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Mastodon wrote:

In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:

@fromjason nodds in agreement if the #US can't get #AOC to candidate by 2028 (if there are any free and fair elections to begin with, as #Trump tries to cancel #Midterms2026), then one may just scap it and sell it's halves around the Slavery Belt to Mexico any Canada respectably...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

But the DNC won't do that because their corporate donors made it clear—it's neoliberalism or fascism. They won't support working class politics.

So, our only hope is for the left to unite around a progressive. Which, right now, idk, man. Doesn't seem too likely. I already see narratives forming. Liberals don't actually like AOC. It's just most of them are smart enough not to say it out loud. So they make excuses.

I'd love to be so wrong about this. Bookmark and throw in my face when AOC wins

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The irony is that the misogyny lies in the strategy. The DNC's plan for women candidates is for them to move further right because the DNC thinks it makes them more palatable to male centrists.

Meanwhile, Obama and Biden ran on a progressive platform, and, guess what? They won. I mean, it was faux-progressivism sure. But that shows you how hungry Americans are for change.

Imagine if the DNC got out of the way and allowed AOC to run on an actual progressive agenda that she followed through on?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I don't think I have the stomach to listen to two years of vote-blue-no-matter-who liberals tell us that AOC shouldn't run because of misogyny, while supporting whatever milquetoast centrist man the DNC gives us.

Because, you know, we gotta court the upper middle class centrist vote that never actually swings left, instead of expanding the potential voter block like we did anytime democrats actually win.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada travesti") wrote:

was looking at my bright, artistic, sensitive daughter bringing me tea after we watched the latest seasonal event of Animal Crossing, and thinking that the caregiving relationship already started to shift without even me realising. I don't remember when it was that she started cooking for us more often than I do, and then it just became the norm. I mean I still expect at some point she'll leave the nest cos she's an adult now and capitalistic nuclear family has undermined the natural order of things, but we still experience it like this, on the edges.

and what this made me think is when she was born, this tiny red little thing unable to cry or breathe. of her first 15 days of life in these vaguely dystopic-looking¹ but literally life-saving incubators, now bright yellow from jaundice, metal and plastic tubes on her face. what a delicate dance of flesh and machine it must be, to calculate the precise parameters to pump a newborn's lung. to engineer breath in, breath out.²

she's like this entire person . all of her would not exist if it wasn't for public healthcare, for the labour of the nurses, for whoever it was who was responsible for developing and engineering and assembling these machines. medical researchers and industrial engineers and factory workers who saved my daughter's life.

if there's a point to technology it's that. and I don't know the names of any of these people.³ I know the names of Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Gates—charlatans who don't actually do anything but merely imprint their names on trendy baubles developed by other people. but imagine what it must be like, to reach retirement after you have worked on the medical principles or engineering parameters of ICUs. even an otherwise thankless job putting them together in some Shanghai plant. you think of your work and multiply it in your mind by how many lives will be saved through it, present and future. compare that with the unfathomable amount of effort, investment, and resources burned to put more ads on screens or make depression-inducing apps more addictive or developing entirely useless spam generators ("AI").

1. The image of a newborn baby in a machine is striking:

Another factor that contributed to the development of modern neonatology was Martin Couney and his permanent installment of premature babies in incubators at Coney Island. A more controversial figure, he studied under Budin and brought attention to premature babies and their plight through his display of infants as sideshow attractions at Coney Island and the World's Fair in New York and Chicago in 1933 and 1939, respectively. Infants had also previously been displayed in incubators at the 1897, 1898, 1901, and 1904 World Fairs.

In 1964, pediatric radiologist William Northway – while conversing with neonatologist Philip Sunshine at Stanford University Medical Center – noted a consistent pattern of cystic changes in the lungs on the radiographs of premature babies. Northway found that all of the babies had received high concentrations of oxygen and mechanical ventilation, causing damage. His 1967 paper in which the term bronchopulmonary dysplasia was coined described the disease and comorbidities. This led to worldwide reductions in supplemental oxygen levels and ventilation pressure, improving the health outcomes of premature infants. The paper has been called "one of the most important, most cited, and influential articles in the history of neonatology".

a delicate dance.

3. a small fraction of names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal%5Fintensive%5Fcare%5Funit#History

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I've had bad ADHD days for this week so far, so I thought I might try to hack my brain into fucking working by playing Technology Connections-like youtube videos in the background, just muffled. Maybe playing louder music on top.

