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

I would like to join a support group for writers who write long essays on their phones. Why do we do this to ourselves?

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

Gargantuan is such a fun word. I'm happy I get to use it in a post.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eylul@social.eyluldogruel.com ("Eylul Dogruel") wrote:

#artWithOpenSource is not a personal tag.

it is for all visual arts, performance arts, film, photography, music etc that is created in workflows that involves #FOSS / #FLOSS software

the aim is to showcase that free and open source software IS an alternative used by hobbyists and professional creatives alike so feel free to use it when sharing your work that involves software like Darktable and Blender, and Ardour.

Its been a while since I posted about this so figured would do so again.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dtm@mastodon.cc ("David Todd McCarty") wrote:

Inspired by @pluralistic

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

It's wild that “Made in USA“ and “Made in England" are a flex. What do those countries know about manufacturing?

It's like advertising Cacio e Pepe made in Ukraine. Like, I'm sure it's fine, but give me the authentic stuff.

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

Spent 40 minutes on your resume and got rejected?
Now it takes 5 minutes 💀

📄 **resume-pipeline** — An opinionated TUI for generating tailored resumes

🔥 Configure via YAML and export a clean PDF via Typst

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/cntrvsy/resume-pipeline

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #devtools #careers #resumes #typst

Attachments:

• gifv: 6d4f36eff5541741.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.

https://gaza-verified.org/donate

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid #fediAid

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kallisti@infosec.exchange ("Kallisti") wrote:

@catsalad

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@fancysandwiches/115913143132317975

No really, do Threads next. ICE and DHS have had verified accounts on Threads for much longer. If you're going to take a stand you should be consistent. If you don't want your users to be subjected to ICE and DHS on Fedi you should be defederating Threads.

https://www.threads.com/@icegov
https://www.threads.com/@dhsgov

The DHS account hasn't been active since 2024, but the ICE account is very active.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Today's mood: violence :blobcatknife:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Yellow-rumped warbler

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

PSA: you can ignore the entirety of the LLM-industrial-complex without falling for the “see they are useful for something after all” narrative:

- these systems are based on theft (some of that still makes its way through the courts)

- they are designed to centralise power in the hands of very few people who are also objectively the worst people

- the businesses are not sustainable, nobody disagrees the bubble will pop before long, so making your craft depend on a subscription seems silly

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

yup

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/01/18

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sknob@mamot.fr wrote:

@futurebird The Indie Beat Television ( @TIBtv) which launched December 28th, uses open source software, was created by musicians, and features only videos by independant artists, mostly from the fediverse. The launch was a big success, people are sending in videos daily, and the quality is incredible.

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000

Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cocoaphony ("Rob Napier") wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lucydev@wetdry.world ("Tech Goblin Lucy 🦝") wrote:

alr the sentence "the most human thing there is is learning and creativity. the least human thing there is is trying to automate that away." goes so hard imma drop it in my bio now

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

WebKit is vibe coded now. Prepare for more bugs, as if there weren’t enough already.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/ceb4a05a51792bd00d02a515945edc092ca6ac6b

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

Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.

And debating dicks is pointless.

/fin

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

Everybody being forced to use the tools to increase output even when they themselves don't think it's safe or right

The software made by the software industry is getting substantially worse every month. The products are getting worse. The platforms are getting worse. The ecosystems are less safe. And the job environment is horrible. And it's happening faster and faster.

9/n

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

We all know why. The gigantic, impossible to review, pull requests. Commits that are all over the place. Tests that don't test anything. Dependencies that import literal malware. Undergraduate-level security issues. Incredibly verbose documentation completely disconnected from reality

Senior engineers who have regressed to an undergraduate-level understanding of basic issues and don't spot beginner errors in their code, despite having "thoroughly reviewed" it.

8/n

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

Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. I see more and more in the lives of people around me every day.

7/n

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

Even if it were true that the effect for them personally is positive, that is objectively and manifestly not scaling up to system level. We can all see it. Software as an ecosystem has rapidly become less stable, less secure, worse designed and outright less productive for the end user.

6/n

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

Even if you disregard context—the political climate, hostility toward labour, attacks on education and media, the alienation increasing the risk of psychological episodes—these "systems thinkers" no longer seem to understand that software is a system built on the labour of thousands.

5/n

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

Nor do they seem to care, except in a performative way, that “AI” is designed to be an outright attack on labour and education, non-consensually using the works of those being attacked as the tools for dismantling their own communities and industries, all in overt collaboration with the ultra right

4/n

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

Most of them are up to their eyebrows in Cialdini-style cognitive traps and have completely lost sight of the fact that subjective experiences don't tell you anything about the effects on a system, organisation, industry, or community. Anything sensible will likely fall on deaf ears

3/n

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

Anybody looking past "ICE is using LLMs as accountability sinks for waving extremists through their recruitment processes" won't be persuaded by a meaningful study. They're attempting to maintain their benefit by negotiating the level of "acceptable" abuse. Preventing abuse is not on their agenda

2/n

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

I stopped trying to debate software devs on LLMs a while back. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical

Debating people who look past "chatbot psychosis", the dismantling of the education system, the gendered abuse, the generated CSAM images, the overt attacks on the media industries, or the ultra-right's glee about "AI", by showing them a well-constructed academic study is never going to work 1/n

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Tutanota wrote:

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity