Major US institutions and corporations are all united in genocide
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-TheIntercept
it’s always “early career” this, “under 40” that, where’s the “wow this person is suddenly trying to pivot to a new career in their 50s and seems like they could make a proper go of it if we just sprinkled them with a bit of fun money for a year” award
Dear App Store Connect,
Every developer is scratching their head with your last email about promo codes.
Give us some examples of how to use offer codes instead of telling about what's going to happen when you turn off promo codes.
"To give an offer code to a journalist or YouTuber who wants to review your app, follow these steps..."
Best regards,
CHOCK
OMG OMG *hyperventilates*
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Reuniting for Fourth ‘Mummy’ Movie
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-mummy-4-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-1236569746/
📷 Bryson City has been transforming itself for the Holidays and Polar Express excursions on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad. Out in the nearby countryside snapping pictures with the full moon, and stopped for a latte at Heavenly Fudge. ❤️
“Even on Election Day, Schumer Is Mum on Mamdani
The top Senate Democrat never endorsed Zohran Mamdani, his party’s young left-wing nominee for mayor, and declined to even say who he had voted for.”
Chuck needs to find another line of work.
~ 263 gallons (994 liters).
~ 1,761 lbs (799 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $1,471 cost of fuel.
~ 3 tons of CO2 emissions.
If I can eat only ONE of these pickles for the rest of my life, I will chose:
My son told me he was awarded the Leslie Neilson badge at school. I asked “What's that?” He said, “It's a big building with lots of kids, but that's not important right now.”
Help the CSS WG!
What syntax makes most sense to you for drawing two solid borders around a box, a 1px white on the inside and a 1px black on the outside?
Pic for reference in next tweet.
A) border: 1px solid white, 1px solid black;
B) border: 2px solid stripes(white, black);
C)
border-width: 2px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: white, black; /* or black, white */
(we’re trying to decide syntax, not order, so try to ignore the order if black first makes more sense to you)
@dexter The other way of looking at it is that initrd was built to solve the problems of distro maintainers. A distro would be asking for lots of trouble to avoid it.
The BSD community doesn't have the problems initrd solves because the kernel, userspace and releng teams are tightly integrated and think of themselves as part of the same, larger engineering team.
Writing my next script, I need to know if the term "leisure time" is hard to understand among people of different nationalities, and if I should perhaps use the synonym "spare time" instead, to make my script easier to understand for everyone.
(leisure time, spare time, and free time are all words describing the time we have outside of work)
HCI, Infosci, Comm folks, what are your favorite readings for gradstudents on how to choose a scholarly community, and how to choose where to publish?
Assembling some notes on this and would love to know about your favorite reads on this.
Matilda always stops eating when I try to take her picture, but I assure you despite appearances she is greatly enjoying both her dinner salad and us being home (so that she can have her usual routine again). #Bunny #HouseRabbit #BunniesOfMastodon
You're a non-profit, improving peoples lives and need outside #expertise?
Let's talk.
You're an underfunded government agency or #QUANGO trying to fill a contractor position but having trouble getting the attention the Facebooks and Googles of the world get?
Let's talk.
You're a one-person #business and just need to talk through a problem you're facing with an #engineer for an hour, so you can figure out if it's even a solvable #problem you could hire someone to work on?
Let's talk.
The above (well, except shitting on your head for money) are all things I've done. In general, if you're #helping #people rather than #hurting them for #profit, let's talk. Full-time? Part-time? Contract for just a few hours? You might be surprised.
Hell, I might be surprised. It's happened before.
Thanks for reading. Boosts or sharing with someone who might want my services appreciated.
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A lot of things matter to me in choosing what I work on, and who I work for. Money is one. It isn't the only one. It isn't even the most important one. I have an in-my-head sliding scale I use - the better your work matches my #ethical framework, the less #lucre it takes to convince me to help you.
So if you're using "AI" to build #algorithmic pricing systems to sell to companies so they can #gouge people needing services in their most #desperate hour? I *might* entertain a rate of $1000 per hour to shit on your head. There isn't enough #money in the world to get me to help you build that stuff.
On the other hand, if you're a small #company, selling actual #goods or #services to #customers who want and need them, as opposed to building something #shiny to attract the rubes so you can sell your audience to the #advertising industry? And you need a techie person?
Let's talk.
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People who follow me may know that I've been without work for some time. I don't talk about it much. I was laid off from a public #benefit corporation undergoing some restructuring just as companies started firing engineers due to the "AI" hype.
I'm basically semi-retired at this point, mostly involuntarily, but I would love to find #work that I could feel good about to occupy some of my time.
I'm a #software engineer with two-plus decades of experience in a large number of areas. I've worked as an independent consultant in many industries, worked for a consulting company in many others, and held staff positions with tech companies of different sizes in various fields. Most recently I've tended to be designing and implementing APIs for internal and external use. I've been using Python professionally for 25 years, and personally for longer. The list of OSes, languages, and technologies I've worked with is long.
If you need some software-engineer-y things done but you're now saying "We can't possibly afford to #hire someone like that", keep reading.
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#FediHire #NoAI #AI #ethics #affordable #engineer #Python #API
Assembly Summer 2023 Freestyle graphics entry 🦊 Placed 9th (second last).
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