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🏭 Weak (or absent) Product Owners lead to team members working in a Feature Factory. John Cutler coined this term in 2016 to describe a software developer who complained that they spent their day in a cubicle, just shipping features.
I see this happening for many reasons:
- Rigid roadmaps, often published with dates more than a year in advance
- Team members who don't understand the vision or the strategy
- Organizations that obsess over velocity
- Focus on output (number of widgets) instead of outcome (solving the customer problem)GenAI is making the Feature Factory worse by accelerating output without improving outcome.
Which of these do you recognise?
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On tap for today: everything I was supposed to do yesterday. I just couldn't get it together yesterday afternoon.
So I'm going to photograph my earrings, bracelets, and rings; update my online shop; put my truck away; and organize my studio. I'd really like to get back to making stuff. In the meantime, my new trim saw should arrive today, although I don't think I'll set it up until tomorrow. I might work on a rolling tabletop for it, utilizing a camp table with a sink built-in.
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.69.
If you are lucky enough to have #solitarybees in your garden - LOOK AFTER THEM!
They build small solitary nests in cavities in the ground/timber/walls, fly for only a few weeks, don’t swarm and are superb #pollinators.
#bees#nature #biodiversity
#gardens #environment
#worldbeesanctuary #science
#democracy #education #vegan
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Mark Madden still thinks the Steelers play ‘Tomlin-y’ games: “I like McCarthy. I’m a supporter. I’m a believer. But they go out there and play ‘Tomlin-y’ games all the time. This was a Tomlin-y game. It’s a 16-10 win over a marginal team when a marginal quarterback (Tyler Shough) threw for 278 yards against you. Yeah, the Saints didn’t try to run the ball, and I do like the Steelers’ running game. But again, it all just comes back to being Tomlin-y. I don’t think their defense is good enough for them to win games against good teams.” #Steelers #NFL
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@eessll_123/117506193184167033
À quelle âme ce message ira,
Mon amie Eslam réunit actuellement des fonds pour pouvoir quitter l'enclave. 🇵🇸 🕊️ Mais il lui manque encore beaucoup.
Beaucoup de dons sont alloués à la survie, entre nourriture et médicaments, et la location du terrain pour leur tente de fortune.
Elle survient seule aux besoins de ses petits... et fatigue, énormément.
S'il vous plaît, si vous pouvez, faites un don à mon amie 🙏 ❤️ ou au moins, partagez mon message afin qu'il atteigne les bonnes personnes :boost_request: 🕊️
Merci !
https://chuffed.org/project/161617
#Gaza #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #FediForGaza #HelpChildren #Children #SaveChildren #SaveGaza #FreeGaza
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Presenting to you, the #Adult, #Bold, #Romantic, #Erotic, #Hot, #Bedroom, #Honeymoon, #Kissing, #Fuck & #Sex #Scene of #RoopaNataraj with #RakinK ( #Rakin ) and #RanjanShetty from the #India ( #Indian ) #Kannada #Sandalwood #Movie ( #Film ) - #MissMallige ( #2014 ) - #Part - #2.
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Presenting to you, the #Adult, #Bold, #Romantic, #Erotic, #Hot, #Bedroom, #Honeymoon, #Kissing, #Fuck & #Sex #Scene of #RoopaNataraj with #RakinK ( #Rakin ) and #RanjanShetty from the #India ( #Indian ) #Kannada #Sandalwood #Movie ( #Film ) - #MissMallige ( #2014 ) - #Part - #1.
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Flathub has set their Discourse forum to read-only due to lack of participation. "Realistically, it never took off, becoming another issue tracker to keep an eye on. A forum where people post and wait for an answer that never comes is worse than no forum at all."
Seems like the right decision. It's a shame there's not a good catch-all discussion forum for Linux users, or maybe there is and I don't follow it... but it's not entirely sustainable for every project to have to maintain their own forum.
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Post-graduate depression
No one talks about the depression, hopelessness, and anxiety that fresh university graduates face. They suffer silently, wondering what to do next and how to find opportunities. Even their families often don’t understand what they are going through. Many gradu…
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Watching and listening to some of the voters being interviewed and how they talk about feeling betrayed I would laugh if it wasn’t so sad. If the politician that is running for an office has no integrity and is an unethical, immoral, dishonest liar, convicted criminal don’t be surprised when elected they don’t keep their promises and commit crimes.
