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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116172988490704948

Makes it very clear how artificially limited modern phones are.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

“The costs of Trump’s war to the average American will be higher than it could have been because of the assault of the GOP and Trump administration on renewable energy projects,” said Peter Gleick, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
https://www.fastcompany.com/91502090/trump-assaulted-renewable-energy-now-america-is-more-vulnerable-to-iran-fossil-fuel-shocks

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

people out there treating Joe Armstrong's "The Mess We're In" like the famed sci fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

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

U.S. Senator attacks anti-war Marine - breaking his hand:

"McGinnis can be heard saying “No one wants to fight for Israel!!” And bystanders can he heard saying “They broke his hand! A sitting US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine."
https://youtube.com/shorts/1Rj9mXzscnU?si=LY2nPBG7merAS15N

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

U.S. Senator attacks anti-war Marine - breaking his hand:

"Republican Senator Tim Sheehy just attacked anti-war protestor Brian McGinnis during a subcommittee hearing.
Sheehy joined Capitol Police is lifting McGinnis up and physically ejecting him from the hearing.
McGinnis can be heard saying “No one wants to fight for Israel!!” And bystanders can he heard saying “They broke his hand! A sitting US Senator just ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/04/us-senator-attacks-antiwar-marine.html

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

I’ve been so lucky to have amazing culinary experiences in my life. I’ve had sushi in Tokyo and pasta in Italy. Yet, this poor boy’s palette would trade it all for a bacon and egg cheese biscuit and Diet Coke from Mc Donald’s.

Boosted by jwz:
draken@masto.nyc ("Draken BlackKnight") wrote:

The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

The guy on the right is a Fox "news" *snicker* "military analyst" who says Iran shouldn't have missiles.

They're the same guy.

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

Wait...hold up. I'm hearing that it is *not* fixed, 9 years on. And...what's that...oh...I'm being told that there's no credible plan for when it will happen.

And that React is still getting bigger with every release.

[ deep sigh ]

Starting to think those swashbuckling Bookfacers *might not* know what they're doing.

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

Just doing my annual check-in on React + ESM. I'm sure it's fixed by now...a mere 9 years after it was initially discussed:

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11503

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
alternativeto@mas.to ("AlternativeTo") wrote:

Motorola has announced a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to boost privacy and security on its smartphones, with future GrapheneOS support, ending the Google Pixel exclusivity for this Android OS.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/motorola-partners-with-grapheneos-to-boost-smartphone-security-and-privacy-for-its-users/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116172866488754801

UBI in relation to genAI harms is absolutely a red herring. Even if it were implemented, when you play it out in your head it... doesn't look great. So let's talk about that?

What does UBI get you? A basic standard of living, not very fancy, still encouraging you to seek out work if you want more luxuries but at least you won't die in the streets. That's kinda what it is, definitionally. It's achieved through some level of taxation, wherever you want that to come from to make it effective, but corporations and billionaires are obvious big targets.

Setting aside the idea that both of those obvious targets are largely politically untouchable and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, what we're left with is a bunch of people who have been pushed out of work, who can only afford the very basic living standards in our society, and who have no way to climb out of that hole because all the "value" is being captured by automation, which is controlled by... the corporations and billionaires which must continue to be at least fairly profitable, and fairly filthy rich in order to be taxable and able to fund the UBI. It also removes the possibility of worker power being able to influence corporate direction in any way, which is terribly convenient.

The result of UBI in an AI world isn't a more comfortable world, it's a further-stratified world where even more people are pushed to "barely scraping by" than ever, the environment continues to be set on fire, and the worst people in the world have all the economic and political power.

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

YouTube showing scammy “click here” video ads. The race to the bottom continues.

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.