Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@jargoggles @davidho @climatejesper Unlike absorbing CO2 in oceans (which would just justify more capitalism), Godzillas sound like a plausible actuality solution.

@berdandy @mossmann And the right answer to that is "we're not allowed to require you to, but we would really appreciate it".

@jbqueru @mossmann It's partly passive voice but mostly the gratuitous statement of "but not required" that utterly deflates any purported encouragement.

@GossiTheDog Yeah I'm confused why Chinese ownership is more problematic than Saudi+Russian ownership...

@azonenberg @jpm I think the feeder setup time is a big issue for one-off prototypes. If you have some odd component like a 9k1 resistor on the board once, placing it by hand is faster than setting up a feeder. At the cost of even the Lumen’s feeders, having a couple decades of E24 already on feeders is very expensive.

At some point I'm definitely going to have to start thinking about PnP-ing some of these bigger boards. My designs are already beyond the point most people would have given up on hand assembly.

This one has a touch over 600 components on it. Given the time I'm probably going to try and finish the back side but not do the front tonight.

@dysfun @matthew_d_green Much easier and more practical solution:

🖕 AI

What you wrote in your health policy: “masks are encouraged but not required”

What I read: “Anti-maskers are welcome here. We wish the more vulnerable members of our community would just die and stop inconveniencing us.”

@mossmann "Masks are encouraged but not required"

No, they are not encouraged or you wouldn't phrase it that way.

"Please wear a mask" is how you express encouragement. You don't have to say "not required". Saying "not required" except when explicitly asked is saying "masks are DISCOURAGED".

@whitequark "...and does not disrupt the proceedings."

The protest explicitly does plan to disrupt (prevent) the keynote. That's kinda the point of protest.

@mhoye @trochee TBF that's probably one of the better uses for that book...

@Phosphenes @mastodonmigration Instagram.

@joyce Nowadays I want typos and grammatical errors to demonstrate the text is not LLM slop. 🤷

@Natasha_Jay Guess you don't have to GTFO. 🙃

The key thinking I take away from what he's going for on this one is that "I'm going to build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers" will fix anything in tech because these sorts of people think they know best on everything. Spoilers: They literally don't, and when they do they only serve their own personal cultural norms anyway, fuck the rest right?

@Phosphenes @mastodonmigration From Zuck going public nazi.

@ehproque @SecurityWriter @jherazob @AlexanderMars @rk @protonprivacy @nextcloud I forget, I might have added DMARC records equivalent to the default ("no, I don't want DMARC"). Gmail will occasionally flag something with weird forwarded MIME from me as spam, but generally I don't have problems.

Why is this such a problem?

Because like all tech billionaires he has an agenda which is incompatible with the ideals of open source. Giving him a platform where be can speak about his interest, despite not having contributed to the community is acting against the interest of the open source community as a whole.

You wouldn't invite a fossil fuel lobbyist to a renewable energy panel either, would you?

In the age of misinformation and "bought public perception" giving him this stage is both morally and politically wrong and damaging to the philosophy of open source.

End of thread.

I realize money plays a role. A big role. But don't make the mistake of taking tech bro's as our friends.

The relationship is utilitarian at best. Tech bro's don't "invest" in open source because they believe in its ideals, they do it because it gives them the means to do whatever they like. And this is seldom something good or desirable.

Those are the same people that do one mass layoff after the next one whenever it suits them.

They are not our friends. Jack Dorsey should not be welcome.