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Cloudflare is pulling a us-east-1. I guess Twitter sits behind Cloudflare now because it appears to be offline.
Nice thing about phpc.social is we touch neither AWS nor Cloudflare for core services, so we're still up.
Wish I could say the same for some stuff at my day job.

All hail Judson! All hail Judson!
Oh Judson can you see... 😁
✅ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shakes up his own job, taps veteran exec as CEO of commercial business – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-ce

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shakes up his own job, taps veteran exec as CEO of commercial business
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is handing off day-to-day commercial execution to longtime sales chief Judson Althoff, who takes on the new role of CEO of commercial business. The change frees Nadella to focus more on AI and long-term technology bets.

Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

Coursera's buying Udemy: awesome! I love monopolies, and we're one step closer to one now!
I'm just waiting for the AI shoe to drop next. It'll be awesome to pay $19.99/mo to learn randomly-inserted hallucinated non-facts from an LLM running a RAG pipeline over a syllabus thrown together by some associate professor who can barely afford rent from their day job.

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

Steven Galloway was assassinated by the UBC Board & Administration
A decade ago, bestselling novelist Steven Galloway faced sexual-assault allegations, costing him his job.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-steve…

A decade ago, writer Steven Galloway’s cancellation tore CanLit apart. The effects linger to this day
The bestselling novelist faced sexual-assault allegations, costing him his job. Marsha Lederman asks, would this case be handled differently today?

Final day of having the carpenter here. A lot of sawing. Built the dresser desk drawers, cut all the perspex into shape for the windowed doors that fit together now but still need gluing.
The dresser drawers are just about big enough to put the hairdryer in, so that's nice.
Still quite a bit for the other workers to do. Detailing for panels on the doors, gluing and hanging the window doors, handles and painting and touch ups. They reckon another 5 days work still, only two of which can be next week because I have stuff to do.
Must be weird being a builder and finishing your part of the job then never seeing it completed. He's done all this great work on it but will only see the completed work if he has to come back for something else. And he doesn't want to come back coz he's fed up of driving across London 😆

Was just peeking at what kinda jobs are round. This place gets weirder every day (not in a fun way). And found a job at a big insurance firm. Yes, eww, but.. "Operating in a face-paced environment, we strive to improve overall company resiliency and minimize impacts from potential disruptions." A what kind of environment now?

Back at the day job for a few days now...
Anyone wants to hire an ornamental digital hermit?

Positively surprised by the variety of the answers to “Selfhosters of Reddit, what’s your day job?”
#selfhosted #selfhosting

My house is just where I crash between shifts. If I don’t rest, I’m useless the next day. But if I don’t work the next day, no paycheck comes, and then no rest either.
So really, I just visit my place to keep functioning at the job that owns my hours. It’s like living to work, not working to live.
I don’t have a home life anymore, capitalism sucks.
#Capitalism

I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.

The unforgettable evening light & hike on the day I resigned from my job back in 2021...
#MonochromeMonday #MountainMonday #BlackAndWhite

"keen hiker and cyclist" 🥰
Thank you @…
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/115492539600579164

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
--Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
#TerryPratchett

First day on the new job, a successful project well done, and lots of great things happening lately - this all feels so good and right! 🧡
I use #Arch on my work laptop btw.
Seize the moment, folks. Every damn moment.
And enjoy having some queer fun! 🥳🏳️‍🌈
Also, hack the planet! ✨👩‍💻✨👩‍💻✨

1. Have a simple job to do. Figure out #Makefile will do the job.
2. Think a bit about portability. Makefile becomes slightly more complex.
3. You're finally done. It turns out that some stupid implicit rule in GNU Make fires and adds a `rm` at the end that removes part of the output.
4. Use #Meson.
Just an average #Gentoo day.
[UPDATE: Now I regret using Meson. If you do anything that's not 100% boilerplate, it just keeps throwing obstacles in your way.]

sat down and wrote some code from scratch for the first time in who knows how long and rediscovering that wow, this sucks, this is why I don't do this for my day job

#AdventOfCode Day 5: My stupid part 1 solution was too slow (because I checked each ingridient instead of compare the ranges). After fixing that it was fast and correct. I have a plan for part 2, but $job to do, so let's see when I get a round tuit (to quote an old #Perl saying).

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

Job by day, wiki editing by night.

2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...

Every friggin' day on here. "hey my company is hiring!"
I look at the job posting and...

One of the fun things about being a parent is spending your whole day doing your job and caring for your child, dreaming of the days when you had time to yourself. And then the child goes to bed and life feaps empty and you almost don’t even know what to do with the time anymore.

At least I got the day job to implement a "no AI browsers on work machines" policy.
If you CISO has not released a policy forbidding AI browsers at your company they are asleep at the wheel.
https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...

This was a really cool session, started with palaeoproxies, ice sheet dynamics, detoured into extreme value statistics and isostatic rebound and ended with concrete and steel and community engagement.
Just like every grant ever says it will..
#NCKF25
#NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...