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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Part of the obstacle is that if we were to set the bar at "basically competent", 90% of the profession would have to significantly up their game.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Ever since I read Steve McConnell's After The Goldrush, I've been listening to people tell me why software engineering should be exempt from the kind of controls that e.g. electrical engineering or medicine or plumbing are subject to.

The reason is almost always "Their work can do real harm".

Yeah? Look around you, dude.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

Bryan Lunduke has always treated FOSS like a right-wing political project. he has also always misrepresented his goals as technical ones. the current moment is very convenient for him: he is using the valid need for an alternative to systemd to funnel people into fascist-controlled software ecosystems like Devuan and Artix. under no circumstances will Lunduke ever acknowledge the many init alternatives and distributions run by marginalized leftists. this is the game he has played for years.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.

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

on goody, this random project i found appears to be unlabelled LLM output. there is no way a human wrote this README.

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

strace(1) is now on rat steroids 🤯

🔍 **strace-tui** — Visualize/explore syscalls in the terminal

💯 Color-coded calls, live filtering, search & stack traces with source resolution!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Rodrigodd/strace-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #linux #debugging #syscalls #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 84e75b0e7b7d8f0c.mp4

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

on that note, I'm off to workout!

alone and without a macha latte, because im a millennial 😤

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

BBC discovers Gen Z are not fans of poisonous piss-smelling swillholes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0krjy57lo

"Some are twinning a trip to the gym with coffee mornings or protein smoothie meet-ups" — kids these days!

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

when Dylan M Taylor (the author of the age verification code in systemd, Ubuntu, and Arch, and a defender of Google’s dreadful new restrictions for Android apps) and others in his wake compare his age verification implementation with an age gate on an adult site, they know full well that adult content online is a gray area rapidly verging towards illegal as US states and other repressive regimes implement age verification laws.

4/ (Taylor cont.)

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

systemd has always been a lever of power; there’s no other reason to create an ecosystem of its shape. the person who grasps that lever is Lennart Poettering, and it always has been. I don’t need to write much on this; I watched the “oh shit” moment last week when systemd started accepting slop code, and again when an age verification mechanism was imposed on every systemd user and distro on Poettering’s final word. this was always the social structure on offer, enforced by a rigid ecosystem.
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Boosted by jwz:
frogglin@theblower.au ("Lyn") wrote:

*laughs and laughs and laughs*

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

"One day, everyone will have always been against this"
Poster spotted in Toronto, Canada

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

"All my Homies Hate ICE / War on ICE"
Seen in Barrio Logan, San Diego, California

Boosted by jwz:
swags@treehouse.systems ("Swagtoy") wrote:

Systemd commits: userdb: add birthDate, familyTree, killCount, potentialThreat, incomeYearly, isOnDoNotFly to JSON user records

OpenRC commits: add... puppies! ^.^ :P and also..... kittens!! (^ :3 ^) and remove GNUism to comply with POSIX definition that was denied in court 25 years ago but later standardized as of 2028. You'd hope.

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate

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

"Chinga la Migra / Fuck ICE"
Seen in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

please verify your age before consuming any more facts

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Me as a kid: that place is awesome, they even have a web site!
Me now: that place is awesome, they don't even have a web site!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I was broadly familiar with the outline of the Afroman case, but I hadn’t been paying close enough attention to have watched the actual music videos he dropped throughout it. Which I’m realizing now was a mistake, because LOOK AT THIS

https://youtu.be/u4AiuqQpB1U

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bclindner@mas.to ("Brian!") wrote:

@TechConnectify thank you for your hard work

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Foxboron@chaos.social ("Morten Linderud") wrote:

People are rightfully angry at age verification laws.

That doesn't justify any harassment campaigns towards *any* FOSS developers, maintainers nor contributors. Turn that anger towards something productive.

Get a grip people, holy shit.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Puck you, fae me

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Progress is possible, if not exactly comfortable.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

Tony Hoare passed away.

This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.%5FA.%5FR.%5FHoare#The%5FEmperor's%5FOld%5FClothes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FHoare

Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Folks with #ADHD, we all love to excitedly post some hyperfocus output. Slightly less, we can be funny, commiserating, or even just relatably vulnerable when posting about struggle and failure.

But perhaps more often we should post about it when we have a day like I did today: I started the day way behind on a ton of tasks, painfully slogged through them one at a time, re-focused through one interruption after another, and I'm ending the day still behind, but *less behind* than in the morning.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Things will be slowing down a bit as I take on some client work and, sadly, as managing my health takes up more of my time. But there should still be plenty of fun tidbits there.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.

We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oil #Gas #Environment #Oklahoma #Data #EPA #Regulation

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you're more interested in open source software, I maintain a bunch of stuff over at <https://github.com/glyph/>, almost all in Python.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

You can see the kind of stuff I write over at https://blog.glyph.im . Lately it's been (sigh) quite a bit of AI skepticism, but I *try* to make it useful. But as my most recent post indicates, I also write about software development process, and the blog has been going for 20 years.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you use Github for this sort of thing and would prefer to support me there, you can have a look at https://github.com/sponsors/glyph instead; I'm happy to do a Patreon gift subscription for anyone who would prefer to support that way.