That seems logical, doesn’t it? #USA #America #Voters #Elections #Politicians #Politics -
I broke my 5 night streak of "No Mastodon". Couldn't get to Night 6...
I detailed it on the pawb.fun instance. Tl;dr it did prove being on socials was never good to my brain. I lose sanity and other terrible mind stuff happens to me when I stay here and more so when people actually engage with my stuff...
Anyone who's on Mastodon, or Fediverse isn't at fault. I have a fault in my brain that, in actuality, I don't wanna fix. Being solitary has always been where I felt free, energized, and less sad and feelin' less like shit
So I'll be off now. But I'll leave y'all a nice music from the game I've been bingin' for the meantime I was out. Maybe this time I'll get to Night 7 and beyond, maybe even beyond than that. a 404 Error haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHAmb73qOY
#zenlesszonezero #gaming #linuxgaming #mastodon #fediverse #bear #bears
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CW: Adult Content (For Users - Above Age 18)
Presenting to you the #Adult, #Bold, #Romantic, #Erotic, #Hot, #Bedroom, #Honeymoon, #Kissing, #Fuck & #Sex #Scene of #Bilal ( #Muslim #Boy #Man ) with #Neha ( #Hindu #Bengali #Bangla #Girl #Woman ) from the #Indian #Hindi #Short #Film - #JawaaniKaJosh ( #TheVigorOfYouth ) - #Part - #3.
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The wall str journal tells me that Meta is seeking to raise 95 billion dollars to finance work on AI
Now, regardless of your views on AI, if Meta can raise such a titanic sum of money in Oct of 2026, that tells me that the AI bubble has very much not burst
but I don't actually know anything about AI or corporate finance, I'm just some rando on the internet
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Going to vote today, municipal elections are important too and often are the fulcrum around which real local change can happen. Hell, I should have voted like 2 weeks ago, but still everybody should vote.
Don't let the guilt of being uninformed overwhelm your civic responsibility.
This is the equivalent of trying to go pee before a long car trip even if you don't feel like you have to go, do it anyways.
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Hey
@[email protected]
@[email protected]About your article !
"It’s voting day in Ontario. Here is what you need to know "In case you missed a geography lesson, Ontario does exist beyond Toronto city limits.
This headline is misleading, annoying, and 100% unhelpful for the millions occupying cities, towns, and villages beyond Toronto's city limitsDitch the AI. Don't be so damed lazy on election day!
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12/X thankfully it turned out that it is actually a strain that is susceptible against everything. While it was a relief on one side, I started to become quite angry on my way home. Sure great I finally can sleep in my own bed, I don't have to go through the hell of hardcore organ damaging antibiotics... But it became clear to me what apparently went wrong.
First the hospital in #karlsruhe did seem to have taken the samples for the microbiology two days after the operation, thus the delay. They didn't seem to have done a blood culture at all which would have been important to monitor if bacteria are in the blood stream and if there is a risk of sepsis or other abscess forming. This is actually quite vital. At least from my book knowledge.... You do God damn imaging to rule out if there are multiple abscesses. Finally discharging me without either a day off antibiotics to see if swelling returns or having the antibiogram so I could take oral antibiotics at home is a big no no and really makes me angry.
Coz what happened? 3 days later I'm back in a clinic coz the swelling returned.
Okay while #heidelberg is my employer and I really like it there as a patient and a employee... Nothing of what happened was required and at least in my perception it's a terrible level of care.
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@Seirdy every time these thoughts pass through my brain, it imagines how other every-day tools could be so much worse in the same fashion.
You want to grep for something in a file? Just watch this 30sec unskippable video first.
Oh, you'd like to use less(1) on the output of a command, don't mind that it has injected extra lines of advertising in the display.
"Would you like to improve your social graph by connecting to other folks who also use cat(1)?"
ls(1), now with cloud-storage options. It only takes a 30-second time-out to list your files now while we try to connect to our private servers but fail because the machine is offline…
The first time #awk runs, it offers you the ability to download new visual themes and colorschemes for your output.
📎 👀 "It looks like you're trying to replace words in a file with sed. Would you like some assistance? [yes] no"
New and improved tr(1), now with your favorite LLM integrations.
