I realized that last year's leaderboard was probably run by Snakes and idk if anyone is on top of it this year ( it may also have belonged to @Platy) but I don't have the invite code so I made a new one.

Anyways I'm not a janny and won't be nolifing it the second it comes out and have no authority to make badges but you can join and we can be chill about it.

If @Merryvann or @CARPMASflorist was already talking with someone on the backend idk you can hijack this thread it's okay. I just wanted to have something ready for when it starts in 6 hours

Join code: 2416137-393b284c

!codecels

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— Reddit (@Reddit) November 29, 2023

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-a-more-accessible-bespoke-typography-new-conversation-bubbles-and-colors-and-a-new-snoo-logo-now-with-opposable-thumbs

I need to do some exercise on khan Academy in German, downloaded the app and I can't choice German I can't change my Région iPhone also tells apps your legit location so you can't just vpnmax like imagine you want to use vpn to check Asian foids on tinder guess what frick it or buy tinder pass thanks apple and that stupid khan academy translate the exercise I need to do in German to Dutch

So I need to do those exercises now through browser instead of app because apps are so automatised

>what you need to do exercise in foreign language ? Why not do in your local one ?

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11763/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-ii-vegetables

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11879/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-iii-fruits

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1398/lost-crops-of-the-incas-little-known-plants-of-the

Pretty based set of ebooks on native crops in these regions that have a lot of potential.

Is there a leaderboard for rdrama?

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍 https://t.co/9JnRmJMptH

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 30, 2023

I realize I don't understand anything about either subject and the oreilly book is like $80

I want stuff that is fairly technical if possible. Ebook recs would be good as well

Imagine buying Walmart Linux, lmao

However, everything runs as root so I'm assuming this is Terry approved

Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.

Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.

They do not exist.

Nada.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 24, 2023

It's not often (read: ever) that I get to post about drama from my country, but this one is hot off the press and I think you guys might find interesting.

Full info is in the nitter thread, but here's a quick rundown:

QRD

Eduards Sizovs is some bloke that organizes and runs several international tech conferences, of those the two that are important to this are DevTernity and JDkon, though there are others

Apparently the organizers of these events do not accept applications from potential speakers, but instead reach out to people they are interested in, thus creating this more of a closed group of speakers.

Well, now as it turns out, there are fake speakers that are signed and advertised at these conferences (and have been in the past). In reality, they are merely fake online personas created by Eduards, and have never actually appeared at any of his events. Currently 4 such personas have been identified, all of them being women.

Here's Alina Prokhoda, a speaker at the upcoming DevTernity conference with prior experience at WhatsApp and Microsoft MVP who has been identified as a non-existent person who has never worked for those companies:

And here's Anna Boyko, with the same issues

Besides these there's also Julia Kirsina who worked as Uber's software Architect in Estonia, despite Uber not even having such division in that country, and there's also Natalie Standler who (didn't) work at coinbase.

Eduards has pushed back against the notion of him creating fake speakers by saying that a single fake was added by accident, but was quickly proven wrong when it was shown that these 4 fine ladies have been signed up to his conferences on 5 different occasions in total, and yet have given 0 speeches, without anyone ever seeing them in person.

This caused the organizer to go into full damage control mode as other, actually real speakers started pulling out of the conference after being informed of the controversy

But how could this happen? Surely someone would've noticed that these people don't exist?

Well, as it turns out, while the people themselves are fake, they have a very real online presence- we're talking several different social media accounts with over 100k followers, actively posting motivational quotes about girls who code, all while hiding behind what are likely AI-generated pictures of women. In short, Eduards has been quite successfully running several catfish accounts pretending to be women

Even Kiwifarms' LFJ gave her opinion on the matter, which is a complete moment which just shows that fricking everything and everyone is connected

So now for the big question: why would he do it?

Well, the guy who broke this story speculates that the reason behind why every fake persona is a woman is that Eduards, the organizer, has been trying to up his DEI compliance to attract bigger fish to his conferences by making them seem more inclusive than they really are, and probably to get some gibs/shoutouts from the organizations that promote such nonsense in the first place. Oh, and of course to milk attendees who pay... up to 800$ to attend? WTF people?

Well, now he's been caught and his entire life's work will likely go down the drain. Sucks to suck

So what's your opinion? Is the dude based for duping r-slurs, or is he an r-slur himself for thinking no one would find out?

