Teaching and researching software engineering @ Ghent University & imec
Ubuntu Community Council, Snapcrafters admin
Opinions are my own, not speaking as any of these roles.
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| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Website | https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/ |
In case you want to see what other ads EU policy makers see when they commute through Brussels Airport.
Here you have Amazon touting themselves as a small business king.
Never mind the fact Amazon is killing these independent sellers by using their own data to outcompete them, according to the European Commission itself.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2077
Know that these ads asking for "simplified" EU tech regulations are almost exclusively funded by the big US tech giants including Amazon, Meta and Google.
For some reason, I don't believe these megacorps have the best interests of the EU tech sector in mind.
For some reason, YouTube keeps serving me completely unhinged livestream every time I watch shorts. 90% of them are about far-right US politics.
I have no idea why it's showing me this or how to turn it off. This has to be a bug, right?
Mark Shuttleworth opening #UbuntuSummit2024 by looking back at 20 years of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is unique in a way because of how interwoven the community and the company are. It is not a community project like Debian but it's also not a company project like RHEL.
Instead, it's a mix of both. Ubuntu is the result of a community and a company, working closely together to build a product that serves both the community and the company.
Bas is having the time of his life in his forever home. His skin healed, the parasites are gone, he has a beautiful garden to play in, and he occasionally comes inside to snoop around the house.
Although Bas really likes cuddles, he also really likes exploring the outside, which is why we sent him to a home with a large garden and countryside to explore. He's also very social and really enjoys playing with the neighborhood's cats.
We rescued Bas in April. He was ~1 year old and wandering the streets of Ghent with a very dirty fur infested with fleas and full of scabs. His belly was also full of worms.
After treating and castrating him, we sent him to my brother who lives at the edge of a small village. Now he spends most of his days exploring the woods, sunbathing, and befriending the local cats.
When my brother goes on walks with his kids, Bas follows them along and shows them his favorite spots.
I've generally been quite happy with DALL-E 3, but asking it to make gender-nonconforming stuff is just incredibly painful.
It really is a stereotype-machine that has an incredibly hard time understanding anything else than what is the norm.
These are just two cherry-picks of a long and tiring process.
From the moment you combine the words "woman" and "wedding", it puts her in a wedding dress. I though asking for two men might be better, but still half of the pictures include a woman.