Posts by vaurora@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #AhvHORqua2qmhYxHqy by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-05-15T17:44:26Z
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Then there is the true grey area: one person worries a first draft, another person edits, rewrites, refactors, implements from scratch... at some point, they have done more work than the original author. When is that?Our recommendation is to bias your credit policy in favor of rewarding the behavior you want to incentivize. Need more reviews? Maybe consider giving all reviewers co-author credit. Whatever you want people to do more of, make your contributions and credit policy reward that.
(DIR) Post #AhvHOUaiOig3CCOtWa by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-05-15T17:50:12Z
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I want to thank and credit again all the people who helped develop this guide to writing a contributions and credit policy. They are in the credits file in the guide (link below) as well.- Maria Matějka: writing, editing, the naming policy, and making the git repo- Marcos Sanz and Martin Winter: several ideas, making space for it at the RIPE Open Source Working Group- Many members of the RIPE OS WG for comments, suggestions, and ideashttps://github.com/contribution-credit/policy/blob/main/CREDITS.md
(DIR) Post #AhvHOXaTG5GSUJJF3o by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-05-15T17:55:25Z
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And finally, if you want to adopt a contributions and credit policy, here is the guide and a few examples:https://github.com/contribution-credit/policy/blob/main/README.mdMy goal is that this is becomes like codes of conduct: so many projects have a written contributions and credits policy that the ones that don't start to stand out. I suspect that most maintainers aren't bold enough to have a written policy that says, "If I think I can get away with it, I will slightly edit your contribution and take primary credit for it." :)
(DIR) Post #AhzMg7nf9MyI7rWWEi by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-05-17T17:14:25Z
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@stux I did exactly this in Little Kitty, Big City last week!
(DIR) Post #AipWpmpz7SNRnYr45Y by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-11T21:03:11Z
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@NanoRaptor that's some real Sarah Connor energy
(DIR) Post #AizJTtCqZTQmW8hWt6 by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:10:38Z
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I read _The Unaccountability Machine_ by Dan Davies on the train yesterday and wow. Attempted summary: society is in crisis because our current systems of governance and feedback are unable to hear the signal that is the vast majority of people screaming, "My life is intolerable." This signal gets routed into any channel available: Brexit referendum, far-right parties, protests against masks or wind turbines or housing - anything to signal rebellionhttps://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/
(DIR) Post #AizJTvo8tmS6aOALIW by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:14:33Z
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The author structures this using the theory of cybernetics, approximately that there are a series of systems that regulate each other at higher and higher levels, using feedback that reduces complex information into simpler signals. When too much signal is lost or the regulating system is too simple to manage a more complex system, the system goes awry. Capitalism and markets are effective simplifiers in that everything has a price, a fungible easily compared signal. This has many downsides
(DIR) Post #AizJTxeI3NlAIPZVDc by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:18:27Z
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He argues quite convincingly that one of the types of systems that regulate business, System 3, or "what to do here-and-now" is running amok with little input from System 4, "what to do in the future," which is pretty hard to argue with. The current financial system, shaped by private equity and leveraged buyouts, forces most companies to behave as if they must make a huge debt payment this month or else face extinction. Which matches exactly what we see: Google devouring search for AI, etc.
(DIR) Post #AizJTzeialI4WJmsAC by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:21:06Z
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He also argues for not attempting to understand the inner workings of systems but to observe their behavior (a key element of cybernetics) and suggesting we may have to give up on explaining why things happen or holding individual people accountable for things they neither control nor understand. "Accountability sinks" are a useful concept: the customer service agent who can do nothing to help yet must receive the signal from the customer that something is wrong
(DIR) Post #AizJU1wA6sQrazxpdA by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:25:17Z
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Much of this is represented in the catch phrase of cybernetics:"The Purpose of the System is What It Does"If you try to look inside the system, you will see a lot of people who think their job is about producing petroleum products. On the outside, you will see an entire industry hell-bent on making the earth unlivable. This is the result of the overall economic system that focuses on this quarter's share price to the exclusion of nearly all else.
