Mastodawn

Contrary to popular belief, it seems to me that a large number of (tech) companies succeed despite not because of the people who lead them.

Phil Mar 11

Riley S. Faelan Mar 11

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

Phil Mar 11

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David Mar 11

@alice I feel you. I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

Artist: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/113901066167320224

Phil Mar 7

The one thing I really appreciate when using Dropwizard vs anything else in terms of Java web frameworks is it feels like just using Java! Yes there are niceties to use but at the end its is a main method being run and everything follows and can be inspected easily. It makes it so much easier to learn how things work!

Phil Mar 6

Finally got around to add OFREP provider support to dropwizard-openfeature https://github.com/sideshowcoder/dropwizard-openfeature nice to see OFREP being supported by more and more services avoiding all the different providers! #openfeature #dropwizard

Phil Mar 5

I’m Tired And Everything Hurts Mar 5

I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

Phil Feb 25

Cory Doctorow Feb 24

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Socialist excellence in New York City; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/

#Pluralistic

Phil Feb 25

El laboratorio de Rafa Nov 6

A typical brainstorming session when a company wants to improve a product.

#HappyThursday #Followback

Phil Feb 25

Nice Firefox became more useful again! #NoAI
Now if we can get the something for blocking AI integrations on websites, like we have for 3rd party cookies that would be awesome! Thank you #firefox #mozilla
for listening.

Phil Feb 25

Robert Böttner Feb 24

Thema Manuel Hagel:
#ManuelHagel

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