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

Devs are so disconnected from the output of their work that many of the norms of the industry are outright illegal: there's a good chance that if you follow popular practices for a React project, for example, you'll end up with a site or product that violates accessibility law in several countries

Few devs would even know where to begin to look to answer the question "does my software work for the people forced to use it?"

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

Few devs have a reference point for genuinely working software. Usability labs were disbanded over 20 years ago. Very few companies do actual user research, so their designs are based on fiction. Bugs are the norm

Alienation is also the norm for devs, both socially and organisationally. Whether it works for the end user doesn't cross their mind. Whether the design fulfils business needs is not their problem. Bugs are a future problem. Ship insecure software and patch it as user data gets stolen

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

Best part? It's always somebody with years of experience. Exactly the demographic that is supposedly able to use this shit safely, but my impression is they're just as bad as the novices

This is happening IMO because of one of the fundamental issues with software dev (and this predates "AI" and was one of the themes of my first book):

Most software projects fail and most of what gets shipped doesn't work. The way the industry is set up means there is little downside to shipping broken software

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

(Following thread was prompted by people pointing out that the Bluesky dev team seems heavily into vibe-coding now and originally posted on said vibe-coded Bluesky platform that is now constantly failing.)

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

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

in case you ever wondered why bluesky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3meomclcfss2w

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/ - in case the links between surveillance capitalism and trad jackbooted fascism weren't already clear. Ban data profiling.

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

Here is how to pick colors in your Rust terminal app! 🦀💯

🌀 **tui_color_wheel** — Interactive color wheel widget for @ratatui_rs

🎨 Pick and explore colors visually from the terminal

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/idk1To3/tui%5Fcolor%5Fwheel

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #widget #programming #library #terminal

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

Which? - The UK’s not for profit consumer champion had this to say about the UK CMA's proposed remedies.

👉 See: https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/which-response-to-the-cmas-call-for-evidence-on-apple-and-googles-proposed-app-distribution-and-interoperability-commitments-apNNj9T9o9hm

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

blogged: Bunny.net shared storage zones
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/04/bunny-shared-storage-zones/

— what's a bit of vender lock-in between friends?

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Those three US Air Force F-15Es that got shot down were reportedly all shot down by a single Kuwaiti F/A-18, which if true means there is a pilot somewhere in Kuwait who simultaneously wrecked his career and got 60% of the way towards becoming a fighter ace

https://www.twz.com/news-features/kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-responsible-for-shooting-down-three-usaf-f-15e-strike-eagles-report

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

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

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/

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

You ever get the sense that Sam Altman is just a Sillicon Valley con artist who got lucky? Like, there's so many of them, one of them was bound to strike it big. He's just another Sam Bankman-Fried or an Elizabeth Holmes who knows the Y Combinator system well enough not to get caught.

https://youtube.com/shorts/RLVu7SRhOGI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@emma @fromjason the lesson that whoever survives this mess should take from it is: we must dismantle systems of injustice, not fight to be in charge of them

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma needs ☕️ and paying work") wrote:

@fromjason we were told "we need executive power because there'd be no time to for congress to vote if the Soviets attacked us," but didn't think through "what happens when the president's been mentored by a mob lawyer?"

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

Everytime without fail. I see a headline about "mass systemic-anything" and I look for and find the pull-quote that reveals the system was made under Biden (or, sometimes Obama).

Trump is so incompetent. He would've never stood a chance if he was forced to build these things from scratch. Would've been great. Instead, he weaponized everything.

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

Biden, the democrats, the republicans, the technocrats, they all sort of fucked us.

Whenever we hear about an atrocious overreach of power it's always on the backs of this administration's predecessors who were building and funding shit they should've never built or funded.

What a wild lesson to learn the hard way. It's not the fascist who builds the Torment Nexus, it's the "good guy" who falsely believes he'll always get to control the levers.

We gave Trump everything he needed.

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

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements:

"The internal document relates to a “pilot” program CBP previously ran from 2019 to 2021, which would “aid in CBP’s targeting, vetting, analysis, and illicit network discovery processes,” it says."

Today’s fascist tools are just yesterday’s neoliberal business model under different TOS. https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Build Awesome (11ty)") wrote:

The ’possum is roaming wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome.

Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our fun video and back us on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome?ref=b4hezh

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

I really wish we would all stop pretending that there was any other reason we're currently at war aside from the president's wish not to die in prison for subverting elections and raping children

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/explanation-trump-preemptive-iran-strikes

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My Prusa XL just did its 100.000th tool change and honestly... I'm a bit emotional. 🥲

That tool changer has seen more action than most startups pivot strategies!

#3dprinting

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

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116167687916281766

Based on Athropic's known influencer-marketing activity, and the weird pro-Anthropic YouTube videos that keep popping up in my feed, and just the sheer amount of posts that read like Claude-specific sponsored content, one wonders is this is organic praise.

Idk, perhaps my digital marketing experience is working against me here and I'm seeing what I want, but all I keep seeing is unlabeled sponsored content.

All I see is an audacious ad campaign for Claude AI.

https://aftermath.site/ai-influencer-creator-deals-sponsorship-google-microsoft-anthropic/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/116167884190916456

It's still not out, but a new MiSTer SNES core is nearing release that supports save states.

Translation: once that's out, and it's ported to the Pocket, it'll be a pretty viable platform for SNES emulation, and not the paperweight it's basically been for me ever since I got mine

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber") wrote:

Unions are like condoms -- if someone tries to tell you you don't need one, you *definitely* need one.

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

I guess I should just tap the sign whenever I encounter this sort of personality:

https://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vapourisation@tech.lgbt wrote:

@soatok it's so nice to see people still making their own bespoke collections of footguns. I thought OpenSSL was the last place to find so many great ones in one place but here we are!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

HEY! Here's a new piece for The Point, part 3 of my ongoing series on carbon capture.

This one's on why demanding subsidies for an absurd activity basically guarantees perpetual public funds (which help support fossil fuel expansion)

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260225-ccs-part-three-why-ccs-subsidies-are-a-perpetual-scam

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

You know, sometimes you just wanna play crossword in the terminal...

🧩 **cruciverbal** — Terminal-based crossword puzzle player

💯 Supports puzzles from Guardian, Washington Post, USA Today & more

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/erhant/cruciverbal

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #crossword #game #terminal

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