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The economy is important because we don’t care enough about one another and our environment.
If we did, we would figure out how to treat each other well, how to grow individually and collectively, and how to take care of our environment in the process. With or without “the economy.”
Instead, we’ve focused so much on property and trade and money and economics and got so accustomed to money as something we can exchange into anything we want, that we've forgotten both what we need (like healthy communities and a healthy environment) and that alternatives exist.
With property, trade, money, economics having long been ubiquitous and all everyone ever worries and talks about, we have nearly fully alienated ourselves from each other.
Add to this our crisis of trust and truth, and we end up with a vicious circle: Because we’re increasingly alienated from each other, we find even more solace in money as the means to exchange it into anything we need or think we need.
The world is literally heating up in consequence.
What’s the answer?
I totally agree.
If you complain that you have a problem with #Windows
and are unhappy that people on Fediverse always bring up #Linux
when you come here to post your complaint, I have a question: instead of here, have you tried the #Microsoft
support or forums?I mean at some point the "I just want Windows to work" is a fair and understandable point, but it will just be shouting in the wind if you don't bring your complaints to the people and company making it.
And I say that as an IT tech, I know how it works: if there's no support ticket about a problem, there's no feedback proof, and therefore the problem officially doesn't exist.
EDIT: to be very clear, I'm not writing all this with the intent of presenting MS forums and support as the best way to solve your problems with their products.
It's more that, as someone who deals with how tech support is handled on a daily basis, as I mentioned above, companies have processes for all that, and I can guarantee you that when it comes to handling feedback, they follow them strictly, especially when it comes to being held accountable for unwanted features or overall problems.
Users are being unhappy with ads or AI features and complain they can't deactivate them all? "Where are the tickets at our support to back that up?" is gonna be their answer. And we all know most of us, most of the overall user base never bother with that, leaving the gates full open for Microsoft to be like those aren't issues for the majority of users.
If windows is so problematic, then GNU/Linux can be the solution
To enforce accessibility.
Also can poor performance be framed as inaccessible?
You benchmark your node/ruby/python software on a fancy Macbook M4 and celebrate 500ms response time.
I benchmark my rust software on a $30 potato computer that may as well have 256MB of RAM and celebrate 800ms response time.
From what we can observe, most people with significant wealth seem to be peculiar in two particular ways: Appearing not wise enough to recognize and know that their wealth means another’s poverty and that that’s actually relevant because ultimately, they can only be truly well if everyone is well, and that they, too, live in a climate catastrophe from which they cannot escape, even if they built themselves the most sophisticated bunker.
Appearing not courageous enough to act to use their fortunes for the greater good and for everyone’s well-being, because they seem so afraid they would not have enough, even though they already have way more than enough (and will keep enough) to live a comfortable and fulfilling life, and to move away from their ways of “making” money, especially when these ways include exploiting and damaging people, animals, or planet, out of the same fear of not having enough, or other fears like not being able to replicate their success or being admired for it.
There’s some superb (and superbly sad) irony here that millionaires and billionaires are in the best
position to be role models, by doing amazing things for the well-being and advancement of mankind (and all species)
To help:
Do mutual aid
Post on your local Buy Nothing project group what you can offer
Join Food Not Bombs
Start a Free Pantry: reach out to local grocery stores and ask if you can take the stuff they're about to throw out.
Pourquoi donner des milliards d'aides d'État aux entreprises privées ?
Alors qu'on pourrait simplement les applaudir à 20h tous les soirs !
Cela a tellement bien marché pour le personnel soignant.
J’ai appris une chose importante : l’arbitrage n’est pas une discipline scientifique.
En dehors du sport et du football avec des caméras et aide à la décision, un pilote de chasse.
En 2024, un pilote s’est éjecté de son F-35, car, malgré plusieurs reboot, son casque connecté indiquait des erreurs critiques. Problème : après l’éjection du pilote, l’avion a continué à voler correctement pendant de très longues minutes. Il semblerait que son casque avait un simple bug informatique. [...] La subtilité réside par la suite avec la carrière du pilote, poursuivi pour abandon d'avion fonctionnel [...] Nous n’avons plus des pilotes qui « sentent » leur avion, mais des opérateurs suivants des procédures informatisées.
Non seulement la complexité crée artificiellement des problèmes, mais elle empêche les humains d’acquérir de l’expérience et de prendre des décisions.
La seule stratégie possible pour un humain raisonnable est donc de ne plus prendre de décisions (ce qui est déjà une décision en soi).
Looking for examples of web magazines made with html/css [so the 3. option].
The spectrum:
- a website with branching levels of navigation, average content-heavy website
- a website with single level of linear paginated navigation, back and forth, text-heavy html/epub
- a responsive paginated website that mimics printed magazines in the best way possible, and looks interesting on all screens
- embedded static PDF viewer with page turn and zoom
- static PDF
C'est délirant puisque l'IA n'est pas encore capable de remplacer les jobs.
The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that people should control their tools, not the other way around.
The lack of tone, diversity of cultures, and the fact that many people using social media in English aren't native speakers make it all harder to detect irony and serious-sounding jokes online.
Please be careful and make sure your jokes don't end up feeding the disinformation machine, even if you feel it's obvious to you. In doubt, at least use the popular markers "/s" (sarcastic) or "/j" (joke) or parentheses at the end to make this clearer.
Make implicit explicit, especially in this age of disinformation and AI slop.
When we look around in our field, everyone in Tech seems to focus on one thing: "How can we adopt AI in our tooling and in our processes?"
So it is a proof of a bubble. Everyone is enthusiasts but it doesn't solve real use cases.
A rightful question can be: "How can we set up our engineers for long-term career success?"
Jens Meiert ask pertinent questions to solve this big up question.
What can be done reasonably well with AI today? (And tomorrow? And the day after tomorrow?)
How are our engineers affected by AI?
- Are our engineers using AI?
- How are our engineers using AI?
- What are realistic expectations for our engineers in terms of AI use and proficiency?
- Are we setting clear expectations for use of and proficiency with AI in our job descriptions as well?
- Do we document and anchor these expectations in our competency and skill matrixes?
- Are we watching the AI market, and are we evaluating tooling?
- While the AI market is in flux—which it may be for some time—, do we have enough flexibility (budget, processes, room for errors) to test AI tooling?
- If our engineers leave the company, would they find a new job—or would their profile make them less interesting?
- If they would not necessarily find a new job, what extra skills and experience do they need?
- How can we make our engineers ready for the AI age?
As you can tell, we cannot have all those answers yet—this is precisely why this is so important to get on top of, and it’s also the reason why I say “start answering.”
Now, everyone’s a prize exhibit in the FAANG zoo, because mastering this tangled mess is what opens their gates. Being just a CRUD monkey doesn’t feel fun anymore. If this is what “progress” looks like, I don’t want any part of it.
The technologies to build for 10 years ago dramatically improved!
As mentionned by LeHollandaisVolant, one thing the article doesn't mention is that:
- 1 the pages are more interactive
- 2 the data changes in real time
If, given the prompt, AI does the job perfectly on first or second iteration — fine. Otherwise, stop refining the prompt. Go write some code, then get back to the AI. You'll get much better results.