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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mischif@mischivous.com ("Jeremy") wrote:

@soatok Necessary? Of course not. Make me feel cooler and more important than I am, like a named extra in Hackers? Absolutely

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tiff@social.lol wrote:

BREAKING: TECHBROS STILL FUCKING THE 99%

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

Too many people's instinct is to figure out how to get others to do their bidding before learning how to be understood.

And it's so annoying because I've been in the corporate world in some capacity for over two decades and I know all the silly tactics.

I want to be like—before you try to Makaveli me over Zoom, can I interest you in literally any project management book?

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

The problem with the corporate world is everyone's reading the 48 Laws of Power before learning basic communication concepts.

Like, stop trying to amass an empire from your cubicle, Travis, and go read Bird by Bird so people can understand your emails.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shom@gts.shom.dev wrote:

I realize some people will prefer the "vivid" look, I'm not a fan, it's just too much.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewjweinstein.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Andrew Weinstein") wrote:

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America where parents sit in plastic chairs with needles in their arms just to buy baby formula.

The Middle-Class Suburbanites ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

Tony Hoare passed away.

This quote stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity, later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.%5FA.%5FR.%5FHoare#The%5FEmperor's%5FOld%5FClothes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FHoare

Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eric_G@chattrbx.com ("E.G. for Example") wrote:

The next time some Republican howls that voting by non-citizens has doomed our sacred elections, refer them to the right-wing Heritage Foundation's election fraud database, category "Ineligible Voting," subcategory "Alien" = 99 cases in all elections since 1982. There is voter fraud; it's called the SAVE Act.

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

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna mentioned: "As Pres. Trump said, we are winding down the #IranWar."

I say: As long as American Marines are traveling towards Iran, the #IranWar is not winding down.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #military

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

RATM

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

Federal Agents Bust Down Teachers Door, Arrest Him in His Boxers for Protesting ICE

Drew Edwards, a school teacher and business owner, woke up to commotion outside his north Minneapolis home on Feb. 27. Peeking through the blinds, he saw an agent holding a gun, directing him to open the door.

“The brother kicked the door open and broke down the door,” said Edwards. Agents wouldn’t let him dress and pulled a Taser on him.

Full story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/trump-admin-targets-press-and-activists-in-minnesota-indicts-the-righteous-39/

Attachments:

• video: cb330bc9305412e7.mp4

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852426003159

kimchi!

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

@soatok personally if I were an evil HACKER who wanted to steal your DATA I would do it at a conference full of turbo nerds who would catch me immediately instead of a random cafe where nobody is looking

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bloor@bloor.tw ("🆎") wrote:

If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ra6bit@infosec.exchange ("Rabbit") wrote:

@soatok It’s the security equivalent of cargo cults. If the ritual is complex, the protection must be strong!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

Posts by PMs claiming they can now contribute complete features by vibe coding is the scariest shit ever. Not as an engineer but as an inhabitant of this world.

I understand Dunning-Kruger is not a thing but we NEED a term for this kind of ignorance-based overconfidence.

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

A lot of security rituals you hear about from folks online are like this.

This is the kind of culture that leads to giving blanket paranoid security advice without threat modelling first.

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116274789062787020

Tangent, but this is one reason why I don't bother with "burner phones" at DEFCON.

If my day to day security practices are insufficient for DEFCON, they're insufficient for day to day life. I'm just as likely to get attacked in a random cafe.

I roll my eyes a bit at people who insist that burner phones are necessary.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.

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

Trump’s War is going to exacerbate this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/business/middle-class-sell-their-plasma.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Donald Trump is stuck between “a rock and a hard place”
after three weeks of war in Iran
and “sending a message of weakness” to the world
Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director, has told the Guardian.

Panetta, who served in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations,
recalled that national security officials were always keenly aware of Iran’s ability to create an energy crisis by blocking the strait of Hormuz.

That very scenario is now unfolding, leaving Trump with no exit strategy beyond wishful thinking.

“He tends to be naive about how things can happen,”
Panetta, 87, who supervised the operation to find and kill Osama bin Laden, said by phone.
“If he says it and keeps saying it there’s always a hope that what he says will come true.
But that’s what kids do.
It’s not what presidents do.”

Panetta said: “When [Trump] or those around him started publishing pictures of football games,
raising money by using pictures of our dead coming home at Dover [air force base], and doing the kind of tasteless things that he can do,
he’s basically sending a message of weakness, not a message of strength to the world.

“That, unfortunately, is what the world sees right now,
and I can see why he’s having problems trying to get allies to be able to respond when they’re not sure he knows what he’s doing"

“Any other president of the United States would have recognised the mistake and apologise for what happened,”
Panetta remarked.

“He doesn’t do that.
It sends an image of America that kind of fits the ugly American image that a lot of people once had of this country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/trump-iran-leon-panetta?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hmmm.

i've just watched a youtube video wherein someone was talking about getting generative AI to design compounds and then manufacture and test them doesn't suffer from hallucinations because they're testing it and like...

you do realise it's just hallucinating the compound in the first place, right?

jwz wrote:

A Gradle play in two acts.

Act 1:

WARNING: The property android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints improves project import performance for very large projects. It should be enabled to improve performance.

Act 2:

WARNING: The option setting 'android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints=true' is deprecated.

jwz wrote:

About 1 time in 3 when doing a build with Gradle I get:

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact$IncrementalSplitterRunnable
... a thousand lines later...
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

And then the next time it works. So that's exactly the level of quality I've come to expect from Gradle in particular and everything about Android in general.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Little Otis in his box

#CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #cats #catstodon

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

Compare all the major players to OpenAI, and you sort of get the sense that ChatGPT is the Hydrox of the AI market.

Even Meta who doesn't have a household name AI model is so much better positioned than OpenAI.

Meta has the most impressive cloud computing infrastructure and they keep dumping billions into it. Yeah, the Metaverse closed but the datacenters remain.

Hell, Zuck *just* announced a custom AI chip set. Altman, conversely, is jet-setting across the globe begging people for compute.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest #Freebooters podcast with @uoou is up at https://freebooters.uk

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260320-freebooters.mp3

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Found a legendary amount of daffodils yesterday whew

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Bonus, two beauties amongst the daffodils. Serene.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Tried to uninstall Photoshop and got asked to sign in to Adobe Cloud to proceed.

Have you lost your fucking mind, Adobe?!

Nothing says "you don't own this software" like needing permission to delete it.