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I see no point in keeping my power hungry monster awake 24/7. I'm in any game less than 3 minutes after a cold boot.

When seasoning meat, remember that you are also meat and therefore susceptible to be seasoned.

They ran ICE ads and only stopped because the campaign ended, not because of massive backlash: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/spotify-no-longer-running-ice-recruitment-ads-after-us-government-campaign-ends

They hosted and donated to the orange shitstain while disproportionately targeting "controversial" black artists: https://www.themarysue.com/spotify-supporting-donald-trump-is-horrifically-hypocritical-after-how-theyve-treated-controversial-black-and-brown-musicians/

They pay hundreds of millions to nazi propagandists for the exclusive rights to spread their hate: https://apnews.com/article/joe-rogan-spotify-deal-76fa0e2c9d4b137f510428528ea6226b

The CEO stepped down to make AI weapons with Peter thiel : https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-31/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-company-some-musicians-say-its-time-to-leave

Spotify openly supports nazis.

Basically the whole shenanigans around cheating at every single turn to get a car in the points. Every single member of the team would get a disqualification/ban faster than you could spell "crashgate". I think they could have written an entertaining story without breaking every single racing rule in the book several times per race.

It's a pretty solid movie if you don't give an actual fuck about F1. It's a wildly unrealistic fantasy film with bland, one dimensional characters and I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was set in a fantasy series. Grounding it in an hyperrealistic setting with real teams, real cars, real people on real tracks is too much of a cognitive dissonance for me.

The actual racing footage slaps tho. But the movie itself is miles away from Rush or Ford v Ferrari/Le Mans '66, which are actual good racing movies based on (heavily dramatized) real events.

As other said DeepL is European and a good option. I have no idea how much data they collect.

If you want to guarantee zero data collection, running a model like Ministral locally on your device using a trustworthy front end is probably the only option.

First the obvious reasons, I won't spend much time on them: it's an ecological catastrophe, it's an economical trainwreck, it's an ethical nightmare by being trained on stolen content, it's the most powerful propaganda machine ever created and it's made and massively pushed by ultracapitalist nazis.

With that out of the way, and already 90% of my hate lays there, let's talk about the dangers in my trade: software engineering. Like all trades, it takes training, time, practice, experience, a little bit of talent and a huge willingness to be constantly learning to get good enough to sell your wares. And most importantly, it requires us to understand what's already there and to think before attempting any implementation.

A good, experienced software engineer should produce code that's reliable, maintainable, efficient, and does exactly what it's supposed to do. LLMs, even specialized ones like Claude code, fail spectacularly at all four categories. They code like destructive baby engineers with delusions of grandeur with hacky, brute-forced half-solutions that address the immediate problem with no consideration for existing code, edge-cases and legibility. Every pull request changes so much code that it's completely unauditable. If you have enough experience and awareness, you can wrangle them into writing exactly what you want but then, what's the point? You saved the time it would have taken to write the code yourself, but you've spent much more time babysitting the LLM instead and spent a ludicrous amount of resources. Besides, WPM has never been a metric to distinguish the best engineers. It's useful to babysit the most junior engineers, because it's how you help them grow. It's a complete waste of time and money to babysit an LLM.

My new boss is a true GenAI believer. And I mean kool-aid, rapture, heaven-and-hell believer. He's convinced at his core that his god will produce features better and faster than any of us. He doesn't want to believe anymore how inefficient software engineering is at its core. Writing code is only a tiny part of it. You need to understand the needs of the users, specify the features, plan, write, test, fix, test again and fix again and test again and again and then deploy. Scale comes after deployment, when a feature hits potentially millions of users.

They keep talking about productivity, but none of the C-suites seem to understand that productivity is a consequence of good software engineering, not a prerequisite. Let's go back to good code: it's modular, reliable, maintainable, efficient and does what it's supposed to do. It means that it's easy to add and change features without breaking the rest. It's easy to find bugs and fast to fix them. It doesn't needlessly hog resources so it's cheaper and faster to run. This is true productivity, not churning slop at an accelerated rate in the hopes that some of them will work as intended.

