George Dinwiddie

@gdinwiddie
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Software development coach and consultant ● I try to learn from everywhere. ● I follow those who enter into interesting conversations with me. ● He/him/they

Interests: #softwareDevelopment #VirginiaSatir #SatirModel #systemsThinking #humanity #QualityDecisions

websitehttps://idiacomputing.com/
my bloghttps://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Just insane levels of gaslighting going on. Video: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mi2mij6qtd25
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

The Register

Someone, perhaps at Apple: Please explain this behavior.

I turn on my Bluetooth headphones. I watch a video on my Mac. The video ends. I turn off the headphones. Some other device, perhaps a phone or iPad, elsewhere in the room immediately starts playing music through its speakers using the Music app. I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I think this is an inexplicable design choice. I just turned the headphones off; why is that a signal I want to listen to something somewhere, anywhere that you can find? Baffling.

I just gave an interview with a journalist raising concerns about Kessler Syndrom and complaining about megaconstellations in general. And less than 5 minutes later, I see a post about a starlink satellite being involved in a "fragment creation event".

@sundogplanets

What're you all using to edit markdown files that automagically deals with footnotes when you move paragraphs around?

I can't keep doing it manually lolsob

When it comes to engaging with an artist's work when one regards that artist as a bad behaver, I believe everyone has to choose what to do for themselves.

But notice: I believe everyone has to *choose* what to do.

You gotta *choose*.

Decide for yourself, but *decide*, don't bury your head in the sand. Decide consciously, and take responsibility for your decision.

Judge halts Nexstar/Tegna merger after FCC let firms exceed TV ownership limit
"Defendants must immediately cease" actions to integrate and consolidate the firms.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/judge-halts-nexstar-tegna-merger-after-fcc-let-firms-exceed-tv-ownership-limit/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Trump administration’s deal to pay TotalEnergies to shift from wind farms to U.S. fossil fuel investment appears to be a novel use of taxpayer funds. It also fits within a broader White House effort to restrict the offshore wind industry. #fossilfuel #trump #environment

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2026/0328/total-energies-trump-wind-farm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Now What? @now-what-csmonitor

Why the US will pay a French company nearly $1 billion to give up wind farm plans

The Trump administration’s deal to pay TotalEnergies to shift from wind farms to U.S. fossil fuel investment appears to be a novel use of taxpayer funds. It also fits within a broader White House effort to restrict the offshore wind industry.

The Christian Science Monitor
Vaping Likely Causes Cancer, Major Study Finds

Nicotine vaping is likely to cause lung and oral cancers, a comprehensive review of more than 100 studies has concluded.

ScienceAlert

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116318601239125855

It seems our AI overlords are being trained using the worst examples of humanity.