Steven Op de beeck

@stevenodb
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Computer and people person.
Classically trained computer
scientist.

Belgium.

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

The Fine Print*

My friend Jochen is trying to reboot the DDDBE (Domain Driven Design Belgium) community and I’m doing my part in it.
You just have to show up!

Join me at DDDBE Reboot: Domain Prototyping https://meetu.ps/e/PW6Rm/sYjbW/i

DDDBE Reboot: Domain Prototyping, Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

After some quiet time, DDD Belgium is back. This meetup marks a fresh start for the community — whether you’re deeply into Domain-Driven Design or just getting started, you

Meetup

50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza. Dutch @trouw.nl has the first part of the list of their names on its front page today. The list is ranked by age; these victims were all zero years old.
If these people were buried in one row of a cemetery, 1 meter apart, that row would now be 50 kilometers long, and still growing every day.

It is talking and writing about this that is causing people to be kidnapped by ICE off the street in the US.
You can find the full list here:

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/pal/moh_2025-03-23.pdf

On brand for the Israeli murdering forces:

In general, I think Codeberg stands for a future in which people are a lot more suspicious of free goodies given to the FOSS community by for-profit companies.

But it also stands for a world in which self-hosting is not the only practical alternative to the present situation. We stand for community-run infrastructure, volunteering to provide a common good, and making decisions for the benefit of all.

There is no such thing as an " alpha " in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate like families: parents are in charge until the young grow up and start their own families, and younger wolves do not overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_science,_technology,_and_mathematics#Mammals
List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics - Wikipedia

RE: https://me.dm/@mgs/116296719574381221

Glad it failed. Happy it’s gone. Good riddance. We don’t need more uninspiring fast food for our free time.

I just emailed all Belgian MEPs regarding the vote on #chatcontrol. It was really easy, this tool will let you copy-paste all relevant email addresses, and provide an email template. Just add your name at the bottom.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

I advised her to take a screenshot of the "version history" of the document, that should at least give an indication of the work she did.

The number of actions in such a revision history will be a lot smaller when the text was entirely or largely copied from an LLM's output as opposed to a typically longer list when having been written "from scratch"?