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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ljs@mastodonapp.uk ("Lorenzo Stoakes") wrote:

the 'k' in printk stands for 'king of debugging'

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cyberlicense@corteximplant.com ("cyberlicense.org") wrote:

Your favorite licensing model wants to sell your art to AI bros? That's really shitty and unethical.

Time for a fresh start!

:neocat_gun: https://cyberlicense.org/

Let's start doing it right together, without greed, without corporations, without AI bullshit.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

When I got started in computer baby-sitting, I met a very old, grizzled IBM engineer.

The one lesson he imparted and that still resonates with me was this: "Never trust a computer to keep a secret, ESPECIALLY a computer connected to a network (any kind of network). If you want to keep a secret, write it on a piece of paper and keep that paper in a safe".

I think of that one often.

https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/114751470630905850

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

such a good point by signal's meredith whittaker about the threat posed by "agentic ai" to the sort of security boundaries we have spent our lives building
https://bsky.app/profile/keithfitzgerald.bsky.social/post/3lsjkat7sjk2w

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

But somehow reframing the question as an act of imagination of somebody helps shine a light on things and maybe provides a hope of imagining better things. It reminds us to keep our eyes on the goals *we* have instead of being pushed around to accommodate the goals of others.

The next time you're disillusioned with something (e.g. tech), maybe ask yourself "Whose imagination are we living in?"

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

Ever since listening to this podcast with Dr. Timnit Gebru[1]:

https://www.techpolicy.press/through-to-thriving-honoring-our-elders-with-dr-timnit-gebru/

I've had the question "Whose imagination are we living in?" echoing through my mind. It's a question that is applicable in so many places in our lives. In the past, I've already observed how structures of organization and various incentives affects the tech we make and the policies we write...

[1] https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀

This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, various as_chunks methods on slices, and more!

Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/Rust-1.88.0/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

Surveillance as a Service.

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

Went to two frontend conferences in as many days, and learned a lot; not all of it what the presenters hoped I'd take away:

https://infrequently.org/2025/06/conferences-clarity-and-smokescreens/

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@mark
"stares in infosec"

Yeah well, I think this is a "two kinds of people" situation.

1: The computer is a tool that I own. It is a force amplifier of my will. When I say, "Give me a void* to the frame buffer", that's just *table stakes*. It does that, or it does not *belong* to me.

2: You own nothing, computers are appliances for access to corporate services. You must be prevented from exploiting their full capabilities at all costs. It's for your own good: you might do something illegal!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

One more thing- reading these old blogs it's wild to think that #Facebook was once considered a fairly "private" platform, so much that it was a selling point for some.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090213175451/www.webmonkey.com/blog/OpenSocial%5FIs%5FDoomed:%5FMarc%5FCuban%5Fs%5FFacebook-Yahoo%5FMashup%5FFantasies

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Anyway. It's late. I'm rambling. End of thread.

Here's a picture of a cup of coffee I made this morning in my favorite mug gifted to me by my niece.

I made the Cuban-style coffee in my moka pot :)

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Looking back, no one could've predicted just how good Facebook would become at data mining our personal information.

Would opening Facebook up so that social activity is indexable on Google help prevent the surveillance capitalist system we have today? Surely not.

Knowing what we know now, do we *really* want our posts, likes, comments, and shares available for anyone to quantify, analyze, use against us etc?

Is that the same as open accessible knowledge on the web? I don't think so.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's facisnating to see how the #OpenWeb ideology was formed in the late aughts. Technologists and early Internet tech personalities have long believed in open and free information.

That's great for academia, and the accumulation of humanity's knowledge. But when we extend that ideology to personal data we end up with what we have now.

Open Web evangelists criticizing early Facebook for being *too private* is an incredible heap of irony.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

> I wanted to clarify my comments about Facebook’s similarities to AOL. I don’t think Facebook is a bad company or that they won’t be successful; they seem like smart passionate people who genuinely care about making a great space for their users

No shade to Kottke but this sounds exactly like what people are saying about #Bluesky right now.

https://kottke.org/07/07/facebook-vs-aol-redux

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

> Eventually, someone will come along and turn Facebook inside-out, so that instead of custom applications running on a platform in a walled garden, applications run on the internet, out in the open, and people can tie their social network into it if they want, with privacy controls, access levels, and alter-egos galore.

That didn't really happen but Kottke was right about the AOL comparison

https://kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Reading vintage tech blogs is my love language

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Finding some really great vintage blog posts tonight

> I feel very strongly that we already have the world’s best public social networking tool right in front of us: it’s called the internet.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/avoiding-walled-gardens-on-the-internet/

#OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just spent some minutes figuring out and fixing borked mp3 tags in an album I bought off Amazon. Felt like 00s never went away. But really, I'll gladly take having to tweak things manually once in a while over what we have now as state-of-the-art consumerized software.

(eyeD3 worked for me, if you must know.)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ludoloon@mastodon.gamedev.place ("LudoLoon Studio") wrote:

Make the web unprofitable again

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
BlackStag@ni.hil.ist ("Black Stag") wrote:

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I want to write a novel on this thing

From: @keyboards
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/114752854780857356

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

This remains super cool: https://chartscss.org/

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

remember that Creative Commons has fallen for NFT and shitcoin grifts before, when they let Filecoin bribe them into NFT land

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/

and EFF was crawling up coiners' arses at the same time too, reminding us that these are Silicon Valley libertarian organisations that are extremely into the corporate funding

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@slightlyoff I have been lamenting to friends that I keep seeing people fall for slick looking web sites that claim their tech solves all your problems. Then you try to use said tech and it’s ♨️💩

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Me: I wish there could be more nuance around what “AI” covers in the groups I’m in, so interesting, non-exploitative uses don’t get angrily dismissed.

Also me: If one more app shoves “now with AI!” in my face I will burn Silicon Valley to the ground.

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
jswatz_tx@threads.net ("John Schwartz") wrote:

Damn, we've lost another great Texan. Bill Moyers, who "could interpret Boston to Austin,” has died. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/26/bill-moyers-lbj-pbs-broadcasting-dead/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/26/bill-moyers-lbj-pbs-broadcasting-dead/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/26/bill-moyers-lbj-pbs-broadcasting-dead/

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

Every engineer worthy of the title adopts one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jk ("josef") wrote:

a lot of younger people don't know that the term 'youtuber' comes from back in the mid-2000s when we did actually use potatoes as cameras

jwz wrote:

I honestly thought that "grab a screenshot" would be a straightforward and non-controversial thing. I mean how could it not be?

But you kick over any Wayland rock, and this is the kind of absolutely bugfuck insanity you find underneath.