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zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I'm excited to be back in Barcelona in two weeks!

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
fastlydevs ("Fastly Devs") wrote:

Fastly is headed to Wasm I/O 2026 in Barcelona, March 19–20! 🇪🇸

We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up:
🎤 Sy Brand — Co-operative Multithreading & the Component Model
🎤 Erik Rose — Componentizing Fastly Compute
🎤 Luke Wagner — Towards a Component Model 1.0

If you care about WebAssembly, components, or cloud compute, don’t miss this. ⚡ @webassemblyeu @webassembly

More info: https://2026.wasm.io/

#WASMIO2026 #WebAssembly #EdgeComputing

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
restlesshead@dice.camp ("Victor W Allen") wrote:

app: You must verify that you're an adult
me: I'm just so tired all the time
app: Verified

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fristi@56k.dile-up.nl ("『 Crocs With Socks 』") wrote:

you know what the problem is with getting people on linux?

they are not motivated to take care of their computers, they don't care about learning how anything works or how to troubleshoot even basic shit

and that's fine, actually. Do you want to learn how to do maintenance work on your car? How to tune it? How to do repairs? No, of course not, because repairing and maintaining cars requires tools, is filthy work at times and you actually need to know how to disassemble and reassemble the stuff you're working on. I don't fucking care to do all that shit. I don't have the space or motivation for it.

So yea, makes sense that some people don't like doing the same tedious shit but for computers. They just want the thing to work and to do what it needs to. So I can't really blame anyone for not wanting to make the miracle hop to some other system they don't know shit about and deal with whatever stupid problems they might run into. Because I wouldn't do it either.

And that's really the problem of linux. It doesn't have a "just fucking works" type of workflow. Most things tend to work, but linux has the problem where every full moon or so, something goes wrong, and it goes wrong in the way where the solution is to do random terminal shit and about 2 hours of getting annoyed by stack overflow posts. Are they difficult? No, they just take some googling, and most veterans will probably have this type of shit committed to memory already. Is it annoying? Very.

So most people just choose to deal with microsoft's bullshit. I just wonder how long before windows has worse problems than linux.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
senil@gts.social.senil.me ("Senil") wrote:

@NohatCoder @soatok Oh yeah, I agree, there aren't many use cases where you'd need that kind of thing. Buuuut it just seems weird to me that, for the rare cases where you'd need one (and the dev is insistent on using Monocypher for... reasons), they refuse to consider implementing a variant that at least ships the absolute basics that tries to remain mostly-compatible - or that they even "consider" that something worth exploring now, two-ish years later, even though their current portable version is still too heavy for the truly low-power devices while still risking not being secured on those architectures.

It seems like they're very aware that some folks do use Monocypher in that way (whether they should or shouldn't on hardware as limited as the Cortex M0's is a different debate, but I do agree that one should really use something much more specific), but also don't want to actually implement it in a way that ensures it'd work securely.

IDK, it just seems weird to me that Loup-Vaillant acknowledges that embedded devices are something some folks try to use this tool for, is open to trying to implement some version of it, but also refuses to do the one thing that would make it marginally more viable (whether it should actually be done or not) in the form of breaking direct API compatibility with the normal versions. Either implementing a more embedded-device-friendly version is on the table, which means breaking existing API compatibility to focus on the lowest common denominator in terms of what preserves constant-time behavior; or it shouldn't be considered, the issue closed, and discouraged from use on certain ISA's.

Just feels like a weird spec choice to have this question in the air.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
douginamug@mastodon.xyz ("Doug Webb") wrote:

Does AI clean-rooming mean we don't have to discuss licensing anymore? 🍿

https://malus.sh/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NohatCoder@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Jacob Christian Munch-Andersen") wrote:

@senil @soatok The truth is that there aren't a whole lot of embedded style chips that need to do cryptography, trying to shoehorn a general purpose cryptographic library into them is a fool's errand. If you need cryptography on such chips you are generally much better off with a specialised library that implement only primitives suitable for the chip.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

From @nelson
GitHub status
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly

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

@drwho @bersl2 @deetwenty @soatok This sounds so much better than the agile junk. Why aren't we using this? This sounds like engineering instead of programming.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

Using LLM backed codegen to falsely relicense from copyleft licensing like LGPL to anything resembling MIT/BSD style licensing isn't just laundering code - it's an active attack on the labour aspect of the free software movement. It is an attempt to undo forcing cooperation by using the existing copyright system, subverting the very commons which they plundered to create these tools.

This is why playing by the rules rarely gets you change.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Arky@chitter.xyz ("Arky 🔜 AnV, CFz, EF") wrote:

Seeing in the New Year together 🥰

When @ibzan and I got tickets to the London NYE fireworks last year, I thought they'd make for a nice piece of art. Chibity came back with this absolutely stunning work <3

🎨 Chibity (FA)

#Furry #FurryArt #Art

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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- apply by April 3
- €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months
- uni students or self directed learners

https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

#FediHire #Fossjobs

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