Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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Iran plotting unprovoked attack on country that bombed its embassy
This would be a huge act of aggression
There is outrage in the west that Iran might be planning an unprovoked attack against Israel after the IDF bombed its consulate building in Damascus on April 1, killing two generals and five soldiers. Tensions have been high since Iran refused to apologise for overreacting to Israel’s April Fools' prank.
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i see nothing has changed in the past 20 years:
2004: windows pcs are plagued with random unwanted popups
2024: windows pcs are plagued with random unwanted popups
actually there is one difference difference, in 2004 it was considered malware, and in 2024 it's just how windows works
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My first question to those who cheer such stupidity:
Which rights and freedoms would you like to be unprotected?
My second question:
Are you content with the UK having the same status in respect of human rights under international law as Belarus and Russia?
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People cheering the Govt’s talk about leaving the ECHR is like little pigs demanding the wolf legislate for dwellings to be made exclusively of straw.
@WuMargaret @MattMerk I believe the idea was originally Milton Freedman’s, who was no friend of the workers. I think it would have to be set double or even triple the current median. Then we could address shutting down all the bullshit jobs and doing all the necessary but not profitable things that currently aren’t being done.
@MattMerk I’ve seen discussions that say it would replace any state benefits, so poor would stay poor and disabled would probably just die.
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When a business or executive is described as laser-focused, your visual model should be that of a cat chasing the meaningless dot of a laser pointer until exhausted.
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Just in case you missed it, the lack of testing means there is no coherent way of deploying code you know works to the best of your knowledge. When you’re in this position you’re fucked and the repository branches are a joke because they’re not locked down.
Just before I arrived they spent one individuals time for nearly a month stabilising the previous release.
I wanted to make it work but I’ve had enough now.
Deploying by hand using Docker Swarm to 15 different machines is just not me.
7. Docker
8. The promise of an eventual bonus is useless unless it’s in the contract
Things I should know by now for perm roles:
1. If I have to provide my own laptop they can’t afford me.
2. If they dumped testing to “go faster” more than a year ago run away
3. If the original team was 5+ and now there’s 2 run away
4. If a wet behind the ears comp sci bod wrote a custom engine to manage all the domain context logic run away
5. If the app framework version is so crusty you can’t run it native and have to debug at a distance through docker run away
6. I should avoid MySql
3rd day of nasty cold. I give in and get up because easier to breathe with head in upright position. Tap has stopped running in nose and replaced by concrete sinus instead.
So tired but I might manage some work today.
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Me: Explains cancer treatment using #science
Patient (male): <looks at me in shock> “And you know all this?”
Me: “Sir, I have to know all of this; that’s how I became a board-certified medical oncologist”
Patient: <still clearly in shock>
(I think this is a culmination of the ease of internet “research,” where many truly cannot fathom the depths of learning over decades it takes to become an expert (compared to 5 min googling); anti-science; & worsening #misogyny everywhere)
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"Spotify’s CEO is now a billionaire but it takes artists 334 streams to make $1. The company just enacted a plan to completely demonetize smaller artists. Under the new policy, tracks that get under a certain threshold of annual streams will receive no money from the company. Groups like United Musicians and Allied Workers (ig: weareumaw) are fighting to save their industry."
Peter Coffin in fine form:
I Made AI Pop Punk About Ben Shapiro… It's Fire 🔥
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Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
Silly Acronym Fails to Explain??
One prune was blethering about sAfe (or whatever it is)
@zimpenfish I think there are still some things about how you create the backlog
That's what I was trying to find out
But nooooo,
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
