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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Laust@ohai.social wrote:

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685

Cool, I hope this bears fruit. The smartphone market needs alternatives to Google. Especially in Denmark stock Android (and iOS) has become the only acceptable standard if you ask the public sector (well, the government basically).

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Boosted by jwz:
fooflington@infosec.exchange ("Matthew Slowe") wrote:

This deserves a slow-clap for Apple…

An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06

#fail #macos #apple #slowclap

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your Women’s History Month art post for today: by Nigerian born artist Data Oruwari (born 1987), based in Brooklyn, The Awakening, 2019, ink, acrylic, gouache and gold leaf on archival paper, 14x20 inches, ©️Data Oruwari #womanartist #womenartists #drawing #africanartist

From Design Indaba: “Creative strategist Data Oruwari is formally trained in law and branding but her real passion is creativity. Self-taught in illustration and graphic design, Oruwari creates a number of projects inspired by African subjects. Her mircopen illustrations are characterised by intricate, monochrome dimensions that bring her ideas to life.”

The artist’s website: https://www.dataoruwari.com

The artist’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dataoruwari

https://www.instagram.com/dataoruwari

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
earthshine@masto.hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

@RhaneOS @Soozcat @soatok you mean Slopya Nadella?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
RhaneOS@girlcock.club ("ChloeOS/2") wrote:

@Soozcat @soatok I've been calling it billslop, maybe they won't mind if their discord atarts calling that instead?

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

I may disagree with his policy of starting a world war because the documented pedophilia was getting too loud, but there is one thing we can all agree on: he's getting MUCH sexier.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DVZBdhjj55-

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Soozcat@vmst.io wrote:

@soatok I mean, if they don't like "Microslop" maybe they should stop making it

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
digitalpardoe@social.lol ("Alex Pardoe") wrote:

Has anyone published a breathless defence of Ben Thompson on Micro.blog yet?

Boosted by jwz:
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

NO WAR IN IRAN
emergency action ,

Monday March 2, 5:30 pm Embarcadero Plaza

Led by PYM, PSL, ANSWER, DSA SF, and others #Iran

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
syphist@zoner.work ("Syphist :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

Hello everyone! Thanks for opening the CW. Itch.io is doing a bundle to fundraise money for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help fight against the ICE presence in my state. $10 or more to this fund will get you over 1,000 items on itch! Here's a link:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota

jwz wrote:

Linux Xft Unicode fonts.

Dear Lazyweb, can someone show me a straightforward example of an X11 program calling XftDrawStringUtf8 that succeeds in displaying Japanese characters? On Debian 13 with "fonts-noto" installed, "lxterminal" can do it but XScreenSaver still can't seem to display anything more complicated than Cyrillic.

E.g. "unicrud --block Katakana".
https://jwz.org/b/yk39

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

have you ever hear the term "spreading activation"?? it'll kill ya

minor changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html resulted in major changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html resulted in the start of a "Players' Manual" at https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html

and that is more than enough work for one day ::poof::

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs in a dumb rant about my Matrix disclosure:

Personally I would actively avoid the check,

Hmm. What a weird thing to say.

Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.

"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"

Who said that? Well, anyway:

https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285

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

I wonder what my office would look like if it were empty. Sad, maybe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/02/this-summer-will-be-no-fun/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
PeterRobison@nashtodon.com ("Peter Robison") wrote:

Helsinki is the same size as Nashville, and they had *zero* traffic deaths last year, while we had over one hundred. Lowering vehicle speeds and building safe infrastructure save lives. Helsinki committed to doing it, while Nashville just pays lip service. The results are predictable, and in the case of Nashville, tragic.

https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116152369590601768

Mastodon wrote:

We've got something to Share! We hope you'll find it useful. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
charlotte@akko.chir.rs ("Charlotte :lotteheartplural:/Cinny :cinny_heart_plural: :thetadelta: :ursaminor: :treblesand: ") wrote:

aws suggesting performing “disaster recovery” is basically like “yeah 2/3 of the dc no longer exist”

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

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

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.

They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."

(Original title: How to grow strawberries)

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
pamelafox@fosstodon.org ("Pamela Fox") wrote:

BullshitBench: a benchmark that measures whether models detect nonsense, call it out clearly, and avoid confidently continuing with invalid assumptions.
https://github.com/petergpt/bullshit-benchmark

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

Here is how you can make your Rust terminal app beautiful! 🤩🦀

🎨 r**atatui-themes **— Color themes for @ratatui_rs apps

💯 15+ popular themes (Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, Gruvbox...) with semantic colors

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/ratatui-themes

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #theme #design #cli #devtools

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

Anybody want to hire a fullstack js/ts dev with decades of experience and no "ai" taint? I do it all, I look good doing it, I'm cheap as hell, and I don't use rented coding tools so you can own all the code I write for you.

Remote from Canada, Eastern time zone.

#GetFediHired

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

"Microslop" is kind of catchy.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

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

I'm gonna ask a dumb question—Where did he get the money from?

Someone broke down what it cost to bomb Iran. It was in the billions.

I was taught that Congress controls the "purse stings." That's the check-and-balance, right? Wars cost money. Where'd he get the money from?

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development.

Apply now!

https://www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/Igalia-2026-Coding-Experience-Open-for-Applications.html

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

how sad, our Assistant is ill. how sad.

"Elevated errors on claude.ai, console, and claude code"

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

Heading out of London, and missing it already. #sotb26 was lovely; was great to see so many wonderful people. Seemed "everyone" was there!

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

“How to grow strawberries • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

> Sadly, I fear those things are close to impossible to find in the tech industry at the moment.

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

In just three short years, OpenAI went from a non-profit organization with a promise to build non-military use AI out in the open, to a secretive for-profit corporation that definitely just signed a contract with the US government to help kill civilians.

And all this *before* he's been able to make AI indispensable to our lives. Can you imagine what he'll be like when he's collecting rents?

When it's all said and done, I think even the tech CEOs will regret giving Altman all that power.