Notices by Emma Builds 🚀 (emmah@wandering.shop)

@thomasfuchs do you know about this book?

@dalias the whole VPN non-sense was so demoralizing when I was there when we could had have gone to a different funding model.

@dalias and I'm sure they are sniffing around for a grant from eugenics boy Sam Altman.

What the hell, @mozilla?

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

@mekkaokereke @mconnor @delroth @Are0h

Yes! This is what @mhoye was talking about around federating verbs as well as nouns.

Wild how retailers are happy to shoot people in the back if they think they are shoplifting, but cave into white supremacist threats over queer themed merchandise.

Someone was posting fascist nonsense in work Slack, so I had to fix it:

Good news. More KNOWER on the way.

https://youtu.be/tuhe1CpHRxY

@technomancy documentation belongs in the code tree, and should be treated like the rest of code: reviewed, then merged.

Still thinking about #neverworkintheory from earlier today, but some takeaways:

* Software testing is a learned skill that developers need practice in
* Documentation matters and should be prioritized (I still can't stand Confluence, though)
* Internal forks of open source libraries will drift, and can contain important bug fixes, but those fixes don't don't end up upstream

Thanks for killing and abandoning Downtown San Jose, assholes.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-puts-10-to-30-year-campus-construction-project-on-hold-after-2-years/

@thomasfuchs and conversely people don't want to be told they need to risk harm so someone else can have a pet feature.

And the group speaking out about the risks around quote tweets is also a marginalized group.

@thomasfuchs in all seriousness, maybe they need a Matrix instance instead of a twitter clone?

@thomasfuchs and there are well documented reasons it was not implemented here.

@thomasfuchs I still don't understand why people want to flock to a centralized environment run by a white billionaire.

@thomasfuchs BlueSky still has a considerable problem in that Jack Dorsey is involved with it.

When the NYT runs these lifestyle pieces on how people in a Nordic country have the highest measures of happiness, with the implied notion that we should be happy too, they need to acknowledge that that country's history does not have the American stains of genocide and kidnapping people in order to enslave them.

@thomasfuchs "ai bot swarms" oh gods.

Can ChatGPT replace your labor?

No.

Will some billionaire try to replace your labor with ChatGPT?

Yes.

"We just told a bunch of effective altruists in SF that we did the analysis and decided it's more effective to send mosquito nets to a tropical country than turn their power back on after today's storm."