Wikipedia is looking for brave #php developers to help their mission. It's #remote https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6126716?gh_src=f74a1ed11us #getfedihired

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and `echo`! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you […] [Original post on social.smallhack.org]

This is very on-brand for #shopify: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-criticizes-canadas-response-to-us-tariffs/ar-AA1yhxJ1

Imagine being so genuinely empty as a human being that you support a regime that conducts mass deportations and runs concentration camps because they support Bitcoin.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/academics-alberta-covid-report “Talbot said if an undergrad student handed the report in, he’d give it a failing grade. He described it as “amazingly badly put together.”

Today's macOS and iOS updates are important for security, but if you're trying to stay away from the Apple Intelligence beta then know that it automatically opts you in, even if you've previously turned it down. On macOS, go to System Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > and turn off that toggle.

Sort of like saying GoogleMaps worked well until we tried to find the Gulf of Mexico?

Hello Friends, my current contract role wraps up at the end of January, so I am looking to get #fedihired FT or PT in the arena of Internet of Things #iot , Embedded Systems, and Making Friends With The Robot Overlords When They Were Babies. I have an electronics and advanced manufacturing lab […]

Well, this seems as good a time as any to post that I am seeking PhD students to join my research group in Regina, Canada. My current research projects involve: * Gradual dependently typed languages * Improved semantics and ergonomics for dependent pattern matching and termination * Improving […]

I do some consulting and advising. In recent years, businesspeople have repeatedly asked about the state of LLMs and what they should do. The shortest answer: “It’s over-invested.” Expanding a bit: “It will do useful things but not as much as people think and not valuable enough to get people […]

Ah, another tasty Late-Capitalism flavor: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll

"But DEI is good for businesses, diverse teams are more productive, don't you see?" That's not a humane or progressive argument. "Look you can extract more if you do this" is fucking busines advice. That's McKinsey shit and has no place here.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the @securedrop team at @freedomofpress. SecureDrop is open source whistleblowing software. The project is at a critical inflection point as we get ready to build the next-gen version based on a modern cryptographic protocol. 100% remote, full-time […]

I don't know how much clearer it needs to be for any pro-"AI" academics than the collusion of government and tech giants announcing $500b in funding for "AI to cure cancer" while simultaneously preparing to gut the NIH: you are digging your own grave.

Nice - and also, $12,000 for PHP Coding Standards (PHPCS) and $24,000 for the PHP Foundation #php https://mastodon.social/@therepository/113869635643622877

It's just an amazing coincidence, folks! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/amazon-warehouse-closures-quebec-1.7438078

Every now and again I remember that the Super Brain Genius Number One Special Boy Who Really Wishes Actual Engineers Would Take Him Seriously got shitcanned from PayPal because he thought it was a good idea to ditch UNIX and move to Windows NT

We received a lot of strong applications for our Senior Front-end role at @Mastodon, but @inga_nomads and I would like to see more diverse candidates in our initial pool. Do you know of any communities (forum, Slack, Discord, newsletter…) with a diverse audience and a focus on front-end […]

Can confirm--you have to open a ticket with Google support to disable the new Gemini LLM garbage Google shoved into Gmail, Drive, etc, for Workspace. <sigh> https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/1i3lo46/how_to_turn_off_gemini_for_workspace_the_real_deal/

"I'm not really a fascist, I'm just kissing the ring and goimg along because shareholder value" is the "I was just following orders" of our time.

FFS, please stop holding your conferences in places legitimately unsafe for a percentage of your members.

It's the same thing as I keep telling people to do when they see big promises of what Blockchain or AI is gonna do. Ask yourself: Is this actually real? Has the FreeOurFeeds campaign told you how giving them 4 or 30 Million USD frees anyone (including feeds)? Is that realistic given the […]

Given how little support "FreeOurFeeds" is getting (45976 USD raised from 751 people) even with all the support by famous talking heads and media it makes sense that the project now tries to shame people into donating using the term "ideological purity" (which is very close to the right-wing […]

One of the challenges in software engineering is knowing what is and what isn't your problem to solve. This means knowing what you should write, vs. use a library, what you should test vs. mock, what you need to document vs defer, etc. Sadly, I think this mindset really took with the Tech Bros […]

Proud to finally welcome as the Official Year of Procrastination: 1997

## Ad Companies Rally to Support Browser That Limits Ad Blocking https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113799529691721559 #letmefixthatheadlineforyou

If you're looking for a platform without billionaire investors and owners, well, this is the only one.

If anyone is looking at #jobs, particularly in #privacy and #security, #1password has more than a few openings - https://jobs.lever.co/1password

New year, new role @Mastodon! Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users. Ideally: 1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #html 2. Proficient in modern #css 3. Experienced with #javascript, #typescript and complex […]

It's #ces week. In my local Italian dialect, ces ~= toilet. > LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs Ah, can you smell it?

Awesome reference on how a yubikey actually operates: since I use it daily, this is quite interesting ti me https://cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurity/yubikey/?s=mc

Why am I including the media in this? Because instead of media doing their job and constantly informing the public that the “carbon tax” is in fact a rebate program that more than makes most Canadians whole every time the “ax the tax” messaging is reported, they instead fuelled a false narrative…3/4

2/2… with smart pricing mechanisms well understood to be one of the most effective ways to support #ClimateCrisis mitigation, ALL because of a continually repeated political slogan as lazy as “axe the tax.” It should take a lot more than that to get us to do something so dumb for our own future.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election, one thing will be true — a significant % of Canadian voters & media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians…1/2

When you are evaluating libraries to use in your projects, and you see this unchecked checkbox:

*Oligarchy has bad, enshittified,, hype-ridden robot-car technology, because tech oligarchy is bad in and of itself https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/

Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson is an optimist, the real number is more like three weeks.) —fortune(6)

I signed up for a black-market time-travel tour as soon as I heard about them. (The first rule of Time Club etc.) There’s an hour long pre-mission briefing on how you must be extremely careful in what you say or do as the smallest event could have future-changing consequences. After that […]

Does the hivemind have a good suggestion for a documentary about space/planets/stars/galaxies etc, maybe star life cycles, black holes - engaging enough for 5-7 year olds? Something available from Germany, so not iPlayer, also don't have Apple TV or a Netflix sub active right now.

2025 is going to be even more AI and LLM stuff shoved down our throats. It’s gross and when it proves to not have any value it will cause a massive recession.