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Grève Š Zaventem : la planète et les générations futures remercient les grévistes
https://bx1.be/communes/zaventem/laeroport-de-bruxelles-annule-mardi-au-moins-30-des-v…

#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 ».

Really brilliant post !
https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

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.

8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

L'économie russe va mal, et tant mieux
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/03/24/economie-russe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-2025-le-petro…

Ok, so... late to the "party", but I'm reading that also @… is jumping into the #LLMs bandwagon.
It's just so... sad, stupid, and infuriating. Really, why?

Theo Francken "entend bien prouver que son parti reste suffisamment sale, pour reprendre les mots utilisés Š l’époque par Gerolf Annemans au sujet du Vlaams Belang."
#DaarDaar

Le fondateur du WEF de Davos aurait piqué dans la caisse, d'où sa démission
#WEF #Davos

Un tribunal espagnol demande Š Airbnb de retirer plus de 65 000 annonces de locations touristiques, une victoire claire pour ceux qui luttent pour protéger les droits au logement.
#logement #Airbnb