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

This is bad. This is very, very bad.

I'm not trying to pick on Python here, I pick it because Python is something I'm actively using, and so I have a vested interest in the project *not* being AI-vulnerable.

But it's not good, chat. It's very far from good, in fact.

[edited to add: see two addendums below, they're important context]

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

Jeffery Epstein had such a weird level of power and influence, especially for a guy who wasn't even a billionaire. He didn't control anything important. He's not from an influential family.

Maybe I missed it but, what was the source of his power?

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

We really want to give Fediverse blacklists to people who believe fascists and people who call out fascists are the same?

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

Brainstorming with Mermaid diagrams... from the terminal! 💯

🧠 **nereid** — A terminal-first Mermaid diagram workspace with built-in AI collaboration

⚡ Edit diagrams, serve MCP tools, export ASCII & persist sessions

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bnomei/nereid

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #mermaid #ai #mcp #cli #devtools

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

:this-is-fine:

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

I love the *idea* of the Current RSS reader, but a little too much feels undercooked right now: iCloud syncing seems wonky; sometimes it scrapes the website rather than using the full-text RSS, even for feeds that are explicitly set not to do so; and most deal-breaking, “new” articles frequently appear under the “you’re all caught up!” line, including ones that are weeks old (and long past the time content from those feeds should automatically fade).

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

A thing I see happening in good forums:

🦝 Hey fellow doofer-enjoyers, I have a 2006-model purple doofer. I'm trying to get it to interface with the green 2009 doohickey but I'm not having any luck so far, has anybody else tried this?
🦁 Oh I think I remember 🐭 was trying that a few years back, hey 🐭 did you get anywhere with that
🐭 Kinda, here's the thread [link]
🐿️ That really should've gone in the wiki
🐭 Yeah well I never got it all the way done though. 🦝, you wanna turn the green one at 90 degrees to the purple one and click your heels twice, that's as far as I got before I gave up on it
🐏 Oh this is like with the turquoise whadjamacallit, lemme find that thread...
[4 pages of discussion and testing and throwing out ideas and figuring things out later]
🦝 Okay I tried standing on my right foot and heck, it works! Thanks guys, that was really helpful!
🐿️ Awesome, I put a very quick rough write-up and a link to this thread in the wiki, for future searchers. 🦝, if you could check out that page and make sure it's accurate, that'd be great
🦓 Great write-up 🐿️, I linked to it from both the 2006-purple and the 2009-green pages. If anybody else wants to tidy up the formatting etc that'd be super useful

The forum is for figuring out, and the wiki is for showing what we've figured out.

And y'know, maybe 🦝 and 🐭 ended up in the chat, while they were right in the flow of test-things-quick, and realtime chat is good for that, but it's bad at showing the results. The results just float off up the page with time, replaced by new chat about new stuff, even if the old stuff is still true and valid and useful. The longer the chat runs, the more time you have to spend scrolling up to find the thing. The same goes for the forums; it happens at a slower pace, but everything still floats off down the time stream, the best chunks of proven-truth floating just like the mistakes and wrong-turns that happened during the proving.

Worse, the most posted-in threads tend to be the figuring-out threads. Once you've figured it out, there's not as much need to post and bump the thread back up to the top, so the threads most likely to float off are the ones that have got a bit of figured-out-and-proven truth in them.

But in a good forum with a wiki attached, there are lots of 🐿️ who fish little bits of figured-out from the figuring-out-stream and save them somewhere else, where they won't float off.

Without having some kind of wiki or static page or other sort of recency-independent repository of information, what folk end up doing is they generate ideas, they test, they make mistakes and correct them, they ask questions, they boil and condense and distill their thinking-out-loud streams-of-consciousness into a source of Actual Properly-Figured-Out Truth, and then set that perfect refined information on a little paper boat and wave to it as it floats off down the time stream, out of relevance, further from retrievability.

Forums and chat and social media are great for discussion and pure dogshit at storing information, and wikis and webpages are the opposite, but you've gotta use both. You have to use both. At some point your truths have to be written down somewhere that doesn't display most-recent-first. That's the only way to get off the treadmill of constantly figuring out the same things over and over and start living in a place where things are, and have been, Properly Figured Out.

I've been thinking about this today because I saw a person on Fedi who had, as a pinned post, an index of all the really good posts she'd made. Do I have one of those posts? Do I bollocks, what I have instead is a list of bookmarks to refer to when someone asks "Hey I was thinking about your bike thread the other day, do you remember the URL" and you know what I do? I look at the top of my bookmarks and it's not there, and I go through like forty open tabs until I find it, and I untick the bookmark and tick it again so that it's now most-recent, at the top of the bookmarks list. That's no fucking way to live. That's not a library, that's a cursed backpack that keeps getting heavier

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

I have a few "migrations" I need to do. One of them is moving servers. 😅🎉😬🙂

I'm on mastodon-dot-social, currently. I don't know where to go. Is okay to go somewhere that doesn't block mastodon dot social? I like a lot of people here. Also, maybe, and this is not a deal breaker, but somewhere with a more generous word count, maybe even hyperlink support??

Any ideas?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Nobody's home.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:

Remember how computers in the Start Trek TOS speak in a flat, monotonous machine voice? I think we should retcon that to be a deliberate policy choice implemented as a result of mass psychological trauma experienced by humanity in early eras of AI. A kind of intentional design choice similar how North American outlets present as scary frowny faces.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social ("Imani Gandy") wrote:

When this level of anti-Blackness becomes politically survivable, it doesn’t stay on Truth Social or in Trump's addled mind.

It migrates into policy.

Think about Trump’s attacks on disparate impact liability. His efforts to hollow out civil-rights enforcement. The way he frames DEI bans as “fairness.”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social ("Imani Gandy") wrote:

🧵 Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as apes earlier this month. He deleted it. A handful of Republicans objected. Most said nothing. Nothing changed.

My most recent column isn’t about shock. It’s about consequences. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/18/trump-racism-truth-social-consequences/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I had missed this by @css; mind-blowing:

https://css-tip.com/graph-theory/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
glennf@zeppelin.flights ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:

Just launched on Kickstarter! “Flong Time, No See,” my collection of essays and reported work on printing history and people’s labor. Not academic—it’s a lot of fun, as you learn about a wildcat typesetter strike, “bogus” copy, type lice,” and much more! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/flong-time-no-see?ref=cbf9r2

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
GameFromScratch@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Adobe's awful year just got worse...

Canva have just acquired Cavalry, a powerful After Effects alternative. Combined with Affinity, Canva now offer a full alternative to the Creative Cloud Suite.

https://gamefromscratch.com/canva-buys-cavalry-mangoai/

#gamedev #indiedev

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

“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto”, a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”. https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

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.