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This is not subtooting a specific government by the way, it seems applicable to almost every "let's go use FOSS!" move from the past decade

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"Government wants to move to LibreOffice from Microsoft"

Okay great but are they also going to contribute toward its improvement, or are they just going to expect an off-the-shelf perfect equivalent again and give up in 6 months because "employees had trouble getting used to the new software"

computers are actually good

what i hate is the tech industry, the evil men behind it, and the apologists

Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!

Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.

the fediverse is like the world's worst cutlery store

so many forks and no spoons

What gender do you identify with?

guide to new fedi users: this is what those funny buttons under my posts do

@StroomAfwaarts Lijkt het wel op, in ieder geval het authenticatiesysteem van de Google-wolk

Proposal: arguing that any sort of technological change is 'inevitable' automatically disqualifies one from commenting on technology

spicy take, programming 

The biggest technical hurdle in programming today is that it's way too difficult to deal with any sort of persistent data, and both conventional data management systems and the 'magic' persistence systems we have today are woefully inadequate for the job

Things I have learned at work today: Firefox (or one of the extensions I have installed) gets VERY sad if I open a webpage that has 3.5k forms on it and then try to use one of them

google cloud, cloudflare and aws down? no worries, the only internet i hang out in is hosted by a bunch of nerds on their closets

networking shitpost 

Last version of BGP was BGP4 from 1994, the developer has abandoned this project, do not buy, thumbs down

Dat "tijd voor solidariteit"-documentje van GL-PvdA zou een stuk geloofwaardiger zijn als ze niet steeds met de staart tussen de benen weg zouden rennen bij demonstraties zodra de politie losgaat om vervolgens de schuld af te schuiven op 'relschoppers'

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