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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wuest@hachyderm.io wrote:

@munin it's so fucking grating in a way I haven't developed proper language for yet

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Except when people spend all their fucking time with claude. or chatgpt. or gemini. or copilot.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you're wondering what I'm seeing with regards to cyber attacks(tm) from Iran - nothing. I've had friends watching Netflow of tracked infrastructure used by known groups, it's all been dead since the war began. Iran's infrastructure is basically in ruins.

I have had friends at cyber vendors warn me they've been tasked with finding old reports about Iran, and rewriting them as new - just without dates.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bersl2@furry.engineer ("Bersl") wrote:

@deetwenty @soatok I think the most frustrating thing I heard from my boss on Monday is the sentiment of "Oh, the transition to AI coding means that we have to throw away all of the Agile we've been working on and basically go back to waterfall. The best way to use it is to write out your specifications first."

So, the planning that we should have been doing a long time ago is only worth bothering to do once the robots are here?

This is how I know we're in hell.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason brother, I am feeling this. I was writing this post on my reading blog when you were writing this. I will be writing more on this. It helps me sort my thoughts.

https://readingsf.micro.blog/2026/03/04/the-joy-of-reading-ebooks.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason One thing that was cool in the Before Times was going to someone's house and being able to look at their books and their music. People did that. You'd see a book you had in common, or discover music you didn't know about. You know - in the actual physical presence of that actual human being.

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

We went from physical ownership to purchasing a viewing license they can revoke at anytime.

It's sort of sad and funny to think about it in terms of generational wealth. Most Millennials wont have media collections to pass onto their kids. Perhaps we're not talking about a lot of money, but it's not nothing.

It has immense sentimental value, too. Imagine wanting to learn more about your pop-pop but you can't because listening to his music collection is against Apple's TOS.

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

These corrupt religious fanatics are going to kill us all.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/04/that-put-the-fear-of-god-into-me/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! If I subtract crashes that are caused by resource exhaustion (such as out-of-memory crashes) this number goes up to around 15%. This is a bit skewed because users with flaky hardware will crash more often than users with functioning machines, but even then this dwarfs all the previous estimates I saw regarding this problem. 3/5

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

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

RE: https://mas.to/@IanDSmith/116163691884422656

The cloud is the vehicle for all of it. The problem is, these services aren't particularly expensive. Worse, most are all-you-can-eat.

AI—or, at least, the American version of AI presented to us as celestial, resource-hungry, and scarce—is the perfect cloud accessory.

All we need now is to get addicted to AI, the same way we're addicted to the cloud, and we'll have an economy that works sort of like how diamonds work. Except, at least a with a diamond, you have something shiny.

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

No.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/04/their-claims-of-apostasy-are-grossly-inflated/

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

“Artisanal care”

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

> Software was doing bad before, standards of quality being largely nonexistent. But “AI” and the promise that you can just magically create software is pouring gasoline on the fire

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

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
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"

Boosted by jwz:
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