Lmao.

After firing 700 employees for AI, Swedish company admits their mistake and plans to rehire humans. What went wrong with OpenAI + Klarna parnership? Despite initial optimism, the company has now acknowledged that the shift to AI has negatively impacted service quality and faced major public backlash for using AI https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-700-humans-ai-klarna-173029838.html The CEO want human workers back and looking for humans to replace those AI tools powered by shity OpenAI.

Found one of the most beautiful elephpants at #PHPDay in Verona, made by @vonage . Awesome color combination!

When Trump and his crime family comes for your data, American tech won't save you. They'll hand it over because they have no choice. European and Canadian alternatives aren't perfect, but at least they aren't under Trump's thumb.

Here's my post-Trump tech stack.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/american-tech-is-compromised-heres-my-replacement-stack-2/

Hey, Nederlanders? Even boosten, en dan ondertekenen als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt. Dank!
https://mstdn.social/@alchemistsstudio/113946253033171377

@sebastian Sorry to hear that. Get well soon. Wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery.

(Boosts encouraged)

Have you ever personally been on the receiving end of an internet harassment campaign?

(personally here meaning “you, specifically; or a small group containing you”)

@botteaap Helemaal mee eens.

@botteaap Als het goed is zou je daarvoor uit moeten kunnen schrijven: https://www.consuwijzer.nl/post/verzenden-ontvangen/geen-reclame-meer-in-brievenbus-ontvangen

JK Rowling vs Imane Khelif is the inevitable endgame of transphobia: bigots forcing cis women back into traditional white, heterosexual feminine gender roles. https://skepchick.org/2024/08/the-transphobes-are-coming-for-all-of-us/

Ons experiment met een kantoor voor @ingewikkeld is al even ten einde. Ons meubilair staat nu in de opslag. Maar we hebben besloten voorlopig vanuit huis te werken (en op lokatie bij de klant). We verkopen dus ons meubilair: https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2135751653

@thomastospace @Skoop @MarkBaker Add a few extra of your own just for kicks.

@botteaap And just as you think it wouldn't get any worse... What bad news. Not as much for us as for the people involved, though.

@botteaap I think DB is exempt from German Engineering and Efficiency.

@botteaap Add to that being evacuated from your cabin due to the air systems not working. And of course none of the windows can open anymore.

So far, I've given my "Testing Your PHP API With Behat" talk on one conference and two meetups. It's still scary, but with more practise, I find more and more enjoyment in talking and sharing experience. If you want me to talk on your meetup (in the Netherlands, preferably), let me know.

A warm welcome to @timobakx at our meetup: Behat testing, how and why!
#meetup #rotterdam #php

@shochdoerfer @heiglandreas @phpday Would that be a phpope or a pophpe?

@m1ke May I introduce you to https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/products/presenters/spotlight-plus.910-005166.html ?

YES, you can develop, support open source/Free Software (FOSS) projects as an unpaid hobby, just for fun.

YES, you can develop and support #FOSS projects as (big or small) part of your paid job or as freelancer.

YES, you can develop and support FOSS projects by asking for donations.

And yes, all of these approaches can exist at the same time. YOU decide. FOSS is about freedom, not about money or not.

And NO, you owe no-one an explanation or justification on why you do #FOSS the way you do.

On may 14 we have a new #meetup in #Eindhoven , We have @timobakx to speak about testing API endpoints using #Behat and #Gherkin Possibly a must-attend event if you develop APIs... ;)

For more information and RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/php-laravel-eindhoven/events/300028573/