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Retrograde (n, v): An upgrade that makes things worse.
e.g., I retrograded to iOS 26 by mistake and now I’m stuck with this piece of shit.
#retrograde #tech

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

Oooch, schluchz:
Ein Gesetzesentwurf zur Einführung einer fünfprozentigen #Vermögenssteuer bringt Kaliforniens #TechMilliardäre in Aufruhr.
Namen wie Larry Page, Sergey Brin und Peter

Tech-Milliardäre drohen wegen Steuerplänen aus Kalifornien auszuwandern
Ein Gesetzesvorschlag für eine Vermögenssteuer in Höhe von fünf Prozent bringt das Silicon Valley in Aufruhr. Peter Thiel investiert drei Millionen Dollar in eine Gegenkampagne

If you're in #tech and struggling to figure out what your career look like now — this piece is my answer. You've heard "it's here to stay" or "it's better than nothing."
Reject these frames.
Look at the system being built around you. Manufacturing validation for "inevitable" success. Rewriting our roles from human-centered creative to featu…

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport

No matter how many times I tell people we only have two mic inputs, they always think we have more. 🤣
#media #tech #soundboard

Curtis Yarvin tourt durch Europa – vom Identitären-Umfeld in Wien bis zu Intellektuellentreffen in Elmau. Wie Claudia Zettel zeigt: Der antidemokratische Blogger liefert Tech-Milliardären wie Peter Thiel die Ideologie für „CEO-Monarchien“. Keine Wahlen, keine Mitbestimmung. Kein Randphänomen.
#TechBros #Demokratie

Old guy moment of the day: My NAS is starting to die after 13 years of service and my replacement is arriving today along with two 12 TB drives. Made me reminisce about my first hard-drive purchased around 1985 for about $3000 in 2026 dollars, held 20MB and I thought I would never fill it. #tech

Happy Everything Breaks Day! The day when all the major tech companies lift their change freezes and deploy to production for the first time in weeks.
#tech #software #programming

People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech

this was a good episode.
Oh look, chatbot ads | The Vergecast
#tech

"Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Technology

It was my goal to enter 2026 with 2026 subscribers for my 100% free #ux #design and #tech newsletter, The Product Picnic.
Currently we are only in 1969, which while a great year is somewhat short of the go…

More weird news:
"This is a critical piece of #infrastructure for the #European #tech #ecosystem

How I Used #AI to #Audit 3 Years of #SmartHome #TechDebt (And Built a System to Prevent It From Happening Again)
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"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment

Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One
A Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

Sure it's on linkedin, but I think this will resonate with everyone building internal tooling #tech #softwaredevelopment

The difference internal tooling makes
“The impact is harder to see.” This is what a fellow product manager once told me when I shared that I work on internal tooling.

Menschen. Digitale Selbstverteidigung braucht mehr als richtige Argumente – sie braucht Empathie. Warum missionarischer Ton kontraproduktiv ist und was wir in der Debattenkultur ändern sollten, habe ich aufgeschrieben. Mike Kultes zum Toleranzproblem der Tech-Szene: Menschen mitnehmen statt belehren #Toleranz #TechSzene

#agile #scrum #tech #softwaredevelopment

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

"TikTok says users can’t upload anti-ICE videos due to technical issues."
The technical issue is that TikTok wants to block LICE videos but an implementation bug also blocks ICE videos. Or something like that. 🙄
#ICE #TikTok #censorship #technology #USA #sarcasm

Starting to believe that “moving fast” in professional environments is actually just “delay this problem for someone else to deal with in the future”.
Context: I’ve been helping oversee an email service provider (ESP) migration for an enterprise org (1,000 people).
Every other day we find unexpected issues that were caused by someone trying to save time and move quickly in the past. And we have to spend the time those people supposedly saved in the past by fixing their issues now, in their future.
No time was actually saved, folks. It was an illusion.
#work #tech #ESP #emailMarketing #marketing #enterpriseIT #workCulture

"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.  El Paso Electric had previously stated that existing infrastructure would support the data center and that Meta was looking to tap into a new solar farm. El Paso gets more than 300 days a […]