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slothrop, to random
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‘jour

slothrop, to France
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We made it to #France!

Celebrating with a bottle of the local wit / blanche #beer. It’s got wonderfully creamy foam, and a round flavor with light acidity.

Really nice!

slothrop, to random
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Vacation mode ON

slothrop,
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Tomorrow‘s a looooong drive day though

slothrop, to random
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About a year ago, my wife made herself a tool belt for work.

Now she’s started to carry a can of WD40 in it.

I love her so much ❤️

slothrop, to random
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Today in "minor Microsoft annoyances": It´s impossible to drag-and-drop an item from one Sharepoint to another (browser view).

You need to download the file, and upload it to the target sharepoint. Just like in the good old days. 🤦‍♂️

slothrop, to random German
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Nice: Die Deutsche Rentenversicherung ist auch hier im Fediverse unterwegs

https://social.bund.de/

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

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

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

lePetomaneAncien,
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@slothrop you had me at last method.

My last job was with a megaCorp that used agile sort of ok with some of the dev teams. The suits spent years crafting a SAFe approach. It was finally publicly released as version 4.0. it didn't pass the giggle test, even with its creators and was roundly ignored.

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.”

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