You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday:

https://www.subvert.fm/

It is a #CoOp, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators.

✊️

The new dungeon crawler carl book is out today, so obviously I need to have this for breakfast

#DungeonCrawlerCarl #Books

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116553199114385177

And he was essentially murdered by MIT, the US government, and the copyright industry at age 26 for attempting to liberate academic knowledge.

Meanwhile, folks wholesale downloading the Internet today are heralded as the new captains of industry.

Oh my, this is spectacularly to the point -

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Woah - this link is gold!

If you have access to Libby through your public library, you can type in your local library system and this will tell you all other Libby systems you’re eligible for!

Edit: I thought this app was available in Canada, but it appears that it currently operates only in the US, with plans to expand to Canada and the UK. Apologies!

https://reciprocard.com

#Libby #libraries #books #bookstodon

So, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, published a letter on X about his companies future and his planned layoffs.

You can find the full post here: https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723?s=20

So many folks, rightly so, have zeroed in on this sentence with serious angst:

"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code..."

I think this is the inevitable outcome of the past 30 years. First cloud, then SaaS, now vibe coding has moved IT ownership to the masses.

I don't think this is great for security, governance, or oversight, but it's AMAZING for CEOs and boards who just want to go fast and break things and "empower their people."

I'm not belittling "the masses." But they aren't technologists, by and large.

And what is being demanded of them by misguided leaders is to run some massively complex SaaS/Cloud/Coding tool that "Looks Easy Enough" but all of the devil is in the details that only hard core technologist would know or care about.

I believe this is why we have seen so many breaches based on misconfigurations and poor secret management and poor API/Token/Oauth management. The people making those design decisions aren't equipped with the skills to understand the consequences of their design choices.

They are marketing people, or sales people, or HR people, or whatever. They have other important skills, but we have forced IT onto them because leadership massively underestimates the complexity, risk, and specialized knowledge required to run it safely.

"I mean, how hard can a surgery robot be? You just push buttons right? Get the front desk guy to do it!"

This is inevitable, but stupid. Good luck to us all.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@marick/116411128273216540

“It’s not cognitively demanding in terms of bandwidth, but it’s very cognitively demanding in terms of exhausting attention. Which ought to be worrying, because we know (quite spectacularly, from the world of self-driving cars), that it is very very difficult to keep paying attention when you’re monitoring a system that is meant to be A-OK most of the time, but needs you to be constantly aware because it sometimes screws up in a way that requires immediate action.”