@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m 5m in, and I’m already fucking pissed off. If I ever find such a male asshole, I will quite literally punch them in them in the face. The sad thing about this is that is happens at all. Fuck! 🤬

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org More excellent shots, thank you for those.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for that keymapping idea, that’s clever!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That sounds clean! do you I’m still experimenting with Key Remapping, and have mine mapped to insert since I never use that one, while Caps got sacrificed for Ctrl.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, molten sky. 😃

Ballonfahrt in den Sonnenuntergang muss auch hübsch sein!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Had a 3D printer for a couple of years now. 😅 I got a used one in 2019. I don’t print that much, mostly just little stuff like this.

The vibration from the desk is so intense because it simply abruptly halts. It doesn’t slow down first – it just stops, NOW. 🤦‍♀️ It’s pretty stupid, but there’s nothing I can do, other than buy a new desk. 🫤

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have mapped Caps Lock to be my Compose Key. :-)

cat ~/.Xmodmap
! Convert the otherwise useless Caps Lock key to a compose key, so e. g.
! non-breaking spaces can be inserted with Caps+Space+Space.
! https://adamsimpson.net/writing/compose-key-and-i3
keycode 66 = Multi_key
clear Lock

It’s really great! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, do you now own a 3D printer? The vibration is crazy, didn’t expect that. Let’s toast to a long life!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I remember when I effed up that twt and complained like an idiot when it got stuck at the top of my timeline x’)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It is such a relief !! I can finally type my Ç, œ, à, ê, é …etc without breaking a sweat. xD

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I love the Compose Key. 😃 Want that “o” with the slash in it? Type Compose + o + / and there you go: ø. I use it all the time. Also for stuff like → arrows or ™.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhhh, some twt from the future must have snuck in? In my database, “latest twt in feed” had a timestamp of 1814983537 (that’s in July 2027), which made my client ignore any twts older than that. I deleted that from my DB and now it’s working again. 🥳

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Kat’s instance was last seen on 4th October in my logs. Xuu is still actively fetching. Or somebody pretending to be them. ;-) Maybe some web server routing or firewall clearance issue. :-?

@david@daiwei.me @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org both instances appear to be down yet still pulling my feed. Maybe an auto-upgrade gone wrong?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s weird… I’d dropped off Clownflare’s proxy ever since it started blocking @david@daiwei.me’s requests. That should’ve fixed any problems of that kind (unless traffic is coming from GCloud or Microslop servers, then sorry, not sorry) 😄 … my WAF (Crowdsec) isn’t blocking you either.

I’ve checked my logs, and can see your requests being handled successfully, although, the last one so far dates from 2026-10-15T18:47:32 is that normal? are you getting any error messages?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy! :-) In case you wanna upgrade, I uploaded both originals with the file extensions in all caps.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wow. Straight to the wallpaper collection, these go. 😃

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Unfortunately. Maybe become some sort of craftsman dealing with physical objects in the real world. :-?

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz What’s your point?

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com

and/or the people in charge realize that “enterprise-class” and “vibe-coded” are mutually exclusive software concepts

I’m really uncertain about this, to be honest. Short-term, you can vibe-code a ton of stuff and get away with it. I think that quality/correctness only matters for a small fraction of software out there. But long-term? I guess that then depends on whether you’re able to still pay the AI bills. Maintenance/refactoring is going to be veeeeeeeeeeery expensive, and virtually no human will be able to do those tasks. Or, you know, just rip off your customers and don’t sell any long-lasting support contracts in the first place.

I dunno. 🤷‍♀️

I hope things get better for you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de (and for anyone else dealing with the same issues).

Thanks! 🙏

@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so glad that the Microsoft world is the one thing that I’m able to avoid. I didn’t have to touch a Windows server in over a decade.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@daiwei.me I suppose the only sane thing you can do is what Lyse said:

I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives.

I’m looking for alternatives as well, but … what would that be? Not a clue. Actually, no, I have a lot of ideas – there are so many useful things that I would be able and willing to do. Only problem is, those jobs don’t pay the bills. Haha.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed.

Yes, and here’s an example:

• https://hachyderm.io/@thomaswilburn/117439476156199985
  
• https://chitter.xyz/@gabu/117441628277548428
  

I’m seeing exactly this effect in our stuff at work.

And human PR reviewers (in our company) are already completely burned out, because the AI dudes just dump all their shit on us. AI is an amplifier: If you already didn’t care about good code before AI, then you most certainly won’t start caring with AI, so the result is just a massive dumpster fire.

I suppose you can use AI to produce good code, but this takes so much time, effort, and money, you might as well code it yourself.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Loverly!

