aspiring (struggling?) internet theorist • amateur server herder and code pusher
certain labels left out because the internet never forgets. you’ll have to infer my tendencies from my toots 🎉
feel free to follow and interact, here to make friends :)
“Taken out of context, I must seem so strange” – Ani DiFranco
| website | https://rishav.io |
| pronouns | any |
Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on.
No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@noteness/116568418612175162
please welcome one of my best friends @noteness to the fediverse 🥳
I cannot believe I scrolled down to the bottom of a website today to be presented with this:
Like I genuinely thought I was going crazy.
Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
Reminder that also if you work at a large org, you can convince folks to get rid of the X posting and the X links.
European Commission removed X in favour of Mastodon https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285
Attached: 1 image Excited to announce that the @[email protected] has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer! What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon? And where did the link to #X go? All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them! #SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs
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