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Modern AI enables those of us who are uncreative, tasteless and with absolutely no talent and all — to achieve barely mediocre things.
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Alda Vigdís
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mastodon 4.7.3Icelander in Berlin. Silicon Valley survivor. Artificially blonde. Pink lipstick. Glitter. GDPR. WordPress. Gutenblocks. Ruby. Backend babe. Ops Girl. Cyclist.
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Workplace trauma
How WordPress assumes people do things but don't align with reality at all:
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You actually want to use the Posts feature to write news or blog posts
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Authors and columnists log in themselves to type things into the editor
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Gravatar is a great idea and we all want to use it
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We want to get comments and pingbacks to our sites
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XML-RPC is the way of the future
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Nobody would ever want to lock or delete users from a CMS
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A web app should always have write access to its own runtime files
I'm sorry but I don't think anyone is able to be "obsessed with the mission to simplify finance and payroll administration, while ensuring compliance through smart automations" unless there's a short circuit somewhere in their brain that needs fixing.
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.
I honestly think that the US cutting off the international humanitarian aid agencies and NGOs that I used to work for caused more harm to my bottom line than the proliferation of LLMs.
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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.
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Software developers —
We have resumes showing how we can navigate between domains, frameworks and languages — we have written recommendations praising our technical and interpersonal skills — some of us even have portfolios and public facing work examples and volunteer time on open source projects.
Why are we the only group of workers that needs to take a whiteboard exam or do intensive homework in order to prove our skills during interview processes?
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@baldur@toot.cafe @RandamuMaki@mstdn.social IMHO "high functioning" is just a function of the energy you waste on playing a neurotypical person.
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Fuck I miss listening to the BBC World Service on the tractor during hay season and delivering mail in Central Reykjavik.
I learned soldering before all that led free crap and it annoys me to no end.
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.
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@dreamhazard@topspicy.social Yup. Knowing the "temporary prototype" is always going to end up as the final product is not the most encouraging thing during these trying times.
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.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al My take on this, if I may, has been that if anyone is overwhelmed by multiple Gaza Verified individuals asking for direct contributions, then donating to UNRWA or your local UNRWA committee is an acceptable alternative.
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Meanwhile, your local traditional Biergarten is cash only and writes off several kegs per day as damaged or expired goods.
A local scientist meanwhile gets their medical expenses rejected by the Finanzamt as frivolous aesthetic procedures.
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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com Every time I go to Amsterdam I see (obviously stoned) Americans getting their rental car stuck in a pedestrian area.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @raphaellakay@mastodon.world @aral@mastodon.ar.al UNRWA keeps operating within Gaza despite supplies and international staff being blocked from entering.
This is why I am extremely sceptical about any other organisations and projects being able to deliver.
Furthermore, UNRWA operates in Palestine camps and settlements in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and maintains the genealogical information that would be super important in case of return being enabled.
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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.
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The Späti owner next door uses a Porsche Cayenne as a company vehicle, which is perfectly reasonable whilst the software consultant next door can only file for 2nd class railway travel as tax deductible because how dare your pay for a flex fare in case your monthly business meeting in Leipzig takes longer.
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A local graphic designer is behind on his taxes because half his clients are now making AI posters instead whilst he needs to pay for health insurance and TK isn't lowering his payments until April next year.
His laptop and drawing tablet are going to be repossessed on Tuesday at 9 in the morning. The repo men leave the Asus ProArt display on his desk because they think it looks like some old junk but it's the most expensive thing he owns.
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!"
My personal opinion is that UNIFIL should have been allowed or even mandated to shoot back years ago.
Having a good mix of American and British followers, I'm tempted to ask if I'm actually pronouncing the following words wrong:
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Sewing, which I pronounce as soowing because sowing is a different thing.
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Mountain, which I don't pronounce as moun'in because then I sound like an old lady from Atlanta
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Costco, which to Americans has a silent t, but I've heard British people pronounce with the t.
Went to Vapiano. Left my 'tism headphones at home.
Wish me luck.
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@mahmoodhamod991@mastodon.social @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @nusher@mastodon.scot @raphaellakay@mastodon.world @aral@mastodon.ar.al Destroying the environment is a part of the genocide. Oral and literary tradition would have a really hard time existing if the localities, environments and structures stop existing.
Some pictures from the memorial in Berlin today. Please PM for media licencing.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social I'm sorry, who are you and which political party or faction are you placing me in?
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.
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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com @speculationfictive@union.place In Berlin's case, the court cases from the car supporters were pending throughout the pandemic, so a lot of the changes were reversed.
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.
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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
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There have been attempts at porting the likes of Eloquent (Laravel's built-in ORM) into WordPress with varying success but nothing beats writing your own SQL queries as long as you know what you're doing.
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Only being able to query records by a single meta value, no support for checking if a meta value has not been set at all or getting multiple WordPress options in bulk is severely limiting and it is one of the things that do make the platform look amateurish to those on the outside.
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.
Despite the Ubuntu/Canonical status page claiming "all components are operational", Launchpad and related services remain unreachable.
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Filesystem caching or solutions like CloudFlare are often suggested as a solution to those vendors and even the hosts themselves, but if your site is so slow that it takes about a minute for the add-to-cart button to have an effect, then the culprit is elsewhere.
Ubuntu Launchpad was up for a good hour tonight. Sadly I missed the window.
Hey nerds. Tell me how I make Fedora/Gnome stop reading three-finger taps as a middle click.
It's needlessly annoying.
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As a result of this, it is not uncommon for me to see stack traces with thousands of individual calls to the wp_options and wp_postmeta tables for a single page during a performance audit, depending on how i was built and many vendors will simply blame your hosting provider for not being able to handle all that brute force.
Serious question: Has referring to yourself as a freelancer become akin to saying you work via Fiverr or UpWork full time?