(DIR) Post #AizJU3tkonh7g6qw9g by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:29:41Z
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Another interesting point is that the system outsources the bad stuff to individual humans because they have no way to communicate back to the system that things are bad. This brings me back to the discussion of funding open source maintenance at #OW2con. Software engineers in general are burned out because we have to do jobs that require maintenance work but are not allowed to do maintenance work on company time because of the short-sighted quarter-at-a-time planning horizon of business
(DIR) Post #AizJU5vFIE4lxJZ9l2 by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:33:25Z
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But the maintenance work must be done or we will lose our jobs, one way or another. So the software engineers with internal motivation and the ability to work unpaid end up doing the maintenance work - in addition to a full time job. The system has succeeded in blocking the signal that would prevent the focus on generating short-term profits by forcing the negatives onto individual humans. This, but for the entirety of humanity - and that's the polycrisis
(DIR) Post #AizJU86fAkOgjIvIpc by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-06-16T12:34:42Z
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Hopefully this analysis makes it really clear why "why don't people just individually suddenly decide to do the 'right thing'" is never never the answer, in open source funding or supporting the arts or fighting climate change...
(DIR) Post #AletHtsrnOA0b41Ifo by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-09-04T08:48:33Z
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Absolutely dying at the Navy ship Starlink story. The number of times the sailors were like, hey, seems like there's an unauthorized WiFi network on board and no one could figure it out? Plus the only reason anyone reported it was because they weren't allowed to use it?https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/
(DIR) Post #AmrnHCOftpoGO3lc2q by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-10-10T10:07:19Z
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I asked 23andMe to delete my data. Here is my adventure!After failing their super secure "tell us your birthday" additional check, I emailed customer support. They asked for a copy of my ID which I refused to give them, telling them that two-factor auth should be enough and that I live in the EU. They then replied agreeing to delete my data but that by law (!) they had to keep my samples and test results. I'm married to a lawyer, so I asked @AugustB to look into it:https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/data-23-and-me/
(DIR) Post #AmrnHEtEdBRY7Q52xM by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-10-10T10:09:42Z
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I sent them a reply saying that I was sure all my test results and samples were older than those laws required them to be saved, and they replied with a form letter confirming my request was handled. I have no idea what actually happened to my data. If I'm feeling ambitious, I will file a request for the data they have on me in a month, but honestly I don't think individual action is the solution to massive data collection and resale
(DIR) Post #AnZw0QFslDvVmqGKqO by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-10-29T14:59:46Z
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"Trace the Wumpus" is a fun reimplementation of Hunt the Wumpus using the output of traceroute. Anyone can play... who has an IPv6 connection :) Get started with:$ traceroute6 -f 8 -q 1 wumpus.questNice work by Dr. Johann Schlamp (who is hiring in Germany)https://ripe89.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/61-LEITWERT_2024-10-29_RIPE89_Trace-the-Wumpus.pdf#RIPE89
(DIR) Post #AnuFc5uWQqTZ4x21NA by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-11-10T10:15:00Z
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Captain Awkward has advice for your holiday plans with families who voted to take away your rights that is helpful for people not just in the US:#1447: “My stepmom just voted my rights away and I’m mad at my dad about it.” https://captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1447-my-stepmom-just-voted-my-rights-away-and-im-mad-at-my-dad-about-it/
(DIR) Post #AocqANtnWEpppEKpCi by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-12-01T22:06:10Z
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My awesome former coworker @phire channeled the scream from the soul of every techie with a conscience right now. So hard to pick just one quote so I will go with a short one:"The modern world is unbelievably stupid, and if you don’t pay attention to the stupidity when something bad happens someone shows up in your notifications all like, well what did you expect. I expect you to fuck off!!"https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
(DIR) Post #AocqAQsURYZV42kK5A by vaurora@wandering.shop
2024-12-01T22:09:19Z
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Gonna end all my bug reports from now on with "Butlerian jihad when??????? - Jenny Zhang"