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

Holy shit holy shit holy shit

I figured out why I was getting all those sad boy, horny AI ads!

I somehow subscribed to Turning Point USA lmao. Sometimes when I swipe up from a short, I accidentally hit the subscribe button. I must've done that some months back.

The funny thing is, my algo is so trained just to show me tech and gadget stuff, that it wouldn't dare serve a bunch of right-wing content. But it just KNOWS I'm a sad boy because I subscribe to TP, so it hit me in the ads. Ha

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

No more spring break, ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/16/lets-end-spring-break-for-good/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Debusine's QA pipelines, which checks if #Debian packages are ready to upload, have recently gained a regression tracking mechanism. The regressions are found by checking for new failures in autopkgtests for packages in the archive that depends on the built package.

Read the new #Debusine blog post at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-regression-tracking/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social to know more about how it works and how you can use it in your own workflows.

#regressiontracking #freexian #QA

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

This genuinely tickled me

https://youtube.com/shorts/0-3vCf-ZNq8

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to believe that the 2020s will be anything other than a "lost decade". Certainly as far as software is concerned, but more generally as well.

It seems like every day I read about how one of my peers has lost touch with reality, either voluntarily giving up their ability to think for themselves or developing an unhealthy dependence on their digital girlfriend that lives in the cloud.

There are so many genuinely useful things we could be doing with computers, but instead our institutions are overwhelmingly deciding to double down on surveillance and machines that persistently nudge people towards psychosis.

It seems like even if we were to broadly change course tomorrow, it would still take years to clean up all the mess that's already been made.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kakurady@fursuits.online ("Kakurady (🔜 NFC, FE)") wrote:

Firra at Furnal Equinox 2025.

https://firra.ca/

See more photos: https://www.furtrack.com/user/kakurady/album-5647 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvBYX

#fursuit #furnalEquinox #FE2025

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it is amazing how much more easily confused you can get working in negative logic

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

“A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles. This is not a technology story; it’s a management honesty story that happens to involve technology.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commerical #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it probably will not surprise you to hear my trivia leans heavily towards programming.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i know an impressive amount of trivia. i'm not entirely convinced all of it's useful, but sometimes you're just like "huh i know that"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
marijn ("Marijn") wrote:

Required reading for people building collaborative editing systems: https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2

The CRDT community as a whole has a culture of hyping up their stuff without acknowledging the caveats. Because many users don't really understand what these libraries do very deeply, this marketing is causing people to adopt them without realizing what they are getting into.

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

`text-wrap: balance` doesn't precisely break where the Figma picture arbitrarily breaks

I don't have the will power for this conversation 😔

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

#FOSSBackstage kicking off with a call to resist rising nationalism that seeks to divide us, and instead come together as community. Nice!

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

blogged: What is agentic engineering?
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/16/what-is-agentic-engineering/

(this is a parody of Simon Willison, I haven't been converted :)

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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fen@zoner.work ("fenchelmit") wrote:

heard "be the elephant you want to see in the room" earlier and gosh if that hasn't stuck with me

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

@simon one for the future!

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/

```
const duration = Temporal.Duration.from({seconds:10_000_000});
const hours = duration.total({unit:"hours"});
```

however `duration.hours` returns zero 🫤

re: https://elvery.net/drzax/creating-a-duration-object-from-a-number-of-seconds/

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

regular reminder: GitHub is dying, how much open source will it take down with it?

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

10 years today.

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

Every new thing that happens to the "Napster" brand feels like it's weirder than the last https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/02/napster-music-streaming-shut-down-ai-pivot/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

@glyph It very depends. You need a lot of things in place to make this work. First and foremost, a faculty willing to give it a go. If the machines can't easily do what students and teachers need, that's the ballgame. Forget your principles for a second. If the damned things can't print or run the necessary apps, you're donezo with the experiment (and probably looking for a new job).

But if there is an appetite, then you want to lean into it as much as possible. I never got to go as far as Charlie Reisinger did, but that was always the goal.

But yeah everything must proceed first from curriculum. What the students need should drive tech decisions, not whatever flights of fancy the IT department might have. And that gets complicated, because you'll have some folks claim that proprietary applications are necessary for "preparation." And of course there are some testing regimes that require specific OSes to function. Chromebooks have obviated that somewhat, but it's still true to some degree.

But if all that comes together, I would first explore identity management, followed by provisioning by Ansible or Puppet, followed by Wireguard-enabled networking for always-available resources and support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Co37GO2Fc

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

This is your periodic reminder that `0xfor....real` is a syntactically-valid AND error-free #Python program

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

this

> if he were given the Ring, he would soon forget it, or most likely throw it away. Such things have no hold on his mind. He would be a most unsafe guardian; and that alone is answer enough.

but also this

> He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves.

I posit that Tom Bombadil was JRR Tokien's depiction of auDHD. In this essay I will—

jwz wrote:

Turns out the answer is: turn off file vault; reboot; turn off guest user; reboot again; turn on guest user.

If you don't do all of that, the guest user goes into some horrid, kiosky "I am an iPad instead of a computer" mode.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bpetit@mastodon.green ("Benoit Petit") wrote:

Collecting datacenters metrics, land, energy and environmental footprint

I got the opportunity to present my ongoing work regarding datacenters #osint metrics collection during a @boavizta workshop.

I showed how this data collection process can be performed by anyone. Truely, anyone.

Why not do it, the open-source way... collaboratively at a large scale ?

Yes, this is a teaser about the #DCWatch project. More soon.

https://peertube.designersethiques.org/w/jhCmWMxiekNWLxPtA1Jprj

#OSINT #datacenters #energy #landuse #AI

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It's also going to give a TON more kids access to things like "a terminal". Kids will be encountering MacBook Neos in places where they've previously seen Chromebooks or iPads, devices which either cannot be used to write software at all, or implicitly have locks that most people will not bother to remove. This will not be 100% consistent (some schools will wall off MacBook Neo dev tools for "security", I'm sure) but it will still be a big enough population that it will be *interesting*.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So, back to the MacBook Neo and why it is interesting.

If you're reading this, you probably shouldn't buy it. But you should be aware that so many people *are* going to buy it, that it's going to set a consistent new minimum standard for software. For one thing, lots of apps are going to want to start targeting "fits into a MacBook Neo's memory envelope", which is to say, 8GB minus macOS overhead. Cheap hardware exists now, but not enough of it deployed consistently enough for app devs to care.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you really want to help them save money, step zero is you have to volunteer to be 24/7 on-call tech support, be responsible for the decision, and help them out every step of the way. I have done this! It's a TON of work! It can be very rewarding when you help people build the relevant skills to use a computer like that. Personally, I have a kid now and I could not handle it today myself, but if you can do it you probably *should*, but it's important that you recognize you *need to*.