Stephan

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Slightly diminish a band:

Rolling Pebbles

Harumph… first my monitor broke (after well over ten years), then my brain (migraine). 🙄
Ok ok, the brain's back & working, if rather noise-sensitive. 🤷🏼‍♂️
The display has to be replaced, though.

Obviously, I don't know about everyone else 😜, and I'm fine. 😃
How about you?

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Looking forward to #SoCraTes Day MOIN tomorrow in #Hamburg! ➙ www.meetup.com/de-DE/sokahh...

YAY! Another year 'done' and still cancer-free after being diagnosed with cancer in 2018. — STILL not dead (and not even undead!). Quite the opposite: Pretty darn alive!

To all you cancer-patients out there: I wish you all the best and good luck!

#FuckCancer

"DEUTSCHER SCHACHBUND The German Chess Federation (DSB) has a clear position: we do not exclude trans women. In Germany, a trans woman already became German Champion in the 2000s and trans women will of course be allowed to participate in all German tournaments for women in the future. The German Chess Federation is not changing this practice. In doing so, we stand together with European partners, such as the French Chess Federation, which handles this in exactly the same way. We have serious concerns that these new FIDE rules are compatible with the legal situation in several countries. If a person is legally recognised as a woman, it is incomprehensible to us what FIDE still wants to check and why it needs two years for this - as stipulated in the new rules. From the point of view of the German Chess Federation, these regulations issued by the World Chess Federation for the registration of transgender chess players are an example of how discrimination arises when those affected are not involved in any way. The German Chess Federation is committed to the well-being of all regardless of origin, age, ethnicity, skin colour, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. No one should have to experience violence and discrimination." white text on top of dark blue-ish turquoise, the logo of the German Chess Federation in the colours of the German flag black red and yellow and the letters "DEUTSCHER SCHACHBUND" is in the top left corner and there are two stripes of the german flag above and below the text

der deutsche schachbund @schachbund.bsky.social hat ein statement zu dieser neuen transfeindlich diskrimminierenden regelung des internationalen Schachbunds (FIDE) auf twitter veröffentlicht

twitter.com/Schachbund/s...

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Glue work isn’t beneath me.

It’s why things don’t fall apart.

You call it soft.

I call it essential community infrastructure.

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

The North Sea under some clouds. On the horizon the buildings on Hallig Nordstrandischmoor are visible. A white Ferry is on the right side.

Afternoon swim 🌊🏊‍♂️🌊 - H2O 20°C, air about the same temperature

#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea

It's so annoying when web pages have a drop-down list that show a list of translated country names, but sort that list using the English name. 🙄

It worries me a bit that I am seeing blogs, webinars etc. about using #AI (tools) to test software, but hardly anything about how to test those AIs.

Am I looking in the wrong places? Have testers jumped on the AI bandwagon without thinking about testing them? (Can hardly believe)

#SoftwareTest

Interesting. It's more than a quarter century too late to worry about that anyway. 😃

And yes, I had the original #Sinclair #ZXSpectrum with a small TV set as a 'monitor'.
Come to think of it… in terms of radiation exposure that may not have been particularly healthy.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next: the evolution of the Speccy computer, now expanded into the world of the Sinclair QL, C64 and... More!

I may or may not have pledged this #ZXSpectrum project ➙ www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... 🤩

Just learned about rubyfriends.app (via a @pragprog.com news letter by @pragdave.bsky.social).

Nice idea. Will create an account. #Ruby #ConnectToPeople #Conferences

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86 - Berkeley News Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

A GitTower menu with an entry "Search Local Harddrive…"

OK, I just found 'Search Local HardDrive…'. — which still leaves me with organising all thos repos into #GitTower groups, but that's at least a start. It would be great if I could increase the window size for that dialog BTW.

… and all (being several dozens) repos I had set up were gone from the config. (frankly… *very* annoying 😵‍💫)

You sure, notice my bur report anytime soon. 😉

@git-tower.com Hi #GitTower team,
is there a way to bulk import repositories? In other words: Import all/selected Git repos from a given folder?
Background: My GitTower crashed, I had to reenter my licence info (less annoying 🤷‍♂️) …

The North Sea under a cloudy sky. There are some waves, hardly any of the break in the open water.

Yay, I made it: The first 1km swim 🌊🏊‍♂️🌊 in the #NorthSea this year. Water 21°C, weather slightly cloudy, swimming great 😃

#OpenWaterSwimming

For all my French followers:

Bon 14 Juillet ! 🇫🇷

🙌🙌

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Today is a great day!
The first article I ever wrote has been published in a professional magazine. "Software #accessibility includes #gender diversity" can be read in the "Testing Experience" magazine.

You can download it here: www.testingexperience.media (email address must be supplied) (1/2)

* Using OSS personally? Thank a maintainer. Donate. Contribute. Even fixing a typo in the README helps.

37% - 30+ years 39.5% - 10-30 years 13.6% - 5-10 years 10% - under 5 years

we ran a Wizard Zines reader survey and it's interesting to see that 75% of people who buy the zines have been programming for 10+ years

When I imagine a typical reader I always imagine someone who's been programming (in some capacity) for at least 5-10 years so it's nice to see that's accurate

Ruiniere einen Filmtitel mit einem Buchstaben

Star Bars
The Stink
Laws
The Karate Sid
Hen in Black

Why not both? 😃

It seems to that #AI answers (say, from #ChatGPT) appear to be better the less I know about a topic.
Is there a bias there?

The Disability Pride Flag is a charcoal grey flag bisected diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right corner by five parallel stripes in red, pale gold, pale grey, light blue, and green.

July is Disability Pride Month
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Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth to everyone with visible and invisible disabilities. To everyone who cares for someone with a disability, and to everyone who is gonna learn about disability pride this month.

Disability Pride is a fight and a celebration⭐