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alper

@alper@rls.social

Engineering Manager, Father of Twins, Senior+ Software Engineer, Technical Product Manager

Software: Python, Django, Rust
Agile: Boyd, Lean, Barbarian approaches
Author: Designing Conversational Interfaces
Purveyor: Cuppin.gs app
Politics: 🔰 Georgism, 🔴🌻 Bogdanovism, 🏴 anarchism

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rechelon, to random
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To not be aggressively building tens of millions of additional housing units in every city in the global north and opening all borders is to be directly and actively planning the biggest genocide in human history.

Anyone pro national borders is a straight up genocidaire.

alper,
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@rechelon Putin, the one with a lot of great land, will block this and I don’t even know how the “Left” will respond to that.

michael_albert, to random German
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Einmal daran erinnern, dass der schlechte Hochwasserschutz in Bayern politisch gewollt ist.
https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article185141358/Auf-Druck-der-Freien-Waehler-Bayerns-Regierung-streicht-Hochwasserschutz-zusammen.html

alper,
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@michael_albert Merke auf dass Wasserschutz in den Niederlanden nicht kommunal und sehr begrenzt demokratisch geregelt ist.

trochee, to random
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A shockingly large proportion of SV technosolutions are band-aids for the "problems" of a techbro who

  • drives to work alone
  • in an expensive car
  • with a good mobile connection
  • through silicon valley traffic

For example:

  • autonomous driving (or gig drivers)
  • food delivery; task rabbit
  • agents to read and respond to your email
  • voice assistants providing emotional validation

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/112502816917988936

alper,
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@trochee @cstross You solve for the problem you know. Is it ever any different?

mishamouse, to random
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my company uses secure channels to send highly confidential documents (which include, for example, clients’ financial information and unredacted social security numbers) to third-party attorneys. what if those attorneys have recall-enabled machines? i can tell you from experience that many of them are not tech-savvy enough to even realize they have it… what if they have a data breach?

so yeah, this is very scary, even if the company disables it on our local devices. https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/112553748377817912

alper,
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@mishamouse How can naive users securely read confidential information with any guarantee of security?

anneroth, to random German
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Die verschiedenen Wahlkampagnen-Leitungen werden sich irgendwas gedacht haben, aber wenn ich mit Jungwähler*innen rede, reagieren die auf die vielen nichtssagenden Wahlplakate sehr zynisch.

Dabei ist diese Wahl so wichtig. Bitter.

alper,
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@anneroth Deutschland hat die Scheinheiligkeit auch wirklich maximiert im letzten Jahr. Hätten die alle gedacht dass Junge Menschen dass alles ohne weiteres schlucken würden?

Ah nein, Tiktok ist Schuld. Lass uns das verbieten.

dr_jo_mue, to random German
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Nein liebe , das Grundmodell ist die Herrschaft des stärkeren. Das haben wir überwunden. Sollen wir zurück zur "Macht des Geldes"? "Gutsherrenmodell am Arbeitsplatz"?

Nein: "Das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben"

alper,
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@dr_jo_mue @isotopp Die FDP vergisst immer dass es auch positive Freiheit geben kann neben negative Freiheit.

alper, to random
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The social norm that makes it acceptable to take calls here should be extended to also allow anybody passing by to photo bomb the participants. https://rls.social/@alper/112557198880057366

alper,
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@benc Improv everywhere

eugenialoli, to windows
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The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).

#opensource #foss #artificialintelligence #copilot #openai

alper,
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@eugenialoli Thank the AI boosters and ask them to boost more. #copilot #openai

StefanMuenz, to random German
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Deutschland Zuckerliglaubensland: Gegen Lauterbachs Pläne, nicht mehr von gesetzlichen Krankenkassen finanzieren zu lassen, hat eine Petition an den dt. Bundestag mit einem Kinderarzt als Petentent über 200.000 Mitzeichner gefunden. Heute wurde das Thema nun im Petitionsausschuss verhandelt:
https://taz.de/Lauterbach-Plan-zur-Homoeopathie/!6011652/

alper,
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@StefanMuenz @isotopp Große Teile Süddeutschlands werden von einer Sekte kontrolliert. Wegspülen lassen wäre wohl eine Lösung.

anneroth, to random German
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Ab wann ist die Beseitigung von Hochwasserschäden teurer als die Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz?

