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

Office 365 and Copilot are down.

Run. Now's your chance. Don't look back; just GO

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

@mhoye my brother used to say that if you're not willing to walk away from the table, you're not negotiating: you're begging.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

When you use LLMs to code something, are you using diff to compare the changes the LLM gives you?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
qgustavor@urusai.social ("Gustavo") wrote:

I found @soatok's argument for E2EE encryption in this post quite interesting:

End-to-end encryption doesn’t just protect the users, it protects the people operating the infrastructure. And that’s why it still matters.

That's pretty much the only reason why http://mega.io/ is end-to-end encrypted: the previous Kim Dotcom project - Megaupload - was seized by FBI and hadn't E2E, making it a easy target. MEGA's encryption isn't good (source: me) but it's good enough to avoid making them an easy target for law enforcement.

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

how is Figma the "industry standard"

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

... or, like, i'll immediately discover something else that was hiding waiting to surprise me...

not that that just happened, obviously 😬

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

bittricks: refactor done, at least for amd64. aarch64 still to do.

$ git diff HEAD | wc -l
4046

oops.

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

“The Final Boss”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-final-boss/

> I've said repeatedly (but didn't articulate into any open mic at the meeting because I still very much feel like a new New Yorker), this recent push for "AI" is yet another grandiose and grotesque experiment on children – one that no one asked for and few want. Another grandiose and grotesque experiment on all of us.

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

Giving the suite away for free, at least in the beginning, is a brilliant move that will convince a lot of us to switch from owners to renters.

BUUUUT, even if the rent is currently $0, you signing up for the "New Affinity," at some point, means giving up the old paid-in-full versions of Affinity (if not now, definitely in the future).

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

I'm a diehard Affinity Design user. Adobe got too exploitative so I ditched them. I paid-once for Affinity Designer, and never looked back.

Pre-Canva Affinity is well-designed and capable software. It doesn't require the cloud to work; no unnecessary "cloud sync" expenses. No training AI with my work. No subscriptions. My relationship with Affinity ended when I clicked download (though I do follow them on social media).

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

__has_c_attribute(gnu::ifunc) technically does what you ask of it, but is not helpful if your libc does not support ifuncs.

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

Attachments:

• gifv: 411c0c4a4696795c.mp4

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.