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

Test Double used to be a source of interesting and pragmatic observations about reliable and sustainable software development. This used to be one of the better outlets to follow if you were in the field of software dev. This is what has happened to the entire field: sensible commentary has all but disappeared replaced with useless tripe

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115715924904647373

If you’re a white person on the Fediverse who really cares about inclusion and representation, you owe it to yourself to read what @fromjason has been posting here over the past few days. As well as the shit he’s having to put up with just for trying to do the work of pointing out a very real problem.

This is a complex problem. There are no quick fixes to be found here. But the very first critical step toward addressing it is to recognize it. Not to deny it, not to rail against it, not to harass those who want to point it out or talk about it.

The worst thing you can do when someone points out a problem is tell them that it isn’t a problem.

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

If we fixed the diversity problem on #Mastodon, why aren't we incorporating these folks in the concentrations of power that exist in the #fediverse? Or do these power structures not exist either?

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

This combines “AI” boosterism with one of the worst misreadings of a Pixar movie I’ve ever seen

Reading it annoyed me so much I just had to share the misery

This is what my feed reader is full of these days

https://testdouble.com/insights/anyone-can-code-software-is-having-its-ratatouille-moment

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

@fromjason Naw man. Fuck that. These guys are so bound up by their own fragility that they refuse to see what’s right in front of them. They won’t permit themselves to experience a discomforting thought or face an awkward reality. They reject anything that might make them even slightly uncomfortable.

Fuck every possible version of that. Because you are 100% correct, objectively, period. The Fediverse is abundantly white, overflowing with the clueless privilege of that skin tone, and it is *bad*.

Anyone who says otherwise has all of the credibility of a flat-earther. Anyone who points to the four accounts they follow run by Black people and says “but! but! see?” is missing the point. Anyone who opts to fight the recognition of the problem perpetuates it.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
grammasaurus ("Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’") wrote:

@fromjason “gaslighting, the derailing conversations, being pedantic on irrelevant specifics, making it about yourself, placing the blame squarely on the messenger—this is how white supremacy is upheld”

OMG, yes. Also patriarchy. You perfectly described almost every conversation I’ve ever had with my father.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla: The Unhinged Kestrel") wrote:

@fromjason Okay “diverse but you don’t see it” is peak whiteness because those two concepts literally can’t travel together except in a white thought process. WTAF are they talking about?!

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

Add to the list:

- I'm spreading disinformation

What's next I wonder

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

Jesus fucking Christ, I'd forgotten how genuinely awful open source graphics and design apps are at, well everything, but specifically text design. Undo, redo, copy, and paste regularly broken.

Then when you decide to do things manually you get this shit

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115723674656240039

Happy 3rd birthday #Phanpy!!! And congratulations @cheeaun for this incredible milestone!!! 🥳

My favorite thing about Phanpy is definitely its Catch Up feature. The Fediverse already has a strong focus on genuine human connections... and Phanpy's Catch Up takes things to the next level. I love clicking on the profile photos of people I follow to see what they've been up to.

In my eyes Phanpy is the BEST social media client out there.

Thank you for Phanpy and keep up the incredible work!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I got the The Archer archetype!

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/wrapstodon/2025/a8e79a7541febc69

#Wrapstodon2025

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
renchap@oisaur.com ("Renaud Chaput") wrote:

As the end of year approaches, we spent some time to rework the Wrapstodon feature that we first tried last year.

It now collects your yearly data on-demand, does not require admins to enable anything (so it will be available to everyone in December 2026) and you get a nice shareable URL with your yearly summary!

Admins on nightly releases can enable it using the "wrapstodon" feature flag. It has been enabled on mastodon.online and mastodon.social

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/wrapstodon/2025/2476cab723e6b950

#Wrapstodon2025

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
bulbagarden ("Bulbagarden") wrote:

Exactly 28 years ago today on December 16, 1997 at 6:30 PM JST, EP038: Computer Warrior Porygon (commonly Electric Soldier Porygon) aired in Japan.

Due to a flashing strobe effect, over 700 Japanese people suffered adverse health effects and the episode was banned.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP038?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

Attachments:

• gifv: Screencap of the notorious scene in EP038

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

"Your password is too long" 🚩🚩🚩

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

Mass shootings have become a statistically predictable event in America.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/15/another-mass-shooting/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
millie@infosec.exchange ("Millie") wrote:

We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continuous updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I want more projects that are actually just finished, without the need to be continuously mutated and complexified ad infinitum.

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

Seeing way more old ideas get stripped of context and given new, false attributions, lately like Gell-Mann amnesia, or that thing where somebody turned Grey’s law into a Star Trek quote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's%5Frazor#Variations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann%5Famnesia%5Feffect

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
npt_writes@sunny.garden ("N.P. Thompson") wrote:

Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.

Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.

#reading #books #bookstodon #Author

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

Happy Monday!

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

This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.

Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?

There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.

It was bad, but almost nobody knows how bad.

https://mastodon.social/@Natasha%5FJay@tech.lgbt/115719291112552201

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

As an aside: I sometimes wonder how much of modern computing efforts are spent making computers pretend they're something they are manifestly not.

CPUs pretending to be single-thread-single-core devices, so programmers build elaborate dispatch multiplexers on top of them, OSes aping PDP11s for their guest code,. SOCs pretending to be hard drives, etc etc.

There's this wild live-action plato's cave metaphor-psychodrama going on in all of our machines all the time and ... nobody knows that.

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

An of the moment appreciation of Rob Reiner. https://www.whatsalanwatching.com/rob-reiner-was-a-master-who-didnt-care-if-you-noticed/ Do watch the clip from All in the Family embedded.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

I am in disbelief that the only argument I'm seeing mobilized against age verification laws (and their accompanying social media bans) is “It sucks for privacy!”, and not “why the fuck are we okay imposing a digital jail on every single child?”

Digital privacy matters and it's an important reason why these laws must be repealed at all costs, but let's also please humanize the issue here: social media bans for minors are just another massive chapter in the conservative's playbook to deprive any social class that's not ‘adult white males’ of their bodily and existential autonomy.

That same playbook has chapters we're already familiar with, including staples such as “let's force gay kids back into the closet”, “trans kids shouldn’t be able to decide anything for themselves”, “women shouldn't have a bank account”, and “abortion should be illegal”.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Some nights Bill Gates boots into Linux, stares at the terminal, and remembers he used to enjoy computers.

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

true history

https://music.apple.com/us/album/temporarily-humboldt-county/292768027?i=292768028

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

yah

https://music.apple.com/us/album/devil-moon/203052564?i=203052653

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

spurious precision in automated email:

“This is the System Mailer Daemon for the storyteller service.
The service was restarted at 2025-12-15T01:59:28.9117128”

gotta fix that
Real Soon Now

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

mood

https://music.apple.com/us/album/how-would-it-feel/382417932?i=382417938

jwz wrote:

XQuartz EGL.

Dear Lazyweb,

Some time in the last ~6 months, eglCreatePlatformWindowSurface vanished from the libraries provided by MacPorts "mesa". Where do I find it? It is not in libGL and there is no libEGL.

macOS 14.7.7, mesa 25.3.1, xorg-libX11 1.8.12.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0d