Managers have one job: articulating coherent intent on which their teams can execute. Unfortunately, they have been failing at this job for decades.

AI gave them a timely out. Now anyone can ship code without knowing what they're doing, why they are doing it, or how it makes money.

But it turns out that shipping code is not the end of the work...

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#AI #LLM #tech #software #softwaredevelopment

I've been running this in #Firefox for 3 years since I listened to a talk by its original developer, Serene, at the World Ethical Data Forum in 2022.

It is completely unobtrusive. Here is a good explainer from @eff

eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snow…

Serene also has an interesting story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serene_(…

#music #software #privacy #activism

Austria’s Ministry of Economy kicks out Microsoft, moving 1,200 staff to Nextcloud in 4 months 🕒

EU-based cloud ensures GDPR & NIS2 compliance 🇪🇺
Hybrid setup keeps Teams only for external use; all internal collaboration now on Nextcloud 🔒
Smooth rollout earns positive employee feedback 👍

🔗 news.itsfoss.com/austrian-mini…

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Cloud #DataSovereignty #Nextcloud #EU #FOSS #CyberSecurity #IT #Government #Software #Innovation #Digital #Security #Linux

Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.

theguardian.com/technology/202… #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software

“Is Firefox on the right path? Maybe.”

Really don't think so! #Mozilla rather cares about the #AITrend more than its users.

Ah, and also, killing good #software for the sake of this #trend. And when you think that it's little probable for it to succeed in it, when there are much bigger players on the table! 🙁

#browser #Firefox #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial_intelligence #MozillaPocket #MozillaAI #privacy #privacyMatters #dataPrivacy #security

A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design (2024)

Felienne Hermans, Ari Schlesinger

"Two critical and interrelated questions regarding the design and study of programming languages are: 1) What does it mean to design a programming language? and 2) Why does minimal demographic diversity persist in the programming language community? In this paper, we present feminism as a philosophical lens for analyzing the programming languages field in order to help us understand and answer the motivating questions above. By using a feminist lens, we are able to explore how the dominant intellectual and cultural norms have both shaped and constrained programming languages."

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#programming #feminism #software #computerscience

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#OpenResearch #Software #OpenScience #Citation #Metrics #ResearchMetrics

Buffer’s popular social media management software can now schedule and post to @Mastodon servers. Coywolf has a first look at what it's like to connect and publish posts from Buffer to Mastodon.

coywolf.news/social/buffer-add…

#SocialMedia #Software #SaaS

🚀 #Nasa has greatly expanded its #software package, which is #free for users to download and use. Over 800 programs are now available for free.

software.nasa.gov/

#science #space #opensource #openscience

In case you're not aware, the Affinity suite of applications (Photo, Designer, Publisher) are now at version 2.0 and they're having a 40% launch discount.

These are solid apps, for Windows and Mac and are very reasonably priced, with NO SUBSCRIPTION unlike another popular suite of apps in this space.

affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

#photography #design #software

List of tools for generation and stylization of character portraits:

thispersondoesnotexist.com/
artbreeder.com/
github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2
portraitai.com/
ai-art.tokyo/en/
github.com/sedthh/pyxelate
github.com/vijishmadhavan/ArtL…

Feel free to share more resources under this post!

#art #gamedev #gameart #oc #originalcharacter #software #dnd #ttrpg #charactercreation #charactergeneration #characterportrait