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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · 6d ago

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@drmabuese/117058649766512838 “Previously, you had to spend human time each time you wasted another person's time. Maybe less time, like a couple of minutes to draft and send a letter versus a couple of days for the recipient to deal with it. Still, it used to put an upper bound on each organisation's time-wasting potential. There’s no longer such a bound: the marginal cost of wasting an hour of human life is zero.” I feel this.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Jul 24, 2026

No, it's not “better in the app”.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · May 20, 2026

RE: @stevenally@mastodon.social

Oh, wow! Read this!

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · May 07, 2026

Replying to @oli@social.tchncs.de

@oli@social.tchncs.de Danke dafür! Manchmal komme ich mir auch vor, als sei ich der einzige, dem die Folgen für das Klima und die ethischen Themen nicht egal sind. Ich sehe hier gerade hauptsächlich Diskussionen darüber, wie wir bei „KI in den Lead gehen können“, und wenig darüber, wohin uns dieser Lead dann führen könnte. Das ist gefühlt ein bisschen so, wie wenn sich die Lemminge gegenseitig schubsen, weil jeder der erste über der Klippe sei will.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · May 07, 2026

Replying to @jitterted@sfba.social

@jitterted@sfba.social Depends on the target audience, I'd say. I definitely prefer goal-then-method, but there are situations where it's better to have the action first, e.g., in a playbook meant to be executed in a more or less dumb fashion. Also, if the description of the goal is long, you might want to mention it briefly, then show the method, and only then launch into the full description. Otherwise, readers might think, “Yes, this is what I want, but WTF do I actually do?”

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · May 05, 2026

Replying to @boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk

@boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I recently heard a comedian (Mario Barth) exhort people, especially youths, to do more dumb stuff. This is probably not what he was thinking about, but I'm sure he would approve.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · May 01, 2026

Replying to @jasongorman@mastodon.cloud

@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud 😳

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @sebhans@hachyderm.io

@jakobmiksch And, yes, she was not popular with the cashiers, and she got searched extra diligently each time she bought something, even after she quit that job. So if you want to alienate your whole team, this would be a good way to do it.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @jakobmiksch@mastodon.social

@jakobmiksch My wife has worked as a supermarket test buyer. This means you go shopping and try to sneak as much stuff as possible past the cashier to test if they catch it (hide things in the corners, put expensive wine in a carton of the cheap stuff and so on). So yes, the concept exists. I haven't applied it to pull requests, though.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @jplebreton@mastodon.social

@jplebreton@mastodon.social Ah, so “terrible” isn't negative enough, it has to be “fucking terrible”? Thanks for telling me! 😂

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @musicmatze@social.linux.pizza

@musicmatze Congrats!

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io

@hazelweakly The only thing I care about in a keyboard (well, almost) is the number and location of the keys. Everything else can be remapped. I really miss the key on the lower left on my ANSI Kinesis Freestyle 2, and the backslash key is too far away for my right pinky. Unfortunately, they don't have an ISO version.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @ez@chaos.social

@ez@chaos.social Oooh, yes, I can relate. Bonus points if someone complains afterwards that the meeting was too rushed (if you kept to the time table) or dragged on too long (if you stretched it out to compensate for the slow start).

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Oct 23, 2025

Replying to @ericwastl@hachyderm.io

@ericwastl@hachyderm.io I love Advent of Code. Thank you so much for preparing so many wonderful puzzles every year! With a wife and two kids, it was a struggle to find the time to just solve the puzzles, especially as Christmas drew near. I'm certain creating them is much more work. So I can totally understand the decision to reduce the volume. As to the global leaderboard, I never looked at it for exactly the reasons you mention in the FAQ. So, thanks again , and I'm looking forward to this year's edition!

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Jul 18, 2025

Replying to @devnull@mamot.fr

@devnull @j4yc33 @david_chisnall @Em0nM4stodon In my experience (having worked on a few GDPR-compliant systems in Germany), the backup issue is usually dealt with by having a reasonable retention policy. GDPR does not require you to delete instantly. You document that you keep backups only for as long as needed, say, 3 months (and are able to demonstrate this during an audit if asked). This ensures that the data will be gone after a fixed maximum amount of time. Same for logs. You still have to ensure that you do not resurrect the data in production systems in cases where the backup is actually used, though. (Filter it out some way.)

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans@hachyderm.io · Aug 20, 2024

Replying to @cy@fedicy.us.to

@cy @Patricia@social.vivaldi.net Everyone is at least partially the product of their environment. This sounds like an environment that forces greatness out of programmers. Unfortunately, the result is still bad programmers, even if it's not their fault.

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