😑
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#26 Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Generally considered the worst of the Karnstein trilogy (quadrilogy, considering there's a throwaway line in Captain Kronos?), although I think Hammer fans generally overstate the quality of its median output--e.g., this is not a better film than, say, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, but I don't think it's categorically worse, either.
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Sarcator – The Ones We Follow Review By Creeping IvyLast year, Sarcator flew under the radar with a pretty rad platter. On the heels of their mixed sophomore outing, 2025’s Swarming Angels & Flies served up delectable blackened thrash with necrotic notes and refreshing traditional/surf-rock side dishes. A year later, I’m surprised to see them already plating The Ones We Follow. Also surprising was word that this Swedish trio has all but abandoned thrash on album four, adopting a flavor profile they don with a curious descriptor: ‘death’s rock.’ Skepticism-inducing as any major sonic shift should be, the rock elements of Swarming Angels & Flies did elevate my excitement over Sarcator’s riffy brand of thrash with the crispy skin. In turning this element into the main course, I’m left wondering if these young Swedes returned to the kitchen prematurely.
Despite the generic shift, Sarcator still retain the unhinged aggression characterizing their blackened thrash menu. Indeed, guitarist/vocalist Mateo Tervonen belts an acerbic ‘owww!’ on opener “The Ones We Follow,” with drummer Jesper Rosén speeding between kit pieces underneath. It’s the guitar work, however, that distinguishes old from new Sarcator. Rather than relying on syncopated palm mutes and serpentine riffs, Tervonen and Leo Buchalle favor twangy licks and careening power chords. The solos also affirm this new, ‘classic’ approach, adding bluesy soul into the mix. Almost rockabilly in nature, it’s as if Hellripper collided with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. As the record progresses, Sarcator introduce a host of country western elements—slide guitar, harmonica, the occasional snake rattle—with big Wayfarer1 energy (“Volatile Insight,” “Ain’t Fit to Live”). These country western-isms might imply a seismic shift, but it’s not as if Sarcator sound like a completely different band. The sandwich is now (western-tinged) rock, but its wrapper is still youthful, abrasive, and—yes—blackened.
Sarcator build this batch of tunes atop time-tested chord progressions, with Tervonen’s vocals tasked with cutting through the listener’s palette. For the most part, he delivers. The choruses on “In Search of Oblivion” and “Volatile Insight” hit the sweet spot between attitude and stickiness through deliberate spacing and cadence. Tervonen’s tongue trills are tantalizing, becoming a bit of a signature throughout. Not every song, however, strikes a salutary balance. “The Underground Streets” could pay off its guitar earworm with a stronger vocal hook, while “Bleeding Ages” is in need of memorability. Penultimate country rocker “Wasteland Strider” tosses a vocal curveball, containing clean singing before it gets death n’ rolling. It’s a jarring change that, while well executed, feels a little like variety for variety’s sake this late in the album. Production-wise, Tervonen’s voice is a bit more prominent in the mix than I’d like, at the expense of melodic support from the bass.2 But overall, The Ones We Follow sounds open and punchy, with Tervonen’s voice commanding deserved attention.
While not their longest meal, The Ones We Follow pits a girthy album length against a mostly immediate vibe. Shorter songs like “The Ones We Follow” and “You Gotta Possess Me” kill it, kicking in the door with controlled chaos. The clash between immediacy and girth, however, reveals itself mostly in the album’s epics. Seven-minute centerpiece “Rotting Chapels” implies scope with its key-changing buildup, but it ends up sounding like a longer version of the abrasive surf rock heard earlier. Meanwhile, closer “Wanderlust” epitomizes its title, wandering from mid-paced cowboy bumps to “Hot for Teacher”-style fretboard gymnastics and harmonica-sweetened blues dirt. It’s highly entertaining stuff, skirting the line between jamming and riff salad-ing. The album’s 50 minutes may look long on paper, but there’s enough head-turning developments to keep things interesting. The Dire Straits-y ending to “Rotting Chapels” comes to mind, as does the brush-fueled gallop in “Bleeding Ages.”
