Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Not to treat privilege like a scarlet letter. But it's just like I want ppl to be reminded that the act of not needing mutual aid is a privilege that many in this economy don't have. They don't have a choice to just not get needs met. Or that ends in social death and actual death.

I really feel like "whether or not you will shut down or transfer ownership of the instance, and to whom, and if they will move your data to a new legal landscaped region, if you want to stop running it" is something that should be thought about ahead of time and put in your instance info, and updated if that changes.

That's a headline of the day right there.

#mastodaoine #cork

OK, this is a twist in the NaNoWriMo controversy I didn't see coming: apparently the "criticizing AI is classist/ableist" line was a bridge too far *even for the 'AI' company*.

https://archive.is/DYqsA

In 99.9% of cases the fantasy of the engineers, sysadmins, SREs, etc getting up and leaving, or being axed, leading to the complete destruction of a corporation is just that: a fantasy.

What happens instead is things get very very painful, and corporations roll that pain to their individual employees and, if they have to, their customers. Reality doesn't stand in the way of managerial demands and there's an infinite supply of people who are in a position where they need to take even a painful job to keep food on the table.

You cycle through enough grist and burn enough people out and eventually the pain of a burning down infrastructure is bandaided enough to just be normal day to day operations pain again, and there's plenty of people jumping to show off how culture fit they are by throwing themselves on the altar of pager and overtime.

Perhaps if we could all as a unit say no, no one is gonna do the the shitty work of cleaning up after you exploded your team of talent by being capitalistic fucks; but in the position we're in now that's not likely.

This is where I start on my "We need a union" speech again.

Say, what *was* Cory Doctorow doing at the REBOOT Conference, an explicitly right-wing tech conference, in 2022?

https://web.archive.org/web/20220329223559/https://www.rebootconference.org/day-two

Is there a website where companies can only publish job offers which don't come with any requirement towards experience?

#AskFedi #jobseeking

no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.

PSA: fandom.com runs a honeypot to trap wiki admins who try to leave Fandom.

As mentioned in this article, you can submit a "request" to Fandom to close your wiki.

If you submit such a request, Fandom will not close your wiki. Instead, they will
a)Remove your admin status to prevent you from deleting articles,
b)Keep a close eye on your wiki to make sure you aren't trying to migrate away from Fandom,
c)Possibly ban your account from Fandom.

There are ways to essentially trick Fandom's automated system into closing your wiki. All such methods are against the rules of Fandom and rely on your wiki avoiding the notice of any human employees of Fandom.

If you want to know how I got them to close Pandora's Tale Wiki, DM me, either here or on Matrix. I don't want to post the explanation publicly in case Fandom notices and changes their system to prevent my method from working for future wikis.

Why clone a yubikey when you can simply steal it and leave an identical looking one that just doesn't work and the user is just going to be confused for a bunch of time without realising that someone else has their 2FA token now

We've once again entered the mandatory period wherein it isn't the "right time" to talk about gun reform.

Please refrain from mentioning the heinously permissive #gun laws in #Georgia including, but not limited to, the ‘17 passage of a law that requires colleges to allow guns on campus.

Please also do not mention the fact that no permit is required to purchase or possess a shotgun, rifle, or handgun.

This period will run until the next shooting: on average less than a day.

I had a dream that KdE announced a windows version of their desktop environment, and it was such a massive hype, Microsoft had a meltdown about it on Twitter.

does someone have experience with gitea or forgejo actions?

is there something akin to dependabot, specifically for rust?