Honestly, everyone willing to let 'other' people suffer needlessly in pursuit of ethnic, cultural, or behavioural perfection, needs to fuck off into the sea. Fuck your false sense of superiority. Fuck your dumb ass ideologies. Fuck what personal gain some party promised you. No one needs to suffer, yet this is what you choose. #afd #noafd
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Tim Severien
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Cat dad, intolerant to the intolerant, instinctively drawn to rabbitholes, wants the bubble to pop, software engineer at iO Digital.
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Unscheduled midnight DIY projects because our new kittens jump higher than we anticipated 🪚🪛
Zed as IDE, Zen for browsing, and using keyboard shortcuts to open and switch between apps, is not free of challenges.
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@kaidu@mastodon.social @webjac@mastodon.social @rzeta0@mastodon.ie @Ombligoelemento@neopaquita.es @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I wonder how 'vote with your wallet' looks like in practise. Do you go back in time and not get an iPhone because Apple wants to force feed you their AI assistant? Or do you just throw away your iPhone, replace it with a phone of another brand, and then replace your Macbook, and spend forever migrating away from iCloud?
'Vote with your wallet' when you're in the Apple ecosystem comes with sacrifice, something the EU is fighting against.
@Rosita311@mastodon.social Vandaag verbaasde mijn collega zich over hoeveel autonomie en zelfbeschikking een ander inleverde door in een bus met mede-voetbalfans mee te reizen. Op de terugweg, ’s nachts, wilde een aantal spelers McDonalds eten, dus stond de bus een paar uur stil.
Dit is dan incidenteel, tijdelijk, en zelf voor gekozen i.p.v. dagelijks, permanent, en zonder keuze.
Het dubbele gevoel van die NS reisassistenten ontgaat mij ook nooit: fijn dat ze er zijn, jammer dat het nodig is.
Recently attended two in-house presentations by senior staff in which both speakers explained what and how they've automated much of their work with AI.
Both repeatedly looked at their laptops to figure out which vibed slides were next and were, at times, audibly surprised. I imagine they're equally detached from their automated work.
It's fascinating that with state of the art tech and at the pinnacle of automation, people go out and actively automate what they offered and devalue themselves.
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@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social Behold this gigantic man-made horse that spawned beyond the gates, definitely not housing a Trojan army waiting to strike!
Over the years, I've been a part of many teams that continuously identified software dev throughput bottlenecks in many more projects. The issue never was coding speed, something we've thoroughly optimised with tools, frameworks, libraries, and coding principles. Will opening more PRs thanks to AI-assisted coding improve velocity?
https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems
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@eanakashima@hachyderm.io The benefits of this are obvious to me when facing immediate threats where there's no time to orient and plan a path to safety. Sharing common language so that you can get to safety with a single glance is huge.
Bringing this to the office, where emergencies are rarely this immediate, seems to be little more than applying the name to preferred behaviour where we want people to do more than just point out problems.
Is that assessment correct, or is there more to this?
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@xengi@chaos.social @yawnbox@disobey.net @fedithom@social.saarland Maybe the AWS outage reveals a bug in a failover system. Neither of us knows what Signal's infrastructure is like, so let's stop speculating.
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@mxbck the post I'm most proud of is about mental health. It took me weeks to finish and I've cried at several points, but still very glad that I did. I think very few people actually read it, and even less made it to the end, but just writing it down helped me in so may ways. Now I intend to write more often about things we don’t talk enough about, both about webdev and not.
If you’re interested: https://timseverien.com/posts/2022-07-21-lessons-learned-from-burnout/
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@haveibeenpwned I didn't know what Aura is, so looked it up. This is an interesting promise in light of things, but I'm guessing few cases are eligible.
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@SaraSoueidan I'm starting at iO Digital coming month, so I don't have strings to pull yet, but I do know that their accessibility expert group thingy is located in Belgium. The org is growing, and they're interested in experts. If your friend is open to a multinational agency, that is. There's an opening for React dev (sorry), which could serve as a conversation starter or stepping stone.
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@labellaragassa@exquisite.social Ik borduur niet, maar m'n partner wel. Die zegt dat je het kan wassen, maar we weten niet hoe warm dat kan zonder te zoeken.
Mijn ouders rookte ook, en toen ik samen ging wonen, hebben we mijn kleding drie keer moeten wassen op 40°c graden om het acceptabel te maken 😬 Rookgeur is echt heel heftig
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@crinkles@front-end.social Just include it in your decision making. Sure, Google has given us a lot of (and probably most) visibility, but it never was the only way to reach our audience. Other search engines exist, there’s social media, and we can offer technical demos, generators, and playgrounds that is out of reach for anything generated by an LLM. You got this!
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@sarajw@front-end.social @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com Aside the constant economic growth, or greed, I also have a thought or two about how that growth is distributed.
Coming back to productivity: I enjoy working on productivity gains (maybe society brainwashed me idk) but I increasingly realise that the people who do the work I automate rarely reap the benefits. Usually, it's the company and those that benefit of company success.
Giving back time to folk in a non-profit or co-op, however…
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@michaelmosher@hachyderm.io @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Great stuff. This is one of my biggest annoyences of the Dutch tax-funded news outlet, NOS. They try to be factual and articles tend to be narrow in scope, so they often fail to add meaningful context, fail to point out mixed statements, and are hesistant to label things for what they are, like dictatorships, facists, genocide, "climate scientists say" instead of "we're screwing up", etc. The bland reporting seems to mostly benefit the bad in this world.