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

2026—Blog more, wiki more, read more, move more, scroll less, be ridiculously kind to myself, and empathetic to others. And watch more cool movies.

Edit: and, depending on my financial position, donate more to the digital initiatives and writers that make the web great.

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

“Your metrics are an avoidance strategy”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/your-metrics-are-an-avoidance-strategy

> the important part of your pitch is where it’s located on the latest hype train, rather than what it actually does. Any problem solving is delegated to the customer under the guise of “customization.”

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

TIL in the UK it's easy to report scam #phishing calls by texting 7726 "Call [paste number here]"
Anything else texted to 7726 is taken as a spam sms report.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
BryanHogan wrote:

I just published: my introduction to Obsidian!

I think Obsidian is the best note-taking tool for personal knowledge management, and can highly recommend it.

But people often over-complicate it, so I wanted to compress my recommendations + link to the most important resources in a short post.

Read it here: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-introduction

#obsidian #obsidianmd #indieweb #pkm

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Wow this will make code review easy! 🔥

🧩 **oyo** — A special diff viewer with step-through mode.

👀 Watch the diff evolve step by step.

💯 Supports syntax highlighting, git blame, smooth animations & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ahkohd/oyo

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #git #diff #codereview #terminal #devtools

Attachments:

• gifv: 4e00c5e8bfee7e56.mp4

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

Can a social app fix the ‘terrible devastation’ of social media?:

"… an app that asks users, “What’s your intention for today?” Users can share their goals with friends, hopefully helping them “plan with intention, capture the reality of their days, and see the deeper threads that shape their life.”"

When you think about it, surveillance capitalism is the art of encouraging self-disclosure. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/04/can-a-social-app-fix-the-terrible-devastation-of-social-media/

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

reading: It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

I don't like Apple's new icon fetish, but I never realised how poorly implemented they were! #neverUpdating

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.

This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.

Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.

In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.

#IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #News #UnderstandingText #Disinformation

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

I've completely lost interest in debating generative models or how big tech has almost completely transitioned into an authoritarian political project. These days what I try to do is just mentally flip the bozo bit on anybody still defending this shit and then do my best to move on.

(Bozo bit, in case you didn't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo%5Fbit)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115841015208847446

These are good rules. They are not my rules, but I'm thinking mine should be closer to these rules than not.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

"42% of Danes want to try new alternatives to Big Tech. 68% would like to reduce their screen time … Danmark Skifter [Denmark shifts] is a national campaign where thousands of Danes take back control of their digital lives – not alone, but together.

The campaign runs from January 1 to March 20, 2026. It starts with digital New Year's resolutions in January and culminates with The Big Shift Day on March 20, when all of Denmark shifts together." https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have been hesitating to say this but the pattern is now so consistent I just have to share the observation: LLM users don't just behave like addicts, not even like gambling addicts. They specifically behave like kratom addicts. "Sure, it can be dangerous. Sure, it has risks. But I'm not like those other users. I can handle it. I have a system. It really helps me be productive. It helps with my ADHD so much."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@mttaggart my suspicion is that when this happens we are going to find out that there is a huge predisposition component. there will be people who say "ah well. guess I'm a little rusty writing unit tests now, but time to get back at it" and we will have people who will go to sleep crying tears of frustration for the rest of their lives as they struggle to reclaim the feeling of being predictably productive again

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm still open to being wrong, and there are still plenty of people who still exhibit critical judgement in other areas despite my disagreements with them on LLM use. Kratom has a much more straightforward biochemical mechanism which we know is bad for specific and impossible-to-avoid reasons. Maybe there really are safe techniques for LLM use and I sure hope we figure out what they are. But way, way too many tech leaders have started using these tools and then had their brains publicly cooked

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

As with kratom addicts, there is even a period of time when they're correct, so it's hard to challenge. The *first* time a person with executive function challenges uses kratom, maybe even the first few months, it really *does* improve their mood, their executive function, etc. But then the secondary cumulative effects start to gradually erode their cognitive abilities so slowly they don't notice.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

@jonny the confabulation machine promoters always forget to mention that the person randomly mentioning the great results of the specific confabulation machine is, by complete happenstance, a person who is the principal enginer tasked with development of said confabulation machine or a person tasked with advertising that autoconfabulator.

i've yet to see stories that aren't promotional materials.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

The concluding post in my AI-Ready Software Developer series ties all the threads together.

Far from "changing the game", AI coding assistants have just added another layer of uncertainty to an already very uncertain process.

Same game, different dice.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game-different-dice/

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

"Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464

> In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

and

> Our alternative indicator reveals that, since 2001, the cost of living for Americans with modest incomes has risen 35 percent faster than the CPI.

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

Boosted by jwz:
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

“Billionaires will leave if you tax them”:

1. No they won’t
2. They leave even when you don’t tax them
3. Things get better for most people when they leave
4. They say this so you won’t tax them

#billionaires #taxTheRich

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

the old way of "approach the throne of the benevolent dictator" sucked, but i never for one second thought that people would flock to "approach the hall of mirrors where everything is real, nothing matters, nobody is in charge, and the firmament mocks you in an always more distant echo" as an alternative.

The problem with "AI" is that it's fundamentally anti-human and that translates very neatly into the most toxic social spaces you can imagine.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

the hard parts of code are fucking TALKING TO PEOPLE and the LLMs make that problem A MILLION TIMES WORSE

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

Okay for a couple decades I thought the first line of "I'm Afraid of Americans" is saying "Low tax at the wheel" and I occasionally ponder this haiku-like attempt to condense America into five words. That's not what he's saying. He's saying "Lo-Teks". Like from William Gibson. At one point an early version "I'm Afraid of Americans" was being workshopped as potentially going on the Johnny Mnemonic soundtrack, that didn't happen, but this permanent reference to Lo-Teks is in there as an artifact

jwz wrote:

ACAB includes Motoko Kusanagi

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
silvanomarioni@mastodon.uno ("Silvano Marioni") wrote:

Meta ha creato delle regole interne per gestire le pubblicità-truffa su Facebook e Instagram per renderle meno visibili alle autorità di controllo, con lo scopo di proteggere i ricavi pubblicitari piuttosto che eliminare le frodi.
@tecnologia
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/

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

I am back! hello 2026

30 minutes reclamping my monitor arm to jury-rig it one inch lower

now I realise if I pushed at the right angle it was way more adjustable than I thought 🤦

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I have to repost it:

What if the U.S. cut off Big Tech from Europe? A nightmare for many European firms | Adële's blog
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@mwichary The "analogtv" module in XScreenSaver almost does that; it's a circuit-level simulation of NTSC and its various faults, so it's at the "analog logic" layer rather than the "physics" layer.

https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analogtv.c

You can see the effect in action on most of the images posted on the @dnalounge account.

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

Sort of curious about something. We’ve been seeing all of these cool shaders approximate old CRT displays by adding scanlines, distortions, etc. But did anyone ever write a CRT *simulator*? Like actually simulating the electron gun running and hitting the mask etc.?

This would be sort of an equivalent of raytracing or doing emulation via FPGA. It would definitely be a lot more costly, of course, but I’m curious if we have enough performance already and whether the results would be interesting.

Boosted by jwz:
Gurre@mastodon.nu ("Gurre Vildskägg") wrote:

woah!
Apparently Farscape is all on Youtube. Official channel has all the episodes. Did not expect that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQlHnZwToU&list=PLcBQS2xdzwLA5tv8kP2lODaP%5Fnfh8siNn&index=1

#Farscape #SciFi #Youtube