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Marcus Bointon

@Synchro@phpc.social

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Skier, biker, PHP coder, PHPMailer maintainer, Laravel fan, sysadmin, pentester, privacy advocate, speaker, baker, Stack Overflow answerer, DBA, guitarist, daddy, in French alps

Blog	https://marcus.bointon.com
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GitHub	https://github.com/Synchro
Stack Overflow	https://stackoverflow.com/users/333340/synchro

Marcus Bointon 12h ago

Max Leibman 1d ago

Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Marcus Bointon 1d ago

Next Generation Internet 1d ago

NGI0 Commons Fund - EC's largest Open Source fund with 27M€ - is now operating in full speed and just announced its latest round of grantees: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
Congratulations to the winners
#opensource #openhardware @nlnet #NGI

NLnet; 62 new projects contribute to digital commons

Marcus Bointon 1d ago

JP Mens 1d ago

Grandma once said, "Sometimes you have to hug the people you don't like so you know how big to dig the hole in your backyard."

Marcus Bointon 1d ago

Denis Defreyne 1d ago

I got laid off today. Eek!

Looking to hire a senior/staff engineer? I might be exactly what you need.

Some more details on what I offer here: https://denisdefreyne.com/notes/get-me-a-job-2025/

repost = ❤️

#GetFediHired #Ruby

Get me a job in 2025

A note written by Denis

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Marcus Bointon 3d ago

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Kris 4d ago

@filippo

Maybe, as a bank, you should not be using a random library taken from the internet, with a single maintainer and some 100 stars, and make it a critical dependency of your banking operations.

Maybe, as a bank, your IT should write and maintain such a library and open source it.

Maybe, as a bank, you should not continue to use the first library, and do the second thing after the first library was able to take down critical parts of your infra the first time.

Because we live in a society, and as a bank, you should be contributing to it, too.

But then, what do I know.

@julijane

Marcus Bointon 3d ago

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸3d ago

lol

(edit: muting the conversation, too many boosts)

Marcus Bointon 3d ago

London prices. Had to call out a plumber for a split in a kitchen waste outlet pipe. 2 guys, 2 days, 3m of plastic pipe to replace old lead pipe, 2 joints: £5,500. 😳

Marcus Bointon 4d ago

keef 4d ago

I wrote this track over three years ago when the Russians first invaded Ukraine. Sadly it seems even more relevant today.

Maybe I need to add another verse about all the additional horrible things in my feed timeline.

https://mirlo.space/key13/release/pretentious-incongruity/tracks/10888

#key13 #Doomscrolling

Doomscrolling (2025 Remaster)

A track by Key 13

Doomscrolling (2025 Remaster)

Marcus Bointon 5d ago

Tomas Ekeli Apr 26

i don't remember who said it, but always remember that computers were invented by a gay bloke to defeat Nazis

Marcus Bointon 5d ago

Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot 5d ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸3d ago

lol

(edit: muting the conversation, too many boosts)

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@maikel this one has an alt. #noaltnoboost

https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114729602500348314

steve mookie kong (@mookie@racingbunny.com)

Attached: 1 image Software development methodologies compared. #software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Racing Bunny

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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸3d ago

@f4grx fixed. Thanks

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Rasmus Lindegaard 3d ago

@maikel Thank you for this

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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸3d ago

@rasmus91 I didn't create it, I just spread it.

To find who created it you have to go down the rabbit hole of time to the caveman age, when the first man copied the meme of another one, and so do the Reddit cycle start.

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Phil Ashby

🍵3d ago

@maikel nice 😁 this one has more nuance than it first appears regarding requirements, both waterfall and agile have folks refining an understanding of the intended outcome, while the AI converges on the best fit to the unrefined garbage input.. maybe?

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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸3d ago

@phlash you're overthinking it.

3 words = AI produces shite.

It's better to use humans, whatever the method they use.

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