The Mamdami administration is hiring a Public Interest Technology crew to make NYC city services not suck.
Preferred qualifications for software engineers include:
"Hands-on experience integrating with legacy systems, such as mainframes, FTP-based data feeds, undocumented APIs, or workflows that begin as PDFs and spreadsheets."
This crew will have a lot of work to do. 👀
I made it the default font on my computer and I'm liking it.
It seems lost on many people that the rage thread on rsync seems to be driven by 4chan. I've seen that torrent of vitriol before when Tenacity was started.
I am not defending using LLMs, for generating tests or any other purpose. Rightfully that deserves criticism. But I've seen some takes along the lines of "oh look how toxic FOSS is" that seem to be missing that this dog piling is channer shit; this is not normal discourse.
Oh you're a pentester? Well, I'm a penciltester.
If your project is on GitHub, now would be a good time to stop supporting a company that materially supports ICE.
This applies to settler colonies as well as technologies.
Do something that brings you joy every day.
Just kidding, it's kittens
Mastodon is proof that FOSS can enshittify too.
Did you know that not only are N95 masks very effective at protecting the wearer, they're also very effective for source control to avoid infected people spreading viruses? https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19
Of course symptomatic people should wear N95s without exhalation valves.
4 years into this airborne pandemic, I still see people wearing surgical masks in public. There's no good reason for that when actually effective masks are so cheap. It's a huge failure of public health education. The system won't educate us, so we have to educate each other.
Until a year or so ago, I thought that wearing an N95 was a big deal because my experience with N95s was extremely uncomfortable hard shell masks provided by an institution that I couldn't tolerate wearing for more than 20-30 minutes. It is a massive failure of public health education that I did not know that comfortable N95s exist and they cost less than a dollar each so long as you don't buy a tiny 3 pack at Walgreens.
A better end of the world is possible and it is up to us to make it real.
If you are spending a lot of time on here here, I highly recommend reading this book.
The best writing I've seen from mainstream tech journalism:
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
The Brother whatever-it-is will print return labels for online shopping, never run out of toner, and generally be a printer instead of the physical instantiation of a business model.
https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
They're saying they're losing but not acknowledging it.
'The Israeli military says it will withdraw five combat brigades taking part in the ground invasion of Gaza so troops can “gain strength” for future battles...
The Israeli war cabinet meets to discuss captive-prisoner exchanges as PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue the war...
Israeli reservists returning to their families “will allow a significant relief for the economy”, says Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari.'
new years resolution: intifada revolution
we pldege to make common cause with the people of the world to bring about justice, freedom and peace.
another world is possible and we pledge to make it real.
not in our name will you erode the very freedoms you have claimed to fight for.
not by our hands will we supply weapons and funding for the annihilation of families on foreign soil.
not by our mouths will we let fear silence us.
not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries to be deemed evil.
not by our will and not in our name.
we pledge resistance.
we pledge alliance with those who have come under attack for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity.