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jimbo fails is at it again

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream.

medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikip

@zzt LLMs are always really good at whatever type of output you don't know how to validate.

If you don't know how to code, it is great at code.

If you don't know a language, it is great at translating it.

If you don't know the law, it is a great lawyer.

Every fucking time... Yet somehow, some people aren't seeing the fucking pattern.

the state of both app and web development at the minute is that more than once now i have had an app tell me that i should be using the app instead

Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead"

And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally

over 50% of my phone's downloads folder contents are accidental, which i don't bother clearing out because phones have made file systems a burden to browse and explore, because why would you now that everything is clouds and apps

🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨

The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.

We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.

Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!

Have your say ➡️ gov.uk/government/consultation

#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

has really not figured out how to sort out "the" in artist names since 2007

the volume buttons on my DSi broke and now i'm considering a full housing swap but the only ones available have poor reviews about not having a good mold quality :(

will there be a restaurant at the end of the universe

i promise i keep thinking about fixing and upgrading computer fairies. i just hate the prospect of actually doing it and never get to it. but i do think about it and it hangs over my head like a dark cloud

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next year computer fairies will be 10 years old and in 2 years lesbiaboard will be 10 years old

they're both kinda frumpy and broken around the edges but that's longevity you can't say for a lot of web spaces anymore these days

my wife's windowsill garden is pretty and she posts about it on a forum not controlled by big corporations or reliant on cloudflare infrastructure and you should look at it forums.transbian.love/?page=po

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