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@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-27 22:38:14

Adapting the Privacy Profession to Changing Times
fpf.org/blog/adapting-the-priv
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Adapting the Privacy Profession to Changing Times
As spring comes into full bloom, the changing of the seasons offers an opportunity for privacy teams to start thinking about how they can be more effective in their workplaces. Privacy work needs to evolve in a couple of important ways, and the value of that work for the organization may have its highest manifestation as a strategic partner helping the organization itself re-invent its work.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-02-26 12:35:11

After the launch of a UK government vulnerability monitoring service (VMS), serious security weaknesses in public sector websites have been fixed 6 times faster – cutting the average time from nearly 2 months to just over a week.

Government cuts cyber-attack fix times by 84% and launches new profession to protect public services
The government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) to reduce cyber risks and speed up fixes, and a new Cyber Profession to build long-term resilience across public services.

@jonix@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-09 14:30:57

A well written lamentation of our skills not being important any more and the culturla shift in our trade that I am/was proud of belong to
I belong to the work force that really cares about my profession, ever since I read The Pragmatic Programmer in the late 90's, "Think about your work"

We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-05-06 04:59:32

#LazyWeb I'm in possession of a couple of old #books that are immensely valuable to me (Though not in any objective way), problem is their binding is starting to fall apart.
I assume someone on this planet makes a profession out of fixing such things, but I have no cl…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-04-08 11:00:06

"Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Farming #Agriculture

Climate change is forcing rice growers to abandon farming, says Mars
New research has revealed that the majority of rice farmers in India and Pakistan do not want their children to enter the profession because of extreme weather reducing global yields every year, raising concerns about future supply.

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-04-02 20:41:26

Dave Thomas is one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer, one of the key people who brought Ruby from Japan to the western world (through "the pickaxe book", Programming Ruby),  one of the authors of the Agile manifesto, and one of my software heros, among other things.
Like many of the original Agile manifesto writers, he's pretty excited about how LLMs/Agents are opening up more possibilities, not ending the software profession.
"Castles in the Air: It's Still Just as Rewarding
It's Still Programming
I was expecting to hate using Claude. I just knew it would dehumanize the process, draining away all the fun stuff, turning what was once creative into a mechanical slog.
I was wrong. Coding with AI is fun. In fact, to me it feels like I'm having more fun than I have had in a while. So I took some notes over the last month to work out why.”
#agenticAI
media.pragprog.com/newsletters

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-01 20:42:01

from my link log —
What SRE is not.
blog.relyabilit.ie/what-sre-is
saved 2021-11-29 dotat.at/:/T0UG8.html

What SRE is not
We used to have a difficulty in our community - thankfully less prevalent now - with rootless questions of identity. Of course, it's not wrong to ask who we are, what we're here for, and what should we be doing: every profession benefits from regular reflection. But too much of

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-05-02 19:16:01

A look at the work of photographer Ann Hermes, who has documented 50 newsrooms across the US, many in smaller towns and cities, and hopes to photograph 100 (David Bauder/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/newspapers-

She photographs local newsrooms before they disappear
Photographer Ann Hermes is fascinated by things that evoke a time gone by, or about to pass into history. Lately that's led her to spend a lot of time in newspaper offices across the country, particularly in smaller cities and towns where local news is endangered by the ongoing business woes of journalism. Her photographs dispel the notion that journalism is a glamorous profession populated by elitists. Often it's populated by people in ill-fitting clothes oblivious to the shabby offices that s…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-03-13 22:41:50

Trump wants to impose “a proposed rule that aims to shield Department of Justice lawyers from independent ethics investigations.”
Trump criticized for new attack on the legal profession - Alternet.org
alternet.org/a-staggering-reco

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-25 02:27:18

My SLP spouse has a T-shirt that says “langauge,” and it gets a lot of appreciation.
Every profession that involved any sort of typing has these words, I suspect.
peachiespeechie.com/products/m

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-03-30 10:54:50

aus der reihe "über tippfehler in der DOI zufällig gefundene artikel" heute: was mit eichhörnchen, zumindest im titel. :)
"Birds, Groundhogs, and Squirrels" doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.12

Birds, Groundhogs, and Squirrels
It takes a strong data science community and many stakeholders to make disparate types of data work so that you and I can continue to explore and learn. Being proactive by including diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) policies and practices, along with evaluating liaison/outreach roles and established programs and tools, will go a long way in strengthening the library, its staff and services, and the institution. Fighting for the “food” you need to grow the profession and…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-15 15:00:06

Really struggling with what goes through the mind of people outsourcing their whole profession and skill to some company that probably won’t be there anymore in two years; and if the company is still there the product won’t be anymore; and if somehow both the company and the product makes it through it will be completely unaffordable.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-19 09:25:57

Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
editorandpublisher.com/stories

The vanishing newspaper cartoonist
When Rob Tornoe sat down with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman, the conversation was less about one retirement and more about an extinction. Handelsman’s decision to put down his pen marks another milestone in the quiet collapse of staff editorial cartooning in America. Once a staple of nearly every major daily, the role has dwindled from hundreds of full-time artists to fewer than two dozen nationwide. What’s vanishing isn’t just a job category — it’s a uniquely sharp, …

@lpryszcz@genomic.social
2026-03-12 17:44:22

For decades, we have pressured junior scholars to pump out publishable articles in a race to attain scarce tenure track lines.
...
Journal articles aren’t ... science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things...
academia as “the only profession where people are paid to think slowly.” stole my heart ❤️

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
No. No it can't. Come on, now.

@Life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-02-15 06:39:45

RE: no-pony.farm/@Life_is/11607327

#TIL there is a profession called #Desnuda. It originated at parties held by the Latin American community in #NewYork and parallel developments such as the #OutdoorCoEdToplessPulpFictionAppreciationSociety. De…
@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-02-15 06:39:45

RE: no-pony.farm/@Life_is/11607327

#TIL there is a profession called #Desnuda. It originated at parties held by the Latin American community in #NewYork and parallel developments such as the #OutdoorCoEdToplessPulpFictionAppreciationSociety. De…