StackOverflow is doing their annual survey. Now is your chance to vote for Ruby and hopefully improving Ruby's ranking; and counteracting the "rUbY iS dYiNg" nonsense.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/29/not-just-a-vibe-the-stack-overflow-developer-survey-is-really-here/

#ruby

@heiseonline

Der Orden des fehlenden Selbstbildabgleichs geht an das @ct_Magazin

Der Heise-Verlag lässt seit längerer Zeit Aufmacherbilder in Heft und online durch generative KI erzeugen und hat dafür den Einsatz von Fotografen und Illustratoren reduziert. Ist ja auch viel preiswerter als die Honorarkosten für von Menschen gemachte Gebrauchsgrafik und der Slop ist gut genug für den eigenen Qualitätsanspruch. Im Redaktionspodcast schwärmt man davon, wie liebevoll die Kollegen ihre Bilder-Prompts formulieren.

Es gab auch bereits "Experimente" mit KI-generierten Slop-Texten für "redaktionelle Empfehlungen" von Techstage im Heise Newsticker (die wenig überraschend halluzinierte Inhalte enthielten).

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der c't hat ein solches genKI-Bild als Titelmotiv.

Schlägt man das Magazin auf, beginnt der redaktionelle Meinungsbeitrag mit einer mit Herzblut vorgetragenen Beschwerde über Umwelt- und soziale Folgen der "sinnfreien KI-Schwemme".

https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2025/13/2429614561170787219

Liebe c't, bezahlt Eure Gebrauchsgrafiker, dann nehme ich Euch die zur Schau getragene Haltung auch ab.

Are men or women too emotional to lead? As someone who has run on both testosterone and estrogen, I think that no one should be a leader. Also I'm an anarchist.

I like how we took something computers were masters at doing, and somehow fucked it up.

#lego #homer #bushes

Edit: we is fedi-trending, folks! 🎉

#EndOf10 "The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence"

https://opensource.org/blog/end-of-10-the-open-source-alternative-to-forced-obsolescence

> Open Source isn’t just about code. It’s about community, sustainability, and autonomy. The “End of 10” campaign is a chance to show the world how powerful those values can be.

> We invite everyone—users, developers, educators, and advocates—to be part of this movement. Because the end of Windows 10 isn’t the end of the road. It’s a new beginning.

@osi

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Microsoft #FOSS

@GeePawHill That's 'Statistical Physics' (Landau, Lifshitz, probably the 3rd ed). Understood it well enough to pass the exam for my Diploma/Master in physics.

Some (German) textbook about complex analysis is second, but way behind the first.

What's yours?

Too bad that 'tiny ruby #{conf}' ➙ https://helsinkiruby.fi/tinyruby/sponsorships/ is on November 21, 2025. That's too close to the other conference (hint: #AgileTD) I'll attend. — I hope for more time between them next year. I'd love to return to #Helsinki again. #Ruby #Testing #ConferenceClash

@hamatti Enjoy your holiday!

It’s not that we’re particularly ‘blunt’ here in the NL or Europe, we’re just honest and to the point I guess

For me it hurts more when people are lying instead of telling me something I don’t like

This whole Agile Coach debacle has helped me realize something that hadn’t fully landed with me before: agile started as a movement driven by builders to «build better», but it is largely dominated now with people who don’t know how to build and look at agile as a management process style. These are MBA-like folks who are trying to figure out how to manage an IT organization. But that wasn’t what agile was about. It was about a better way to build stuff, better stuff, by collaboration and not getting stuck in our ways.

The standard excuse is "real artists study other artists, therefore AI is not stealing."

Here's the thing. Real artists study other artists, and do not produce nearly identical works, and if they do, they will contact the other artist and ask permission to publish the derivative work.

AI = plaigiarism-as-a-service

European 👍🏼
Non-profit 😍
No commercial repos ❌

If @Codeberg won't host my commercial repos, I can't use them. I'd be happy to pay for private repos.
https://ruby.social/@katafrakt/114552866803921523

Seit über 30 Jahren warnen Klimaforscher vor Extremregen durch #Erderwärmung: die Physik sagt es, die Modelle zeigen es, die Messdaten der Wetterstationen zeigen seit den 1990ern die signifikante Zunahme von neuen Rekorden.
Gestern Frankreich, heute Australien.
Sorry, aber das wird einfach immer schlimmer werden, solange man mit Abwiegeln Wahlen gewinnen kann und Minister ins Amt kommen, die Klimawandel für überbetont halten & auf den Ausbau fossiler Energie setzen.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozeanien/australien-fluten-100.html

STOP FUCKING HATING.

Hatred is the bridge between anger and violence. Every time you submit to turning your anger in to hatred, you support the use of violence in defense of your views, and the state supports violence in defense of its views.

Every time. Every single time. In all of recorded history.

I am not advocating against anger, believe me, I'm so angry I mostly sputter.

But anger isn't hatred. And hatred makes, only, and ever, and always, more hatred.

Settle yourself.

Underrated & far too little known open-source project for exploring and testing APIs: 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗼 🐶

In comparison to Postman, it doesn't push you to use an enterprise version or to sync everything to a cloud.

You can just work offline.
And sync all of your collections via Git.

I totally missed this part of Microsoft Office #enshitification
- AutoSave is only available if you have an active Microsoft 365 subscription.
- AutoSave only applies to Microsoft 365 files stored in OneDrive
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-turn-on-autosave-dbd19b49-ff3a-48f5-8294-671e33a6712c

And people still pay money for this steaming pile of garbage?

@leyrer @claudius Yup, that, dare I call it that, feature is highly annoying. Also (I think) it's utterly unnecessary (technically speaking).

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#Postman is logging all your #secrets and environment variables 😬

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424

#Security