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

“Artisanal care”

https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

> These days we are mostly forced to use software whether we like to or not – often even software we cannot have any control over

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
deetwenty@todon.nl ("Botch Frivarg") wrote:

@soatok in this article you in passing mention something that has frustrated me for some time in software engineering as someone with a bit more of a hardware background, and that is how much important stuff doesn't build on formal specifications, even big infrastructure projects! And when I have brought this up I'm often met with something along the lines of "but that is not very agile" or "we moved away from waterfall". Sure that small backyard shed you can yolo together, but why are we doing the same thing for the highway bridges of the software world?

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

I don't know, I already thought it was pretty damn bad

https://www.thedailybeast.com/senator-elizabeth-warre-says-secret-briefing-on-iran-proves-its-worse-than-you-thought/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
flaviotorba@mastodon.uno ("Flavio Torba") wrote:

In free download i primi tre capitoli di "Stupenda creatura idiota", il mio romanzo cyberpunk con modelle in putrefazione, modifiche corporee e Charles Bronson... Finalista Premio Urania 2022 (sembra una vita fa)

#fantascienza #fantascienzaitaliana @cultura #libri

https://drive.proton.me/urls/BXZ5HVE4Z8#zEPq0zuJ4Bt0

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

There is light.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #window #concrete #trees #light

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

Who left it there?#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #window #concrete #trees

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

Speaking of PhysicsGirl y'all Dianna just posted her FIRST SCIENCE VIDEO IN 3 YEARS this morning, ever since she got Long COVID.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

https://youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

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

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of total catastrophic failure.

This man has trashed the Kennedy name for good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/04/get-this-guy-outta-here/

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

had to return from a walk because i ran out of podcast

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E06
🎥 Episode: Kids
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: August 10, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0696

Boosted by jwz:
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("★ Amy Star ★") wrote:

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

It did not go as planned.

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

Because the element of coercion and a complete disregard for consent is now an integral part of how the industry works, but that's a topic for another day.

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

Attachments:

• video: 3122b617ae5fd412.mp4

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?

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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?"