Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

DHH going full mask off racist is a good time for a reminder that him and his wee pal wrote all that organisational management 💩thought leadership💩 based on running a company with *a few dozen employees* and is basically the manager of your local supermarket posting on facebook about how you can't say anything these days

Ik heb me aangemeld als luisterend schrijver. Er zijn er veel meer nodig. Dus als je goed kunt luisteren, zonder zelf te oordelen, wees welkom denk ik dan. #gelijkwaardigherstel #toeslagenaffaire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QphzO3JLM0k

I'm so excited to grow more corn this year. Last year was my first time.

Last season I learned that the seed packets aren't joking about not planting corn varieties within 80 feet from each other.

I accidentally cross pollinated my glass gem corn and blue indigo corn and it turned out beautiful and I saved the seeds because it's so fun for decoration. I think giving my friends cute little corn bundles would be well received.

I'll make sure to actually follow instructions for all the sweet corn I'm hoping to grow though lol.

With HomeAssistant you are finally independent from some vendor's cloud service. No matter if the cloud is up or not, your light switches can stop working regardless!

apparently UTC has a logo

https://www.bipm.org/en/time-ftp/circular-t

there are some theories going around that trump is a kgb/fsb asset and while there is certainty that trump and putin are buddy buddies, completely writing trump off as a foreign influence glosses over the fact that american society over the course of its history has been and is plagued by white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia and capitalist individualism, thus favoring folks like trump with or without intervention

"AI" companies are why you can't buy a graphics card.

a new guy walked into the Time Loop Cafe today. we all froze

that doesn’t happen. new people don’t arrive

he looked confused. we didn’t tell him. he’ll figure it out

he always does

We kunnen beter dan dit, mastodon.nl :)
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/114021767982237361

are there any other games like super hexagon that i can easily just open on my laptop and play for <5 minutes at a time? i know this is a very broad category but

everyone is building new social networks and nobody is reimplementing Google+ circles

Remember that the NAACP is calling for a massive boycott of Walmart, McDonald's and Meta because of their about face on DEI under pressure from the vague notions of the US president and his friends.

I would appreciate it you participated in this boycott too. It seems like it's pretty big.

(The NAACP has likely spoken with people at these organizations and found no common ground. They kind of hate calling for corporate boycotts so I can only imagine they go nowhere and were disgusted.)

So, summing up: software estimates are bad and wrong because even people asking for them rarely want good ones, and an effective project will learn enough as it goes to make them obsolete.

If you have to do one, fine, hold your nose and do it in a low-cost way, and then run your project in such a way that your stakeholders get what they actually need, both in terms of software and politics. But for many projects it's sufficient to just get on with the project.

Either way, it's usually possible to work with integrity. And if not, estimates are the least of your problems, so remember that developers are still in high demand, so it's worth looking for a job that won't eat your soul.

15/15

I think the right answer depends a ton on circumstances. But what has worked for me is to listen very carefully to find the actual needs behind the stated needs, and find ways to satisfy the actual needs without feeling like I'm grossly compromising my own integrity.

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@Redfuchs

Eventually this transition point will end, and either we have come out the other side a more open and free global society where digital access isn't gatekept by tech oligopolies... Or those that failed to gear down are now fully captive to those same tech oligopolies, unable to own anything.

I can't claim the term, I learned it from the late Eric Flint, author of SF alternate history Ring of Fire/1632 series.

But it really is where we are at, we're still in a transition point where we can build communities based on older and more open standards and where physical media is still obtainable and reproducible, with storage cheap enough to hold digital copies of that media locally. Older technology and appliances are still useful enough that we can learn the skills to maintain/repair.