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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rooneymcnibnug ("RooneyMcNibNug") wrote:

"This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine." https://solarprotocol.net/

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

I'll co-sign on "a good agent is a great thing." My agent has sold me in three dozen languages and helped me get dozens of film and television options over time, and acts as my advocate in dealing with publishers here and abroad, not to mention, of course, working to get me my long-term, multi-book deals. His 15% mostly comes out of the deals and money I could not have gotten myself. That 15% is 100% worth it.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mallorymarlowewrites/post/DVJYXpYkUnD

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nielsa@mas.to ("Niels Abildgaard") wrote:

Hey y'all - how do I get in touch with language/type system nerds who want to build something cool?

Concretely, type inference for CUE lang in the context of helm charts in Kubernetes. I can find a budget, if I find the right person to build this, and we can move fast on it.

Goal: Programatically determine CUE schema for helm values file based on how the values are used in template files, starting from the schemas for well-known Kubernetes resources.

Who do I need to fund to build this?

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

The island.is sign-in process is broken for me right now, which means I can't access any government services or online banking (except with the banking app). It was working earlier today

The banking app had bugs last week which caused a bill to disappear

All of this is worrying to say the least

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

I've been encountering so many bugs over the past few days when using government and institutional software services here in Iceland.

Which is disconcerting because there aren't any analog or offline alternatives to these services

And the timing is extra disconcerting because now you have to wonder whether inland revenue or your bank are vibe coding their shit.

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

Scrolling Mastodon & Bluesky posts from the terminal! 🔥

🐦 **perch** — A TUI client for Mastodon & Bluesky

💯 Cross-post, schedule posts, browse timelines & manage accounts with vim keybindings

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/perch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #social #mastodon #bluesky #cli #terminal

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

I mean, this is exactly the kind of shit that will lead to countries regulating programming more strictly than Germany regulates electricians

If that’s the future you want, have at it

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

a decent session on my seekrit project this morning. time to push some snow around and curse a bit.

::poof::

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

Combine that with the scale enabled by automation, the incentives of those making and adopting the tools, and you have have the potential for one of the biggest crises in the history of programming.

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

To throw a hypothetical example out there: a coding “agent” that generates working code half the time and 10% of all the code (working or not) is actively insecure will obviously be trash to most who test it

But an “agent” that generates working code 95% of the time while still having 10% odds of the code being insecure is a security catastrophe—a nightmare, not a productivity boon

It’s not a revolution but a crisis in the making

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

so i'm confident Pivot to AI is on the right track in terms of content and presentation. trouble is *promotion*.

can't get media mentions or interest. i give *great* quote and soundbite, i'm an interesting tidbit factory

ideas welcome

(also if you know media people please suggest me to them)

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

The word “vibe” is going to be near unusable for non-bullshit purposes for the next decade, isn’t it?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.

The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.

The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.

And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw ("'i am no man' Charlotte Eowyn!") wrote:

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

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

Great respect to our student athletes. I have one case of assault & battery by an icy sidewalk, & I'm a shambling wreck for weeks. They go out and pound on themselves year round, & manage to cope.
The difference might be 50 years.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
proedie@mastodon.green wrote:

POKéMON?

#pokemon #gameboy #retrogaming

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

aahhhHHHH hate it when I'm kinda ill but not really 😩

not sick enough to sleep it off, just bad enough to struggle focusing

i'm just existing until it passes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
robhawkes@fosstodon.org ("Robin Hawkes ⚡️") wrote:

Who wants to play SpinCity? It's an offshore wind farm game I might be working on… 👀

The concept is a cute, simple game that anyone can play in-browser to get a better understanding of offshore wind farms from an economical perspective as well as a construction, operation and general "holy shit that's cool".

This idea has been on my backlog for years so it's exciting to be finally working on it. I've only been tinkering on it for a few hours but I'm quite pleased with where it is so far.

Attachments:

• gifv: a59ee8349ad83e22.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

@jsonstein I ran your message through 14 filters. The result: 'nick' — [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle, screen name.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nick.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

No time to explain. Follow me.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jukkan/116130658933405707

It's not just people at Meta running irresponsible vibe coded software. Microsoft ain't any better

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

If anyone is curious, I processed all these ~180 brochures and books, and they are now on Internet Archive! https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?sort=-addeddate

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)

1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Remember Graham Granger at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks who ripped the "AI art" off the wall and ate it?

yeah, he recorded the whole thing. It ends with the police taking him away.

he got his phone back from them yesterday and put it up.

13/10 art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk7GownBT%5FU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Hey, fedi! I need to book some work, y'all. I do editorial illustration, comics, various design work, I've worked in mobile games, indie tabletop games, advertising... I can draw real good is what I'm sayin'!

Allow me to attach my card...

...and link to my website: https://laemeur.com

Boosts appreciated!

#illustration #lookingforwork

Attachments:

• gifv: A looping animation of a man drawing at a tilted table. Beneath the table dangle a number of green tentacles. Periodically one of them flops up onto the drawing table and the man lifts it off and drops it back over the side.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
charette@mstdn.ca ("Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦") wrote:

For the Y2K, we weren't allowed to change any of the original code running on the AS/400. That code was always off-limit, and had existed since the 1970s as far as I know.

We created an intermediate tool that would look at transactions going into and out of the database.

When data was coming out, we'd convert the dates to 4-digit years. Then when data was going in, we'd convert 4-digit years back to 2-digit years.

I have no idea if 26 years later that is still in place. I suspect so. But the thought that banks will authorize AI and "vibe coding" to magically replace all this off-limit code running on the back end is hard to believe.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
brettezeleliquide@h4.io wrote:

La fleur de lys bananière est un meuble héraldique. C’est l’une des quatre figures les plus populaires avec les multiples croix, l’aigle et le lion (Wikipédia)

street art, Park Drive, West End de Glasgow
#streetart #food #culture de banane #banana #flowers #photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

"You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to \[17\] North American companies"

I would rather stop using the internet than hand over my passport for verification be it for vanity, age, or anything else.

Read this whole article to see what a shitshow these verification companies are.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/i-verified-my-linkedin-identity-heres-what-i-actually-handed-over/

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

[Pledged: $100 of $600/month. $500 to go. Patrons: 2]

Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @aseelfromgz, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.

Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment they’ve found. And I’d like them to not have to worry if they’re going to be homeless again next month if they can’t raise enough from the kindness of strangers every month.

So let’s try something new: If you’re willing and able to become a patron and pledge to donate a set amount so they can afford this apartment, please reply to this thread.

I’ll start us off: I pledge to become a regular patron and donate $50/month to help cover Aseel’s rent.

If 11 of you match my pledge, we can move Aseel and her family out of a tent and into the safety of a real home.

What do you say? :)

💕

* https://gaza-verified.org/team

#Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid #fediAid

Attachments:

• video: Video of Aseel talking about their precarious and unsafe living conditions in a tent in Gaza.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The CMA has invited stakeholders to submit views on Apple’s proposed commitments. Please consider writing in. See here for details:
🧵(10/10)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/#how-you-can-help!