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

The more I read from the pro-“AI” crowd among developers specifically, including but not limited to the “brain fry” talk, the more I worry that quite a few of them genuinely seem to be on the verge of a serious mental health crisis.

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fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@evan

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

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

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

Text me anytime. I’m on Signal fromjason.01 https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

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

omg, duckduckgo just corrected my spelling of 'tiny' to 'tinymce'

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

Flame on!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/17/this-is-new/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Man, I wish someone would drive the snakes out my country, too.

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georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("George Monbiot") wrote:

It seems so obvious that I struggle to understand how people fail to see it. Starmer tells us that *WE* have to stop Reform by voting Labour, whereas *HE* could do it by introducing PR. But then we'd lose any remaining incentive to vote for his party.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I should probably have done this years ago, but here's my latest work on PineTime's font rendering.

Anti-aliasing, kerning, subpixel hinting. Dropped the monospace font. Looks so crisp on the watch's display!

Before and after:

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

Other countries must be getting uneasy at this ugly old man declaring that he can do whatever he wants to anyone he wants. I won't blame anyone for rising up to destroy this terrible president.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/17/the-mad-tyrant-speaks/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6gbUb2rRxc

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

#AIcritic #NoAI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent.

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

by @baldur

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

umm, @Codeberg that is definitely not where i left that code review comment. i think forgejo may be confused when you add comments by going through the individual commits making up a pull request.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
darnell@one.darnell.one ("Darnell Clayton :verified:") wrote:

The title hides the real outrage.

👉🏾 #Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/trump-backlash-iran-war

Basically Trump says #America 🇺🇸 does not even need to protect the Strait of Hormuz because the choke point does not affect the economy of the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 (it DOES due to synthetic fertilizer & plastic packaging!!!!).

This affects #Europe & #Asia, & we could experience a famine & factory shutdowns due to this conflict if it is not resolved soon!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
michiel@social.tchncs.de wrote:

@onepict perhaps a lot of the motivation behind FOSS was only ever to signal virtue to (potential) employers, and now those same employers want you to be proficient at using LLMs.

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

you can't work with or around WordPress generated styles, you have to fight them at their own game

this is my least painful solution today (so far) 😔

GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G") wrote:

@baldur @ragman Real conversation OH recently:

(Dev) - I might have made some mistakes but seniors X and Y approved my PRs

(Lead) - OK but they are supposed to check that your code is clean, not that it works well

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
trib@aus.social ("Stephen Collins") wrote:

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
terrencefoxfur@furryfandom.me ("Terrence the Fox") wrote:

Did you see that I've thrown up a tool, much like Trello, but not ran by a corporation? And yes it supports Public Boards.

It's based on the Open Source Planka tool.

You can signup, and use it for free here: notes.furryfandom.me

I'm planning on adding more tools!

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CoyoteTraveller@plush.city ("Trav / Theresa") wrote:

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narfnra ("Narf (Fran Regen Period)") wrote:

YEAHHH

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vollink@wandering.shop ("G Allen") wrote:

Just laid off along with whole team. I'm in the middle of moving. Movers coming on Saturday. I'm not done packing. Good: time to finish packing. Goodish: cheaper rent at new locale. Bad: older guy computer programmer, but not even in COBOL [C, Perl, Python, PL-SQL, RedHat and Debian Linux. Created a custom RPM just Friday.]

Looking. CT / NYC / remote.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Sticker spotted in Sheffield, UK denouncing the far-right Reform Party

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r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

😀

Attachments:

• gifv: Infinite mirrored repetitions of the Vitruvius figure stretched over the Poincare disc, connected with their heads, arms, and toes. Starry background with mild parallax effect.

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kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online ("Kent Parkstreet") wrote:

The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

They suck.

They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.

They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.

Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.

They suck.

#Banksy

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

An appropriate T-shirt for today.

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

UK folk - who are you using for LTD registration / accounting?

looking for the most basic but reliable service that'll do personal/company tax returns

(using one of the less offensive proprietary software - FreeAgent is acceptable)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

The 49MB Web Page https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

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

Had missed this takedown of React misapprehensions, and it's golden:

https://mbrizic.com/blog/react-ii/

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

blogged: SMTP on the edge
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/17/smtp-on-the-edge/

— question: why can't I just use a transactional email API like a normal person? Are there any good ones left?