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9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.
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A complex and challenging case in accommodations, accessibility and creating healthy, respectful and effective inclusive workplaces.
For all of interested and engaged in accessibility and disability inclusion rights, it will be important and to follow this one through the legal processes.
Atenção, comunidade!
Estendemos o prazo para submissão de palestras para o #GNOMELatam 2024 até o dia 07 de outubro! Se você ainda não enviou sua proposta, esta é sua chance de compartilhar seu conhecimento sobre @gnome e #SoftwareLivre.
¡Atención, comunidad!
¡Hemos extendido el llamado a charlas para #GNOMELatam 2024 hasta el 07 de octubre! Si aún no has enviado tu propuesta, esta es tu oportunidad de compartir tu conocimiento sobre @gnome y #SoftwareLibre.
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Please remember, girls and boys, if you celebrate: UNIX day 20000 is on 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round (10000) UNIX day is 30000 at 2052-02-20.
“htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx”
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> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack of open-source training data.
A risk with "AI" for coding I’ve talked about is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches. This is the first time I've seen that happen in the wild
Yep Mozilla did bend the knee....
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
"The system is designed such that humans don’t have access to individual data. The outputs are aggregated and anonymized, then Anonym destroys the individual data."
I have no words.
"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…
I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.
Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.
It didn't make anything easier though. Every webdev I knew showed little to no critical thinking, and just went where the hype is, so they started developing on Chrome because of the marketing saying it was the hip new thing. Nobody questioned it, or did any sort of critical study or comparison.
It's true IE was garbo.
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History repeating. It happened with Internet Explorer before. But everyone seems to forget.
I have been calling Chrome the "New Internet Explorer" for a reason.
This is a longshot, probably doesn't exist, but I'll put it out there anyway.
Does anyone know of a phone number that can be called from a mobile provider in the U.S. that will provide a 16 kHz or higher echo test? I know some providers can interface with VoLTE using AMRWB.
I only know of +1(804)222-1111, which runs Asterisk, and is standard 8 kHz.
Values are a much stronger indication than culture fit of what the person will do when there is no norm yet. Instead of culture fit, look for values alignment. Not the marketing version of the values, though, the ones they actually hold.
A key logger company, for example, cites independent thought, transparency, and trust as the values underlying their decision to track everything done on company hardware. - @phire at #Monktoberfest
I had a customer email me and say “The company is asking all contractors to take a voluntary 10% cut in the bill rate.” With the implication that those not reducing their rates would be the first to have their contracts cancelled.
I sent them a link to the company annual report where they spoke in glowing terms about their $5 Billion dollars in profit last year and replied “I think they’ll be just fine.”
If you had "Mozilla leadership gets roasted by furries" on your bingo card, congrats.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that it’s inferior to the subscription version, since it won’t receive updates and… *checks notes* … lacks the Copilot AI integration.
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Oh nooooo…</sarcasm>
Its absolutely amazing and I would suggest you look for it on Youtube later today! The beta will first come to a new app on your phone and then gradually move to the Envision glasses and finally to the web which would mean a desktop aplication.
🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
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in reply to Seirdy • • •The only thing that feels more “independent” from this circle of overlapping benefits is lower-arm concentration exercises. It also doesn’t help me day-to-day that much.
The Internet lied to me about forearm exercises: opening jars hasn’t gotten any easier. I think my dainty hands are a bigger bottleneck than forearm strength. I still rely on a flat-head screwdriver to weaken the seal.