Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Thought about linking to one of the few well regarded tech execs writing halfbaked bullshit with a tag along the lines of “This is halfbaked bullshit.” But then I remember that he searches social media for links to his site and mentions of his name and tries to argue with people, and he gets all offended when I reply that I’d rather not, if I’d wanted to debate him I’d have mentioned him directly

Instead comfort yourself knowing there are at least a dozen different dudes this could apply to

Velotunnel-Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025! Wir besammeln uns um 18:00 Uhr am Louis-Favre-Platz in #Zürich (Ecke Josef-/Hafner-/Zollstrasse). 🎉🚲

Die #Stadttunnel-Runden fahren wir im Uhrzeigersinn (d.h. Zollstrasse—Hafnerstrasse—Konradstrasse—Velotunnel—Lagerstrasse—Langstrasse).

Obacht, das ist keine Velodemo – es gilt das Strassenverkehrsgesetz, also: Nebeneinanderfahren erlaubt bei dichtem Veloverkehr sowie in Gruppen ab 10 Personen. ✌️#velozh

On the relationship between Qt and KDE

Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop.
↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class

Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, beca

https://www.osnews.com/story/142401/on-the-relationship-between-qt-and-kde/

#Qt

The squirrels I planted are finally starting to come in. #Gardening #Zone5 #ClayPot #Squirrel

FOXE Technology

Sure, I'll jump on the hashtag bandwagon.

This past week, I've been occasionally catching glimpses of myself in reflections. I'm catching myself thinking "Hmm, they're cute…wait, that's me!" I can't help but appreciate how different that reaction is from a year ago.

#TransGEM #gem

#dancing #black #birds #jackdaw

"I was given this game for free to review on my Twitch or Youtube, and I feel like someone owes me money even though I didn't pay for it. Early Access or not, a game should include, at the bare minimum, gameplay."

"I've worked in a warehouse for over a year, and I've been driving semi's for a year and a half now -- I didn't think it could be made any less fun. :-)"

"You can take the warehouse out of the man, but not the man out of the warehouse. No really, I tried to leave the warehouse to complete an order and it wouldn't let me out. What in the holy flaming forklift is this? For what could be a neat game Warehouse Sim's a hot mess. The majority of reported bugs as well as those shown in early streamer preview videos are still present...unlike the developers."

Something tells me this is not a very good game

LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

EDIT: I should have expected this post would attract the deliberately obtuse shills, but my goodness

If we could admit the following, it would save many lives:

COVID is airborne

COVID is not over

COVID is a social justice issue & everyone deserves access to vaccines, respirators and clean air

COVID can impact everyone, not “only the vulnerable”

Lastly, the “vulnerable” deserve protection too. We are not expendable.

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter

Vandag is weer WEIdag met een belangrijk vraagstuk: kan je een regeneratief landgoed worden zonder de vraag van het privé eigendom te stellen?

Concreet voor ons: mag je jouw huis dat je hier op de Kleverbergh bouwd later met overwaarde doorverkopen? Wat doed dat dan met de groep? Of kies je voor een model waar je als groep eigendom loslaat en je huis op termijn aan de plek geeft? Houdt dat in, dat mensen die al overwaarde hebben, dit dan ook moeten inbrengen voor het collectief?

#vrijkoop

Software devs are so bad at estimation that there is a whole methodology/movement based on refusing to estimate, but devs report the time they have saved by using LLMs, and I’m supposed to take that number seriously?

@why2025camp Outside the hackerspace @revspace , a car is parked with an infrared camera. We assume it is a license plate reader.

So we made a license plate and showed it to the camera.