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Jan Lehnardt 
@janl@narrativ.es
mastodon 4.7.325 years on the web.
Makes CouchDB, PouchDB & Offline First.
CEO at @neighbourhoodie@toot.berlin.
ASF Member & CouchDB PMC Chair.
Made JSConf EU, Greenkeeper, Hoodie, Mustache.js.
Dissatisfied with the status-quo.
Soft Boy. Likes birds, bikes & bees.
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Joined January 15, 2023
I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom.
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“The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune.
This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more resources. He’s now saying Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output.””
You got what you asked for (and rewarded), Tobias, lmao.
This is 100% on executives and leaders. They should be held accountable for making the shitty decision of destroying employee morale by threatening to replace them with the slop machine.
PS: Also, Tobias Lütke is an oligarch techbro who doesn’t want poor people to vote, so double fuck off to him.
#ai #slop #bubble
“Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else”
https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/shopify-tobias-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/
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Hey all, I have a big favour to ask.
At the beginning of the week, a large client that we had 100% expected to get started with a large project this month has dropped out at the most inconvenient time for us.
My team at @neighbourhoodie@toot.berlin and I are looking for any and all projects we might be able to help with, the sooner the better.
We are really good at turning manual and/or analogue processes into digital ones, especially, but not limited to, if parts of the process need to work while a person or device is offline.
We have proven this repeatedly by making substantial contributions to fighting a Ebola epidemic, testing the first ever Ebola vaccine and distributing the very first COVID vaccinations to all eligible Bavarians.
We are also really good at taking your prototypes and turn them into real-life, secure, reliable, fast and scalable systems that you can bet your company on for years. From UX to SRE, we got you covered.
You need a frontend for a backend service you’ve built, we got you. You need a backend for a mobile app or game you’ve built, we got you.
We also excel at designing, building and debugging distributed database systems of all sizes and shapes. If you sync your photos with tools from the large red brick company, we helped with that.
We can help migrate your infrastructures from US clouds to EU hosters (within reason). Wanna move from GitHub to a self-hosted or managed Forgejo? Get in touch!
Additionally, in the past three years we helped 15+ FOSS projects from systemd, to GNOME, to PHP and PyPI, as well as Servo and Log4j with maintenance and security tasks in all sorts of programming languages and environments. We can help with yours, too.
We can also help join your team (remotely, CE[S]T) to augment any current projects you’re need accelerated.
I’m happy to answer any question you might have.
And I appreciate any leads and all boosts <3
https://neighbourhood.ie
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RE: https://ruby.social/@tisba/116895169469605095
This is why I don’t shut up about this. If the whole extent of this would be generally known, there’d be riots.
I’ll spare you the medical details, but I was very brave this morning for a routine procedure.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@klyrr/116868534477195068
we’re not alone and we’re not going anywhere.
Free as in Fash.
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403
Counterpoint: let‘s absolutely not.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.
https://link.europa.eu/qGDhv3
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Do I know an employment lawyer in #Berlin who speaks English and is available for contract review (severance/negotiations, for a friend), on short notice. We’ve already struck out four times.
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I really don’t wanna hear it from the disingenuous condolences from the CDU ilk. They helped foster this and thry knew what they were doing.
On a train before 8am. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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@Gina@fosstodon.org My angle is certain necessities of life requiring an app (banking, medical, parking, etc) all of that should be possible without an app. That’s not saying no-apps, just apps-not-mandatory.
New cursed calendar knowledge has entered the chat: Feb 30 1712 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116962783814249211
But sure, it’s “just a tool”.
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I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom.
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Lol of course now there’s a reproducible browser crash when testing Stripe checkout links. Can’t win ‘em all.
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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @dpk@chaos.social @jschauma@mstdn.social I used 1995 on purpose. I was there :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking#:~:text=The%20first%20ad%20blocker%20was%20Internet%20Fast%20Forward%2C%20a%20plugin%20for%20the%20Netscape%20Navigator%20browser%2C%20developed%20by%20PrivNet%20and%20released%20in%201996
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@masek@infosec.exchange @isotopp@infosec.exchange wie sieht es mit Storage aus? Ist das auch alles custom, oder NVMe, dass etwas portabler ist?
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@Gina@fosstodon.org I see the Anakin/Padme meme: and we are using that money to pay those EU OS devs? Right?
Gangnam Style is now playing in your head.
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@marijn@mastodon.social I’mma have to look through all this in more detail, but exciting. Also, strong “same” feelings on re-re-re-re-building the same thing in different shapes. It’s databases for me ;D
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@tisba@ruby.social @isotopp@infosec.exchange Edding, bitte. Sharpie kommt hier nicht ins Haus ;D
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@lisamelton@mastodon.social happy anniversary, truly a story for the ages, thank you for it all and enjoy all the accolades! 💖
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@jrf_nl@phpc.social @BenRiceM@mastodon.social we have extreme variants of the legal process for “terrorism” cases that date back to the 1970s RAF times where folks managed to bypass security measures in some of the ways described as denied in the thread.
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@bascule@mas.to @Sylvhem@eldritch.cafe and during summer they have to shut off half the fleet for lack of cooling water.
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@aphyr@woof.group oh flipping hell, I nearly started building this the other week. Thank fuck I don’t have to!
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@sil@mastodon.social this is gonna be fixed by dual account OSes where the decoy password launches an innocent account.
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@masek@infosec.exchange mein Use-Case ist: Lokale Storage so schnell wie es geht*, (weil meine DB schon Verteilung/HA kann). Wie schneidet da NVMe over Fiber gegen direkt ins Mainboard gestöpselt mit der Latenz ab?
(Danke für die ganzen Infos :)
*und Hyperscaler vermeiden
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