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ello in the void

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gemma lynn
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programmer, (former) moonkin, nasty woman, geek

@bananabull's geekier half

would give left pinkie to work at #nasa, building stuff at #prisma until then

🇺🇸​ in 🇳🇴​ #trondheim, vestkyst bestekyst

formerly @ellotheth@mastodon.technology and @ellotheth@bsd.network, also @gemma@phpc.social

#php #golang #reactjs #typescript #linux #git #devops #webdev #backend #programming #prisma #womenintech #cycling #trailRunning #gravelcycling #uciwwt #norway #dogs #gaming #gameing #destiny2 #valheim #nobot

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i tried to read excerpts of this essay from @Crell to my hubby and i got so choked up i couldn't get the words out. this is what i felt at the end of last year, when i decided it is what it is.

 At some point soon, I will have to figure out how to work with AI coding tools if I want to stay in the industry I've put my entire adult life into. But more importantly, I will have to figure out how to live with myself every time I consider the tons of CO2 and gallons of water involved in every function I write from now on. See, I can't just say "it is what it is." I will feel that cost in my gut every fucking time. Whether I'll be able to swallow it and accept (as I do for Amazon and Android, after long resisting them) in order to find a job, I don't know. If not, it won't be a tight labor market that forces me out of tech, but every fucking one of my colleagues that decided "it is what it is, ethics don't matter, it's not worth fighting the billionaire VCs that have fucked up everything else they touch already."
If you have already shrugged and said "it is what it is," fuck you. It is exactly that attitude, that lack of care for ethics, that lack of interest in the global implications of our work, that is literally dooming our species. And by forcing -- yes forcing -- everyone to join you in your uncaring attitude through shear force of numbers is abusive. It's despicable. As I learn how to work with AI coding agents, know that I will be thinking ill of you the entire time. Not because I don't get to write for loops, but because you have made yet another part of the economy impossible to engage with ethically.

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my org is in the process of brain-dumping all its institutional knowledge into a repository full of markdown files so it's easier to pull into an LLM context window.

honestly i am not sad that this stuff is gonna be grep-able, tracked in git, and available locally.

gah another fabulous point from @cwebber, talking specifically about social networks but applies to every system we build.

[O]ur systems are the output of the conflicts between technical goals and social dynamics. ... [T]he decisions we make in these messy social dynamics influence the kinds of technical systems which in turn influence the kinds of social systems we can have!

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116182825340561725

apropos of nothing, do people know about okular, the pdf viewer/annotator? it's lightweight, ad-free, bizarrely works great on windows even though it's part of #kde. big recommend if you've had it with adobe/fox-it/whatever else.