In Finland, Google chopped down 250,000 trees, without a permit, to make room for a shiny new data centre. They were ordered to do an environmental impact study. They didn’t bother. That’s how AI companies do it.
If you are still using Google, maybe it’s time to ask yourself whether its services are worth a quarter‑million trees and why we have to sacrifice so much of our nature.
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
Jeg var i byrådssalen her til aften for at spørge byrådet om de prøver at handle efter kommunens klimaplan som har delmål at reducere strømforbruget i erhverver med 1% hvert år mod 2030. Og hvordan det hænger sammen med et datacenter der forøger strømforbruget i kommunen med 100-400%.
Jeg fik et helt ekstremt ikke-svar. Jeg kan dele referater når det kommer ud.
Hvis nu man skal købe en bog online og gerne vil støtte en uafhængig boghandler i Danmark, hvad er så mulighederne? #danskertrut
Good stuff!
I reluctantly registered on #eBay yesterday, to buy stupid shit.
Today, I received 2 e-mails from them, telling me my account is permanently suspended. Giving me no reason. But carefully telling me that I *cannot* reply to the e-mails.
I had to fight a chatbot to be allowed filling out a contact form with a human on the other end (I hope).
Oh, and returning to their website – logged in with my suspended account – I was first asked to confirm my shipping prefs.
What a shit show.
Okay, kloge hoveder:
Min software kan nu æde PDF, word, HTML, IDML, epub og spytte semantisk velstruktureret, tilgængelig epub3, docx og HTML ud.
Lige nu er mine kunder forlag, som vil have mine epubs, men der må være andre, der har brug for en ydelse som denne, jeg kan bare ikke se dem. Nogen bud?
Help me, Obi-Wan Fediobi, you're not my only hope, but help would be nice anyway.
Cool part of operating a public search engine is you never have to really do your own load testing or benchmarks. Some guy with a botnet will just roll up and help you with that for free in prod.
Anyone need a coder?
23 years experience in game dev, simulation, mapping, audio streaming, video streaming and more. I've worked as a fire team and can be dropped face down into any codebase and I will get it working for you.
I'm fluent in C++, Rust, JS/TS and Haxe, and I can pick up whatever esolang you're using fast.
I live in Ubuntu and Arch linux, Windows is tolerated.
I'll work remotely with companies anywhere on the planet, contract or permanent, or locally contracting around the UK.
No weapons development.
Hit me up for my CV.
#fedihire #fedihired #getfedihired #fedihire_uk #getfedihired_uk #fedihire_eu #getfedihired_eu
#Eleicoes2026 : #Lula victory speech:
"We had to overcome foreign interference through #digitalplatforms, which we will have to regulate.
We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."
Inktober day 26: "Zip"
Have you ever joined one of the Bonk Wave release parties?
If not, you have the chance to do so this Sunday, November 1st, for the first disc of the ❄️ Four Seasons of Bonk Wave - Winter Wonderbonk! ❄️
All free, no questions asked. There's a chat, but you can ignore that and just listen if you want. All you have to do is show up. 😉
🏠 Location: https://party.bonkwave.org/
📅 Date: November 1st
🕐 Time: 20:00 UTC - 21:00 CET
💖Please boost so this reaches all corners of the fediverse.
It seems to me that the last several years have demonstrated the shortcomings of FOSS as a set of organizing principles for computing, so I've developed a set of principles meant, not as a replacement, but as a corrective, and written them out as a sort of manifesto. Check it out here: https://destructured.net/casa
Feedback welcome. Much thanks to @zoy and @alderwick and @neauoire for theirs.
Regular reminder to join a union. Especially if you're in tech and you think you don't really need to.
But also: a union is not a magic machine were you put money in on one side and a better world comes out on the other side. It's not a service provider for delivering fairness.
Unionising and organising first and foremost mean doing things together, not individually. Supporting each other and being active for our common goals. And that means people doing stuff.
If all the governments shutting down their servers for a PHP vulnerability, all the hosting companies and enterprises terrified by the vuln, would give $100k, heck only $50k a year to the PHP Foundation, things could look very differently. Go make your employer sponsor *today* https://thephp.foundation/sponsor/ #php #phpc @thephpf
Today’s songs are:
🎶 Back me up before you go go!
🎶 Yesterday – all my data was so far away
🎶 Another disk bites the dust
🎶 Total eclipse of the hard drive
🎶 I will survive (I’ve got offsite copies)
🎶 Oops!... I rm -rf’d it again
🎶 Stayin’ alive with 3-2-1
Don’t wait for the encore. Back up today, and test the restore! 🪩💾
I think my time at my current role is coming to an end as I'm finding it difficult to make a difference as my organisation increasingly pushes LLMs.
I've been in web application development since I left uni nearly 20 years ago. I have strong PHP skills, decent Javascript, React, HTML, and CSS skills, and have a bunch of experience with CI, testing, infrastructure, cloud, and managing VMs and containers in AWS and elsewhere.
I've been managing increasingly large teams (now 20) over the last 10 years and have been consistently praised by both my team and management for how I run my particular corner of the world. My philosophy is leading from the front and that if I'm not willing to jump in and do it, it's not worth doing.
While managing and growing my team, I've also provided software architecture support to help turn my current company from an "also ran" in their space to a world leader, and helped turn a fossilised PHP app running on a low-end VM into a reliable and scalable React app.
Before this I've written software for finance, management consulting and real estate; and spent some time as a QA. My team at my previous employer had a reputation for writing code that "didn't come back".
I'm strongly anti-AI for a lot of reasons including the giant datacentre just down the road from me.
I'm happy to work anywhere in western Melbourne or Geelong, and am looking for hybrid work with at least 2 days a week at home.
Are you looking for someone like me? If so, send me a PD and we'll talk!
#fediHire #getfedihired #fedihire_au #webdev #webdevelopment
there's a thing that's been eating at me, software engineering wise
(and I do mean engineering here, even though I usually describe myself as a software developer)
where, like
the measure of a good electrician isn't that your lights turn on. the measure of a good electrician is that your house doesn't catch fire.
computer experts are begging people to care about more than keeping the lights on & meanwhile houses keep burning down. it's not elitist to wish your city caught fire less often.
I know php may have been trending down these past 5 years, but what we are seeing today is exponential growth in the interest in php
Really you'd be foolish to not switch to php for your new projects
You must use php or get left behind
To celebrate this day in modern computing, I went deep into my backups from old laptops in order to dig out this old gem:
Opportunistiske politikere der mener vi ikke har styr på cybersikkerheden fordi Aula er lukket et par timer i dag skal fucke heeeelt af, tak.