Notices by Chris Hartjes (grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social)

9 years ago today was my first day working at Mozilla. During my 4-1/2 years working there I always felt like they didn’t quite know what to do with me. I did believe in the mission of a free and open internet but with each weird-to-me decision they made and my unhappiness with job assignments, it ended poorly.

@evan Sticking around in the general vicinity of where we live now — making more of a horizontal move into a home/property that better fits our needs

As part of our upcoming move I am looking at prices for outdoor swim spas to use in the winter (as a replacement for the pool I will no longer have). Grumpy AND bougie

Hot take:

Fedi users: we want protection / safety / moderation tools!

Fedi developers: will you pay salaries to developers to build them?

Fedi users: absolutely not

The actual incident was that I had my acceptance offers revoked and was banned from that year’s event because I joked “be strong because rejection emails are going out” on the grounds that speakers are “not allowed to say anything negative about the event”.

Like I said, the organizers had no sense of humour. No, I won’t publicly name the event because they know what they did. They still send me emails asking me to come as if I will forget how they treated me.
https://phpc.social/@sarah/112986060896068163

I am old enough to remember Napster being sued out of existence for asking to treat copyrighted material the same way OpenAI wants to, but I guess the “wrong people” were involved with Napster as opposed to the grifters at OpenAI

TIL about “congenital naysayers” — a great label for a lot of behaviours that frustrate me #phptek24

Thinking about the AI skill threat:

$100/hr to fix your stuff
$200/hr if you did it with AI

@evan I have two Norse mythology tattoos — one of Odin’s ravens and Mjolnir on the inside of my left and right forearms respectively

Anyway, on a Friday where I have made myself despair about my chosen industry, I am going to change things up. Give me answers and I will make up questions for them.
Call it Grumpy Jeopardy /ht @doppynl for the idea

Writing that long post on my thoughts on LLM’s solidified for me that the shittiest people keep making generational wealth online. My own efforts have touched thousands of people but still a wage slave in my early 50’s.

@evan And he blew that one up too…metaphorically driving a car through the relationship

@evan I know this is the point of the episode but that family is so incredibly dysfunctional. I could not cope with that

Asking people to care about everything or only the thing you view as important both lead to the same outcome of nobody giving a shit

@janl Upping the beard game is next

@Crell This is far from a one-sided conflict and I am disappointed so many refuse to see it that way.

I remain convinced the only reason SBF ended up getting punished is because he stole from other rich people.

Loving a job that will never love you back is the first step of a journey that ends in burnout and despair. So many of my peers and are so bad at setting the boundaries that our profession requires but refuses to acknowledge.

“Believe in automated testing as a path to better outcomes” was a random thing I stumbled across on 2003 and it changed my life. No regrets.

True wisdom.