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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

An awful lot of the FOSS ecosystem needs to

1. touch grass,
2. get away from fellow techbros and meet real people in all our diversity,
3. learn good technical writing, and
4. put some effort into making their programs easy for ordinary, non-techbro users to intuit.

In short, get out and look back at it.

Examples of what not to do:
* Fail to make a command/program with the same name as the package.
* Fail to make that command either do the obvious thing or give useful help toward that end.

CNET reviews via the Wayback Machine (1996-12-21), "11 HTML editors for easy Web pages": web.archive.org/web/1996122107

About 50 KB per page, including graphics. Yeah, those pages are HTML 2 or 3 with CSS None, but it's just as easy to redo in HTML 5 with CSS 3 while keeping the same presentation, improving accessibility, and not bloating beyond about 50 KB per page, including CSS and graphics.

This was the World Wide Web we threw away for browser-heavy frameworks.

‘It’s not GPLwashing! It’s not GPLwashing!’ I insist as my LLM carefully reproduces another project’s code line-for-line and says it’s not copyright infringement because it changed the capitalization

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Remember to give thanks for the things that are truly important this Thanksgiving

young men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
trans men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
older men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
anyone exploring their own masculinity deserves spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
people performing work associated heavily with masculinity deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.

An oscillator is a cross between an ocelot and an alligator.

Has a coal-huffing, water-guzzling city-sized chatbot masquerading as AI recommended buying stock in the extremely lucrative South Sea Company yet?

Just read an article detailing how Microsoft executives are confused and upset that people don't appreciate their AI features and don't like people giving them shit about them on Twitter. "How are people not impressed with this stuff?"

Fellas, have you used the internet lately? It's fucked. Have you used Windows? Fucked. It's shit. People are sick of it being shit, because it didn't used to be as shit as this. You've gone and fucked everything, that's why people aren't happy with you.

pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

@dangoodin As I.T. professionals, we have been training users to not click random shit since the internet became accessible to everyone.

Microsoft training copilot: CLICK ALL THE THINGS

I have a friend who prefers to stay anonymous who gives this amazing talk in non US (but allied) countries about how long their internet will -really- function if they lose all comms with American data centers and it’s… phew. It’s a thing. Some resilient ones will last a few weeks before certificates expire. But CF is a wrench.

You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree

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I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.

Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation

* 28 days ago, AWS went down for 15 hours, taking 32% of the cloud with it.

* 20 days ago, Azure went down for 8 hours, taking 23% of the cloud with it.

* 0 days ago, Cloudflare went down for 6 hours, taking 20% of the cloud with it.

75% of the cloud, owned by 3 huge corporations with redundant global infrastructure, has a 30-day availability of two-nines or worse.

It really was a mistake for us to put 3/4 of the entire World Wide Web on exactly three of somebody else's computers.

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