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danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEek40YOoRC/

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

Bonus raven photos. #birds #nature #iceland #photos #ravens

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

There's a group of young ravens up by the cliffs near town. When I was there earlier this week, a bunch of them were playing chase. #birds #nature #iceland #photos #ravens

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

I've discovered the limits of "dear algo"

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
laurenshof@indieweb.social ("Laurens Hof") wrote:

sure this is all very bad for activitypub but this is truly amazing content

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team.

Ideally you are:

1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails
2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch
3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable web backend and API systems

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/ac9d4f66-13e8-44d1-bb82-a929ebca8a27

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #backend

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

A previously on the ball guy calling refusal to use chatbots "purity culture" is like seeing the worm break through the skin.

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

Cool, where's my tariff refund?

(just kidding, I know I won't get one, and I know prices won't go down either)

Still: good. And a shocking refusal to lick the boot from this normally enthusiastically boot-licking court.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/20/us/trump-tariffs-supreme-court

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

I get it, the git-send-mail workflow has a learning step. It’s hard the first few times. But once you are used to it, the "pull-requests-on-web-ui" becomes insufferable.

Dear people maintening a project on Github: please give me an email address to which I can send you trivial patches. The whole PR workflow takes more time than the codïng!

And if enough projects does that, I could eventually ditch my Github account!

https://ploum.net/2026-01-31-offline-git-send-email.html

#git #github

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Pokémon Day (and the 30th anniversary of Pokémon) is just a week away! Come hang out and chat with other omg.lol Pokémon fans in our #pokemon channel on irc.social.lol!

irc://irc.social.lol:6697/#pokemon

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

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

Today in History: Carl Czerny is born, 1791

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

Today in History: Yes sells out Madison Square Garden... without advertising, 1974

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

Today in History: J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946

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

Today in History: Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard

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

Today in History: John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962

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

Today in History: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia

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

Today in History: Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer

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

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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I've just set up a job board on the omg.lol Discourse. If you're looking for a job, or looking to hire someone, please feel free to post there! https://discourse.lol/t/the-omg-lol-job-board/1658

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

My student brought up typed assembly language today, which means I'm obligated to point to this amazing website from the last millennium: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
3TomatoesShort@disabled.social ("WearyBonnie") wrote:

#3GoodThings today.

1. Crossed a bunch of things off the to-do list ✅
2. Accidental nap 😴
3. Chose to prioritise some energy use for a couple of things I wanted to do just for myself, after all the things I did because I had an obligation 💅🏻

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/

#Widelands #PCGaming #Gaming #AI #AIGen #FreeGame #OpenSource

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

Even the aliens in the UFOs want everything in the Epstein Files released

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

So, my reply got me blocked. And here I thought I was being polite

https://bsky.app/profile/baldurbjarnason.com/post/3mfc255cv5c2b

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

feature length episode of Black Mirror dropping this summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0

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

Mainstream media, as usual, is happy to pretend religious fantasies are real news and real evidence

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/20/no-ghosts-in-the-brain/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
wadus@hachyderm.io ("Juan") wrote:

i know i'm mostly preaching to choir here, but the current shitshow of designers going HAHA WE DONT NEED DEVELOPERS ANY MORE and developers going HAHAHA WE DONT NEED DESIGNERS ANY MORE, and business people going LOL YOU WAIT WE DONT NEED ANYONE ANY MORE is unbearable.

i guess because it's based on the premise of having opposing sides and supposedly hating them?

but i miss my designers so much man. i've enjoyed their company, and their friendship and i've learnt SO FUCKING MUCH from them.

and now you want me to be excited about spending my days "collaborating" with an "assitant" in order to get things done "efficiently".

sure thing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

them: as a senior engineer, i expect you to discuss tradeoffs in your technical solutions

me: cool, let’s talk about the externalities of LLMs

them: wait not like that

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
flaki@flaki.social ("Flaki") wrote:

"Learning to work effectively with AI is quickly becoming a core professional skill. Ignoring AI today would be like refusing to adopt source control twenty years ago."

Oh golly, I almost forgot SVN stole hundreds of thousands of peoples' (and particularly artists) livelihoods, set us back decades in climate change emissions reduction and increasingly hurling towards global catastrophe while _also_ upending global economy in hogging the combined human output of equipment production to manifest _even more_ data centers that will propel us even further towards a hypercapitalist dystopian hellscape. Good to be reminded.