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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Book Birthday! Our book "Hi, Earth" is turning one today!

If you want to read it, you can get it from any book store and our online shop (signed even!) :)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Congrats to Anthropic for vibe leaking all their IP online.

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

Probably for the best

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

cowhomology

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

friend asked me about sheaves and cohomology and i'm half wondering if this is an elaborate prank

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

"A massive Easter sale and a preview of my next book (out late 2026)"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/easter-sale-and-the-toy-factory/

So for this Easter I'm making an experiment

Instead of trying to find time in between projects to work on my next book, I'm attempting to fund that work by offering a preview of it as a part of a Easter sale bundle

Those who buy the bundle or the preview also get to join a newsletter where I document the progress of the book over the coming months and, once it's out, a copy of the final version

jwz wrote:

Happy "techbros and incels try to monetize comedy without understanding it" day to all who celebrate

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

Great News: brennan.day is being acquired! | 🔗 https://brennan.day/great-news-brennan-day-is-being-acquired/

#Announcements #Blogging #IndieWeb #Ad

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

when your joke homepage is unironically better than the bland distillation it replaced

https://kagi.com - can we keep it?

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

@kagihq can we keep the new homepage?

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

blogged: I quit. The clankers won.

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/01/i-quit-the-clankers-won/

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

Guess what! omg.lol turns 7 this month. :prami_contented:

Guess what else! We’re offering a super limited number of lifetime membership slots. If you’re interested, grab one while they last.

More info here: https://home.omg.lol/birthday

:prami_happy:

jwz wrote:

Me last year: "It's weird that they're calling the Supergirl movie 'Woman of Tomorrow' because that miniseries was depressing and cool and unfilmable, must be just the name."
Me yesterday: "I stand corrected."

Boosted by jwz:
Mjack@petrous.vislae.town wrote:

Googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m just sober.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
joel@fosstodon.org ("Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy:") wrote:

New #Blogpost!

I prefer to read (and to write) an unpolished, human website.

This post is unpolished, says nothing new, doesn't take into account every angle, and it's even kinda rushed, but it's mine, so anyway.

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/unpolished-human-websites

This is day 39 of #100DaysToOffload

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.

~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.

This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
gajim@fosstodon.org ("Gajim") wrote:

Gajim 2.4.5 has been released! 🎉

Gajim now lets you know when somebody reacted to one of your messages 👍 😎
It also comes with automatic timezone updates ⌚ and improvements for macOS, and bugfixes

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2026-03-30-gajim-2.4.5-released/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ybon@amicale.net ("Yohan Boniface") wrote:

Imagine a small open source phone running #linux, that fits in your pocket and you can control from your laptop when plugged in ? Like type an SMS with a real keyboard, receive notifications within your desktop UI…

Experimenting with SMS, DBus forwarding, Gtk…

Powered by @postmarketOS !

#dumbphone #slowphone #mobilelinux

Attachments:

• video: Sending an SMS from KaiOS, received on a Linux laptop (with desktop notification), answered from the laptop, and then answered again from another phone, running Linux

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
jchaven@social.sdf.org ("Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡") wrote:

My new small web site. All HTML and CSS. No frameworks, no Javascript, no commercial interests. #SmallWeb

https://duncarin.com/posts/new-site/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
gaim@fosstodon.org ("Gaim Universal Chat Client") wrote:

We're back!!! https://gaim.imfreedom.org/

#OpenSource #Pidgin #Messaging

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

If anyone goes to non-furry events with 1000+ attendees, pitch this to their board.

Let's make every event offer harm reduction.

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

If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.

Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.

https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@normative.bsky.social

#ThomasPaine #American #history

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

I am 43 years old and I am happier with my body than I have been at any time in my life. I don't know what I expect you to do with this information but it's true.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

A developer ecosystem optimized for LLM usage is as bad as a city optimized for cars.

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A game I play when I write a multi-part thread about a matter of public interest that I have expertise about is timing how long it will take before someone accuses me of having some loathsome position that is not even remotely hinted at or implied by anything I wrote.

Today's winner was 13 minutes.

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

**laughs maniacally, but in a fight for the human kind of way**

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

I can't believe I got away with writing a TECH BOOK that's about SOFTWARE TEAMS and the research and science in it is fundamentally about COMPASSION and BELONGING and MOTIVATION and COALITION BUILDING

Boosted by jwz:
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.