Karsten Gerloff 💙💛

@kgerloff
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Lawyers think I’m a developer, and developers think I’m a lawyer. Both are wrong.

Previously #FSFE, now building trains 🚊🚞🚄 Views mine.

Toots in 🇬🇧🇩🇪 on whatever strikes my fancy - #FOSS, #kayaking, #privacy, #bread. Easily amused.

If I’ve offended you, it was almost certainly unintentional. Please reach out, and I’ll try to do better.

Follows welcome, but if you displease me in any way, I´ll block you without the slightest hesitation. My timeline, my rules.

BakingSourdough, yeast
Whitewater kayakingRarely more than class III
PronounsHe / him
Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 8, 2022

Moving to @[email protected] soon (tm).

Just so you know.

Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022

Look at the way we build software and systems that simply must not fail: Code for the Voyager space probes. Control systems for airplanes, trains and similar stuff.

It’s slow, painstaking, expensive, and boring. But in the end, you get a piece of software that will exactly what it’s supposed to.

Compare that to the haphazard way in which „smart contracts“ are slapped together.

The two approaches couldn’t be more different.

Show threadKarsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022
This mini civics lesson is brought to you by the super smart tech bros at Binance, who today were kind enough to underwrite it with a 9-figure amount of dollars.
Show threadKarsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022

If you publicly express your faith in anything involving „smart contracts“, you’ll look to all the world like a stuffed turkey right before Thanksgiving dinner:

A juicy bite there for the taking.

Show threadKarsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022

Contracts always contain ambiguities. This has caused us as a society to build a system of civil courts, lawyers etc.

Software always has bugs. Always. Yes, yours does, too.

Show threadKarsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022
Anyone who believes that a clever program can perform all the functions of a contract doesn’t know the first thing about either contracts or software.
Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 7, 2022

Oh my.

Anyone who believes in „smart contracts“ has never talked about real contracts with a lawyer.

Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Oct 4, 2022
Lustig. Kaum tut sich was bei der Birdsite-Ãœbernahme, wachen diverse Accounts hier wieder auf.
Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Sep 30, 2022
Re the fascists in Italy, the one cause for optimism I can see is that the county’s governments typically have the shelf life of a bottle of milk.
Karsten Gerloff 💙💛Sep 28, 2022
The entire discussion about "quiet quitting" is just company owners and managers being amazed and shocked - shocked! - that market forces should also apply to themselves, not just to others.