Leaving me a little hungry at first, The Ones We Follow ultimately won me over with its blackening of a more rustic protein. I applaud Sarcator for daring to change, and there’s lots of tasty stuff on here, with nothing off-putting. Still, The Ones We Follow could elevate its addictive attitude and classic songwriting with more vocal hooks and judicious editing. What crystal clear, however, is that the members of Sarcator are having a hell of a lot of fun here, rocking out and experimenting in equal measure. I’ll continue following these Swedes in the future, as they show signs of following The Ones We Follow with something seriously sumptuous.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2026 #30 #BlackenedThrashMetal #DeathMetal #DireStraits #Hellripper #Oct26 #ReigningPhoenixMusic #Review #Reviews #Rock #Sarcator #ShadowyMenOnAShadowyPlanet #SwedishMetal #TheOnesWeFollow #ThrashMetal #Wayfarer
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Websites: Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook
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There's a Christmas fell race about 5 minutes from our front door, so I got the bright idea to run the course today, to see if I could do it before entering.
Well, I can, but just. 8km, 3 laps, a brutal climb and a brutal descent. Exhilarating and terrifying. I got lost three times, more on the second lap, confusingly. And my post-run legs don't look too bad with the blood washed off.
(Toadstools were not consumed)
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"[BBC] Internal editorial guidelines show how such influence translates into practice. The #BBC style guide, for example, omits #Gaza from the occupied territory and specifies the #Israeli Government’s “preferred” description of the #WestBank and Gaza as “disputed’’ territories, without indicating that this iscontrary to international law. [The] BBC also makes the misleading statement that 'outposts don’t mean settlements'" -- @FranceskAlbs
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#WordWeavers 26/10: Share a moment from your WIP when a character says one thing but means something completely different.
From the 1950's, Ethea speaking:
I asked one of the girl privates “How would you tell the guys that you thought it was a beautiful morning?
“She replied, “Isn’t it a beautiful day?”“Do you know what that guy would think if you said “Isn’t it a beautiful day?”
“I don’t know, what?”
I said, “Doesn’t she know? Why is she asking me that? I know she’s not blind, she can see it’s a beautiful day, why would she ask it as a question?
“In other words, what you think of as polite in girl sounds like some kind of weird indecision in boy.
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I very recently discovered that web browsers can now do composited blur with the "backdrop-filter: blur" CSS rule. Very cool! This solves a problem I had worked around for decades (using linear gradients) on my personal website's menu items.
However, this made me discover and report a rendering bug in GNOME Web (Epiphany) and other WebKitGTK-based browsers: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328821
Firefox (Gecko), Chromium (Blink) and Safari (WebKit) don't seem to be affected.
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Look at this endless line of empty pots in Gaza. Behind every pot is a hungry child, and behind every mother is a heart breaking because she cannot feed her children. My Jouri and Hamza deserve food, not another day of hunger. 😭🇵🇸
🙏 Please, don’t scroll past us. Any donation, no matter how small, could help feed my children. If you can’t donate, please share and boost our voices. 💔
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Huh. Fun. Apparently one of my websites has a task that runs on Cron every 5 minutes. And there's a task that should run once a day. But it ran twice on Sunday morning, because the clocks changed! So I got an email at old 1am and at new 1am.
Looks like it uses `strtotime()` on a last run date and compares to 00:00:00 "today". So the stored date must not include a timezone (or parsing drops it) and so "midnight today DST" is then yesterday once we fall out of DST, and so it runs again 1h later.
(And my server probably uses DST because it means that I see timestamps in "normal" format and don't need to convert them from UTC in my head for half of the year!)
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#ScribesAndMakers
October 23thKetchup
Our next featured creator enjoys hiking.
Do you enjoy being outdoors, and if so, does it have an impact on your creativity?Yes, I enjoy being out in the woods for various reasons. But I don't think it really has any impact on creativity.
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Me, to wife yesterday:
Brazil holds elections on Sunday so everyone can vote. Provides free transport to polling stations so everyone can vote. And voting is mandatory at the risk of a fine. The results are out in hours.
US goes out of its way to make voting as hard as possible, gerrymander those who still vote, and use every trick (and lots of money) to stop the count where they don't like. The results take a week and lawsuits.Today I read that Bolsanaro's mayors tried the US approach of hobbling voting infra. And he's following his dad (and Trump) in not recognising the results.
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ahh now times are getting interesting!
> Outside the seven largest tech companies, AI technology has so far brought U.S. companies “zero financial payoff.”
> There is still no evidence that AI is boosting productivity
> Established U.S. companies don’t need the latest AI models and aren’t willing to pay for them.