Hendrik Crause

Data Engineer, new dad and wantepreneur

[Hendrik Crause @HendrikCrause]

@WarrenInTheBuff Hot take: agents writing short python utilities for their own use is actually fine

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@WarrenInTheBuff I just found out what astra is and I now know why I don’t have to care

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@WarrenInTheBuff I don’t know what Astra is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

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@DanielW_Kiwi Some of it is politics and cultural decline that everyone usually points to. But I actually think the biggest contributor is volume. We have 1000x more media being produced at 100x the pace. Good writing and ideas just cannot scale like that

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@DanielW_Kiwi Morally eating any animal is fine. What would make it immoral is how the animal is treated when alive and the manner in which it’s killed

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@SledgeDev I’ve always preferred by keyboard

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@WarrenInTheBuff So we’re free to do whatever then?

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@DanielW_Kiwi Yeah, never tried it, and at my current lack of fitness level not trying it any time soon. Well done still

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Sitting in the playpen with baby on my chest, nothing quite like it

[Yvette 🇺🇲 MAGA Afrikaner @movingfwdinhope]

I keep hearing: “White South Africans need a Plan B.” “If you don’t have one by now, you’re delusional.” “Just leave.”

Fine. I agree. Have a Plan B. Hell, have C, D and E too if you can.

But JUST LEAVE where?

Botswana? Namibia? Mozambique? Europe? Canada? Australia? The UK?

Under what visa? With what qualifications? What sponsor? What proof of funds? What work rights? And once you get there, are you actually allowed to STAY?

People throw country names around like immigration is booking a holiday. It isn’t. You can’t just arrive somewhere and say, “We believe we’re being persecuted in South Africa” and expect residency, work rights and a new life. You still have to qualify under that country’s laws.

And THIS is why the U.S. refugee pathway meant so much to so many people.

For people who genuinely believed they were facing persecution, it was a legal protection route that looked at something completely different from normal immigration. Not “Do you have the right degree?” “Are you rich enough?” “Can an overseas employer sponsor you?” but “Do you qualify for protection?”

There are plenty of people here who would be damn good additions to any community. They can work, build businesses, pay taxes, raise families, volunteer, adapt and start again. What they may not have is a degree on a skills list, a second passport, a foreign employer or a huge pile of money.

That doesn’t make them useless. It means most normal immigration doors are shut.

That’s why people were willing to gather documents, travel for interviews, do medicals, undergo screening and jump through every hoop. Not because they wanted a “free ride”, but because for once there was a LEGAL door that might actually lead somewhere they could live, work and stay, with a bit of help finding their feet.

So yes, tell people to have a Plan B. I agree.

But before telling someone to “just leave”, answer this:

Where? How? Legally? And can they stay?

Fokkit mense, dink net asb. If it were as easy as buying a plane ticket, do you honestly think so many people would still be here desperately looking for a way out?

[Hendrik Crause @HendrikCrause]

@WarrenInTheBuff You know bad devs? Brother ew

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@DanielW_Kiwi How in the hell is a machine trained by breaking every copyright rule that has ever existed too afraid of breaking copyright?

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@DanielW_Kiwi Imagine being able to do normal human interactions

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@WarrenInTheBuff Been a minute

[Koketso Resane 🇿🇦 @KoketsoResane]

Racial quotas have a funny way of funnelling top talent to the other side of the world where no one is stupid enough to enforce racial quotas.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Another typical headline from South Africa, the most race-regulated country in the world.

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@Willrandship @DanielW_Kiwi Filing for electrical permits seems like a legal hurdle to me (even if it’s not a tall one)

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@Willrandship @DanielW_Kiwi No approval needed from the city?

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@SledgeDev Honestly not the worst thing you could dip in your coffee