@dankeck@a11y.social2025-02-27 02:44:09
@cwilcke@bildung.social2025-04-19 19:47:30
Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/04/19/protest-resist-trump-rally-photos/83173515007/
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@Leon@liker.social2025-02-26 16:21:05
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-03-20 13:50:58
techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-03-24 16:23:55
#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-03-22 07:17:34
Ça commence Š paniquer :
'Musk demande aux employés de Tesla de conserver leurs actions dans un contexte de protestations"
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-21/musk-reassures-tesla-employees-stock-e…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-04-24 07:08:26
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@cwilcke@bildung.social2025-04-19 19:51:05
Anti-Trump protesters turn out to rallies in New York, Washington and other cities across country
https://apnews.com/article/trump-protests-hands-off-revolutionary-war-anniversary-34218e384bef12bdf3a75a40959f4ede…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-03-23 08:29:27
Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-03-19 15:48:42
#Mexico forbids killing bulls and subjecting them to the most extreme forms of torture.
#Spain is, sadly, still far behind... but I suspect that Mexico's precedent will help, not just as a good example, but also because it will severely decrease the income of many of those bullfighters (toreros).
Toreros usually travel through many countries to participate in these bloody spectacles and make a living out of it. Removing Mexico from their list will be a big thing, so it is likely that many of them will have to do something else with their lives.