@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-04-30 18:16:06
Every time a company comes up with "existing thing but as a platform" in an attempt to dodge legislation that has been in place about the thing for good reasons, like Uber pretending not to be a taxi company to avoid legal obligations taxi companies have to fulfil on the flimsy basis that they are just connecting drivers and riders, I feel like they should be put under the existing legislation until proven otherwise?
This video by @…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-30 12:14:37
"Why Some Criticisms Matters More Than Others", by Robert J. Hansen:
"""
On the GnuPG-Users mailing list, a user asked the following (paraphrased) question:
> I am very well aware of the consistent and persistent campaign against GnuPG. Is there a reason for this?
There are many reasons.
Before we go further, the things I'm speaking of apply to both LibrePGP and RFC9580 OpenPGP. The criticisms made against one usually wind up getting made against the other, whether for good or ill. These criticisms fall on a spectrum, from infuriatingly dishonest all the way to carefully thought out and researched. I'll start with the ones I think are dishonest.
"""
#GnuPG #PGP
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-04-28 13:31:41
48 hour film festival's AI rule. I think it says a lot as to what is and isn't allowed. Some of it might just be pragmatic, but some of it may also reflect values of what is considered central and what more peripheral?
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-04-25 06:33:07
"By almost every measure, life is better than ever."
However, we often feel otherwise. And some people want us to believe otherwise.
The discrepancy is explained by Negativity Bias, Nostalgia Bias, and the slow but steady long-term overall improvements being shadowed by temporary setbacks.
Excellent explanation by Adrian Krebs.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-14 15:49:00
Here's another short story that reflects on our extollation of technology...
The Flying Machine – Ray Bradbury
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/flying-machine/
@datascience@genomic.social2026-04-24 10:00:01
{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-14 16:56:09
Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-09 19:42:51
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156
I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.
@avalon@jazztodon.com2026-03-22 08:13:45
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 13:05:59