PSA: The answer to "too much cognitive load in your legacy codebase" is not "make someone else deal with it".
Yes, this is a post about shitty teammates or managers, but it's also a post about #AI too.
Today I speak at the ecoCompute conference about our ongoing efforts to reduce the Nextcloud energy footprint with every release https://www.eco-compute.io
Solidarity to all striking resident doctors in England this week.
These are the people who help keep us alive now, and will be in charge of doing so later in their careers. When I was at that stage, I sometimes found it a struggle financially, especially with a young child; it wasn't always easy to concentrate on learning the profession and gaining the qualifications we need to progress to seniority. Since then, wage rises have failed to match inflation, even with the recent uplift.
What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem.
The emails are pretty wild as they casually talk about hacking people and companies, SEO and Wikipedia misuse to hide pedo things etc.
This image is a graphical timeline chart illustrating the history of major empires and civilizations from 4000 BCE to 2000 AD.
The chart is organized along two axes:
Vertical Axis: Time flows from the bottom of the image to the top. It begins at 4000 BCE and is marked at intervals of 1000 years (3000 BC, 2000 BC, 1000 BC), then at 500-year intervals from the BC/AD line up to 2000 AD.
ALT description in subsequent replies #history #offrehacked
Picture is not mine - just found it on the net
After community consultation the Waikato Regional Council decided to ban bottom trawling along parts of the Coromandel coast. Now fishing industry lobby group Seafood NZ is going to appeal that decision.
Here's our response:
FORD: They make a big thing out of the ship’s cybernetics. “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”
ARTHUR: GPP? What’s that?
FORD: Er ………. It says Genuine People Personalities.
ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.
F/X DOOR HUMS OPEN WITH A SORT OF OPTIMISTIC SOUND
MARVIN: It is.
" #Iceland deems possible #Atlantic current collapse a security risk"
If the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation #AMOC collapses, all of Northern #Europe is screwed. It won't happen soon, but it is a real possibility
All we have to do is take #ClimateChange seriously... oh, yeah. Fuck.
THE AMAZING WORLD OF TOMORROW
My calligraphy commissions info is here >
https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/111857234489797989
If you're in the UK I still have enough time to make A5 pieces and get them to you for christmas!
Want a decorative 'fuck off' for your boss, or maybe your cat's name immortalised in script? I got you 
Mining (copper, silica, lithium, sodium, iron, rare earth minerals) requirements for solar, wind, etc
It's nearly a one time cost, with good recycling.
Fossil fuels require increasingly damaging invasions of the environment over & over because it's burned.
It's a comparison between a consumable energy source and nonconsumable energy sources.
New blog post:
Linkdump No 81
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/11/linkdump-no-81/
#BBCNews - Doctors to begin five-day walkout in England
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2lg8pgjymo
Ein 350 Millionen schweres Steuergeschenk für die Luftverkehrsindustrie raushauen, das Bahnfahrende mit der Verteuerung des Deutschlandtickets querfinanzieren. Chapeau: Das ist Robin Hood rückwärts bei gleichzeitiger Klimazerstörung.
This is contemptible from Labour!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
I've also published an new 20251114 bootstrap kit. This isn't necessary if you already have an install (the steps above will get you past the problem without it), but means new users will not run into the issue.
The spreadsheets attached to these emails were used to stress test the R package jailbreakr (https://github.com/rsheets/jailbreakr) as the Enron folks would put random social things (fantasy football etc) the sheets. See @jennybryan’s talk from useR! 2016 https://github.com/jennybc/2016-06_spreadsheets/raw/master/2016-06_useR-stanford.pdf
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115546113336062775
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