on Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems · c/techtakes · 5 pts · 290d@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 please do not insult the noble machine consciousnesses thus. It was probably written by a venture capitalist.
on Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 · c/techtakes · 2 pts · 325d@BlueMonday1984 @Seminar2250 LGBTQ is no protection from fascism. Pim Fortuyn, the predecessor to Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, was gay.
on now that's what I don't call fashtech, vol. 0 - matz says "fuck this" and takes over RubyGems himself · c/techtakes · 8 pts · 330d@dgerard good. Now take over Rails.
on Vacant Store, BZ Corner, WA, 2011. · c/photography · 1 pts · 1y@mattblaze@federate.social was taking multiple exposures and stitching not an option? The camera I use most of the time is a Ricoh GRIII, and I do not feel constricted.
on German company Fritz-Kola is embracing Buy European in their new marketing campaign · c/buyeuropean · 3 pts · 1y@Sunshine "wach" basically means "woke" in German, so that's two arguments in favor.
on Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 · c/techtakes · 5 pts · 1y@V0ldek @gerikson you'll have the zoom function, but 80% of your field of view will be covered in ads.
on GrapheneOS version 2025022700 released: · c/privacy · 1 pts · 1y@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I hadn’t, but even without it the time to first fix seems much faster. Not sure if this is a placebo effect.
on GrapheneOS version 2025022700 released: · c/privacy · 1 pts · 1y@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social anecdotally it seems location lock is much faster since this release landed. Kudos!
on Do you think search results have become better or worse with the introduction of AI? · c/windows · 1 pts · 1y@jon@vivaldi.net worse, but it’s indirect: AI has made the generation of SEO spam much more scalable than search engines’ ability to detect it.
on Crowdstrike takes out last remaining threat vector (the users) · c/techtakes · 2 pts · 2y@V0ldek there's a difference between people who develop database engines, and people who use an existing database engine to write database applications in SQL or whatever. It's just your comedic hyperbolic turns of phrase reminded me of Mickens'.
on Crowdstrike takes out last remaining threat vector (the users) · c/techtakes · 6 pts · 2y@V0ldek @sailor_sega_saturn have you read the writings of James Mickens, e.g. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf ?
@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 please do not insult the noble machine consciousnesses thus. It was probably written by a venture capitalist.
@BlueMonday1984 @Seminar2250 LGBTQ is no protection from fascism. Pim Fortuyn, the predecessor to Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, was gay.
@dgerard good. Now take over Rails.
@mattblaze@federate.social was taking multiple exposures and stitching not an option?
The camera I use most of the time is a Ricoh GRIII, and I do not feel constricted.
@Sunshine "wach" basically means "woke" in German, so that's two arguments in favor.
@V0ldek @gerikson you'll have the zoom function, but 80% of your field of view will be covered in ads.
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I hadn’t, but even without it the time to first fix seems much faster. Not sure if this is a placebo effect.
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social anecdotally it seems location lock is much faster since this release landed. Kudos!
@jon@vivaldi.net worse, but it’s indirect: AI has made the generation of SEO spam much more scalable than search engines’ ability to detect it.
@V0ldek there's a difference between people who develop database engines, and people who use an existing database engine to write database applications in SQL or whatever.
It's just your comedic hyperbolic turns of phrase reminded me of Mickens'.
@V0ldek @sailor_sega_saturn have you read the writings of James Mickens, e.g. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf ?