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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

Anybody want to hire a fullstack js/ts dev with decades of experience and no "ai" taint? I do it all, I look good doing it, I'm cheap as hell, and I don't use rented coding tools so you can own all the code I write for you.

Remote from Canada, Eastern time zone.

#GetFediHired

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

"Microslop" is kind of catchy.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm gonna ask a dumb question—Where did he get the money from?

Someone broke down what it cost to bomb Iran. It was in the billions.

I was taught that Congress controls the "purse stings." That's the check-and-balance, right? Wars cost money. Where'd he get the money from?

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development.

Apply now!

https://www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/Igalia-2026-Coding-Experience-Open-for-Applications.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

how sad, our Assistant is ill. how sad.

"Elevated errors on claude.ai, console, and claude code"

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Heading out of London, and missing it already. #sotb26 was lovely; was great to see so many wonderful people. Seemed "everyone" was there!

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“How to grow strawberries • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

> Sadly, I fear those things are close to impossible to find in the tech industry at the moment.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

In just three short years, OpenAI went from a non-profit organization with a promise to build non-military use AI out in the open, to a secretive for-profit corporation that definitely just signed a contract with the US government to help kill civilians.

And all this *before* he's been able to make AI indispensable to our lives. Can you imagine what he'll be like when he's collecting rents?

When it's all said and done, I think even the tech CEOs will regret giving Altman all that power.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116159406947439938

❝ There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting. ❞

you can't fight the corporate violence of layoffs on your own. that’s why #labor #unions exist.

🗣 SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, #UNIONIZE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rjkwon ("Kwon") wrote:

https://kwon.photos/homestead-food-prep/ mentally i'm still in the mountains... i made a gallery of food prep pics from my month upstate. also finally added alt text and captions functionality, and vibe-coded this UI that i can run on localhost to edit gallery info so i don't have to manually edit jsons. photos edited using @aphera !

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

I think it's often overlooked that AVIF is also really good at flat colour & sharp edges.

Don't go straight for a lossless format just because it's the kind of image that would look bad as a JPEG.

Here's an 11kb image as an AVIF, vs JPEG XL.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Maybe one of the new statues in the Rose Garden looks like this?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/02/theyre-all-cowards/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free%5FPress/116159737401460333

Oh wow, they are not happy.
#SaudiArabia #USA #Iran #geopolitics @geopolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
memeorandum@universeodon.com wrote:

Higher gas prices are likely coming to the pump after oil prices jump in wake of U.S. strikes in Iran (Steve Kopack/NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/oil-prices-iran-strikes-rcna261209
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p13#a260302p13

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RonSupportsYou wrote:

The #IranWar "was a decision made by one man with no legal basis, little public support, and no coherent explanation of an endgame. Within a few months, Mr. Trump has ordered the military to blow up boats in the Caribbean, abduct the leader of Venezuela, and decapitate the government of Iran. The United States, like Israel, now seems to follow no rules, consult few allies and pay little regard to the destruction it leaves behind":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/opinion/trump-iran.html copy: @renewedresistance

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

boo hoo hoo https://status.claude.com/incidents/0ghc53zpsfmt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

Saudi official says "United States abandoned us & redirected its air defense to protect Israel."

"They left all the Gulf states that host American military bases at the mercy of Iranian strikes."
#AureFreePress #News #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

JFC Whisky Pete... get it together

"3 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down in ‘Friendly Fire’ in Kuwait, U.S. Military Says"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/world/middleeast/iran-kuwait-us-attack-planes.html?rsrc=flt&smid=url-share

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Anyway, these thoughts were prompted by @jasongorman tackling an adjacent but separate question of whether "AI" is killing dev jobs (basically, no, not unless it invents time travel).

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/is-ai-killing-software-engineering-jobs/

Which led me to start thinking about how unevenly distributed the job market recovery is likely to be.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The myth of liberal intolerance at colleges is a lie used by conservatives to justify their intolerance and contempt for education.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/02/i-could-have-told-them-that/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The problem with looking at global trends instead of local when it comes to employment is that things are always unevenly distributed. When manufacturing jobs in the US collapsed, the fact that manufacturing jobs grew worldwide didn't help US workers.

If dev hiring ever recovers, which is going to be likelier?

1. companies will rebuild their domestic dev capabilities.

2. They offshore everything.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

today will be a day of serious work on the backstory
https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html

which of course will have an effect upon the architecture document which will roll over onto the server codebase and thus necessitate changes in the server-manager codebase...

one last sprint before I start designing the npcCaptain

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

I love that hackers extracted and published information about thousands of Department of Homeland Security contracts (https://ddosecrets.org/article/ice-contracts) and I love the website that @micahflee built to explore that data set (https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/).

However, I think it's important to understand that this dataset is exclusively research grants, not the contracts with companies like Palantir or Flock. Also, these are not all ICE contracts; they're from all across DHS, of which ICE is only one part. They're also not all currently active: the dataset includes contracts which ended over 20 years ago.

DHS has funded a lot of research projects, some of which I think were even good. So for any company or university you see in this dataset, I suggest digging deeper into what they actually did before deciding they're evil just by association. There certainly are mass surveillance projects and so on in this list, but there are also projects to make 911 calls reliable for people with VoIP phones, and a wide variety of other research.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Also see:
🧵(5/5)
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

⚠️ WRITE TO THE UK'S CMA BY TUESDAY 5pm ⚠️

Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services.

If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 mobilesms@cma.gov.au

See: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/

🧵👇️ (1/5)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: MOOving to a self-hosted Bluesky PDS
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/02/mooving-to-a-self-hosted-bluesky-pds/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I go over the photos, printing process, why there is no EU shipping, and the overall rationale in a bit more detail in my blog post https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/objects-not-data-art-prints/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The final print available is an illustration from @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social's graphic novel, The Cat and I https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/oD4f9 (Again, no EU shipping at the moment)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The third print is one of @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social 's, of a strange little hut.
https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/zp6m4 (No EU shipping at the moment)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The second print is this one of horses in the steamy mist in a pasture just outside of town. https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/G0Tm8 (No EU shipping at the moment)