Based - 254 votes

R-slur - 51 votes

I would like to apologize if this is a bit clumsily written because I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here trying to write about shit I have no understanding of off twitter, but I wanted to do it quickly so none of you strags manage to snitch it first

who you think you're talking to:

who you're actually talking to:

rust colored web cite discusses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447794

Hi guys, motherlover! Has rDrama been markedly better this past weekend, b-word? That would be fricking because I had gotten 5 ban awards. Anyways, im back now, so I can make this Aevann callout post. I was fricking trying to figure out how to use the fricking rDrama application api in a fricking web app. Turns out it's incredibly broken, and Aevann just stopped responding to my DMs.

I had a fricking free afternoon on Sunday, so I thought "why not make a fricking lil rDrama web app, b-word? I could add MarseyFX and LaTeX without the fricking capy bitching about it" but instead of the fricking relaxing afternoon project that I had hoped for, I was fricking instead left trying to make a fricking broken OAuth API work. I make this post so that we can all point and laugh at the fricking capybara that can't figure out fricking OAuth of all things. Aevann, fix your goddarn API. !codecels

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https://stability.ai/news/stability-ai-sdxl-turbo

Since 1919 the IUPAC have been massively important body in standardisation of measurement, units, nomenclature and information sharing as a public forum and avenue for co-operation in research projects. They've been digitising their project archives for several years with the earliest currently dating back to 1981!

It's current state is plastered colours thoughever. Still, it's a very valuable resource as their workshops and lectures by fellows are archived for viewing as well. Enjoy!

https://iupac.org/projects

“An ingenious British designer has come up with the ultimate environmentally-friendly way to create stunning household furniture – by letting Mother Nature do all the hard work. Gavin Munro grows young trees into specially-designed plastic moulds, pruning and guiding the branches into shape before grafting them together to form ultra-tough joints. Using this method he's already created several prototype pieces and has a field in Derbyshire where he's currently tending a crop of 400 tables, chairs and lampshades which he hopes to harvest next year.”

botanical manufacturing 4“You start by training and pruning young tree branches as they grow over specially made formers. At certain points we then graft them together so that the object grows in to one solid piece – I'm interested in the way this is like a kind of organic 3D printing that uses air, soil and sunshine as its source material. After it's grown into the shape we want, we continue to care and nurture the tree as it thickens and matures before harvesting it in the Winter and then letting it season and dry.”

“Each of the pieces have grown from one tree, planted specifically for that reason, its limbs guided in an exact shape and later grafted together to produce the unique pieces of furniture, which he hopes are the pioneers of a new method of sustainable, efficient and ecologically aware production.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3033546/How-grow-furniture-Eco-friendly-designer-uses-special-moulds-guide-branches-ready-chairs-tables-lampshades.html#ixzz3XIkwv936

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/29/the-innovators-growing-solid-wooden-furniture-without-the-joins

if super robots attempt to use humanity as a stepping stone to anywhere we will kill and then eat them https://t.co/l4iduim7pB

— anton (𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊) 🏴‍☠️ (@atroyn) November 28, 2023

GPT has become a diversity hire. https://t.co/FoOdrhTBmN

— Bizlet (@bizlet7) November 28, 2023

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"We are humans and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross profits obscure actual loss. In response to this dilemma and to these losses a realm of intimate, community power is developing—power of communities to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share their knowledge with others. Practices that aid this process are sought and promoted by the DAMAGED EARTH CATALOG."

at least they spell it lower case

im gonna frickin

make a reddit frontend for bluesky

this is the proof that it can be easily done, the api naturally gives me the tree

"Just because you can, does not mean you should" -some loser

it's gunna be fricken awesomesauce

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The end result was a stalemate. Reddit did not change any of its policies. Enough of the people responsible for posting and managing content left the platform to cause a noticeable impact on it.

It wasn't a "stalemate," Reddit got its way

As a casual but persistent user, it pains me to say it - because ethically I support the grassroots side of the equation - but as a path of least resistance to casual, anonymous public engagement on a wide range of topics, there seems no viable alternative. [For a given subjective value of 'viable', naturally!]. So after a period of abstention, I gradually ended up back there, simply because I know of no other sizeable gatherings on certain topics that aren't either annoyingly gatekept (technically, and/or socially), and/or are far more toxic themselves.

All that to say you still browse reddit

There's a sea of lemmee and mastodon posters saying how they 2024 will be the year of their platform