Mastodawn

18h ago

Raghav Agrawal 21h ago

What would a Manhattan Project-scale initiative for building open-source appropriate technology, guided by critical technical practice (Agre) and tools for conviviality (Illich) be like

https://lemmy.zip/post/41958593

18h ago

Ariadna Vigo 1d ago

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I'm a great fit if your company needs someone to fill the role of an Executive Assistant, who is in charge of the logistics, budgeting, indirect purchases, and keeping the lights on while the team is developing the next product or concept.

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The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms

@cstross @leyrer Ringtones in filenames? I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn't stop to think if I should.

🔊 Sound on!

P.S: The delay added by ansi music would also allow animated gifs. With sound!

#SorryNotSorry #ANSI

Council Estate Media 22h ago

We truly live in upside-down world

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/splashing-paint-on-a-plane-is-terrorism

Splashing paint on a plane is terrorism and killing 20,000-plus children is self-defence

Welcome to upside-down world

Council Estate Media

Vee 22h ago

Interesting series of events

Natasha Jay 🇪🇺20h ago

Medications that may interact with heat (This seems important ☀️☀️☀️)

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦21h ago

Turns out I was channeling Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_iron_law_of_bureaucracy

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦21h ago

Archimage 21h ago

@bert_hubert @odd the primary purpose of any organism or organization is to survive. Yes, that’s a non-sequitor. ;)

codo 16h ago

@SergKoren @bert_hubert @odd In automation, theoretically, a programmer should make themselves and their colleagues redundant by *automating* the work. They can then go on to the next challenge.

stefan brunthaler 18h ago

@bert_hubert For a visual representation: Watch "The Parliament".

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦15h ago

@sbrunthaler not sure if I could take that - have lived through it too many times already!