The Andressen manifesto is the gift that keeps giving because it inspires writing like this.

"The techno-optimist tribe gives off the distinct impression of people who have been so ridiculously rich for so long that they’ve just completely lost the plot about how the real world works. To be fair, this is an apt description of most of Silicon Valley."

https://gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-everything-1850934367

Hacker leaks millions of 23andme genetic data profiles.

Please resequence your DNA asap, make sure you use at least four different letters and a minimum length of 3.2×10⁹ characters.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-leaks-millions-of-new-23andme-genetic-data-profiles/

Songtradr fired half the staff at bandcamp, and that signals a dark future for bandcamp as a company.

So we're going to do something about it:
https://ajroach42.com/the-uncertain-future-of-bandcamp/

Attended seminars, fixed bugs, played chess (!), chilled out in a parc, yelled "Leeeroooooy Jeeeenkins"...
A reveure Barcelona!

https://lichess.org/blog/ZRZ4lBUAACgAtCvi/2023-lichess-meetup-in-barcelona

#chess #lichess #community #opensource #freesoftware #Barcelona

On apprend que, suite à ses décisions de tarifications hasardeuses, le PDG d'#Unity quitte son poste (ça doit être dur pour lui bébou) pour être remplacé par le PDG de #RedHat
(les patrons sont apparemment interchangeables, est-il alors utile de les nommer ?).

Nos pensées vont immédiatement aux salarié-es d'Unity.
On espère que ce nouveau patron n'entraînera pas Unity dans un vaste plan de licenciements, comme il l'a fait précédemment chez Red Hat (800 emplois détruits, malgré les bénéfices)

I'm open to being wrong, but for my money, "identify as"/"identifies as" is almost always a useless phrase.

"She identifies as a woman" => "She is a woman."

"They identify as Catholic." => "They are Catholic."

And so forth. The only utility I can see is to distance the act of identification from actual belonging (as in the classic journalistic twist, "Name Lastname, who identifies as non-binary, [proceeds to misgender them]"), or to discuss the fallibility of survey results ("well, 50% of the cohort identified as sanitation workers, but it's possibly because you said 'garbage people' instead").

In my opinion, it's just not a phrase you should use, unless you can articulate why a simple "is" or "are" doesn't work.