, that is.

If you don’t like your #WordPress browser extensions “AI-native” and “AI-first”, mine is hand-crafted, several years old already, and does many of the same things - and some different ones! It’s $35, but it’s a bargain!

https://turbo-admin.com/

Re:

https://www.therepository.email/official-wordpress-browser-extension-now-available-in-the-chrome-web-store-and-mac-app-store