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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Reinforcement Luck Have Fun

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

it might not be entirely wrong though. looks like i don't have it on alpine.

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

stdbit.h is glibc specific,

are you fucking shitting me? it's part of c23

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

New post: "What you're allowed to do" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/what-youre-allowed/

On real restrictions in computing life versus imagined ones.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

@Gargron And what a ten years it's been! Thank you for everything!

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Wow I needed this TUI for a long time! 🧹

🪦 **deadbranch** — Safely find & remove old Git branches

💯 Detects stale branches, protects important ones & creates backups

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/armgabrielyan/deadbranch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #git #version #control #terminal #devtools

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

Just another day on the calendar.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/16/look-at-that-goofy-nerd-with-the-beautiful-girl/

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

People are excited about Canva releasing the Affinity suite for free. The new app looks really cool. You can tab between all three apps in one interface. It's impressive.

BUT, I'm suspicious. lol I think this is Canva's strategy to turn Affinity into a SaaS product, and coax software owners onto the *new* app with a *new* TOS.

After they get enough old licenses to switch over, they'll shut down Affinity 2 with a Trojan Horse update.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/all-new-affinity/

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

You ever wonder how we let that slide?

I don't want to downplay Congress' role, in its complete inaction in regulating the corporations. That's all of it, really.

But, just speaking on our reaction to blatant schemes—like somehow convincing the public they run platforms, not media outlets—we didn't say much. Like, there wasn't an outcry from the *general* public.

I think it's because we were so seduced all this new technology, we didn't care enough to be critical

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

The YouTube Partner Program has funded more white supremacists than the Confederate States Dollar.

But all's well because YT is a platform, not a publisher. Publishers pay talent to produce content so that they may sell advertisement spots to businesses looking to reach a specific audience.

Platforms do all of that, yes, *but,* they've outsourced the Executive Producer role to a recommendation engine, so it's totally different.

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

The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

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

Ravens in March: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/ravens-in-march-2026/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, their claims cover purely production-stage tasks.

When it comes to the work of understanding user needs and evaluating the opportunity space, AI actually makes your thinking worse. Studies show that it alienates you from users and colleagues, and flattens your thinking.

We need more human-centered practice, not less.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/software-is-a-coordination-problem-ai-can-t-help-you-with-that

#LLM #UX #AI #tech

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

The some.pics global template has been updated to fix that one hilarious/annoying issue of dangling pics on their own row expanding to comically large widths. If you're using a custom some.pics template that used the same flexbox approach as before, you can upgrade to the new grid approach by nuking your .pics and .pic selectors (assuming you haven't customized them) and adding this:

.pics {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(15em, 1fr));
gap: var(--fluid-0);
}

No more weird mega pics!

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

Update: the more I think about my current iPad usage (e.g., moving to all consumption), the more I suspect the mini is the iPad for me—which means I hope the update to it arrives sooner rather than later.

Or, you know, no iPad is the iPad for me, which is at least cheaper. 🤔

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

"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.

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

Of course is broken with CSS subgrid, why wouldn't it be

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

There's a flow chart here that's basically a closed loop. It's YouTube Shorts -> Smaller Racist Forums -> YouTube Shorts

Best part is, with AdSense, Google makes its money in both directions 🫠

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

YouTube Shorts has radicalized more white men than the Ku Klux Klan. And I don't think it's even close.

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"