Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

A new, busy ~this week in security~ just landed:

• A huge U.S. financial surveillance program revealed
• Airline exposes U.S. government's "no-fly" list
• T-Mobile, Mailchimp, and police tech firm ODIN hacked
• Royal Mail finally confirms "cyberattack"
• "Greek Watergate" heats up as spyware maker fined
• Thousands of PayPal accounts breached by credential stuffing
• And a brand new cyber-cat.

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While other big tech CEOs are cutting head count, Tim Cook is cutting his pay.

No crocodile tears about “taking full responsibility” either.

"This needs saying: If you’re actively discouraging your devs from #TDD and Pair programing, you’ve got NO BUSINESS calling yourself “#Agile”" (Michael Ibarra - https://twitter.com/bm2yogi/status/593313708924751872)

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Because it’s never a matter of IF there’s a bad apple in the group - there’s ALWAYS a bad apple in the group - when you’re a community leader, it’s a matter of: what are you doing to amplify or quiet that bad apple? How do you take away their power to ruin it for everybody? It may not be possible in a stadium, but it’s sure as shit possible online.

Please don’t confuse what is legal with what is right. There is some overlap, of course, but not as much as one might think. Laws are generally written by the rich and powerful to protect their interests, often at the expense of the poor and weak. Many atrocities are lawful, and many acts of mercy are unlawful. I say this as an attorney.

And if this sort of thing is your jam, check out @nolan's work:

https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/17/my-talk-on-css-runtime-performance/

TL;DR: there's a reason we're investing in web components, and it isn't about theoretical purity, it's about delivering great experiences at scale.

White friends: Reflect

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or KKK, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." #MLK

Afroman got raided but made a song about it, it's great

https://news.yahoo.com/afroman-releases-music-videos-clips-180220013.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

#music #afroman #raid #acab

One reason why many Allistics have a problem with Autistic people, who "don't look autistic" and call themselves disabled, is their thinking pattern of hierarchy and competition. We are "too different" and "too similar" at the same time. They don't want to support someone, who might be even "better" in any aspect than they are. In their view only people who are lower in their idea of hierarchy, who for sure can't be serious competitors are allowed to call themselves disabled and be supported.
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

Mastodon question -- is there a good way to perceive the structure of conversations here? For example, how can I tell when I'm looking at a thread that has branched off of a conversational "trunk" that has other branches I'm not currently seeing? 😅

How does one distinguish #LongCovid from #AutisticBurnout?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic

It's possible to believe both that nobody goes into frontend to deliver bad experiences to most users, and the privilege bubble has created a toxic miasma of ignorance and self-congratulation that ensures most new hires know only tools that set them up to fail most users.

All flights across the US have been grounded due to an outage of the #FAA #NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system.