Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

"Hey, lady ... did you know the bird feeder is empty? Yeah, somebody climbed the sumac and spilled all the seeds on the ground. Got any more in there? The BIRDS are gonna go hungry."

I am looking for a guy who is a Haskell developper living in Switzerland with an impresing CV working in tech sartups.

#Fedivers help me !

Finally, the chatbots-as-search paradigm encourages us to just accept answers as given, especially when they are stated in terms that are both friendly and authoritative.

But now more than ever we all need to level-up our information access practices and hold high expectations regarding provenance --- i.e. citing of sources.

The chatbot interface invites you to just sit back and take the appealing-looking AI slop as if it were "information". Don't be that guy.

/fin

Here's an idea for a talk by me at #fosdem Interesting?

Title

"Tightening every bolt"

Abstract

Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in twenty billion installations. A talk about what the curl project does to minimize security risks: Security, Safety, Reproducibility, vulnerability handling and the processes and tooling around it.

This November, Elecia( @logicalelegance ) is mounting an origami art show: Origami Octopus Garden in the Library at the Aptos Public Library(near Santa Cruz, California).

Whether you're an origami enthusiast or just curious, come and explore Elecia's stunning paper creations.
Don't miss the chance to see papers fold and unfold in locked step with creativity.

#origami #arts #paper #california #library #engineering #math #aptos

Hey #FediBookFair ,

I’m a SF writer writing in French published by @pvheditions . My books are under a CC By-SA license and available in every bookshop in France, Switzerland, Belgium.

My new novel, "Bikepunk" was released a few days ago (think Mad Max with bikes, written on an old typewriter).

See the #bikepunk hashtags and https://bikepunk.fr/

We are looking for partnership with #publishers in other countries to spread translations of the books.

Contact me or @ludomire

Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”

Read more: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/bluesky-enshittification

Cory’s piece: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

#enshittification #bluesky

ok straw poll time

Hear me out: A whole tv series about medieval toffs dealing with the rise of republics and the lowborn plebs (including bouzhe artisans and merchants) who presume to supplant their authority with popular consensus and one thing they bitch about is the threat of this phenomenon to relieve them of capricious power to enact the king's will sans any skill or talent and simply because they were born into the right house, and all this is so we can do a running joke about "Chancel Culture."

How bout I chancel YOUR exchequer.

🇺🇸🛫🇲🇽 On my way to Guadalajara to speak at JS Conf Mexico! 🎉😃

@lemonde lance un appel aux témoignages, si vous êtes ou avez été utilisateur·ice de Firefox.

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/appel-temoignages/2024/10/30/appel-a-temoignages-vous-etes-ou-avez-ete-utilisateur-de-firefox-racontez-nous_6366734_4408996.html

i feel like nothing ever truly prepared me for how much of professional game development is actually an extended game of diplomacy

forever attempting to tend to the needs of all on the project as much as those of the players of the eventual product 😬

Big news: I'm working with @criccomini on a second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications! An early release of the first 3 chapters is now available: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781098119058/ (O'Reilly Learning subscribers only at this point) and we're hoping to finish it next year.

The overall structure and philosophy remains unchanged, but we're bringing it up-to-date with new technical developments, and polishing the presentation with things we've learnt since I wrote the first edition a decade ago.