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

Ed Zitron says the true inference cost of replacing a developer with AI is about the same as that developer's salary.

https://youtu.be/oAbpVCn-Ox0?t=11m40s

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

every single Dem politician should be screaming this at the top of their lungs every day

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opinion/electric-vehicles-solar-gas-prices.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

TACO, and the Iranians ain’t playing

(Trump Always Chickens Out)

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Typst was unavailable today, from approximately 11:45 to 13:15 CET, due to a backend failure. The service is now fully restored. We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

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

Everybody on my social media is talking about heatwaves and preparing for pollen season. Meanwhile in Iceland

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

I really didn't need a reminder of cold war terrors right now, but the current situation feels like it's setting up, at least, a limited nuclear exchange.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/23/i-dont-like-this-feeling-of-deja-vu/

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

did Cloudflare look at the AWS admin UI and say "we can do worse"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jay9@chaos.social ("Jay :antifa:") wrote:

Looking for a new job as an Embedded Software Engineer.

I have 3 years of experience as an embedded software engineer in an R&D team. Mostly with embedded C, real-time operating systems, ESP32, communication protocols, and some hardware design.

I'm specifically looking for companies that work on sustainability, health, education, privacy, FOSS, or similar fields. In the eastern part of the Netherlands or hybrid/remote.

If anyone knows any interesting companies, please let me know!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
diemkay@hachyderm.io ("Andreea") wrote:

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

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

RE: https://social.lol/@db/116277084342844159

The "all software is now fast fashion" view is also incredibly reductive of both fashion and software. Fast fashion is a major problem, yes, but it's still only one part of that industry. There's more to both software and fashion than "fast"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:

expert in a dying field

or

collaborator in a fascist project.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22482

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:

“The success of pundits and bloggers is inversely proportionate to the wellbeing of a society. If they’re having a good and interesting time it generally means everyone else is getting fucked.” – Ian Dunt

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/killing-populism-what-australia-has-b87

(This is cute, but it’s a structural – and societal – problem for all sorts of media.)

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

i left all the hard tasks for future me, today i am future me

past me is a jerk

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

Computer, am I burning out? Or is the industry burning down around me?

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

lol, a 6kloc vibe coded pr, let me get right on that.

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

blogged: Top ten Figma betrayals

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/23/top-ten-figma-betrayls/

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

I start a big work project in the morning, and woke up 2 hours ago with a devastating leg cramp.

Yayyyyy :/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Bwee@meow.social ("🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵") wrote:

Not sure who needs to hear this, but...

It wasn't your fault.

You're a good person regardless of what happened to you, despite what your inner demons tell you.

You didn't deserve the abuse you went through.

Your hurt is valid.

I hope your pain eases soon, sweetheart. You've made it so far. Just keep going. It will fade, if you stop revisiting it and punishing yourself. You've got this. I believe in you so much.

Much love, friend.

🩵🩵🩵

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

yeah just shut your brain off during your McCode shift, you can always write a poem after work https://nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/the-diminished-art-of-coding/

— I continue to be amazed at Nolan's willingness/insistence to accept such a fate. Do you think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? give yourself more credit!

anyway, why not throw a rhyming couplet into the chat box?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone ("ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan") wrote:

Sums up my experience growing up

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Finally finished watching Critical Role campaign 3. I'm free now!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mischif@mischivous.com ("Jeremy") wrote:

@soatok Necessary? Of course not. Make me feel cooler and more important than I am, like a named extra in Hackers? Absolutely

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tiff@social.lol wrote:

BREAKING: TECHBROS STILL FUCKING THE 99%

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

Too many people's instinct is to figure out how to get others to do their bidding before learning how to be understood.

And it's so annoying because I've been in the corporate world in some capacity for over two decades and I know all the silly tactics.

I want to be like—before you try to Makaveli me over Zoom, can I interest you in literally any project management book?

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

The problem with the corporate world is everyone's reading the 48 Laws of Power before learning basic communication concepts.

Like, stop trying to amass an empire from your cubicle, Travis, and go read Bird by Bird so people can understand your emails.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shom@gts.shom.dev wrote:

I realize some people will prefer the "vivid" look, I'm not a fan, it's just too much.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewjweinstein.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Andrew Weinstein") wrote:

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America where parents sit in plastic chairs with needles in their arms just to buy baby formula.

The Middle-Class Suburbanites ...