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

(although given the state of the news right now...)

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

Deleted a post which referenced an old news story which somehow resurfaced in my news feed. Damn it, algorithm, keep my news fresh!

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

Why We Struck Iran:

"Trump gets away with all of this by pretending we’re not really at war—a falsehood with which Congress is happy to play along. Asked if the U.S. is at war with Iran, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press: “I don’t know if this is technically a war.” Absurd as that sounds, Democratic leaders are adopting the same framing. Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict” as if this ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/02/why-we-struck-iran-trump.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rowlandm@disabled.social ("RM") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116154825042728437

Many DEI plans fail because they don’t understand:

1. that most DEI frameworks should talk in concrete terms, not in abstract terms,
2. what is systemic discrimination,
3. that systemic and subtle discrimination accumulates over time,
4. what Intersectionality really means and how it adds more nuances that need to be addressed, and
5. that providing opportunities, creating safe spaces, and sharing power are the antidotes to discrimination.

https://www.practicaldiversity.org/

#Diversity #Equity #Inclusion

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

All things considered, I wouldn't mind adding a share to mastodon button to my blog, maybe.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

So uh

does this mean that there is now precedent that at least "agentic" dev systems, potentially any genAI dev system, now leaves companies open to their code no longer being considered copyrightable if they use these systems?

https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

One of the things about growing up Latin American, especially in the 90s, is that you get a very different perspective of LatAm artists that became big in the English-speaking world much later. Like, Ricky Martin was the cute little kid from Menudo long before he was the hot totally-straight-I-swear heartthrob doing world cup music, and Shakira was basically a Colombian Alanis Morrisette before she was the blonde bombshell reggaeton artist she is now.

Anyway all this to say listening to old Shakira stuff is great.

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

Surely the assassination of one guy won't cause an entire world war.

*Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand starts playing*

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nlupo@amikejo.xyz ("nLupo :anarchist_flag: :antrans_flag:") wrote:

@soatok And that's how devs caring about privacy should do.

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

Here's something not so secret about most people (absent the incentives of attention economies): being mean takes way too much energy and attention.

I reserve the occasional rhetorical evisceration for cryptography projects that demonstrate arrogance while putting users at risk, but otherwise I'd rather spend my time on building things. That's significantly more useful to other people.

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

Most of the time, vulnerability disclosure is a boring process. To wit: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zz4yh

I told the developer about some issues found in Conversations.

I had looked at it in 2024 when I wrote Against XMPP+OMEMO but was too busy to verify them until recently. A lot of code had changed since then, and most of the probable bugs from then have since evaporated or were false positives.

Daniel fixed them all in like, 24 hours of me telling him.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome

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

Consequences also have consequences.

There are currently a handful of people openly hating on me because they see me, pissed off, and interpret my actions and tone as "arrogant" or "smug".

Which is a fair interpretation if you ignore the behavior that provoked my response. That is why I try to be transparent about my motivations for publishing my opinions whenever I'm using inflammatory word choice. But that can only help so much.

This is all to say: Don't be surprised if loose ties or strangers curse my name in your travels. Some of them may think they have good reason for it.

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

One of the more painful (heh) lessons in life is that actions have consequences. Maybe social consequences. Maybe financial or legal ones.

Sure, you can't slap someone's face over the Internet (though IRC's /commands and trout were a common experience in my age group), the way you can in movie theater parking lots.

And the easiest way to avoid provoking a response you don't like is to avoid being a dick.

Matrix got proverbially smacked twice because its evangelists were rude and spoke over me.

Other messaging apps provoked this response through arrogance or trying to spread baseless fear in apps that actually implemented their encryption better than theirs.

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

I really want to start using the story feature on Signal. I used to write thread-like stories on Instagram and I missed that format.

I guess I'd just have to start publishing stories without anyone looking at them at first.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:

Microslop....

I'm doing my part.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

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

How much market cap can we wash away by simply using the term “Microslop?” My guess is a lot.

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

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

Too many people would benefit from a bit of wisdom from growing up in the 90's and 00's:

Talk shit

Get hit

This doesn't always mean physical violence.

Sometimes it means a furry points out how shitty your code is after you grandstand pompously about how you write code or design protocols.

Something something all is fair in love and vore

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

I am so glad I got the opportunity to grow up in an age where there were no restrictions on what I could do with computers I could access.

Personally I consider any attempt to remove that access from anyone as abhorrent. It is a core part of who I am.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

The California age verification law imposes behaviour of application developers that I consider morally absurd.

As an application developer, I will never request any information from the OS or any other place to gather personal information about a user - especially if the act of that request has legal implications on what I am deemed to "know".

I simply won't.

Any system that enforces such a check, is a system I will not support.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

The danger with these kinds of laws is that it is very easy to make them sound reasonable.

To fix that, please imagine these restrictions and requirements applied to book publishers and authors and libraries.

It would be absurd to require age verification/checking before being able to read something. We allow parents to decide what is suitable for their own children, but we do not require librarians or bookstores to do age checks, nor hold authors liable for precocious reading.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry 🦙💝🦙") wrote:

I feel like whoever is running the phishing op to scam fediverse people out of money may not be that great at their jobs

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There are no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jonobie@social.coop ("Jonobie") wrote:

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rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

RE: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust/115565961664226194

The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results/

Boosted by jwz:
brentsimmons@indieweb.social ("Brent Simmons") wrote:

Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today @ahl and I are going to be joined by the @oxidecomputer team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild, multi-year debugging tale!
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1478128159021989950

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).

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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