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slothrop

@slothrop@chaos.social

Bumbling through the technosphere. Easily amused.

Messing around with #FOSS, baking #bread, paddling a whitewater #kayak, and #parenting a herd of kids . Sometimes I manage a Hello World without syntax errors in #python.

Professionally, I help to build and run #trains with software and IT stuff.

Middle-aged cishet white guy, trying not to be an asshole about it. Please let me know if I get it wrong.

Toots auto-delete after 2 weeks. #noindex or I will punch you.

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slothrop, to random German
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Gestern am Bahnhof hatte ich mal wieder Schwierigkeiten, einen Parkplatz zu finden.

Für mein Fahrrad 😃

Vor ca. eineinhalb Jahren hat die Stadt da ein neues Fahrradparkhaus hingestellt. Jetzt im Sommer ist es unter der Woche stets gut gefüllt.

slothrop, to random
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Maybe there´s one real benefit to the current AI hype:

These systems consume ridiculous amounts of electricity. They´re also run by some of the richest corporations on Earth.

As a result, those corporations invest money into boosting the supply of electricity: driving grid improvements, and financing new generating technologies, e.g. by committing to buy the electricity that the newbies will produce.

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/05/05/big-techs-great-ai-power-grab (may be paywalled)

slothrop, to microsoft
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Microsoft´s Outlook really needs a bulk edit function for calendar events.

I´m spending a quarter of an hour cancelling individual meetings ahead of my vacation.

Here´s a free user story for the Outlook team:

As an Outlook calendar user
I want to be able to select events across a given timeframe and respond to all of them with a single action
so that I can cancel all appointments during my vacation.

#microsoft

elilla, to random
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young people laughing and talking loudly and blasting music in the train, such a rare sight in this country

slothrop,
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@EisenTukan @elilla Yep, there´s a long weekend ahead (and school vacations in some parts of the country). That tends to relax people.

slothrop, to random
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Can we just tax cars by weight, with lower rates for electric vehicles?

slothrop, to random
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Based on no data at all except Microsoft’s past record, I predict that this will be a bit shit.

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112451872417176706

Teilkasko, to random German
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Speisewagengeräusche

slothrop,
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@Teilkasko Na, dann Prost und gute Reise!

slothrop, to random
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Seeing this, it just struck me that SAFe is probably the last method you’d want to use for building safety critical software.

(I’m happy to be corrected though)

https://techhub.social/@FakeScrumStats/112444451805895627

slothrop,
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@lePetomaneAncien I work in a company that uses both waterfall (for safety critical stuff - actually a V model) and SAFe for the usual cloud platform things.

Each method works well within its own domain. The difference in mindset between people on both sides is always fascinating to observe, though.

slothrop, to random German
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Oh cool, Xing hat eine Stelle für mich!🤩

Bei der Firma, bei der ich bereits angestellt bin 🤔

Als Anwalt 🤪

slothrop,
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Nur der Klarheit halber:

Ich habe keinerlei juristische Qualifikation, und bin erst recht kein Anwalt. Niemand, der halbwegs bei Verstand ist, würde mich Anwaltsdinge tun lassen.

Die Algorithmen auf Xing & Co. sind einfach nur Mist.

slothrop, to random
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From what I see, I suspect that if you need a nice fireworks display this weeks, all you have to do is to ask someone who works in software procurement about VMware.

slothrop, to random
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This report is a) quite unsurprising, and b) an excellent case for approaching Tesla cars only with a mask and a flamethrower.

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/112442105765184256

slothrop,
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Tesla: Share intimate customer pix, get a promotion

“People who got promoted to lead positions shared a lot of these funny items and gained notoriety for being funny.”

#Tesla #dataprotection

18+ kouett, to random
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bergs your code

slothrop,
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@kouett ima git your hub

overholt, to random
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Pulling candidates for a future exhibition (in collaboration with @internetstine ) on men who are big mad about women’s appearances.

DISCOVRSE Against Painting and Tincturing of WOMEN. Imprinted at London for Edward Marchant. 1616.
*EC65.A100.662w aces A WONDER of WONDERS: OR, A Metamorphosis of Fair Faces voluntarily transformed into foul Visages Or, an Invective againt Black-spotted Faces: By a Well-willer to modest Matrons and Virgins, Published by R. SMITH, Gent. LONDON, Printed by 7. G. for Richard Royfon, Book- feller in luy-lane. 1662.
HIC MULIER: OR, The Man- Woman: Being a Medicine to cure the Coltith Disease of the Staggers in the Maculine-Feminines of our Times. Expreft in a briefe Declamation.

slothrop,
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@overholt @internetstine Ah, a grand tradition that continues to this day.

slothrop, (edited ) to random German
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Am Bahnhof: "Der Zug um 17:15 fährt heute nicht auf Gleis 2 ab, sondern auf Gleis 8"

>> alle hetzen zu Gleis 8, und quetschen sich in den Zug

>> Durchsage: "Der 17:15-Zug ist gerade aus Gleis 2 abgefahren. Wir fahren um 17:45." 🤬

slothrop,
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Gut, dass ich extra früher Feierabend gemacht habe, damit ich eher zu Hause bin 😩

slothrop, to random
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I say one thing about trans rights, and now my mentions are full of Swiss people arguing over grammar

raf, to random
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Learn English they said. Where you will learn some accents pronounce both Ts in bottle. And some pronounce neither of them. So much fun

slothrop,
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@raf At this point, English is more of a vision rather than a shared language

slothrop, to random
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Wow @xkcdbot have REALLY stepped up their #alttext game.

Big thumbs-up! 👍🤩

https://botsin.space/@xkcdbot/112437289388009218

kissane, to random
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my favorite mis-transcription of Mastodon this week is a three-way tie between Macedon (fine) Massanat (??), and Mastermind (dying)

slothrop,
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@kissane Masternode.social is available. Just saying…

EC_OSPO, to random
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Hello World!

slothrop,
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@EC_OSPO Woop woop -- great to see you here. Welcome!

slothrop,
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@EC_OSPO There seems to be a bit of a gap in your post history. But I´m sure we´ll soon see a lot more activity from your side, yesno?

slothrop,
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@EC_OSPO Ah, very good :-)

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