❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

If you own glasses that record people without their consent, we can't be friend, and please don't talk to me.

#Meta #RayBan #CreepGlasses #Consent #Privacy

It's been over a year since my layoff, and finding a new position has been just short of impossible. I'm looking for a position in Software Engineering/Web Development to further my 10 years in the industry. US based in VA, but preferably looking for remote or PNW. I'm familiar with multiple frameworks and languages, and work primarily back-end but have worked full-stack.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdhudgins

Help is greatly appreciated!

#getfedihired

Tonight I’m wishing that Becky Chambers would add more books to the Monk and Robot Series. I’d love to learn more about that calm, hopeful world.

#Books #BeckyChambers #ScienceFiction #MonkAndRobot #HopePunk #SolarPunk

@bookstodon

This message is for all my kids. Every year during pride, I announce that if your own father doesn’t accept you for who you are, then forget about him and I’m your father now. This message is for you:

All that matters is being happy. That’s it. It doesn’t matter what career you pick, where you live, who you live with, or if you have kids. What matters is being happy.

Take some time and think about what it would take to make you happy. Think about the things that you can affect in your own life, not things that would require changing the world. Pick the ones that you can do, and start doing them.

Be who you want to be, do what you want to do. Don’t hurt other people along the way. If you can do that, then you’re doing pretty well. And if you can’t do that, then at least try. And if you’re too worn out to try, get some rest and try again tomorrow.

You’ll never disappoint me. You’re awesome the way you are.

I love you.

The iron
In my blood,
The carbon
Dust of
My bones
Will be forged
As rudimentary
Steel against
The darkness.

#poetry

A dragon sitting on a pile of treasure is a profoundly amoral being.

You don't slay it to get the gold "back", you slay it because otherwise there is no end to what it will demand as tribute. It'll burn a city to increase its pile even by a small amount, and it will *never* not demand the pile get larger.

Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.

A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.

And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.

This is a post about LLM-generated code.