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airwhale

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Hi all, I am Tormod 🇳🇮🇾đŸ‡Ș (he / him)

My days are spent as a consultant in enterprise IT organizations, mainly focusing on teamwork and the people side of delivery. In particular with coaching, processes and enabling teams to work better together across departments and vendors.

My passions are in the areas of #photography, #graphicdesign, #typography and #music. And, of course, family ❀

Happy to talk to anyone, and I will assume you're awesome until proven otherwise.

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shanecyr, to random
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Big Black was amazing and all their stuff shaped me as a yoot, but their greatest accomplishment is their The Model (Kraftwerk) / He’s a Whore (Cheap Trick) 7”. The covers were perfect, but if they weren’t, the sleeve would have still been enough.

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airwhale,
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@shanecyr

Well, I'd like to take her home, that's understood.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

airwhale,
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@RickiTarr

That's one of the experiences that keep you together, I'm sure. Just wonderful.

For some reason, my wife loves laundry and won't let me anywhere close, unless it's unloading and folding. Yes, I realise I'm blessed in this regard.

Nickiquote, to random
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I learned to make bread to prepare for the nuclear apocalypse.

But, after the bombs fell, my sourdough starter mutated and is now the apex predator in what used to be Western Europe.

(Sorry.)

airwhale,
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@Nickiquote

A bit aggressive, but delicious though
 đŸ„–

mathiascederholm, to random Swedish
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Om jag förstĂ„r rĂ€tt sĂ„ menar nu Jimmie Åkesson att hela medie-Sverige, ”etablissemanget” och t.o.m. regeringspartierna alla ingĂ„r i en ”gigantisk inhemsk pĂ„verkansoperation”.

airwhale,
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@mathiascederholm

Visst Àr det oerhört pinsamt att bli pÄkommen med nÄt sÄnt hÀr. BÀttre vore att inte hÄlla pÄ med sÄnt hÀr?

waspfactory, to random Swedish
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Sorry Ulf Kristersson, men att SD hade trollfabriker visste man ju redan innan ni ingick samarbete med dem, sÄ bara larv att lÄtsas annat. För övrigt har ju M sjÀlva en hög troll man lÄtit hÄllas trots att de i flera Är hetsat och haft sig i sociala medier, helt öppet dessutom.

airwhale,
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@waspfactory @gufo

Det var dagen jag gick frÄn att vara en stÀndig mitten-vÀljare till vÀnsterblocket.

sarajw, to random
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Ferdinand Ulrich (@ferdinandulrich or @ferdinandulrich)'s journey to finding the history of digital type pre-postscript started when we spent time with 92 year old Jack Stauffacher at his Greenwood Press in San Francisco.

airwhale,
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@sarajw @ferdinandulrich @ferdinandulrich

That makes perfect sense.

I also think that cross-stitch is a great metaphor to explain digital concepts like image size, resolution, DPI and colour spaces.

Stoned_Deva_, to random
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Big day tomorrow... can't sleep.

Can't sleep... gonna fuck up big day tomorrow. Classic conundrum

airwhale,
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@Stoned_Deva_

Nah, you’ve got this. It will go great, no doubt.

jessta, to melbourne
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"...most intersection are unsafe to have an automatic green man, as pedestrians j-walk and it creates a dangerous situation with possible filtered right turners. A scenario where people see a green man and run to cross the road creates one of the most dangerous situations, with regards to left and right turners.

Studies conducted by VicRoads and the Australian Road Research Board have proven the safety issues with the above."

I contacted VicRoads to ask about making a pointless pedestrian crossing green automatically when it's safe to cross and their response was very telling.

airwhale,
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@jessta

The presence of the “green man” walk symbol surely is accompanied by the big red light telling motorised traffic to stop for 30 or so seconds to allow the pedestrians to reach across alive?

airwhale,
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@jessta

We have the same, but pedestrians have the right of way, cars yield. In crossings with heavy pedestrian traffic, it’s common for just one or two cars to complete their left or right turn per green cycle.

airwhale,
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@jessta

No, the cars wait until the pedestrians have crossed.

airwhale,
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@jessta

Here we trust cars to stop, so that is a huge difference. Even our most heavily affected cellphone zombies seem to survive 😄

Now, those eScooters that just zip in and out of traffic with no concept of safe driving
 a different story with far higher injury rates.

agiletortoise, (edited ) to random
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I don’t look at the App Store app much anymore. It has become irrelevant to both my personal and business life, which is unfortunate.

I just scrolled through maybe 8-10 screens on the “Today” tab before I found anything I could identify as an indie app
or much of anything that wasn’t just entertainment/games.

airwhale,
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@agiletortoise

It's always been crap, and getting worse. With all my purchase history of business apps, demographic and other info, it STILL suggests I buy the "Barbie Dreamhouse" app under the "Suggested for you" heading.

viticci, to random
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I couldn’t get an iPad Pro long enough in advance to publish a review today.

Instead, I finally took the time to prepare something else: a comprehensive story about all the problems of iPadOS.

Enjoy ☕

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

airwhale,
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@viticci

Thanks, I agree with all of this, but can't believe you missed my top complaint :)

Using Photos, why is it SO HARD to determine the pixel count of an image? For sharing and use on a blog for instance, you certainly don't want the 12mpx (or 48mpx these days) to be uploaded.

