@poisonwomb

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iOS 26's new ringtone is an absolute banger

They went hard on this one.

Birchtree
i like how the two kinds of technical people on fedi are like "i use a kubernetes cluster zfs offsite fucking bingle to store my memes it has 102% uptime" and "my computer is a dead smart bulb i found in the trash and i use ping packets to oracle.com as the filesystem. it serves the instance im posting from"
can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote
I work for a UK FCA regulated financial services firm. I've been working illegally from Bulgaria with a VPN for the last 3 years and no one's noticed
social power is very frequently consolidated by creating abstractions that govern interactions between people, in a way that advantages one person over another, while also obfuscating the fact that this is happening. the obfuscation is usually done by making the system too complex to easily reason about or analyze. think of law, finance, etc. computer software is the latest way of creating such abstractions. its opaqueness and complexity is the barbed edge that gives its wielder power over you
Vonnegut on Susan Sontag.
#DeepThoughts

Keir Starmer has the same agenda as Trump regarding disabled people, he just does it with grammatically correct nonsense.

Defence spending doesn’t go anywhere near the high street. Disability support and the rest of the social safety net equals local spending.

As if we needed any other clues that the tech industry isn't evidence-based: How many years have we known that optimal work hours per week for knowledge workers is far less than 40, and even that is about structuring a few hours of flow time per day?

And yet Sergey Brin is calling for 60 hours? Against all evidence?

Proof that the office isn't about productivity.

Web design is my passion
All of this social science that is being framed as useless in the prevailing narrative: it has been essential to me. I've worked with dozens of engineering organizations and their tens of thousands of engineers. The "Hardcore Tech Stuff" ALWAYS turns out to be human problems in the end