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> A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”
Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!
My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html
#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi
It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Robert Kaye.
Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MetaBrainz and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement. His contributions were significant and his loss is deeply felt across our global community.
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Purpose:
Take audio from a conversation in a Telegram IM group chat and 1) download these files, 2) process them, and 3) concatenate them into a single file ready to be uploaded as a podcast.
#FOSS #opensource #Python #Linux #Telegram #podcast #AMPS
AMPS is an AMPS—Asynchronous Messaging to Podcast System (or Audio Messaging to Podcast System). An AMPS, as its acronym implies, is a system for pipelining audio conversations from a messaging app (such as 3rd party apps like Telegram) into a single processed and concatenated audio file ready to...
… we are also pleased to announce that Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has agreed to provide system resources to host our website, mailing list, and Forgejo instance for copyleft-next.
A gracious volunteer years ago donated to @bkuhn the domain name “copyleft.org” as a place to host work to advance copyleft. We're excited to host all these new resources in that domain name. The beginnings of a new website are now live on https://next.copyleft.org/. …
…@bkuhn @ @richardfontana serve equally as co-Editors-in-Chief of copyleft-next. We continue w/ the Hindering Backchannels Rule (HBR) (formerly known as the Harvey Birdman Rule) & also we'll work with haste to add an appropriate and more typical Code of Conduct,too.
copyleft-next remains an independent project. We'ill always disclose publicly any (actual or potential) conflicts of interest & work on copyleft-next is always in our personal capacities. We ask other contributors to do the same.…
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Someone called, & said he spoke with me to develop a software 6 months ago.
I said I don't remember what I ate 6 days ago, & I never remember people who speak without paying me.
He cut the call 😇
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