And finally because I already spent too much time writing this, it makes us lazy. As I'm forced to use an agentic IDE and I'm monitored on my usage, I make it do the useless stuff. I write the important code, and I'm glad to delegate writing the mandatory technical documentation that nobody reads anyway or boilerplate code. Anything where being an experienced software engineer has zero added value. But I know most of my peers, most of them much younger and less experienced than me, do not have the same discipline and also delegate writing massive amounts of code. And it's dangerous because of how comfortable it is. I'm happy to delegate shit I can't be bothered to write, juniors are happy to delegate writing code they can't be bothered to understand. Claude keeps saying "OK, now I have a clear picture of what's happening/what I need to do". It cajoles us into believing it actually knows what it's doing. It pushes us to give it more and more of our work and to trust it. And it's by design. The more you feel comfortable being lazy, the more you tell it to do what you're paid for, the more you get addicted to it. You stop learning. You stop thinking. You just go to your integrated chat and ask it to solve the problem you're being paid to solve. One day will come when you won't be able to do anything without it because you've stopped honing your skills, you've become too lazy to do the boring stuff, you've become too used to have a machine answer your every needs instead of doing it yourself. They push so hard to make us addicted to it because it's their only way out of the forthcoming crash.

C15 was probably white in 1986 and is now a mixture of dirt, moss, rust and soot. Inside, it smells an almost unbearable melange of engine oil, dust, ashtray, wet dog and crumbling pleather. Somehow it still runs perfectly, except for the radio.

Not sure what your point is but when I was in high school, I saw a lot of theater productions with my class. Not local or amateur productions but professional ones on national tours. And also a lot of contemporary an thought provoking plays.

It's not the best and given the choice, I'd rather bike in dry weather but with the right equipment (waterproof jacket, waterproof overpants and waterproof shoes), it's fine.

It's been raining nonstop for months here and I'm still happier on my bike than in any alternative like getting stuck in traffic for hours searching for a parking spot or shoving myself in public transportation with hundreds of people including reeking teenagers who confuse a shower with Axe body spray.

The entire country of the Netherlands have proven that infrastructure, not weather, makes cycling the most popular mode of transportation. Hell, most of Nordic big cities are cycling heavens despite their shitty snowy/rainy weather.

Because it's a surveillance state baby. Everything is uploaded to a central server so our corporate overlords can monitor our usage.

And guess what, the company I work in proudly announced today they will replace our internal chatbot with ChatGpt Enterprise. It's like they gladly and actively increase their dependency on an enemy state.

Not true. 500Mb models suck ass and are just here for fun. A lot of local models in the 2.5Gb range can run on a phone and produce very coherent output on par with free-to-use LLMs without actually destroying the planet (while using them I mean, training is still a nightmare).

"Fun" fact, political bias is baked in the local models too, don't ask Qwen3 about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989...

Agentic IDEs like Cursor track usage and how much of the code is LLM vs human generated.

Which probably means it tracks every single keystroke inside it. Which rightfully looks like a privacy and/or corporate code ownership nightmare.

But hey at least our corporate overlords are happy to see the trend go up. The fact that we tech people were all very unsubtly threatened into forced agentic IDEs usage despite vocal concerns about code quality drop, productivity losses and increasing our dependence on US tech (especially openly nazi tech) says it all.

Ah shame, I did a quick simulation and shipping rates + taxes would more than double the cost.

Was it Weird Al's "Canadian Idiot" by any chance?

Ah damn. Although if your local manufacturer ships to the rest of Europe, I'd be happy to try it out ;)

That's a very low price. Is it quality filament ? Have any links ?

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Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

Game over

What are your latest "buy European" wins?

What are your latest "buy European" wins?

me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt

me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt

European alternatives to Google Translate? Preferably not LLM.

Why do you hate AI?

Your car is here.

Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre

Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

Is Windows FOSS now?

QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest

QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest

Is Windows FOSS now?

Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

Green Day just played "American idiot" at the Superbowl!

Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

New Community: Made in Europe: A community dedicated to exchanging about consumer products made in Europe

New Community: Made in Europe: A community dedicated to exchanging about consumer products made in Europe

New Community: Made in Europe: A community dedicated to exchanging about consumer products made in Europe

Charentaises: The amazing slippers Made in France

Fully waterproof sneakers that don't look like hiking shoes?

Weird AI-like icon that hovered over the content in Safari (iOS 26.1)

Weird AI-like icon that hovered over the content in Safari (iOS 26.1)

I made a F1-style steering wheel for VR sim-racing from scratch

I made a F1-style steering wheel for VR sim-racing from scratch