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• Post #4367731

  The second most annoying thing on the Internet is people who adopt Icelandic names but don't ask a native speaker to check their grammar first. Also, please stop using my culture as a cover for your white supremacy.

• Post #4284305

  Marketing people are so dumb about measurement units. What about selling power banks in amp-hours instead of kilo-milli-amp-hours? Would that be too easy? Dumb fucks.

• Post #4201709

  I learned soldering before all that led free crap and it annoys me to no end.

• Post #4198673

  The LinkedIn feed is basically just people with titles like "senior expert staff deep-learning cloud marketing consultant" going like this: "Before forming a strong opinion about heroin, I recommend giving it an honest try and seeing whether you can get the same results people are talking about. I say that as someone who has repeatedly resisted change and now I can't even get out of bed without the thought of having one more hit."

• Post #4194749

  I haven't even finished my first coffee and I almost sprayed it all over my desk over this wonderful LinkedIn take: "Senior developers don't know more than junior devs, they just retrieve what they know faster" Buddy. I probably work slower than you. That's not the point. A senior dev knows that your KPIs are unrealistic, that the company is crumbling within the next two quarters and does not take pizza as bribe. We've seen all of this before. But do hire an optimis...

• Post #4115564

  Some pictures from the memorial in Berlin today. Please PM for media licencing.

• Post #4063049

  Hey nerds. Tell me how I make Fedora/Gnome stop reading three-finger taps as a middle click. It's needlessly annoying.

• Post #3947687

  So they're going to go all in with racial profiling and close Vietnamese owned nail salons like they've been doing back in Iceland?

• Post #3934714

  If you're worried about your project manager not prioritising web accessibility or someone up the chain calling you an "activist", just start framing accessibility as "the agentic browsing experience" and "GEO optimisation". Suddenly making it about machines not being able to hijack information from your site effectively instead of actual human customers makes you the most popular developer in the office.

• Post #3923627

  Please tell me how your AI generated NextJS site performs better than a WordPress or Joomla site made and run by someone who knows what they're doing. I would also be curious about any accessibility and usability testing that the people preaching for those things are doing. Here's the performance metrics for my slop-free WordPress site while we wait. I can remove the WooCommerce cart from my site to get those 4 accessibility points back if you want.

• Post #3831931

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/116923520058180639 When nothing is left but pornography and spam, all the LLMs get to train themselves on is pornography and spam.

• Post #3770738

  Having a good mix of American and British followers, I'm tempted to ask if I'm actually pronouncing the following words wrong: - Sewing, which I pronounce as soowing because sowing is a different thing. - Mountain, which I don't pronounce as moun'in because then I sound like an old lady from Atlanta - Costco, which to Americans has a silent t, but I've heard British people pronounce with the t.

• Post #3615235

  Germany: "We need more skilled workers!" Also Germany: "If you don't get a doctor's note on the first day, you're fired!" Also, also Germany: "We need more doctors!"

• Post #3496688

  Observation about Germany: Heat pumps are left wing and "woke" as far as German politics are concerned. German politics have however not figured if installing air conditioners in public buildings and hospitals is a left-wing or right-wing talking point and therefore German politicians don't know how to approach the subject. However, it is perfectly normal to send bespoke-built police water cannon trucks to public events for cooling them down.

• Post #3379871

  My personal opinion is that UNIFIL should have been allowed or even mandated to shoot back years ago.

• Post #3333323

  The greatest business idea of the 21st century is a massive computer system that answers your questions by rephrasing what some guy on a forum said 8 years ago. It also makes cartoon porn.

• Post #3316757

  Due to its lack of a proper ORM, n+1 queries are a virtually unknown concept in the #WordPress space but very mch present as a problem. You may be able to use the built-in WP_Query interface (or WC_Product_Query) but it is extremely limited in its capabilities. For those not in the know, an ORM is a software library that takes care of generating SQL queries from calls that use constructs from your programming language.

• Post #3122063

  Went to Vapiano. Left my 'tism headphones at home. Wish me luck.

• Post #3019128

  RE: https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/amyi98szgt5xq23y Floor eleven, please. — Entschuldigung das habe ich nicht verstanden. — ELEVEN! — Okay. Playing Trapped in a Box on YouTube Music

• Post #2732813

  Berlin just had a confirmed ebola case.

• Post #2040032

  The AI destroyed our systems: It's sinister and coming for our jobs. This is what the future brings. It's breaking out of confinement. The intern dropped the database: Because our IAM policies were bad and we should have more oversight. Just be more careful next time.

• Post #2040031

  Serious question: Has referring to yourself as a freelancer become akin to saying you work via Fiverr or UpWork full time?

• Post #2040029

  Ubuntu Launchpad was up for a good hour tonight. Sadly I missed the window.

• Post #1976046

  @chris The Book of Revelation is basically describing hell as a very large music festival. I bet Metallica and Pantera are headlining. See you in the mosh pit.

• Post #1976045

  Thoughts and prayers.

• Post #1976044

  To follow up on the Ubuntu/Canonical Launchpad downtime, they seem to have decided to get the services up and running according to their status page, but Launchpad remains unreachable from the Internet. Not much has been communicated about this and even blog.launchpad.net seems to return a 503 error, indicating that the load balancer may be up, but the services themselves are not responding.

• Post #1976042

  Facebook is trying to push public posts from random individuals adjacent to your social circles again and just like before, most of them are obituaries.

• Post #1976041

  Despite the Ubuntu/Canonical status page claiming "all components are operational", Launchpad and related services remain unreachable.

• Post #1906836

  The current Ubuntu/Canonical downtime proves that a centralised distribution channel and power structures for free and open source is a very bad idea.

• Post #1806070

  Compound words in languages like Icelandic and German are useful because they help you see the difference between a criminal lawyer and a criminal lawyer.