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

noted: Mozilla want to sell your private data too, apparently

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-19T13:55Z/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
huronbikes@cyberplace.social ("Andrew Golding") wrote:

@cR0w @neurovagrant

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

Banned from the Linux user group for saying "so this is like a kink thing, right?"

#FreeAsInFreeUse

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bri7@treehouse.systems ("Luci Bitchface Angerfoot") wrote:

See normally when an algorithm requires The Entire Global Supply Of Ram, a software engineer would consider that not a good algorithm, and would try and make a better one instead of optimising the entire planet for paperclip manufacturing.

Unfortunately we accidentally gave a bad software engineer too much money

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
colinstu@birdbutt.com ("Colin") wrote:

@soatok @thawkade gawd, they’ve created an incel generator

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

c code really does seem to resist any attempts to model it as proper data.

compilers ironically have less of a problem because they can work on the macro-resolved language and build for a single target.

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

I'm looking for humor and light fantasy to cheer me up, and I keep finding these fractured mirrors of a dark and ugly world. I think it's just me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/19/im-trying-to-keep-it-light-here/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:

I do not use AI at all, at any stage of writing my books. I have the &udm=14 code in my search engine so I don't even use it for research.

#AI #creative #writing #ttrpg #rpg #GameDev #art #artist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Let's see how much better DuoLingo translations are now it's pivoted to AI. Oh.

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

okay it was a much smaller and much less risky job than i imagined it might be and it's done now. my scrollwheel seems to behave like a normal scrollwheel rather than something possessed.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Tattie@eldritch.cafe wrote:

Just one trans woman's opinion, but I hold that the ideal way to recover from accidentally misgendering a person and being called out is to simply repeat the sentence, corrected. No apologies (or just a quick "sorry" or "pardon" if it flows), no justifications. It happens. We get it. Nobody's looking to shame anyone, only correct a mistake before it perpetuates.

A: "And then he told me that he wanted to..."
B: "They"
A: "And then they told me that they wanted to meet me at this coffee shop..."

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

considering dissassembling my trackball to try and clean the scroll wheel.

upside: may fix a huge annoyance
downside: may break it, can't afford another, so would be stuck with whatever shit mouse from the junk box

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
0x2ba22e11@unstable.systems ("Richard Barrell") wrote:

@soatok I'm not immediately convinced that this is going to be a problem because it would be challenging for chatgpt to give worse advice than frustrated men are already giving each other on incel forums.

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

Wait... is this in the terminal?? 🤯

🐢 **tortuise** — Render 3D scenes using pure terminal symbols

🌀 Fully parallelized, 6 render modes, full camera controls & no GPU needed

⚡ Handles 1M+ splats at 10–25 FPS

🦀 Written in Rust & inspired by @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/buildoak/tortuise

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #3d #graphics #rendering

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

i was accused of being american on here. how fucking rude.

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

visiting deno.com to see if there was an official announcement

pretty much sums up everything tbh

(did Dahl fire himself too?)

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

@GuillaumeL Ah that’s something I hadn’t considered. Might be.

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

Like, if you can stomach working for companies that are either directly in the “defence” industry or overt Trump allies, you aren’t going to be losing any sleep over data centre water usage.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ckape@teh.entar.net ("Brian Danger Hicks") wrote:

Happy 128th anniversary of Waffles having a good time

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

AI coding test: like Intellisense with extra mistakes

> It’s a really good encyclopedia of (stolen) knowledge but AI is not figuring things out on it’s own.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/my%5Fdinner%5Fwith%5Fai/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
freakonometrics ("Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵") wrote:

"If No One Pays for Proof, Everyone Will Pay for the Loss" https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367 (back on "AI still doesn’t work very well in business, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming" https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai%5Fbusinesses%5Ffaking%5Fit%5Freckoning%5Fcoming%5Fcodestrap/)

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

“Don’t seek permission, center values – The Ideophone”

https://ideophone.org/dont-seek-permission-center-values/

This is a solid post on how to frame a debate on the ethics of using various forms of "AI". The problem with applying it in tech, specifically, is that IMO a majority of tech workers simply have no values and would gladly program a school-destroying drone if paid to do so. Otherwise the Google protests, for example, would have completely shut the company down

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
threetails ("Vixen News") wrote:

Afroman did nothing wrong

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

A view from me and @rosie_108's walk this morning.

#photo #nature #photography #forestofdean

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

@baldur I also noticed that the global consciousness of a software crisis, and more generally awareness about the state of software quality, dropped significantly since the pandemic. Previously, big software failures were making the headlines, from crypto library vulnerabilities to embedded car software faults to the failure of multi million € state-funded projects in Europe. I wonder if software became so vital and ingrained in our lives that we embraced all of its quirks, or if new practices around software craft, testing, agile, safer languages and platforms, devops, etc really raised the quality bar. Fun fact: I started looking for some data, turned to the Chaos Report as you would, to realize it stopped in 2020. Also chatGPT tells me “most current failure/success statistics are still based on 2020-era data” (for what it’s worth) 😆

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

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/flexbox-masonry-layout-explained-with-math/

get your flex on, or get flexed on?

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

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

the easiest way to avoid cookie drama is to stop tracking on behalf of your "900 partners"

second easiest way is to follow this series: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/cookie-consent-management-in-2026-part-1-overview/

Boosted by jwz:
lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

sorry no more holidays named after men, just to be on the safe side. no buildings or statues either. it will save us work in the long run.