Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

Who says programmers don't have time to read?

We should start a tech version of the Gideons, but instead of putting bronze-age superstition into hotel rooms, we should sneak Karl Popper quotes into the progress indicators of NPM installs and Next.js builds.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dusk@todon.eu ("Dusk To Don :raccoon:") wrote:

In today’s live-stream of the launch of GPT-5, this is practically the opening slide. Take a close look at the values vs. the height of each bar.

( @garymarcus mentioned this in his newsletter, so I did have my eyes peeled for this QA miss)

#altTextIsAnArtForm #GPT5 #OpenAI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
catsalad@masto.hackers.town ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.B.)") wrote:

2015: Google Maps is wrong

2025: Google.com is wrong

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

Just noticed that my kbd (the X-Bows Knight Plus) is once again available for pre-order, and so I'm buying another just in case:

https://x-bows.com/products/x-bows-knight-plus-ergonomic-mechanical-keyboard-with-magnetic-number-pad

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shapr@recurse.social ("Shae Erisson") wrote:

Accidentally playing a game?
Unintendo!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jacqueline@chaos.social ("jacquelines 🌟") wrote:

if u have a tangara and u want to play music using apple's lossless audio codec, then there is some very good news for you in today's release https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/tag/v1.4.0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dante@masto.posting.haus wrote:

In many ways I think it's just awful that you have to learn things as you grow instead of just knowing things the whole time. Terribly inefficient

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Imagine signing up for a job as a FEMA administrator. You get to help people during the worst time of their life. You're good at your job. You work hard.♥️

Then the new administration prevents you from helping people after a hurricane.

Then the new admin tells you that you work for ICE now.

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

So there’s some dude at the White House with a can of gold spraypaint whose entire job is to spray whatever Michaels-ass styrofoam piece of chintz gets delivered that day and then glue it to the wall?

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3). Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).

Red Rock Canyon is just 45 minutes from the Las Vegas strip, but completely lacks slot machines, neon signs, B-list entertainment, chain restaurants, and other modern necessities. Zero stars, would not gamble there again.

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

Sandstone, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 2025.

All the pixels, no exposure to nature required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54702804473

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AliceMarshall@dmv.community ("Alice Marshall") wrote:

ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone. In recent years, #ICE has faced criticism for alleged civil rights abuses and failures to adhere to constitutional principles and due process, making it crucial for communities to stay informed about its operations.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/iceblock

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tubetime ("Tube Time") wrote:

i'm proud to have been involved in the creation of this new book from
@nostarch , Designing Electronics That Work! it's full of useful material for anyone who wants to build anything electronic and bring it to mass production.

https://nostarch.com/designingelectronics

Boosted by jwz:
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Why am I spending so much time dissecting this silly & ultimately meaningless episode? Because, friends, hear me: this is the template for the last 10 years of US politics. This is the US politics in a nutshell. This is how it *all* works.

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

In July, the team made great progress on several features planned for the next major release, and tackled some refactoring tasks.

Take a look behind the scenes in our latest #TrunkAndTidbits update 👀

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bitsavers@oldbytes.space ("bitsavers.org") wrote:

I found my copy of Tredennick's book on the Micro/370 yesterday.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/%5FBooks/%5FDigital%5FPress/Tredennick%5F-%5FMicroprocessor%5FLogic%5FDesign%5FThe%5FFlowchart%5FMethod%5F1987.pdf

#bitsavers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

*Still* blocking ads https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-ads

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)") wrote:

I "celebrated" the launch of GPT-5 by donating to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Support Wikipedia, the *actual* knowledgebase which gives people's brains' super-abilities. It's far from perfect, but it's the best thing we've got!

https://donate.wikimedia.org

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

#TheBear has made me cry so many times why do I keep watching this?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

This is me throughout my cyber career.

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

‘…said that Mr. Cuomo was using an “outdated” social media playbook, by failing to more effectively suffuse his messaging with actual policy goals.

“Mamdani has done almost the exact opposite,” Mr. Sanderson said. “He made himself feel approachable and knowable by communicating his policy agenda and by us coming to understand him through his articulation of his policy agenda directly to the public via social media.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/nyregion/cuomo-social-media-x.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don’t keep up with US politics much so this article made me very confused. Has Dean Cain gone nuts? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp8l3z0g5o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stshank@mstdn.social ("Stephen Shankland") wrote:

I am amused. The kicker is hilarious. (There's been a lot of chatter about em dashes as a signal of AI authorship.) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fromcarly@writing.exchange ("Carly Hayward, Editor") wrote:

You all liked my jellyfish embroidery so I know you will love this octopus I made!

#Bookish #AuthorServices #AuthorCommunity #Editor #BookLightEditorial #Embroidery

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

I spend a lot of time trying to imagine what retrocomputing would look like without the retro part. A stable platform is such a wonderful blessing and we somehow don't know how to offer it except by being intentionally obsolete

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

It's funny to hear managers saying that coders need to embrace AI to survive, because in my experience every actually useful new technology has gotten into the organization either by coders smuggling it in under managers' noses, or forcing it in over managers' loud and direct opposition

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

Anyway, the blog post is obviously just propaganda and an ad.

I wonder how much this push for "AI" slop machines from the C-suite stems from how they view the world. After all, that's what they do. Push around autonomous agents (human beings) until they get what they want out of them. Doesn't everybody want to do that?

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

Get the schools to teach this stuff, and then you'll have compliant people entering the workplace who need subscription for these services to do anything. Brilliant!

"We can blend CS with design, ethics, systems thinking, and human-computer interaction..."

I really can't believe they dropped "ethics" in there with a straight face. Of course, their ethics are probably different from mine. 🤔

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

'One developer said “I think of myself as [a] mediocre engineer, and I feel this AI reset is giving me a chance to build skills that will bring me closer to excellence.”'

I mean, I'm all for humility. I too am a mediocre engineer, but I guess you gave up on building skills in engineering.

Also, here's the real push:

'From a realistic optimism perspective, the rise of AI in software development signals the need for computer science education to be reinvented as well. '