Notices by Daniel Appelquist (torgo@mastodon.social), page 2

Hi @evan I'm trying to reply to your message https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/CynBEDDOgYu on Threads but it's totally non-functional for me for some reason so I'll reply here.

Some aspects of the Silicon Valley culture that I have encountered are arrogance, insularity, hero worship, and a winner-takes-all mentality – which combine to form a miasma of toxic behaviour and decision making. Even Pre-X Twitter suffered from these issues.

New bloggage from me on the @w3c blog: “Securing the Web forward: Addressing developer concerns in web security”. Have a read and consider joining us for the upcoming "Secure the Web Forward" virtual workshop in September – submissions are due Friday. Let me know if you have any questions. https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/securing-the-web-forward-addressing-developer-concerns-in-web-security/

@aral KaiOS is the spiritual successor: https://www.kaiostech.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

Came into the office in my #FirefoxOS hoodie. Some engineers asked me “what was Firefox OS?” Oh boy. Let me tell you a story.

@Gargron congratulations!! ?

I would like people to understand that “xenomorph” is not the creature’s name. Xenomorph was used in one throw-away line in one film that was intended to evoke how the government / military has to make up complicated names for things and obviously was a stand-in for the word “alien” and was not supposed to be the name of this specific alien. Please stop calling it a xenomorph. It intentionally has no name as that heightens the sense of horror / dread. That is all.

@evan @openuk yes please!

I'm on the advisory board for the State of Open Conference 2022 put on by @openuk. I strongly encourage people to submit proposals for the CfP, which closes on the 18th. #stateofopencon

https://sessionize.com/opencon2023/

There will be tracks on Platform Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Security, Government, Law & Policy, Open Data and Open Hardware, plus an unconference. If you have questions about the conference, reply here and I'll try to answer or point you in the right direction. This is gonna be good.