Notices by Jeff Forcier (bitprophet@social.coop)

@mpirnat Godspeed You! Black Forest Ham

This is not in relation to anything specific, but been thinking lately I should have some employment-law related resources handy so I'm not scrambling whenever I /do/ need some.

Ya’ll got any good tips/directories/whatever for finding an employment lawyer? Bonus if they have experience supporting the tech sector. #AskFedi #Employment #Lawyer

@tek Unorthodox but sounds kinda good actually

@tek and ham, or what?

@cks not entirely a joke: most folks just don’t stick around one job long enough to care. Pick a version when you first mess with it, leave it there a year or two, now it’s somebody else’s problem 😬

Sudden realization that #Signal and #Tailscale are, at a really high level and if you have really bad eyesight, essentially "the same thing”.

Per recent boost about how Signal is largely just key exchange and contact lookup. What else is largely "just” moderating key exchange plus a bunch of endpoint client work?? Exactly!

For the hard of reading: this is 50-75% joke.

@tek don't judge, a lot of us are out sick today

The thing that bugs me the most about "#AI" in the #LLM age is that a bunch of presumably intelligent people heard the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle:

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

And said to each other: "ok, but what if we made that into MULTIPLE orders of magnitude?! 🤩"

@ntnsndr bold of you to assume the average voter has any clue whatsoever that .com was originally intended to imply commercial interests, as opposed to “it’s that thing websites end in” 😂

This is a super cool #BlueSky feature that I honestly wonder /if/ it could work on the #Fediverse? But edits, etc function seemingly fine here so I assume this would too?

Sure, minor chance for 'drift' as the detach event chases down the original post event, but again…we use edits all the time which would have the same property.

The point about binary thinking is spot-on, anyway.

https://bsky.app/profile/fraying.bsky.social/post/3l2sb53aiup2f

Just thought of a possibly-ironclad new test for neurotypicality: have the subject produce a downtempo electronic music track.

If they go "yea! let's put some vocals in this shit. maybe some Apollo mission chatter, everybody loves that in their background music!!!”

Then they're probably neurotypical 😩

Finished #Fallout S1. Wheeeeee

Enjoyed it a lot, even if I have a whole lot of Questions, some of which I wonder if the internet has discussed yet, tho ofc most I’m quite sure it has!

(I have lots of analysis bookmarked already to read soon, but hmu if you know of good thinkpieces.)

@mhoye error: skyline distinctiveness insufficient to overcome whatever potato compression mastodon put on this image 😂

@ntnsndr yay! (?) 😵💫

@ntnsndr 2019

Getting really sick of painstakingly migrating to some Cool New Technical Thing With Superpowers and then whoops, It's All Ethics Violations after a while.

First #Kagi - CEO is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: suicide warnings, .ru indexes, Brave collab, etc.

Now #Nix / #NixOS - BDFL is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: toxic members, shitty governance, MIC sponsorship, etc.

I feel like there's a pattern here but I just can't put my cishetwhyteguy finger on it.

“Wow why can’t we just keep our focus on technical things instead of all this PoLiTiCs 🥴”

Imagine ever trusting the CDC again. About anything.

@ntnsndr Tentatively +1 on the idea, though (probably obviously) one would want to see what specific form it might take to be sure 🤔