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[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Good point. I guess you're right, there are no flattering roles. But each of those options you list would have been less on top of existing prejudices.

Making her the (non-technical) project manager whose only contribution is "how many story points is that?", who's then silenced because "this is important!", confirms the typical prejudices about women in tech:

  • no technical expertise
  • is not in charge
  • does not have anything to say that is worth listening to in times of crisis

Especially being talked over. This matches many women's experiences in men-dominated environments to a T.

I'd much rather the technically competent, important but socially weird engineer (Jared) be the woman, or the incompetent boss, who's in charge and calls the shots. Even having no women in the skit would be better than this Cindy role.

Or, weird idea I know, multiple people with different roles being women. 🙄

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 17 points 3 weeks ago

I understand your frustrations and I hope you can find people who (100% honest) are more mature than that, and have a happier and more positive attitude.

This whole "I am so mature" alleged superiority vibe stinks of teenage insecurity. You can do better than that.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

We all get frustrated with scrum at times, but not all of us use TTS to make a casually sexist skit about it.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a cool story, but the article is a bit messy.

Took me a while to understand what happened around 1990 and what happened recently.

I was also surprised to learn that El País employs time travellers:

In addition, the protected area contains the old Stramba amber mine, known as one of the most productive during the first half of the 21st century, but which was closed down by the communist regime as it was considered unprofitable.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 59 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Unlike most houses, in mine the Fox won't change the default browser.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The most mind-blowing moment I've ever had was the course Relativistic Electrodynamics.

If you assume static electricity (charges attract or repel), then apply special relativity to see what the situation looks like to an observer travelling by, you get magnetism!

Turns out half of Maxwell's laws is a direct consequence of the other half once you know about special relativity.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah that's the whole Enterprise LTS issue. RHEL is the same, as is Ubuntu after a literal decade of LTS support.

I am so happy that we have podman in RHEL 8. Rootless podman containers with distrobox are a godsend in these software geography dig sites that have to pass for a workshop.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have never heard of WattOS but that sounds terrible.

It seems like antiX is a systemd-free Debian flavor.

If you want systemd, why not just use Debian? Or, if you are looking for a nice preconfigured DE/WM, any of a number of Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.

Mint for best out of the box setup, Pop!_OS for tiling, Zorin OS if you're looking for a funky styling, any of the Ubuntu derivatives for the major DEs: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Makes sense. Mono was necessary in the "old .NET" world, where runtimes were tied to Windows versions and the framework was a pure Windows framework. Mono made it possible to run old dotNET framework versions (up to 4.8) on other OSes.

Since dotNET Core and then dotNET 5 and higher, the framework itself is cross-platform so Mono is not necessary anymore, except for backwards compatibility for apps that use a now unsupported framework.

So it makes sense that Microsoft, after dropping the old dotNET Framework versions, also wants to stop supporting the cross-platform library that was only needed for those old versions.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Why bother setting up a hosted DB server when you can get all of the RDBMS optimizations in an in-process service? DuckDB is pretty cool

https://duckdb.org/

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 18 points 1 month ago

I don't know. All Nitter instances stopped but some hero sprinkled a bit of fairy dust on it and created xcancel.com

If it endangers the continued existence of xcancel.com, I don't want to know how it works.

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