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hub for communication & computer science. former organizer of rails girls berlin. my feminism must be intersectional. white/queer/her

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at #39C3 - it was great fun 🙂
Here’s a slightly modified video of the demo at the end of the talk.

#whitedate is still down. #whitedeal and #whitechild show a front page but aren’t functional - let’s see how long it stays that way.

Many thanks to DDoSecrets and the antifa for their work and support.

Not all details will follow right now -we gotta keep a bit of the magic alive.
A more detailed report will appear in due time.

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

In Praise of dhh

A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.

Good point

LLM slot machine via dev_humor https://x.com/dev_humor/status/1937873868435165569/

"Why do you keep calling it lie machine when I talk about using LLMs."

Oh, sorry. Of course I meant large lie machine.

@shimst3r ick würd nicht sagen, dass ich zurück bin, aber instagram wird immer unattraktiver und I miss the Twitter vibes.

Ohai! The first paper for my dissertation has just been accepted to @ACM :) If you enjoyed my feminist rants on technology, you might enjoy it's academic version, too!

"From Good Intentions to Meaningful Impact: A Design Justice Approach for News Recommendation" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3773037

#news #recommenders #acm

@shimst3r große Liebe für scifi, auch wenn ich bei dem Thema gerne etwas lesen würde, das schon real funktioniert hat :D
@shimst3r gerne Buchempfehlung!
Wo sind die Erzählungen von Poly Beziehungen, in denen sowohl Menschen mit als auch Menschen ohne Kinderwunsch glücklich werden? Frage für äh, eine Freundin, die Abend, Nacht und Morgen gemeinsam mit ihrem Partner durchgeheult hat.
@timonsku kann ich so gut verstehen. plus covid und keine ahnung, wie die leute das da mit maske tragen halten...