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alda

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Artificially blonde. Pink lipstick. Glitter. WordPress. Gutenblocks. Ruby. Backend babe. Ops Girl. Cyclist. Currently working in the hosting sector.

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alda, to random
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I'm so depressed that my cat is complaining about it.

alda, to random
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Seeing some Americans on here discussing subtitles and I'm not sure about my faith in humanity anymore.

nixCraft, to random
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Why do so many people treat Excel as a database? 🤔

alda,
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@nixCraft because they need to get things done in an office environment without involving an external contractor or the IT department, which in turn is unfamiliar with or doesn't care about the task at hand and adds overhead that you can get away with.

It's the most popular functional programming environment for a reason — and people who use it don't even know it's programming!

alda,
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@nixCraft also, PowerBI and the JSON connector that's built into Excel is amazingly powerful in the right hands.

baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

alda,
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@baldur Also, if your VC pitch deck contains a section about you as a person being in control of a large and important community project, then is it a community project?

alda, to random
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As I am starting to feel like community contributions for services such as Google Maps are littered with incorrect information these days and that websites with information for travel, tourism, dining and shopping experiences are extremely dependent on SEO spam and getting users to follow affiliate links, I've been thinking of making a "curated venue database" of sorts for Berlin and the Reykjavik region.

alda,
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This is going to be mainly done from my own point of view as a queer vegan immigrant with food allergies — emphasising hidden gems, inclusive spaces and dining for people with food sensitivities and preferences, queer friendly spaces and vendors that provide NSFW related services etc.

alda, to stackoverflow
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Reminder: Your content remains on if you delete your account. You need to manually remove your posts.

alda, to random
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Free business idea: StackOverflow but without the OpenAI contract.

alda, to random
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Men who think that northern lights and rainbows are "too woke" and those who have appropriated Norse Paganism in an attempt to justify their racism and hate are suspiciously related.

alda,
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@xyhhx Yeah. The Ásatrú Society of Iceland has been very candid about Americans who ask them to handle their wedding ceremonies and how they write them about their views.

Apparently, a lot of white supremacist convicts tend "convert" in prison.

alda,
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@xyhhx

javi, to random

Fuck it looks like the "threatening gesture" was to push down her camera so she stopped recording him. Kicking him out only for that is beyond absurd, so ...

RE: https://goblin.band/notes/9t5yadoem3vfltmw

alda,
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@javi yeah. This is a common tactic against minorities and activists.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The problem with the “we’re all friends” approach of stuff like Eurovision is that no one there takes any responsibility when one of the participants comes from a place that is actively not a friend.

At the very latest—and the least they could have done— they should have disqualified Israel and put membership of Israeli TV stations on hold when the ICJ decision dropped.

alda,
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@thomasfuchs Don't forget that wearing the Yellow Ribbon and the Israeli broadcaster warning families against the Irish act for its indecency is totally not political.

alda, to random
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According to the EBU, Keffiyeh scarfs are political statements but Eden Golan's Yellow Ribbon is not.

olafurw, to random
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I can't believe an Icelandic newspaper did this pun.

To explain it:

  • Probably in Icelandic is Líklega.
  • There's a common phrase that is used to mean "probably": "ef að líkum lætur" (in all probability can)

Also:
Lík means corpse.

An article about a morgue closing used that phrase as the title.
"Closes this summer in all probability"
"Closes this summer if all corpses can"

alda,
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@olafurw Is the morgue in Akureyri in the nágreni by any chance?

alda,
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@sv1 @olafurw As far as I've been informed by my friends who work in media up in Iceland, there's no real "editorial process" anymore, except perhaps at MBL.

When Fréttablaðið was still being published on print, they did have some editorial process that was mostly about making the articles fit the assigned columns.

Getting a press release on print is still easiest on a Sunday because then they have a skeleton crew that's lacking content and ideas.

molly0xfff, to random
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i...

alda,
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@molly0xfff Totally not a death cult.

alda, to random
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For the record, red and purple aurora are super rare and it's well worth attempting to see them.

goatsarah, to random

Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?

@zoe, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?

Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.

So difficult.

timeout.com/news/there-could-b…

alda,
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@goatsarah @zoe

Tagging @jon because this may be relevant to his interests.

alda, to random
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Free business idea: A laundromat that's also a gym or a gym that does your laundry as you spend 2 hours in there.

alda, to random
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Just sent my StackOverflow account into the deletion queue.

alda,
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@shawnhooper they made a deal with OpenAI.

alda,
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@shawnhooper Also this: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/stack_overflow_banning_users_who/

nikki, to random
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I know we say "eat the rich" but Cate Blanchett is rich and, do we really want to eat her?

alda,
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@nikki Well. I mean. There are different meanings to that word.

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