Except I'm now making a muffler browser extension instead of working.

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

Can you imagine how quickly Trump would poop his pants if this parade were held in the US?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/18/america-resist/

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

Bounce Kevin O'Leary right back to Canada.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/18/he-has-one-of-those-faces-i-hate-to-see-in-a-video/

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

Why are these few states so soaked in Christian Nationalism?
I don't know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/18/i-suppose-i-should-look-deeper-for-better-correlations/

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

If you block an account on GitHub, you get a helpful warning on every repository it's morged to 👍

(sorry, I can't find who to credit this idea I saw a few day ago)

jwz wrote:

When a TV show lists *13* executive producers and *10* producers in the credits before any of the actual cast... you know you're in for a whole thing.

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

I keep seeing people respond to observations that these tools seem to output highly vulnerable code with numerous flaws with claims that the output runs faster so it must be of a high quality. 🤷🏻‍♂️

jwz wrote:

One of the things that is amazing about AI derangement syndrome is that when you call someone out for buying into that shit -- someone you've previously been on quite good terms with for decades -- their response to you saying, "hey, you should stop doing that, there is no ethical use of this tech" is a level of offense as if you have just fucked their cat.

Some of you probably know who I'm talking about. If not, you probably have examples yourselves.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

OK, so let's say me and some friends started a tech company/consultancy that refused to use "AI", would this encourage you choose us over others?

(boosts welcome)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cdegroot@mstdn.ca ("Cees de Groot") wrote:

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

Boosted by jwz:
kimcrawley@zeroes.ca ("Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)") wrote:

I want you to spread the word that Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media is forcing his editors to "use" Gen AI as much as possible. The book I wrote for them, Hacker Culture: A to Z, is probably the last non-tech manual they ever published that isn't tainted by Gen AI.

I quit my goddamn fucking professor position at OPIT because I would rather risk my ability to pay my rent than subject my students to Gen AI "e proctoring."

Please check out https://stopgenai.com, I beg of you.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116089890698252684

Boosted by jwz:
iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W028 – Oxidizing substance

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW028.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user MaxxL
Public domain

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

Anybody who thinks “quickly churns out high performing code!” and “mass-manufactures vulnerabilities and disaster UX designs” are mutually exclusive has clearly never met a programmer in their entire life.

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

thing is, you can't blame a vendor if they followed your corporate mandate, they probably used the tools you forced down their gullet

anyway, memes:

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

Cat kills mouse. News at the top of the hour.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/18/her-schemes-grow-ever-more-twisted/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
preinheimer@phpc.social ("Paul Reinheimer") wrote:

If an "AI" company can sell you access to software that will replace a $250k/year software engineer. They're going to charge $249k/year for it.

That's how capitalism works.

Well, they're going to charge $20k/year at first, during the land rush phase. Wait for some competitors to die off. Keep it low a while longer to kill off the incumbents. Then it'll jump up a bunch, before finally being even more expensive than the original thing.

See also: Uber & AirBnB.

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

Hyperland users: you're gonna like this 🐁

🖥️ **monitui** — A TUI for wrangling your Hyprland monitors

💯 Move displays with hjkl, drag with mouse, save presets & live preview

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/nathaniel-fargo/monitui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #hyprland #linux #terminal #opensource #monitor #config

Attachments:

• gifv: 9a3b465a3ac36556.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I have failed to capture the scale and majesty of (mostly northern) Iceland. But I did take some shots on my phone.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116091145441116888

I used to have a decent sideline as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technical writing. All that work disappeared because LLMs took over and I refuse to use fabrication tools, esp. not for work where accuracy matters

So, now, when I see the people running tech writing teams complain that all their SMEs use LLMs to plagiarise and fabricate, I’m not particularly sympathetic.

This is specifically a mess you were warned about but decided to make and sit in anyway. FAFO.

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

People really can’t get their head around the idea that you can look at more than one possible scenario in an argument and that you can analyse the theoretical impact of outcomes you don’t believe are likely, huh?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

too many programmers tell other programmers not to roll their own. not me. go ahead and implement that thing! it's fun! you control the stack! you learn a lot! don't tell me not to implement something myself because then I will probably do it out of spite.

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

I hereby declare that "morge" is now the official term for merging LLM slop (aka a GiHub PR)

https://kolektiva.social/@teun/116090389114312084