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georgespolitzer@monads.online ("[UNC] Alpha Panda") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”

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

wHY ISN'T the coffee working

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

i went outside today

Apple Stores do replace key caps for free

but they don't have right arrow keys in stock

so i gotta go outside again when they send the bat signal or something

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
so_treu@blackqueer.life ("RI DaSēr K") wrote:

RE: https://blackqueer.life/@so%5Ftreu/116251308180717654

Thanks so much for rocking with me y'all. In the short term, I have a phone bill due on Friday and an appt I need to uber to tomorrow, so there’s an immediate goal of $160!!!

http://cash.app/$sotreu2
http://venmo.com/sotreu
http://paypal.me/rikiam

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2026

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116251321191395352

Why not both?

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

No ETA on the new blog post because I went to Taiwan for a week for https://rwc.iacr.org/2026 and I'm still exhausted

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

I might be the best baker of all time

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It's a very hard pill to swallow, especially given the panoptic, reflexive cruelty of this grudgefuck of a zeitgeist we're all presently stewing in and how easy it is to hit that boost or reply button, but one of the awful facts about high-semiotic-density memetic culture is that you might very easily be amplifying - and legitimizing - ideological positions you _don't even realize exist_ through the wonders of near-zero-friction and pushback-free participation.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

US, NYC, Hybrid:
ACLU are a nonprofit who defend free speech and civil rights.

Product Manager, Technology: to $137k, 2 days a week in office, working across both analytics and product teams
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/8220646002

Director of Engineering, Data: $220k, 2 days a week in office, leading the data engineering team and line managing
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/8417408002

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Walk around spraying salty water on metal, and you too have experience as a rust developer.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

there will be more of this: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/stryker-says-its-restoring-systems-after-pro-iran-hackers-wiped-thousands-of-employee-devices/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
colarusso_algo ("David's Alter (Algo) Ego") wrote:

Edison Carter: What happened to the old religions?

Murray: I don't know. Television killed it. We have better miracles.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Really, in the US, there's no way for cops to be held accountable thru legal means, given the incredibly unjust doctrines surrounding "qualified immunity".

So seeing them in a situation where they are able to be humiliated publicly at a national scale for their unjust and damaging actions is about all the catharsis that we can get these days.

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

I was urging someone younger today to really appreciate the regional accents of the old folks around them, because after tv and other media spread, accents started to die and our generation will pretty much live to see the end of them. I've already outlived many I remember personally. I miss them - perhaps especially the ones that at the time I considered bumpkin.

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

i have just transcribed all of the gcc custom function attributes into an ADT. it is a rather chonky ADT

typst ("Typst") wrote:

In the penultimate talk of the meetup, Kyano rings the alarm bell: HTML with packages is the wild west! What standards could the ecosystem converge upon? Let's kickstart a discussion before it's too late.

https://youtu.be/KETMlZ4He9k

#Typst

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Wearwolf@kind.social ("Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:") wrote:

There is a legit problem in the industry right now where management sees AI as a way to tighten deadlines and then tight deadlines then encourage the use of AI

It's a race to the bottom and it's not going to end well

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

This is a power play. By giving away the farm to native apps while keeping the web at bay, they play out enclosure and lock-in strategies.

First, they build non-standard versions of commodity features. Next, get anchor apps to build to those APIs, forcing App Stores distribution. Step 3? Profit.

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

The security story that is sold to users is cover; a way to make the deeply rotten design choice to give away the farm to Zuck et. al. seem like it is being done on the user's behalf. But it was never true.

The only thing that *really* protects users is the runtime (the OS container or the browser engine):

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/#the-security-argument

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

The past decade of mobile has been characterised, primarily, by the duopolists trying to take credit for infinitesimal reductions in the overpowered access to your most private devices that they give to app developers as inducement to continue building to proprietary APIs.

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

Apple and Google promoted insecure native apps as "safe" thanks to "beware of dog" signs posted in front of their poorly-tended walled gardens.

It was enough to get everyone locked in, but never delivered security. Browsers, on the other hand, don't allow this sort of predation in the first place.

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

Back in '21, court filings recounted an Apple engineer characterising Cupertino's App Store protections as "bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight". And for however bad Apple has been (terrible), Play was always worse.

So how's that going? Oof:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/study-reveals-googles-play-store-is-main-distributor-of-malicious-apps

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

The fundamental insecurity of native apps, and the role of App Stores in a cover-up of that essential fact cannot be stressed enough.

The always-suspect security of stores creates the mythos that enables the whole extractive App Store racket. Without the patina of security, giving away ridiculous amounts of user data and system access to any app the user installs would never pass muster.

Which is why browsers don't do that.

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

Basically: "we were doing a great job, everybody said so! What are you talking about?"

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116239014761650611

A criticism of this post that took me by a bit of a surprise involves replies from people completely unaware of anybody having any kind of concern about the state of software development, let alone worried to the point of thinking a crisis was developing.

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

How to scare us into voting for dog shit candidates:

1. Scientific data proves Trump is dictatoring! We're doomed!
2. Unless...👀 wait a minute elections still work!
3. Oh, Trump is super unpopular with voters now! Guess they'll need a new political home 🤷‍♂️

It's the same article over and over again since 2016.

It's not trying to get us to fight authoritarianism. It's priming us to reject progressive ideas in fear of losing the mythical "reasonable republican".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
Pepijn@mastodon.online wrote:

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

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

rage against the mundane

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

self-OH:

the static test, which just sort of... accreted improvements until it ran off to join the circus