George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

My colleague Jan Richter is hiring the first 8 developers for our new Euro-Office Performance Team at #IONOS. Together with @nextcloud we aim to bring a bit more sovereignty to Europe. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/herrrichter_hiring-eurooffice-ionos-activity-7451975895084580864-4IE-

If you program, you should read this piece.

"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

This is how old I am: I will NEVER call the first Star Wars film "A New Hope," get your bullshit retcon away from me, it is and always shall be Star Wars, forever and ever amen

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6

This is for those who still wants to learn and understand how people did it in old times without forums or LLM etc.

It's #WomenInTechDay! Today we highlight Marie Van Brittan Brown, who security experts now recognize as pioneered home security.

A nurse wanting to make her home secure, she invented an audio-visual home security system, helping create the security tech industry as we know it.

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

🚨 Warning: New FAKE website offering FAKE KeePassXC downloads! Do not fall for it. The correct domain is https://keepassxc.org without hypens!

Today is the day. Please do whatever you can to experience #ProjectHailMary in the cinema. A passion project for everyone involved and once again I was fortunate to colour the amazing photography of Greig Fraser and got to work with for the first time with the brilliant Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/

Bluesky Reveals Massive Hidden Investment

Today #Bluesky revealed that in April 2025 they received a whopping $100M venture capital investment lead by Bain Capital Crypto and that they KEPT IT A SECRET.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

So the answer to the big mystery Who Owns Bluesky? (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116025246450023071) is finally out. Crypto VCs.

Now, we should be asking why did this company that prides itself on transparency and "decentralization" decide they needed to hide who owned the company?

Sometimes you end up typing gail.com (typo) instead of gmail.com and you get this nice little website. Hah!

URL: https://gail.com/

“Your calendar is a load-bearing wall.”

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #aislop

Just laid off along with whole team. I'm in the middle of moving. Movers coming on Saturday. I'm not done packing. Good: time to finish packing. Goodish: cheaper rent at new locale. Bad: older guy computer programmer, but not even in COBOL [C, Perl, Python, PL-SQL, RedHat and Debian Linux. Created a custom RPM just Friday.]

Looking. CT / NYC / remote.

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?
Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people!
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/03/explain-it-like-im-5-why-is-everyone-on-speakerphone-in-public/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Bad news 😔💔

I am sad to announce today that unfortunately I will not be working with Privacy Guides anymore after the end of this month.

Good news! 🚨

I will be available for a new position or contract, starting in April!

I am looking for a position or contract for:

✊ Digital rights activist (with a specialty in privacy rights)

🔒 Privacy expert or consultant

Fediverse and Mastodon advocate

🙌 Managerial position

📰 Tech journalist

💻 Technical writer

💚 Or any other fitting positions

I am especially interested in working with nonprofit organisations, cooperatives, open-source projects, privacy-oriented software companies, or any other organisations working for the public good.

🇨🇦 Remote from Canada

All the work I produce is guaranteed to be AI-free

Let me know if you hear of any good opportunities!

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Tech #Jobs

Elon Musk’s Brand New Private Jet: Gulfstream G800
N8628

https://grndcntrl.net/articles/elon-musk-s-brand-new-private-jet-gulfstream-g800

Do you ride a motorbike?
Do you live in Naarm or anywhere in/near Australia?
I’m trying to find fellow riders on the fedi, to say Hi and trade hashtags/follows

Boosts very much welcome

#naarm #australia #motorcycle

My partner is looking for work. I'd appreciate boosts.

He's looking to move into #appsec, but will accept short #webdev or #devops contracts (<12 months). Location: Melbourne Australia, or remote. For a short enough contract he'd go anywhere though.

He's a senior full stack web dev (Linux/python/django/js/elm, ~12 years).

Experienced in dev ops, dev sec ops and automation (ansible, selenium, etc etc).

He has experience with OWASP ZAP, bandit and Snyk, and is part way through the PortSwigger academy.

FOSS contributions include writing a django authentication function for OWASP ZAP, making a wrapper to improve accessibility and usability for selenium (Elemental), and other bits and bobs.

He isn't on any socials, but if you want to get in touch I can share his email or signal ID (or give him yours).

He and I have been the security people for little apps without any dedicated security team, for the last decade or so. If you're in security you might have met him (or me) at conferences (Disobey, BSides, CCC, Defcon and Ruxmon), because we've been attending since we launched our own app in 2014, picking up everything we can to protect our users.

(Yep, he is aware a move to security from senior dev roles will be a step down in seniority and $. He just really likes security.)

#python #fedihired #getfedihired #jobs #cyber

Welp, the thing happened to me today.
AI took my job.

I learn hard things fast and explain them clearly.

Do you or someone you know need that skill?

#TechnicalWriter #training #OpenToWork #GetFediHired