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

“The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe”

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

> I've been tracking software quality metrics for three years. The degradation isn't gradual—it's exponential.

That thing where you don't really wanna say it, but kinda have to: I told you so.

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nivrig ("nivs @ #Amiga40 🇩🇪 15-20 Oct") wrote:

The Great Software Quality Collapse:

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

jwz wrote:

Absolutely chilling words that someone said to me today:

"I have this new AI insulin pump..."

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

“The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted”

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

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GeePawHill wrote:

We laugh, but it's really serious.

Wearing a cool costume will not actually prevent fascists from hurting you. But it *will* make them look very very bad if they do it.

It's funny, yes, and it's actually courageous.

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jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

Latest comic: What does not belong?

#cartoon #comic #politics #democracy #firstamendment #monarchy #authoritarianism #uspol

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

Is it very weird that I like these.

They feel super European to me somehow – you don’t see this extreme version a lot any more.

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slop@fuckaas.space ("slop enjoyer") wrote:

haven’t even found one person who wants to exchange floppies yet

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slop@fuckaas.space ("slop enjoyer") wrote:

the movie hackers tricked me into believing exchanging top secret floppy disks via skateboard was a much bigger part of adult life

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ConspiracyOfCartographers ("Conspiracy of Cartographers") wrote:

"One more drink and I’ll be under the host”

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IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

buff.ly/fFjTp…
NoKings #NoKings2

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🧢") wrote:

In one week, people all over the United States will join together to say: In America we don’t do wannabe dictators or Kings.

No Thrones.
No Crowns.
No Kings.

One week to go.

✊ https://nokings.org

#NoKings #NoKingsPDX #PDX #Portland

jwz wrote:

Every time I see someone saying, "Someone did an AI thing and it found an obscure bug, kinda cool!" what I hear is, "Say what you want about Dr. Mengele, but his twin experiments did generate some useful data!"

Yes this is a subtwit. You know who you are.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Philosophers 300 years ago:

"Is life inherently meaningful, or do we create meaning through action?"

Philosophers now:

"Use code MEANING for 20% off on Squarespace"

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

We know the devil is real because no result force conscience can conjure could imagine the moral and intellectual depravity of the median HN comment.

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anjune@chaosfem.tw wrote:

If, in the waking world, you usually have a mobile phone with you: do you have one in your dreams?

Important research!

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

reading: A theory on why contact forms get more spam than email addresses

https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/a-theory-on-why-contact-forms-get-more-spam-than-email-addresses/

make sense; easy delivery

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bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

#bipolar

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vantablue@writing.exchange ("Daniela Quirke") wrote:

🐸🐸🐸

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servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Troops stung by hard credit checks and denials in relief loans

https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/usaa-credit-loan-troops-shutdown/

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victorvonvortex wrote:

"On July 10, I was on my way to work when ICE agents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face."

"I spent three nights and three days in federal custody... I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney... No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'"

https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-citizen-and-a-veteran-ice

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

What in the nepo baby is this?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/10/barron-trump-tipped-top-tiktok-job/

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Tessa_Halloran ("Tessa Halloran") wrote:

Watching footage from Portland — protestors in frog suits, unicorns, dancing, humor in the face of absurd claims.

It reminds me that resistance doesn’t always roil and riot — sometimes it laughs, shines a light, and refuses to be afraid.

We need more of that.

#ResistanceIsCreative #StandUpNow #Portland #NoKings #CommunityPower

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copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

Hegseth said he found 💰 to pay the troops during the shutdown. He said he is using RDT&E 💰to pay for MILPERS.

Hegseth is breaking the law.

The Misappropriation Act. United States Code, Title 31, Section 1301 applicable to DoD personnel managing appropriated funding (taxpayer resources).

This act requires appropriated funds be used only for the objects (purposes & programs) for which appropriations were made.

Congress has the "Power of the Purse”, NOT Whiskey Pete.

The
Trump
Shutdown

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

FYI the Gaoin inflatable frog costume now has a three-week delivery backlog at Amazon and cannot be obtained by October 18, more’s the pity. I hope that’s a sign of its popularity

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

made an apple pie tonight

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

At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now a corrosive force against democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

/cc @owa @pluralistic

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

Where They Never Say Your Name by Eilen Jewell on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/33tCAFukoXb

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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

So while I was posting this it turns out my gf in fact in the other room with the hacksaw, and I had mostly posted all of this to try and dissuade her from getting the hacksaw out and use a more subtle approach but long story short we have gin now