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

@owa Apple's WebKit neglects since '10 never rose to the level of a problem for Fruit Co.; only the theat of fines and competition did.

So, if you you want good things to keep arriving, it isn't enough to genuflect towards 280. We must demand real browser competition, and a tech press that gets it.

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

@owa Progress on the web depends on competition. This is foundational, from bug fix responsiveness to the legitimacy of web standards. And Apple has put all of it at risk to keep taking 30% from in-app purchases in "casual games". It's dressed up in a lot of frippery, but that's what's going on:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

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

@owa The credibility of that threat is in question, however, because the tech press are bungling the biggest app store story of the past 15 years and regulators are pulling punches in the face of Apple's maximal campaign of delay and half-truths:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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

Amazing post. I hope web devs understand this as downstream of antitrust pressure on Apple re: iOS & other browsers.

@owa won the headcount Apple poured in since '20 because it allowed them to claim engagement w/o threatening the app store. Even the *threat* of competition has created a sea change in user's favour:

https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-css-expansion

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/ Another really good article. I've not finished reading it yet but it's good enough to share before I do.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“These apps will win awards at the next all-hands. In two years they’ll be unmaintainable tech debt some poor soul inherits and rewrites from scratch.”

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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robert@rah.social ("Robert A. Hill") wrote:

I don't think I have ever read a more concise and yet thorough explanation of my own observations, conclusions, and fears as a 20+ year veteran technology professional and 15 year SRE veteran.

We are actively tearing down the hard fought wins for ourselves and our customers in the chase for the MBAs and business idiots and the institutional knowledge and processes that solved huge problems are the victims of this AI circlejerk.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

For those feeling whipsawed by current events...

It all begins to make sense when you realize today is just another day of market manipulation.

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divya@sfba.social wrote:

This made me laugh but also it's AMAZING???

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUHxe6iBi4/

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ScottEdelman@wandering.shop ("Scott Edelman") wrote:

Horrified to hear Mark Evanier had a mountain of original comic book art stolen from his home. Here's his list of the missing pages, some so famous the images pop into my head from the titles and issue numbers alone. Please reach out to him with any leads. https://www.newsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Artwork-Stolen-From-Mark-Evanier.pdf

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why does Third Way have to be Like That

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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

@domi @videolan inside you, are two outlooks. neither of them are working. But VLC works every time

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
domi@donotsta.re ("dmi 💽 ") wrote:

\o/ VLC in space

@videolan

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

If you looked carefully, you might have spotted this Y2K readiness sticker on the last photo.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you

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

Sure, this timeline sucks, but also and perhaps worse, it is deeply embarrassing

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

This Dasher line famously inspired Severance set design…

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116371937587992264

This. That said, this isn't an all/nothing thing. What Google has done to Search (and to be clear, not just AI overviews) is a travesty, the clearest enshittification. And LLM models are absolutely enabling this. But to say "LLM bad" is oversimplifying. On net they may be, but there's a lot of good uses. This, this is not one of them.

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Yeah so let's refocus on the real perspective here. It doesn't matter at all how good these models are at code or finding vulnerabilities if we destroy our ability to seek and share knowledge.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

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marcedwards ("Marc Edwards") wrote:

I can confirm Creative Cloud has added to my /etc/hosts file.

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason: https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

SEIU California un-endorses Scott Wiener for S.F. Congress for opposing CEO tax

The CEO tax was placed on the ballot to avoid layoffs by local labor unions, including San Francisco branches of SEIU

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-congress-scott-wiener-seiu-union/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@stux I watched that video this morning! Love Christophe; he covers such varied, interesting topics. This one in particular feels relevant to a lot of people who unfortunately probably aren’t watching his videos :(

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

Something very weird is happening on Tinder

Some Tinder users have started noticing a strange new kind of profile. Swipe through the photos and everything looks normal — until you hit the last one.

That's where things get weird. The final photo always shows a face that doesn't quite fit: sometimes silly, sometimes unsettling. I went down a rabbit hole of stolen identities and catfishing schemes to figure out what's really going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjxAYdUe8uU

#FaceCheck #Tinder #scammers

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"It has been proposed that technology choice was influenced by a Victorian 'separate spheres' ideology, where the gasoline car was signified as a masculine object, while the identification of electric cars with women 'took hold early and tenaciously'. [Early] gasoline cars were dirty, were prone to breakdowns and had to be cranked to be started, and required some degree of mechanical skills, while electric cars were clean, reliable, and aesthetically appealing.

The gasoline car’s disadvantages reinforced masculine mechanical prowess, whereas the simplicity of electric cars was viewed as feminine."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424001242

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

The slow part of software is NOT the initial generation of software. It's the maintenance and review of it.

If your management is pushing for 10x programmer output, hell even 40% more programmer output, what they're asking for is a stability crisis. There's no way around it. That's how it is right now.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Can't tell you how many times I have heard about a friend's company needing to send an apology email to customers about downtime and flakiness due to AIgen commits that were poorly reviewed and misunderstood

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

The stupidest man ever to hold the office of president has, in keeping with his history of, well, everything, just made things so much worse, for years if not decades to come.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/iran-war-trump-22196071.php

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tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

Important Note!

#Roku is forcing us to update our minimum device firmware targets by October 1, 2026. Currently we support old Roku OS versions going back into Roku OS 12, but they are forcing us to change the minimum to Roku OS 15.1.

Releases will be blocked if we do not make this change.

Y'all on older devices that are no longer updated or y'all who block automatic Roku updates have 3 options that I can see.

1. Buy a new device
2. Stop receiving #Jellyfin for Roku updates after October 1, 2026
3. Sideload the Jellyfin app, knowing some things may stop working as we make required changes to support OS 15.1

We'll communicate with y'all as we start work on supporting this, but know IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF US! We're being forced to do this, so if you're affected, contact Roku.

Don't yell at us. 😐

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

Ah, I see another fatuous middle-aged white man is going to bloviate on things he knows nothing about on his very own podcast

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

how to get a 12V to talk to a 48V

a transformer?