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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

People: "but I can't use a bike for transport cos sometimes it snows"
The Dutch: "hold my stroopwaffle"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
North@chaos.social ("Nick Poole") wrote:

I fired the parts cannon at the dryer, replacing all of the electronics, and to say it works again almost doesn't feel correct. The new dryer that has parasitized my old one works.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukraine’s banks became a real-world test of infrastructure resilience

Under cyberattacks and power outages, they went beyond digitization: they built a shared continuity infrastructure so customers can still access cash and services when the grid fails.

It’s a blueprint other countries can use without waiting for a crisis.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/05/ukraine-war-banking-system-eu-doesnt-have/

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

What you should expect from a maggoty "museum" run by maggoty minds. Unclean! Creationism is unclean!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/05/its-a-pit-of-disease-as-well-as-ignorance/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New audio blog posted:

Should I ditch YouTube for real?
https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

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

This raven pair gave off strong "Statler and Waldorf commenting on passing hikers" vibes. #photos #iceland #bird #birds #raven

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey folks, a first-day-of-the-business-year reminder that even when the world is on fire, you need to eat and live and hopefully even experience happiness so:

1. Try not to doomscroll (or at least do it less);

2. It's okay to dip when it gets too much, they are TRYING to exhaust you and rest is a weapon in your arsenal;

3. Focus on things that you can affect, trust others will focus on things you can't;

4. Don't feel bad taking care of the day-to-day;

5. MAKE TIME FOR JOY

6. Here's a cat!

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The first Monday of the new year means... predictions! Thrilled to announce that @simon will again be joining @ahl and me for 1- 3- and 6-year predictions. Bring your own predictions and join us today at a special time: 4p Pacific!
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1456066106002509947

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

just found a new cool pomodoro app, went to create account, Google sign-in is the only option.

*Uninstalled*

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

Do carpenters go on social media and constantly insult everyone who says hammers aren't sentient

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

Well. I just restarted my Windows work laptop to apply mandatory updates, and after it restarted, it froze, the screen went black, and I smelled something burning. Happy Monday!

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

guess I should finish that CSS refactor this week 😬

https://social.lol/@db/115616041219871952

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

This looks like it could be a lot of silly fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l2SWc3SLI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TimWardCam@c.im ("Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE") wrote:

@fromjason @pluralistic Well, we've already taken to defending Wikipedia - it's gone from "it's just written by some random bod on the internet, it must be crap" to "it's written by actual human beings, it's great!"

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

Maybe a cyberpunk geriatric Tintin?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/05/not-even-cool-enough-to-be-cyberpunk/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

#AWorldWithoutPeople #AI

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1431212/stack-overflow-went-from-200000-monthly-questions-to-nearly-zero?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm%5Fmedium=feed

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