It's almost as if they bet on the wrong thing and lost a ton of money in the process. I wonder what could that be?

Dear fedi I'm livid. An acquaintance of mine almost finished college and after doing an *unpaid* six months internship was offered a follow-up contract for less than 500€ a month. If you wonder why European young people are mad that's pretty much why.

I'll be doing anything what's in my power to make sure he'll never work there so if you have an opening or internship for a young person starting his career let me know.

He'll finish the equivalent of a bachelor in computer science in May next year, has done some six months of hand-on work in security and is one hell of a worker. I can personally vouch for him. He's based in Italy and can do both in-person and remote work, and might be able to relocate to the NL and possibly the UK if need be.

Woke up way too early this morning, but at least I woke up to good news in Brasil, Serbia and - even though marginally so - even Ukraine.

No context Space Pirate Captain Harlock

#SpacePirateCaptainHarlock #CaptainHarlock #CapitanHarlock #RetroAnime

Today I was wondering about the inefficiency we've built into our everyday computing machinery. After a .NET framework update every Windows machine will run the Native Image Generator, now more commonly known as the .NET Runtime Optimization Service. That is an ahead-of-time compiler that will spend a significant amount of CPU usage to do exactly the same thing on every single machine. Hundreds of millions of Windows installations burning power to do the same thing.

Something that could be avoided by shipping precompiled binaries or just improving the JIT startup time instead, not exactly rocket science.

Don't slop the feeling

A new time needs new terms, and I find both free software and open source terms that I don't get along with anymore. Free software is sadly tainted with the libertarian ethos that fueled so many toxic egos, and open source has always been an exquisitely corporate affair.

We need new terms for software that is free to use, free to change and serves the user. Something that is intrinsecaly non-corporate, as the needs of a corporation are diametrically opposed to the needs of a human being.

:pika:

Look at this guy sleeping without a worry in the world. He went out the other day before dinner, stayed out all night, came back at noon, dropped another dead rat on our balcony and then went straight for the couch.

#CatsOfMastodon

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

The good folks at #Gentoo are looking for new infrastructure sponsors. They're mostly looking for rack-space, power and connectivity and they'll provide the hardware. Preferably outside the US, but not necessarily.

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infrastructure-sponsors-wanted.html