Yeah, things aren’t quite that bad where I work yet (thanks to no one wanting to pay the outrageous bills associated with the “frontier models”), but some people keep pushing for it. Personally, I’m still hoping that either the bubble bursts real soon and/or the people in charge realize that “enterprise-class” and “vibe-coded” are mutually exclusive software concepts, but who knows.

In the meantime, at my work, we’re still doing mandatory human PR reviews (with optional copilot ones), and there’s a big push for “respectful” AI use (as in being respectful of others, like always reading any text / code the AI generated for you before asking someone else to). We’ll see how it goes.

I hope things get better for you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de (and for anyone else dealing with the same issues).

I saw this circulating right afte the latest Microsoft event and it illustrates the current state of things perfectly

Even they bet everything on AI they are renting, not even developing and happily let everything else turn to mush, as evident by the current state of Windows 11, GitHub,…
Microsoft Azure AD, I mean “Entra ID”, still the same account management thing, rewritten three separate times, that since the year 2000, couldn’t manage to implement transparent PNG support.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de People have not been fired over here. But I fully expect this to happen, too. Non-techies soldering together their own production shit is only consequent. I was actually wondering when this will happen. Product owners don’t need anyone else anymore, they can just be one-man shows. That’s what the AI bros jerk off to.

If certification won’t help us (heavily crumbling already from what I observe), it will go away completely and will be replaced with the Wild West. That’s my guess.

In case my employer makes it until then, I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives. The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed. I have no hopes left. We’re all fucked on so many levels.

@david@daiwei.me There ya go! :-)

@david@daiwei.me

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Very cool shots! 🤘

@david@daiwei.me Same here, all dead.

@david@daiwei.me Woooaaahhh, this looks really sick! :-O

@david@daiwei.me Yes, it’s been a hot minute. One of his last messages (that I remember) were some holiday photos with hotel highrises and palm trees at the beach. Let’s hope Phil just went offline. :-/ But I fear you could be right about him.

@david@daiwei.me That looks spectacular. 😳

@david@daiwei.me It’s the right thread, yeah, and not a jenny thing per se. I used the Vim username completion and didn’t pay attention. 😅

@yarn_police@twtxt.net AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are some other interesting facts about this funnel shaped tower. Now that this message is long enough that jenny has cut off the first few words for the subject, I can be sure that it’s not spoiled right away. This wall of text for the introduction also helps with any other clients.

Please excuse me, I hope you had some fun reading my fictional explanation. It’s just a water tower: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserturm_Eichert

Interesting, I didn’t know that water towers are basically obsolete these days.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate!

This funnel is a famous landmark originally built in the 40ies or 50ies on top of a hill range by a local coffee roaster modeled after their logo for advertising purposes. They were called “Schwäbische Kaffeewerke” or something like that. As a coffee guy, you might have heard of them. :-)

When this company went bankrupt several decades later, a chemistry plant nearby expanded to that site and flattened most of the infrastructure, but took over the funnel. They maintain it now. You can see some of their larger office highrises on the right. Luckily, most of their buildings, tanks, chimneys, etc. are on the opposite hill side and in the valley, so they’re out sight from this point of view and don’t further ruin the shot.

A few years ago, they underwent a rebranding and – at least surprisingly to me – changed their logo to also incorporate said funnel now. Giant ads lives forever, I reckon.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What is that “tower” in the top left of 05? 🤔 And wow, 20 and 21 are great!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol 😅 Nein. :(

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes, it’s sad. But I don’t think they died. If they did, I expected the feeds to be completely gone, with the hoster shutting their accounts down when no more payments were received anymore. Well, at least for those with own domains or not on shared systems. We can only hope.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ta! :-)

@david@collantes.us Oh the joy of getting old(er). 🥲 Close friends – gone. Acquaintances – gone. Former coworkers – gone. They all just disappear at some point …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Stellt fick raus. Hihihi. Gab es wenigstens einen schönen Unfall beim Rennen?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Working fine for me, I believe.

I follow @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed, but it never updates. 🤔 Manually fetching individual twts works, though. Do you do any aggressive filtering or something like that? 🤔

@oberon@portal.mozz.us Your twt is from 2029 … 🥴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww, so many nice sun shots. 💚

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Hello! 👋

@prologic@twtxt.net Pretty much everything @jecxjo@sh0.xyz said.

Mind you, I’m not saying “don’t back it”, I just treat it like I do when I go to a casino - I only spend as much as I’m willing to lose.

Unfortunately, sitting out has bitten me a couple of times (ex: I would have loved to have picked up a Flipper Zero, but I didn’t trust it to deliver). OTOH, it’s also saved me from backing several projects that I considered, but which ultimately failed.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz I hear you. Some folks just don’t give a shit. Consideration is foreign. :-(