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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

By Georgette Chen (born Chang Li Ying, 1906-1993), Self-Portrait, oil on wood, 35 by 27 cm (13 3/4 by 10 1/2 inches), photo: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 04 April 2015. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #asianart #painting #oilpainting #WomensHistoryMonth

From the catalogue note: “Georgette Chen’s modernist aesthetic and profound comprehension of the oil painting medium introduced a fresh surge to Singapore’s pre-existing artistic paradigm in the 20th century. Though landscapes and still life works are her famed forte, Chen’s striking self-portrait serves as a remarkable and rare testament to one of the most groundbreaking strides in the Nanyang School. As the singular female artist in this group, she delved into an emotional search for self-identity as she fashioned this image and appeared stalwart in her artistic fortitude.”

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

@douginamug I can't tell how seriously to take this, but it seems to be related to this talk from the recent FOSDEM:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets%5Fend%5Fopen%5Fsource%5Ftogether%5Fwith%5Fthis%5Fone%5Fsimple%5Ftrick/

(The music is driving me crazy on that video.)

Via:

https://malus.sh/blog.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ppk@front-end.social ("ppk 🇪🇺") wrote:

Buy tickets for all of these conferences, and buy them now.

Or else @dletorey will come after you. And you know what that means.

https://webdayout.com
https://beyondtellerrand.com
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2026
https://cssday.nl
https://pixelpioneers.co
https://www.fronteers.nl/en/conference/
https://webdevconf.com

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Worth your time:

https://pca.st/episode/9cec0a50-ff08-44bb-a2a5-83b490d14787

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Just caught myself thinking “What’s a good website for Mac news, now that MacStories doesn’t cover Macs anymore?” (This is not remotely true, if you look at the front page, but it does sometimes feel like their beat has become AI agents lately.)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
whiskeysailor@reefahoy.boats ("Mister Softie :dp_knife:") wrote:

Amazing how ICE can avoid media attention when it doesn't gun down white people on video

Boosted by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social ("eclexic") wrote:

#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0

I also made a video including details & instructions.

Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness.

PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K

YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA

Text (instructions only):
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data

Boosted by jwz:
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

CLAUDE.md on your machine? It's more likely than you think...

I kind of want to pour gasoline on my laptop and light it up now, but... uhh, yeah, maybe I'll start with installing Asahi again.

Boosted by jwz:
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Luddites are just fighting the inevitable. The metaverse is the future. Especially when combined with NFTs.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

got your eye on a commons you want to enclose? we can help with that! just $100 per seat/month (billed yearly; $125 if billed monthly)

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116172179294783146

"Is there a point to understanding things?" is, I think, the single biggest open question about Software Engineering as a discipline that has opened up over the last 18 months.

I expect it'll be answered in the affirmative, but
a) I don't think there'll be consensus on that for another 3 years
b) I don't think the people who are acting as if the negative is true will ever realise that that's what they think

Boosted by jwz:
Foxboron@chaos.social ("Morten Linderud") wrote:

Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

That is one way to launder GPL code I guess?

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.