Bzw. gelten die Steuergelder für die Flutopfer in Zukunft als Subventionen für Unternehmen, die Klimaschutz blockieren? Was sagt die FDP? Wieviel Staat muss sein?

alper,
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@anneroth Das Hochwasser ist man in zwei Wochen wieder vergessen.

alper, to random
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A good moment to compare the German political incompetence when it comes to flooding with the Netherlands.

There water management is organized across municipal boundaries and is not really democratic. There are elections for the water boards but nobody cares about them and they’re a fig leaf for a technocratic administration. https://mastodon.online/

alper,
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Can Germany reform its political structure and institutions to match?

The Netherlands built up an institutional memory over 1000 years on this topic. Germany’s structures only go back 70 years and there is a paralysis everywhere to reform even the smallest thing.

alper, to random
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Next Sunday we have European Elections ( ) in Berlin and this time round I—like many around me—have no idea what to vote for.

Here’s a fast and loose treatment of a bunch of the political parties that are on the ballot here.

alper,
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Normally I would vote for the Greens but I think they deserve to suffer for two major mistakes they made:

  1. Their hardline positioning on the Gaza war is not new (Özdemir and others have expressed similar in the past) but it's entirely opposed to their professed values of human rights and equality. A serious case of "Progressive Except Palestine".
  2. Nothing and nobody forced them to take this position so this error is entirely self-inflicted. That is even worse than 1.
alper,
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The CDU is politically more or less the same as the Greens but they are a party that has actually been in power regularly. Why would anybody accept the vegetarian substitute?

Still you should only vote for the CDU if you are into quite stupid and corrupt people being in power. The CDU is responsible for Germany being as backwards as it currently is and they benefit from keeping it that way.

alper,
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The SPD is a shadow of what was at some point a social democratic party best ignored and left behind in the dustbin of history. Other countries have rediscovered some social democratic elan, but no sign of anything like that in Germany.

The only SPD politicians I can respect are the ones who stand for election in small country-side towns opposing the hordes of nazis. That takes guts and is a service to democracy.

alper, (edited )
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The Linke got gutted after Sarah Wagenknecht left the party to finally start her own thing (we'll talk about that one later) and took half the seats with her.

I haven't heard anything from them after the party imploded so I think they may be dead.

alper,
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@cdamian Oh Volt is coming after I put the kids to bed.

alper,
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Die Partei is a joke party and if you vote for them that makes you a bit of a joke (but you knew that already).

alper,
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Die Tierschutzpartei is one of many parties (Tierschutz hier!, V-Partei³) for animal lovers.

Unfortunately I don't see them achieve the same success that the PvdD did in the Netherlands who entered parliament as a party to the left of the Greens and became a small but relatively vocal element in Dutch politics.

Quinnypig, to random
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No matter how hard you work, you're a lazy piece of crap compared to how hard "simply" is working in this sentence.

If you suggest an AWS region migration is simple, you should be caught with a net.

alper,
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@Quinnypig If it’s that simple, then AWS can surely provide a one-click migration tool and generous indemnity in case of any downtime.

alper, to random
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Imagine chat, calls and information management provided by Microsoft so at the functionality level of Teams and Sharepoint. AI for your org will be garbage in/garbage out.

What’s annoying about the AI participants trend is that everything you say in a meeting will now be transcribed and archived forever. How many f-bombs do you want me to drop in a meeting? https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112553850995965423

alper, to random
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Seeing a lot more people take calls in cafes lately. What’s behind this phenomenon?

alper, to random
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Savage issue of Chartbook about Germany's paralysis: “In 2020 the German general public suffered a dramatic blow to their previously deeply entrenched complacency, a blow from which they still have not recovered.”

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-288-germany-in-europe-2024

bert_hubert, to random Dutch
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Naar aanleiding van de SIDN cloud-discussie heb ik veel mensen binnen en buiten de overheid gesproken. En zo ontdekte ik dat Rijksoverheid al in volle vaart naar de (Microsoft) cloud migreert, zonder enige politieke instemming, en naar het lijkt, vaak ook zonder geldig ambtelijk besluit. De gevolgen voor onze autonomie zijn zo groot dat dit echt snel op de agenda van (nieuw) kabinet en Tweede Kamer moet komen: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-hele-overheid-naar-de-cloud-dat-is-een-politiek-besluit/

alper,
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@bert_hubert Waarom wordt naar Azure gemigreerd? Prijs en compliance?

alper,
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@burne @bert_hubert Ah ja, al die mensen in de trein rondom Den Haag met die Microsoft certificatie boeken altijd.

alper, to random
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I've got more things to read than I have time so good luck with your paywalled website.

https://mas.to/@StopForTea/112522733265435992

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