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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 Germany
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One country, two nations.

#Germany

A bar graph showing the exit polls in East Germany at 21:39, with CDU at 20%, AfD at whopping 28.5% and Sahra Wagenknecht's Party at 13,9%.

alda, to random
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Icelandic elections: The newest polls are in the news every day. Candidates and elected officials are approachable. Parties and civil society organisations urge people to vote. 80% turnout.

EU elections: They've been at this since 1979 and the media has not learned how to make this interesting. Parties and civil society knows this is the most important legislative assembly on the continent but don't do much to get people to vote. Turnout hardly crosses the 50% mark.

alda,
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@javi Well, at least I still have citizenship elsewhere.

javi, (edited ) to random

The automattic alumni slack server is experiencing a spike of new people joining these days.

The rumour mill says that the CEO, Matt Mullenweg, has set a hard goal of the headcount reduction this year and since he came back from sabbatical last month, things are getting ugly inside the company.

But you know, it's not another round of layoffs, it's just "performance management" (with an associated goal of how many people must be underperforming that must be reached, because MM is the kwisatz haderach of Wordpress and he can see the future and one know how many people will fail performance checks).

Once again, big hug for my friends still inside.

alda,
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@javi I'm still worried about the opsec on that Slack instance.

alda, to random
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"Just use Inkscape" is the artists' version of "why don't you just use FeeBSD".

baldur, to random
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Sometimes it feels like half of my social media is annoyed because they think climate activists are making unreasonable demands

While the other half is near-panic because they've done the research and realise that, in the understated words of the Magic Eight Ball, "outlook not so good"

alda,
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@baldur Group 1 is also angry over current road closures up in Iceland.

alda, to random
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Just ordered some black-out contact lenses. Some of them get bad ratings on Amazon because — and I kid you not — they block out your vision.

Like black-out lenses are supposed to do.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Retvrn.

alda,
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@NanoRaptor Ah, the Apple Powerball. I've heard you got a lottery ticket with each, which got a lot of public sector procurement department excited until the practice was outlawed in favour of a free copy of Myst.

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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Okay, please explain to me again how adding more "if" rows to an LLM will make it sentient and "smarter than humans" "very soon"?

I am starting to think that the tech bros worrying about this have the same tech skills as whatshisface... Felon Husk?

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg It's because they think they're creating god in their own image and nobody is going to tell them otherwise.

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg They're also overconfident, practically illiterate dumbasses with no real life experiences.

alda, to Iceland
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One advice I've given to older Germans about travelling to #Iceland whilst taking their car with them is to spend more time in the Faroe Islands instead.

The Faroe Islands are much better at fulfilling their ideas about heimatromantik, their culture is generally more to their liking and the distances are shorter.

Not to mention that the ferry terminal in Iceland is at the opposite side of the country, (ca. 700 km away) in case you ever want to visit Reykjavik.

alda,
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@Gosunkugi Iceland still uses coal steamers to catch Fin Whales.

alda, to random
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Would you rather fly on a brand new Boeing 737 in 2024 or a Boeing 737 made in 1994, in 2024?

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg As for myself, I'm letting Icelandair (a long-term MD and Boeing holdout) a couple of years to do their Airbus transition in case I fly with them.

alda,
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@janl We're assuming A/B/C/D checks to be done within the required period and that the interior has been modernised on the '94 one.

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg The Boeing sales guys spent years and years lying to them that there would be a 757 replacement out soon.

That was the 737-MAX, which they trusted that they'd deliver on time.

They now have 12 firm orders for Airbus A321XLR.

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg And I can tell you it took a lot of time to push them.

Icelandic pilots generally assumed they were superior to others and needed that extra bit of control authority until WOW Air came in and type rated a bunch of them for Airbus.

alda, to webdev
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Hot take: Your clients just want a fucking website that fucking works.

#Webdev

alda, to random
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It feels like this is the inaugural journey of this train. I'm sitting here alone and just waiting to get back to the West.

alda, to random
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So what do you do when your hospital misinforms you about the diagnosis that got you under the knife?

alda, to wordpress
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I will not correct anyone who says that Automattic is "the company behind WordPress" because at this point in time I'm actually not sure if it's wrong anymore.

#WordPress #Tumblr

boogah, to random
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Sarah said I’ve been saying “God damn it” too much lately, so I resolved to start saying something else.

Now I’m in trouble for saying “Lucifer bless it” instead.

alda,
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@boogah my grandma would always say "may the devil miss you and the serpent's enemy catch you" when someone sneezed.

olafurw, to random
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If anyone ever makes an Icelandic Taskmaster, then I'll be first in line to audition as the host.

alda,
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@olafurw Ah.

alda, to random
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Icelanders must have historically liked Scottish people so much because one of the many synonyms for Satan in the Icelandic language is "The Anti-Scott".

alda, to random
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Can someone explain to me how Star Trek Prodigy is good?

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