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

Today in History: 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq

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

Today in History: Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828

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

Today in History: John von Neumann died, 1957

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

Today in History: Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Capital owners in tech have very successfully sold rich laborers on the idea that they should act and vote more like bosses than like laborers, and seldom have I seen this idea play out in a more heartless manner than watching techbros talk about AI. Owning a home makes you well off, but it doesn't mean that the same people using AI to displace and devalue all other kinds of intellectual labor won't also come for you.

Tech workers, even the very well-off ones, need to understand class.

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

ZBM 2
puh leeze

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

Phenotypic plasticity is often ignored in cruder analyses of ancestry.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/08/phenotypic-plasticity-is-part-of-evolution-too/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHaDccrEcSo

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

It’s entirely possible that through oligopoly dominance, deregulation, and LLM capture of the dev ecosystem, genuinely working software will eventually be the exclusive domain of expensive specialised high-end industry-specific software and the occasional eccentric FOSS app maintained by a weirdo only known by a handle like ‘mojojojo55 ‘

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

anyone know if Apple stores (IRL) can replace a single key on the keyboard?

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

Whatever devs are seeing in their immediate environment that turns them into believers in LLM-coding is objectively not being carried forward into the products and services as experienced by actual end users.

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

The duality of every vibe-coded project you see and every LLM-generated pull request you review being dangerous insecure messes and then turning around and hearing every respected figure in the web dev community saying these tools are now better than human developers

If I hadn’t live through several brain-cooking bubbles (Iceland has had a few more than the rest) I’d be shocked at the dissonance

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@anthony
@davidgerard every encounter I have with a mozilla employee involves them pretending to speak for a community I’m a member of and playing fuckface word games when an actual member of the community tells them they’re misrepresenting us.

no, nobody doing AI critique is confused about what we’re criticizing. that doesn’t make sense. but mozilla would like to convince us we’re mad about a pre-LLM translation model or whatever’s convenient. we’ve dealt with that form of critihype before.

jwz wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U7VIOwinhU

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

the march for billionaires was serious and aella was there. reporters outnumbered marchers https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-march-for-billionaires-bust/

> Despite the San Francisco locale, a participant said the event had “grassroots” origins at a “little rationalist restaurant get together” in a “group house” on Shattuck Avenue, subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies.

of fucking course

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

to start this where it must start: the (former chrome, current mozilla) developer relations person in question loves the “tell me where I said that” move. it’s something they’ve tried in every negative interaction they’ve had on fedi.

it works as follows: Jake picks out a minor part of your criticism and insists you tell him where he said those exact words. this isn’t how human conversation works, so you can’t. if he needs to willfully misunderstand your post to do it, he will.

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

here’s some unfair warnings if you’re considering boosting or interacting with that one mozilla dev account or mozilla in general really

if you have interacted with them and gotten an icky feeling, you’re not alone

later posts in this thread will be CWed. there is danger in interacting with the account in question. many of these posts feature someone named Jake; as you will see later, Jake and the Mozilla account are the same person in every way that matters.

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

Finally, I've been waiting for this! 💯

🌀 **vortix** — A TUI for WireGuard and OpenVPN

⚡ Real-time telemetry (latency, jitter, packet loss)
🚨 IPv6 + DNS leak detection
🧱 Built-in kill switch

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Harry-kp/vortix

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #vpn #wireguard #openvpn #terminal #opensource

Attachments:

• gifv: 37cedbe79a4bfb93.mp4

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

dumb question: does this new meta text-scale tag "stack" with existing per-site user/browser settings?
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

e.g. if the OS is +1 notch and the site was already +1 will it become +2?

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Man the AI coding doomerism is in full swing on my timelines. Guys, have some pride in your work, confidence in your abilities.

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

I’m not sure if I’m getting burned out on tech podcasts in general, or just ones that spend an awful lot of runtime enthusing about AI, but I’m finding myself hitting the skip button way more than I used to lately.

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

#Substack openly platforms—and profits from—#Nazis. And not just nudge-nudge-wink-wink types of Nazis, but literal black-swastika “NatSoc” Nazis. And they recommend Nazi writers.

If you are still on Substack either as a reader or publisher, please seriously consider leaving the platform. It’s a Nazi bar. You don’t want to give them your money or your attention. I hear ghost dot org is a great, Nazi-free alternative.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

Boosted by jwz:
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

jwz wrote:

Oh no. Anyway
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116032085703329563

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

reading vibecoders talk about how great vibecoding is for engineering real things is like reading bitcoiners talk about how they think money works

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

(This is a job to come work on #sciop)
https://digipres.club/@mickylindlar/116025881444877358

Boosted by jwz:
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

For shame.
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

Boosted by jwz:
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116006718073303488

best not find yourself saying "people have different definitions of opt-in"

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:") wrote:

By Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Going to Costco the day before the Super Bowl was intense

#costco #SuperBowl