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@holsta she was literally carting round Ashton Kutcher for Thorn last year.

So corporate shill already why not a Putin puppet?

@xerz her main attack is against @edri. Who really are one of the best lobby groups we have.

Which is why she felt the need to attack them. She can ignore individuals like me who are merely resident. But it's a lot harder to ignore Organisations who are respected.

@ClimateJenny there's quite a few carers on here, including @MediaActivist.

It isn't just the sick who get excluded, it's their family who care for them.

It's our overloaded health services.

Who don't you see anymore at events?

Or did you just forget us in the excitement of attending and getting your presentation accepted?

Is it just too inconvenient to practice and organise genuine inclusion?

In this 5th year of the Pandemic, I'm kinda gut punched by the abandonment of friends, some family and my peers.

I get punched again each time I see an event CFP shared with no health policy.

I recommend reading this piece by @MediaActivist . It's a very long, comprehensive read.

You aren't alone. This isn't your fault. Our society as it is set this up. It's just more of us are on the sharp edges of it. We're the canaries in the coalmine.

#CovidIsNotOver

https://todon.eu/@MediaActivist/112547805791431496

@MediaActivist I just read this. It's a gut punch and at the same time, I feel just as betrayed as you do by the folks we felt we had solidarity with.

I'm glad you wrote this, because it shows us we aren't alone just distributed. It's a weird mixture of comfort and anger. With a lot of physical, mental and emotional fatigue.

Thank you for writing this.

@MediaActivist it's bias is in its founding bones. From the beginning.

In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.

A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.

You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.

It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.

#HopePunk

@elleybirdy @i0null I used to do a lot of IT support and small business clients would come in with some cheap £300 laptop they got from Tescos or PC World.

So there's already the potential of privacy issues with devices having proloaded bloatware phoning home. Windows putting copilot + recall in ,is the cherry on the cake really.

I'm not sure what can be done. But if folks are worried for the people they care about, now's the time to help them switch it off. Then keep checking in.

Seeing some rather recognisable attitudes in arguments against NetBSDs stance against AI generated code.

*How do you know*, *how would you stop it*. *You can't stop us*.

Like aren't we meant to be better than that?

Disturbingly similar attitude to when we ask folks to not scrape folks posts on the fediverse without asking.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Plus there are some very real licence considerations which will affect copyright (and copyleft).

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/all-your-base-are-belong-to-llm

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

@trechnex @aral @kissane Yeah well status quo innit.

Perish the thought that we fund folks outside the Patriarchal Norm.

@mozilla

When will you enable full access for developers to the webcodecs API?

I ask because this functionality has been available in chrome for years.

We really need it, because we managed to do #multicast live streaming in the browser. Rather than having to use OBS

Sadly it was a chrome browser.

I'd prefer it if we could do it from Firefox.

https://caniuse.com/webcodecs

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_API

@mikedev Did you do this?

Please remove me.

https://macgirvin.com/directory/f=&keywords=PHPledge

I have some thoughts about FOSS sustainability and burnout.

If we want projects to be a part of the commons to encourage the commons to join in, they need to be able to afford to.

TLDR: We need universal basic income. Our current systems can't cover everything.

If we want to prevent maintainer burnout, we need better support structures. Which isn't going to happen with anymore Orgs set up specially.

http://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html

@meena @cstross @alex Well sometimes Grammar School boys and Americans get to marry in.😏

@paezha @cstross @alex

Kinda reminds me of the time when I referred to the posh kids as cuckoos. Like when you hear Scot's barons going on about how they are Scottish with a cut glass English accent and you know they went to public school

http://onepict.com/january10012021-cuckoosandempire.html

@aoanla @tanepiper @cstross @alex now I understand why Made in Chelsea and Downton Abbey is so popular with some of the masses.

This is East Enders level of drama, with lots of money.

@cstross @alex I think people tend to forget that when we mean the establishment, some of that establishment came over with the Normans.

@alex wait that's a real name?

Just sometimes with names like that, I do wonder if we're in a simulation. Like that name seems so made up.

Then I remember that England really still is Medieval Fun time land.