High-side Gen Xer | male | he/him
Breakfast is my life's work.
All good things start with a roux.
Mulder and Scully bring me joy.
If you're sleepy, don't floss.
Generative AI must not be used as an information source, because, as a probabilistic endeavor, its output is always unreliable.
AI is vaporware.
⚠️ 🔁 ⚠️
Unfortunately I am not the the grifting, psychotic widow of a right-wing uberdork with rich friends, and thus no one has set me up a Gofundme or flooded me with funds.
I have been very ill for the past two months on top of my disabilities, and haven't been able to do much of anything.
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityMutualAid
690/4000
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:patreon: http://patreon.com/ginnymcqueen
Hetzner, which many instances rely on, just announced a major across the board price hike. A 30% increase isn’t minor.
For larger companies it’s a budget line. For small Mastodon instances, it’s the line between sustainable and underwater.
When servers jump from €49.99 to €64.99 and storage rises too, admins feel it first. Many already subsidize costs.
Some will downsize. Some may shut down.
Decentralization still runs on invoices.
Support your instances.
@sophiekaz I am only familiar with Signal, but it is thoroughly modern and is secure as it gets🔒. And Meredith Whittaker - the president of the Signal Foundation - represents the vanguard of ethical tech 💪!
Do you like #SciFi?
Do you like to read?
Would you like to help @charliejane & @annaleen raise money for a worthy cause?
Then pop on over to #HumbleBooksBundle and pick up 21 books for under $20 bucks and support Miss Major and Alexander L. Lee’s TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center with your purchase!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
@sophiekaz Hi 👋 and welcome - your boldness and bravery in abandoning the walled gardens of Big Tech are 💥💣! More power to us all ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾✊🏽✊!
Hello, Fediverse 👋
I'm Sophie. I run a digital ops consultancy from the south of France, working with values-led businesses.
I'm in the process of leaving Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. I got tired of building on platforms that sell our data, gut safety systems to please politicians, and treat people as products.
Still figuring it all out. Would love to connect.
#Introduction #EthicalSocialMedia #SmallBusiness #DeleteMeta #Fediverse #DigitalEthics
“I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.
So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy.
Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service.
Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s”
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress.
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
@MariaLiv omg, this had me chuckling so hard, i had to take a small break from scraping my youngest daughter's leftover potato and cheese pierogi into a container for my lunch next week while slurping the remnants off the spoon used to scoop the sour cream 😆.
I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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@AntennaPod being honest about needs when you click the "donate" button. 💙
I've come back to AntennaPod when I switched back to Android. It's an amazing #OSS project that's been going for a long time.
Today in Labor History February 18, 1943: The Nazis arrested the members of the White Rose movement. The activist group called for opposition to the Nazi regime through an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign. The Nazis put on a show trial in which none of the defendants were allowed to speak. They executed Hans and Sophie Schol, and Christoph Probst on February 22, 1943. White Rose leaflets openly denounced the persecution and mass murder of the Jews. They might have taken their name from the poem "Cultivo una rosa blanca," by Cuban revolutionary and poet, Jose Marti. Alternatively, they may have gotten it from the B. Traven novel, “Die Weiße Rose” (The White Rose).” Traven served on the Central Council of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He escaped the terror that followed the crushing of the Republic and fled to Mexico, where he wrote numerous novels, including “Death Ship” and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
#LaborHistory #workingclass #WhiteRose #nazis #execution #holocaust #antisemitism #fascism #antifa #antifascism #JoseMarti #cuba #btraven #books #poetry #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon
@MariaLiv 💥💪💥
It seems the time has come, huh. Is anyone looking for a senior SRE with deep Linux expertise and experience with infrastructure at massive scales (ex-Meta, ex-Apple)? UK, remote (happy to visit the office anywhere in the UK every month or so). I prefer working on the automation, CI/CD, load testing, or low level debugging. However, I will not work on anything related to generative AI.
#getfedihired
Edit: Thanks for all the support, everyone! I’m good to go for now.
I’m looking for some help in moving my Etsy shop over to a Wordpress/WooCommerce site that I fully own and manage.
I would like to hire a developer to help me along the way, as a consultant.
If you — or someone you know and trust — would be interested, please send me a DM. I’m in Canada 🇨🇦
If you’d like to see what I’m going to be working on, my Etsy shop is at https://brittbuilds3d.etsy.com
Thank you! Boosts appreciated! :boost_ok:
#WebDev #FediHired #developer
“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
https://lithub.com/anthropic-didnt-want-us-to-know-that-they-were-destroying-millions-of-books-to-feed-their-software/
