@toa5t @Br3nda
My dad always used to say that old age and treachery can easily overcome youth and skill. My money's on the dictionary. 😂

We're thinking about doing a story about #OpenStreetMap – do any of our Massachusetts-based followers edit the map on a regular basis? Or know someone else who does?

@Br3nda I got zero and I feel very, very old.

I am really looking forward to going to #StateofOpenCon in February, organized by @openuk
Not only am I speaking about the Standard for #publiccode, @publiccode has a table I'll be at, and I think that will lead to many interesting discussions.
Check out the conference and register at https://stateofopencon.com/

@benvantende
Danke!

As a happy user of iFixit products, I am super stoked to share this podcast from @sustainoss with Kyle Wiens, iFixit's CEO.

https://hachyderm.io/@sustainoss/111545397394646954

So far, I've been doing additional practice by reading stories from Olly Richards' Story Learning series. I've now reached the end of his collections in print. If anyone has other suggestions for similar resources, I'd appreciate them.

And yes, I know, dead tree media is so last century, but I find that the sensory feedback of actually touching and smelling a physical book greatly aids with memory retention.

Having been both incredibly intimidated by learning the German language and surrounded by people speaking English - both at work and at home - I procrastinated terribly learning the mother tongue of my new home country. I decided in November to push myself to get started and have been doing the Smarter German online course.

At 40% through the A1.1 course, I am still intimidated, but also quite proud of the progress I've made.

@benvantende <3

@cate <3

📢 We're excited to announce the upcoming #DevConf_cz on June 13-15, 2024, at #FIT_VUT in #Brno, Czech Republic.

#CfP opens December through March. Stay tuned for more details!

@whack <3

@acid <3

Dr. Bryan Behrenshausen (@semioticrobotic) highlights GitLab's (https://about.gitlab.com/) support for open source via GitLab for Open Source (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/) & GitLab Open Source Partners (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/partners/), and emphasizes transparent documentation, and policies for open-source success.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/210

@josh <3

Hello again, world.

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

Apparently, I haven't used this social media medium since late June. Wondering about wading back in. Any format that induces a ton of scrolling seems to lead to a less healthier me, but I sure do miss some folks on here.

@downey @anajsana @OpenForumEurope I was quite proud of all of us! :D

I'm honored to join a panel discussion at #OSPO for Good in United Nations HQ🇺🇳, NY 🇺🇸 I'll be surrounded by amazing #OpenSource friends and leaders from different fields, including Gil Yehuda, Ashley Wolf, Jacob Green, Stephanie Lieggi, @lhawthorn, Paula Grzegorzewska and many others 💜🤗

Thanks to the organizers, @OpenForumEurope, United Nations, and OSPO++

https://openforumeurope.org/event/ospos-for-good-building-designing-cooperative-digital-infrastructure/