I realized companies will sell AI-managed agile retrospectives and I don’t think I’m ready for it

I don't know who made this, but I am very grateful that they did.

@robdaemon Why I now keep a 5C Nano in my computer and have an AirTag on my backup Yubikey since otherwise I’d never be able to find it.

Did you know the DO NOT REPLY stickers are here?

A set of 15 for $35 includes this DO NOT MANSPLAIN BACK TO ME WHAT I AM AN EXPERT IN. Maybe perfect for your laptop?

10% of proceeds go to Trans Lifeline, and they're proudly printed at union print shop Brick City Printing.

We are VERY SORRY that we don't ship internationally yet. We plan to do international orders once we've figured out a way for them to make sense and not stupidly expensive.

/by me + @Ffangohr

https://donotreply.cards/buy

To everyone who's participated in Women Who Code: it's not a replacement, but I help run a giant Slack community for women in technology. We're 15,000 members strong.

Ping me for an invite.

https://witchat.github.io/ for more info.

(Yes, we are trans and nonbinary-friendly. If you think you should belong, you almost certainly do.)

Unapologetically reposted from a "mathematical mathematics memes" fb group

“This was a better, simpler time when people who took gigantic sums of money to make shitty products that sucked were widely dunked on for lighting that money on fire”

You can always count on @jasonkoebler and the rest of 404 Media for a banger.

https://www.404media.co/we-must-never-forget-how-dumb-the-humane-ai-pin-is/

I wish I knew more about this project in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
I suspect this is part of bus driver training.

I'm imagining the DMV making it a part of every driving test for your license. Some people learn best by experiencing the consequences of their actions from the victim's perspective.

#BikeTooter #ShareTheRoad #DrivingSafety

@ratkins Is it a font thing? Does it repro for different fonts?

a git cheat sheet

#shitpost

Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition

So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.

It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.

You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.

But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:

"The network is reliable".

A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars

launching your enemies into the Sun:
>extremely difficult, most of y'all do not grasp just how daunting a task this is. no existing launch vehicle could accomplish this
>you either give them months of food provisions for the journey (who can afford that?) or else they starve to death long before reaching the Sun and then what was even the point? you could have starved them to death on Earth
>you can't eat the rich if you are converting them into plasma at the bottom of the biggest gravity well around
>they get to forever be remembered as the first humans to travel to the Sun

marooning your enemies on the Moon:
>doable with existing Artemis hardware plus a halfway functional Lunar lander which at least one of the passengers can willingly provide
>they have to stare hopelessly at the distant Earth they know they can never return to
>once any part of life support fails, will boil alive or freeze to death depending on time of month
>bodies will be perfectly preserved, a feast for the first actual Lunar colonists later
>not the first to go there so history will forget their names

When he later announcing his resignation as Firefox module owner and mentioning Brave, he sent mozilla.governance email about how he'd compared other engines to Gecko on all sorts of axes and how Electron/Chromium was superior on all of them, and I can still remember staring at my reply, at the words "if only we'd had somebody at Mozilla for the last fifteen years, in some sort of technical leadership capacity, who might have been able to do something about that. Too much to wish for, I guess".

Doing a large refactor in a code base you didn’t write feels like being trapped in a maze of Chesterton‘s fences.

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

What’s worrying is that all of it sounds like a joke, but it’s all real 🫠
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWfYxg-Ypm4

Every now and then I take a look to see what might be a suitable replacement for my Honda Fit, and there really aren’t many options!

RE: https://mastodon.world/users/davidho/statuses/112274788414798295

This ad looks like shit.

So a funny thing happens with the web:

Whatever becomes abundant loses impact for conveying value. High res photography was once a way to make a site look valuable. But Unsplash made it abundant and free, so premium sites move on from photos to illustrations.

“Premium” is a moving target.

AI-generated images will become synonymous with low-quality, low value. A smell of junk no (reputable) brand will want on them.