Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23
Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm)
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Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec
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I've pointed this out before but it's nice to see an article on it:
International shipping is a problem that actually gets easier as we decarbonize, because it turns out that 40% of freight shipping tonnage and half of fuel spent on shipping is spent shipping other fossil fuel around the globe.
Get rid of fossil fuel and half of our shipping problems go away!
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/16/shipping-freight-energy-fossil-cargo/
@EUCommission The ATproto protocol is a technically bad protocol, inferior to the protocol that Mastodon/Fediverse uses, and it's developed by shady cryptocurrency scammers with anti-government views.
Add to that the death of anonymity plus advertisements/tracking and the tolerance of literal neo-nazis, and you have W Social.
Why would any sane person join W?!?
Ursula von der Leyen joining W on launch day, but having no presence on Mastodon despite Mastodon existing for over a decade, sends a conflicting signal that is opposed to the EU Commission claiming to want to continue their presence on Mastodon.
Instead of making benches inaccessible to the homeless, my city has installed normal benches alongside trashcans with a special shelf where you can place empty bottles, so those in need can pick them up and collect the bottle deposit (typically EUR 0.5).
The sign says "pass it on".
I love that. ♥️
This week's article: I've had some thoughts about competence, how it works and why it's best understood as a value-system threat:
The competent LLM-using engineer will, in general, find themselves treated by management as though they're exactly as bad as the people who refuse to use LLMs at all. The engineers who push out pull request after pull request and line upon line of code without any thought given to maintainability, codebase conventions or such trifles as *whether the fucking thing works at all* are lauded, while the competent, careful people who ship carefully considered, working code (with or without LLM assistance) and clean up the messes find themselves sidelined or redundant. The reasons are often as stupid as the fact that a competent engineer, even using an LLM, will tend to prompt less and consume fewer tokens than the incompetent ones. The fact that the product breaks goes unmentioned. One can quite easily draw the conclusion that, far more than competence merely being an indifferent to management, incompetence is actively wanted and competence actively punished.
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