Sure, I can hit the "Info" button in Photos itself, but when using the photo picker in basically ANY app, that info is not available. Just two thumbnails beside each other, looking identical. Meta data matters!

yuliyan, to Illustrator
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It’s true tho. The only two tools left, that make me stick Adobe Illustrator around. Image Tracer and Recolor Artwork.

Affinity Designer does miss some stuff but relpaced Illustrator in my workflows up to 90%. Main reasons being performance and UX consisency.

What are your thoughts?

airwhale,
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@yuliyan

For my low-stakes workflow, the best tracing tools are still the Pen and Node.

Sure, if you need to print a photo across the side of a building, auto trace is great, but I find any auto traced images super hard to edit further.

Working in greyscale using Overlay blend mode makes recolouring simple enough, right?

TatianaIlyina, to random
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An incomplete list of inappropriate comments I received from my male colleagues recently:

  • You look furious.
  • You have a quiet voice. A woman from Ukraine in our department also has a quiet voice.
  • You look nervous.
  • You gave me an angry look at the elevator and I didn't dare to discuss a project with you.
  • You are so modest.
  • You don't have to get so confrontational.

They reduce our professional interactions to an imaginary emotional state of mine.

Do men talk like this to each other?

airwhale,
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@PotMetPetunias @TatianaIlyina

Great point about culture background here. The degree to which we are comfortable with open conflict is very different, and this would be expected in a Dutch setting.

My experience is with the Swedish work culture, and no, we are at the opposite end of the spectrum. Very rarely being this confrontational with either men or women. (At least not in group settings, can’t speak for how other men treat female colleagues 1:1)

Godfrey642, to australia
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SAME SEX PARENTING

Posting this 👇 again for Australians, as it goes to council in Sydney this week on Weds. Let's get a many signatures as poss đŸ‘đŸ»

"Sydney councillor Steve Christou has moved to ban childrens' books in Cumberland council libraries talking about same-sex parenting, despite contravening Australian anti-discrimination laws. Christou claims he has widespread support of parents.

Caroline Staples, a local mum and grandmother, has a petition to prove him wrong at Equality Australia.
👇👇👇
https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/
Please sign ASAP and boost widely to prove Steve Christou wrong."

See Guardian Australia for article. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/cumberland-city-council-sydney-steve-christou-same-sex-book-ban

airwhale,
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@Godfrey642

I doubt there is any widespread support among scientists or medical professionals.

Also, illegal discrimination and probably freedom of speech protections?

Nitwits.

DaveMasonDotMe, to devops
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Headline: Reassessing Agile Software Development: Is It Dead or Can It Be Revived?

Me: <Deep breath> Buckle up. I have some opinions...

https://www.itprotoday.com/agile/reassessing-agile-software-development-it-dead-or-can-it-be-revived?utm_source=sqlservercentral&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-1660&utm_term=advocates&utm_content=advocates



airwhale,
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@DaveMasonDotMe

"Perhaps we need a new "Agile Manifesto", or an addendum to the original one, that includes concrete examples of what counts as agile. That would make it easier to put agile into practice and make agile consistent across orgs."

No. As long as we stick to the intent of the manifesto and its principles, we are WAY ahead of the pack already. The principle of "long standing and self-organising teams" does not imply standards. What works for one team might not be ideal for another.

airwhale,
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@DaveMasonDotMe

"Historically, the main goal of agile has been to increase software delivery speed and efficiency, not necessarily make developers' lives easier."

No it hasn't! Agile is about close collaboration with your users in order to build the right things in the right order. Then you can release the most important thing first.

It's about quality, any speed gains are a side effect thereof.

cmconseils, to random French
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It's not a Sunday unless you completely waste it then feel really sad around 8pm.

airwhale,
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@cmconseils

If you enjoyed wasting your Sunday, it actually wasn't a waste after all. We shoud all do nothing more often.

jackofalltrades, to Russia
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I guess that's the last place we haven't exploited yet...

😔

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/

airwhale,
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@jackofalltrades


and the reason for the UK to collaborate with the internationally shunned criminal regime of Russia is?

Alice, to random

airwhale,
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@Alice

To infinity and beyond!

airwhale, to random
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airwhale,
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@lightninhopkins

No, I think we’re safe for now 😄

liviog3, to photography French
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Carpe diem


Photo is my own

airwhale,
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@liviog3

Love that rooster 😄

DemocracySpot, to music
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🎧 Mood.

of Everything But The Girl co-wrote and sang vocals on the title track for 's PROTECTION in 1994.

She performs the song here with EBTG at the Forum, London in 1999.

▶ Clip plays in the post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSM97WF9w1A&list=RDYSM97WF9w1A&start_radio=1&ab_channel=EverythingButTheGirl

airwhale, (edited )
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@DemocracySpot

I always assumed that Tracey was mainly responsible for all their wonderful lyrics.

The Brad Wood Memphis remix of “Single” is just the perfect sonic expression of the situation described in the lyrics.

EBTG is one of my all-time favourite bands, and I claim she’s among the very best vocalists out of the UK. Ever.

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