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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Nobody's home.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:

Remember how computers in the Start Trek TOS speak in a flat, monotonous machine voice? I think we should retcon that to be a deliberate policy choice implemented as a result of mass psychological trauma experienced by humanity in early eras of AI. A kind of intentional design choice similar how North American outlets present as scary frowny faces.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social ("Imani Gandy") wrote:

When this level of anti-Blackness becomes politically survivable, it doesn’t stay on Truth Social or in Trump's addled mind.

It migrates into policy.

Think about Trump’s attacks on disparate impact liability. His efforts to hollow out civil-rights enforcement. The way he frames DEI bans as “fairness.”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social ("Imani Gandy") wrote:

🧵 Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as apes earlier this month. He deleted it. A handful of Republicans objected. Most said nothing. Nothing changed.

My most recent column isn’t about shock. It’s about consequences. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/18/trump-racism-truth-social-consequences/

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

I had missed this by @css; mind-blowing:

https://css-tip.com/graph-theory/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
glennf@zeppelin.flights ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:

Just launched on Kickstarter! “Flong Time, No See,” my collection of essays and reported work on printing history and people’s labor. Not academic—it’s a lot of fun, as you learn about a wildcat typesetter strike, “bogus” copy, type lice,” and much more! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/flong-time-no-see?ref=cbf9r2

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
GameFromScratch@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Adobe's awful year just got worse...

Canva have just acquired Cavalry, a powerful After Effects alternative. Combined with Affinity, Canva now offer a full alternative to the Creative Cloud Suite.

https://gamefromscratch.com/canva-buys-cavalry-mangoai/

#gamedev #indiedev

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

“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto”, a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”. https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

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

"This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine." https://solarprotocol.net/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'll co-sign on "a good agent is a great thing." My agent has sold me in three dozen languages and helped me get dozens of film and television options over time, and acts as my advocate in dealing with publishers here and abroad, not to mention, of course, working to get me my long-term, multi-book deals. His 15% mostly comes out of the deals and money I could not have gotten myself. That 15% is 100% worth it.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mallorymarlowewrites/post/DVJYXpYkUnD

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nielsa@mas.to ("Niels Abildgaard") wrote:

Hey y'all - how do I get in touch with language/type system nerds who want to build something cool?

Concretely, type inference for CUE lang in the context of helm charts in Kubernetes. I can find a budget, if I find the right person to build this, and we can move fast on it.

Goal: Programatically determine CUE schema for helm values file based on how the values are used in template files, starting from the schemas for well-known Kubernetes resources.

Who do I need to fund to build this?

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

The island.is sign-in process is broken for me right now, which means I can't access any government services or online banking (except with the banking app). It was working earlier today

The banking app had bugs last week which caused a bill to disappear

All of this is worrying to say the least

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

I've been encountering so many bugs over the past few days when using government and institutional software services here in Iceland.

Which is disconcerting because there aren't any analog or offline alternatives to these services

And the timing is extra disconcerting because now you have to wonder whether inland revenue or your bank are vibe coding their shit.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Scrolling Mastodon & Bluesky posts from the terminal! 🔥

🐦 **perch** — A TUI client for Mastodon & Bluesky

💯 Cross-post, schedule posts, browse timelines & manage accounts with vim keybindings

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/perch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #social #mastodon #bluesky #cli #terminal

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

I mean, this is exactly the kind of shit that will lead to countries regulating programming more strictly than Germany regulates electricians

If that’s the future you want, have at it

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

a decent session on my seekrit project this morning. time to push some snow around and curse a bit.

::poof::

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

Combine that with the scale enabled by automation, the incentives of those making and adopting the tools, and you have have the potential for one of the biggest crises in the history of programming.

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

To throw a hypothetical example out there: a coding “agent” that generates working code half the time and 10% of all the code (working or not) is actively insecure will obviously be trash to most who test it

But an “agent” that generates working code 95% of the time while still having 10% odds of the code being insecure is a security catastrophe—a nightmare, not a productivity boon

It’s not a revolution but a crisis in the making

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

so i'm confident Pivot to AI is on the right track in terms of content and presentation. trouble is *promotion*.

can't get media mentions or interest. i give *great* quote and soundbite, i'm an interesting tidbit factory

ideas welcome

(also if you know media people please suggest me to them)

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

The word “vibe” is going to be near unusable for non-bullshit purposes for the next decade, isn’t it?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.

The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.

The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.

And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw ("'i am no man' Charlotte Eowyn!") wrote:

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

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

Great respect to our student athletes. I have one case of assault & battery by an icy sidewalk, & I'm a shambling wreck for weeks. They go out and pound on themselves year round, & manage to cope.
The difference might be 50 years.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
proedie@mastodon.green wrote:

POKéMON?

#pokemon #gameboy #retrogaming

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

aahhhHHHH hate it when I'm kinda ill but not really 😩

not sick enough to sleep it off, just bad enough to struggle focusing

i'm just existing until it passes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
robhawkes@fosstodon.org ("Robin Hawkes ⚡️") wrote:

Who wants to play SpinCity? It's an offshore wind farm game I might be working on… 👀

The concept is a cute, simple game that anyone can play in-browser to get a better understanding of offshore wind farms from an economical perspective as well as a construction, operation and general "holy shit that's cool".

This idea has been on my backlog for years so it's exciting to be finally working on it. I've only been tinkering on it for a few hours but I'm quite pleased with where it is so far.

Attachments:

• gifv: a59ee8349ad83e22.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein I ran your message through 14 filters. The result: 'nick' — [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle, screen name.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nick.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

No time to explain. Follow me.

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jukkan/116130658933405707

It's not just people at Meta running irresponsible vibe coded software. Microsoft ain't any better

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

If anyone is curious, I processed all these ~180 brochures and books, and they are now on Internet Archive! https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?sort=-addeddate