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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
boredzo ("Peter Hosey") wrote:

I'm back on the job market! Open to employee or contract work. I live in San Francisco.

Today's my last day as a data engineer at Hockeystick Data. I've previously worked as a software QA engineer at Apple, among other things.

Feel free to connect on LinkedIn or email me: hire @ boredzo.org

My résumé: https://boredzo.org/resume

#FediHire #GetFediHired

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I'm not saying the Ubuntu outage is AI-related, but you have to appreciate the comedy of the timing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/ubuntus-ai-roadmap-revealed-universal-ai-kill-switch-and-forced-ai-integration-are-not-part-of-the-plan-cloud-tracking-local-inference-and-agentic-system-tools-take-center-stage

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116488045155292546

He's trying to blow up the moon

we keep saying "bond villain" or "batman villain" but maybe "simpsons villain" is closer to the truth

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jalefkowit "For the last fifteen years I have painstakingly labored to bring the classic fable, 'Authoritarians Are Evil People Who Will Do Evil And You Have To Stop Them, By Killing Them With Guns, Like I Did In The Spanish Civil War in 1937, When I Killed A Bunch Of Them With Guns', to life on the big screen, with its enduring universal message, 'we all have good within us and all life is precious no matter your where you land on the political compass'"

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

@soatok It is curious that LLMs are actually far more suited to replacing managers than they are at replacing ICs, but no one seems to be driving that conversation for some reason.

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

We should start making the case to shareholders that AI doesn't need a golden parachute

Replace the C-Suite instead of the workers

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

and to the … third person? in one day? dang I gotta liveblog more conferences

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope") wrote:

In his latest “Pivot to AI” OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due, @davidgerard (accurately) says: “#OpenAI works by setting as much money as it can on fire, as fast as possible.”

But I want to know: if we had $200B in, say, $100 notes, and we literally set them on fire:

• would it dispose of the money faster? How long would it take?
• would the impact on the environment be worse or less bad?

I gotta think there is someone on the #fediverse with the wherewithal to figure this out. Surely if we boost this, it will nerdsnipe the right person and we will learn the answer.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Here’s that blog post, as promised! https://omglol.news/2026/04/30/social-lol-is-gonna-go-glitchy-in-a-good-way

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

Solitar during the fursuit dance competition at FWA25

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA25 #ArtShare #Art #Wolf #DanceCompetition #Nikon

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

booba tea

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY #retrocomputing lovelies!

I gave a talk at LinuxFest NorthWest about #Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net

You should give it a watch <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJsGNIDjtc

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Everything will be wrong about it. It is architected and implemented in confusing ways under conflicting demands you will likely not have insight into and, of course, too little time.

To reduce your frustration, you must accept these things. The prior developers did their best just as you will now do your best. Be at peace with that.

You will be tempted to throw up your hands and rewrite everything! That is folly. Despite all the apparent (to you) imperfections, the code or device now works as intended. Any changes must be done cautiously with an eye to only making necessary improvements or fixing bugs.

After all, if things stop working after one of your "improvements", it will now be *your* problem and it will reflect on you, not the people you inherited the project from.

There will be opportunity for new development, but you must choose your moments.

Add tests as you can! Automate builds! Document! Leave it better!

You are doing your best!

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

when adjusted for inflation, that means Brent crude oil’s all-time high probably occurred in June 2008 at approximately $186 per barrel in today’s dollars.

Iran does not need to win Trump’s War, they just have to not lose. buckle your seat belts, Gentle Humanoids. these next few years may be a bit of a rough ride.

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

you know sometimes you get asked something and your head just fills with the most inappropriate joke and you have to stop yourself?

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

if memory serves me, Brent crude oil reached its highest price in history at about 139 or 149 dollars per barrel in March of 2022, following Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine. I will be surprised if we do not see that record smashed within 90 days.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jalefkowit micro-dosing economic reality

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

pringle shape

okay yes, this is much better than 'saddle' for describing negative curvature. i grew up in the countryside and i know what a pringle looks like better than a saddle

Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

The sooner this bubble pops, the better.

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

lake inferior

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

that's this hull btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston%5Fupon%5FHull

if you didn't know (and frankly why would you if you aren't from the uk?), it's a shithole, literally the butt of jokes for the rest of the country.

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

setoid hull

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

omg.lol downtime may run a little longer than planned, but will be back up and running shortly. Very sorry!

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
oldperl@mastodon.online ("Ortwin Pinke") wrote:

Durch Zufall auf den interessanten Ansatz von @adele mit #smolweb gestoßen.

Finde die Idee eigentlich richtig smart, gerade so mancher (#Wordpress) Blog könnte sehr von einem einfacheren Frontend profitieren.
Was ich nicht gefunden habe, ist ein Demo-Frontend und ein entsprechendes Repository.

Kennt jemand Seiten, die mit smolweb umgesetzt sind, außer den Seiten auf
https://smolweb.org ?

#webentwicklung #web #webseite #development

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Doing a bit of emergency maintenance, courtesy of Copy Fail (https://copy.fail, CVE-2026-31431). Everything is being patched and rebooted. You’ll see brief downtime across omg.lol & Neatnik services. Sorry for the inconvenience and short notice! Critical vulnerability remediation happens on its own (unpredictable) schedule. 😬

When all maintenance is complete, https://status.neatnik.net will be updated. Sorry, again, for the disruption!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@Wally/116495532638300189

this is the Cat Hicks Experience

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh wow and thank you again to the person who immediately signed up within minutes of these posts. any support is tremendously gratifying but it's also particularly nice to be reminded "oh right, self-promotion isn't totally pointless, people can't offer support if they don't know that it's a thing"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I was early to this party, talking in 2018 about you, as one person, can only do one person's worth of contribution and you need to get used to that idea. Pretty sure it was in this fairly well-attended talk, even. And yet even I have trouble keeping it in mind. <https://pyvideo.org/pygotham-2018/the-automatic-computer-and-you-a-meditation-upon-the-history-and-future-of-software-development.html>

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

trying to Trust The Process as I copy-edit my own writing and absolutely l,oathe reading it, because although the sensation is not good it is a real leading indicator that I'm getting close to done

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Uhhhh does anyone here know someone at Canonical