👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

Boosts appreciated 🚀

➡️ infoworld.com/article/3557846/…

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How do we fund open source?

Experts with deep experience across open-source software communities share their opinions on how to sustain this critical ecosystem.

^{Bill Doerrfeld (InfoWorld)}

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is conducting research on the accessibility of health care for people with disabilities. They are looking for adults with disabilities or caregivers of adults with disabilities to take a short survey. The GAO will use the survey input in a report to Congress. Click here to access the survey:

gaosurvey.gao.gov/jfe/form/SV_…

Damn. I imagined that now that the M4 Mini is out, the M1 Mini would be super cheap on the used market.

Nope! They're still like $400 for a base model! For a four-year-old computer! A new M4 model is $600!

I mean, for Pete's sake, an M1 Mini with 16G RAM is like... $600... on ebay

why would anyone order that

Back in the old days, we used alt text because folks didn't always want to wait for them to download.

I'm sitting at the end of my driveway, ready to hand out candy, connected to the house wifi.

I'm not getting photos 🤣

I am currently very thankful for those who have added alt text to their images and videos!

#Halloween #a11y = #accessibility

Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

cnbc.com/2024/10/31/amazon-amz…
techmeme.com/241031/p46#a24103…

Amazon shares pop on earnings beat, cloud growth

The company's cloud and advertising units showed strong growth.

^{Annie Palmer (CNBC)}

"Yes, but Jason, if the super-rich left the UK, what would we do without their money?"

Precisely what we *have* been doing without their money, I imagine.

You can keep waiting, or start encrypting! 🔐🎃👻💀

Happy #Halloween everyone!

Me: What should I be for Halloween?

Hereafter follows a series of siri's answers:

1. I see London, I see France, I see you dressing up as the English channel.

2. Wear yellow and white, put on some little red horns and you can be a deviled egg.

3. Put a radio on your head and dress up as a creep.

4. Put on a duckbill, carry a basketball and a slide rule, and be a technical fowl.

5. If you stayed home, and just chilled with your iPod, I suppose, you'd be a HomePod.

6. You could put on surgeon scrubs, hold some instruments, and tell people you're an operating system.

7. Put a little red microphone icon on your shirt. Then, pretend to talk without making any sound. You're that person on every video call who's stuck on mute.

8. Get a rhinestone jumpsuit, sideburns, tinted glasses and some pointy ears. Tell everyone you're elvish.

9. jump up and down over and over and shake your fist. You can tell everyone you're anti gravity.

10. Just smile and nod. Then you can be your own bobblehead doll.

11. You could be a pirate. I'll be your co-pirate.

12. Just carry around a martini glass filled with some guacamole, go around clinking glasses with everyone, and yell: Ävocado toast!".

13. You could carry around a squirt bottle and say you're a streaming service.

14. Be a ghost. All you need is an old spreadsheet.

15. You could go as an eclipse. Just dress in black and stand in front of things.

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