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

The bugginess of the Bluesky ecosystem is starting to get annoying

Also, why still no iPad support in the main iOS app? Surely that should only take a few minutes for all the vibe coders that work there?

No? Wonder why. Maybe they’re prompting it wrong.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

@alex and I had a blast chatting with Sam Cole from @404media for their podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marketing-tricks-of-artificial-intelligence/id1703615331?i=1000756737344

Thanks again, Sam!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116278768768865156

Some take this as a relief but even if it's more expensive than a salary it still will never unionize so is preferrable to capital

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Will Iran be the straw that finally breaks America’s democracy, or forces it to come to its senses, and reckon with the folly of electing a man like Trump?"

~ Alexandra Hall Hall

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #economy #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
/28

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trumps-iran-war-is-pushing-the-post

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

Trump always chickens out…but sometimes what that means is he'll back away from the sane, responsible action to make his decisions worse.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/23/madman-at-the-wheel/

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

"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html

> Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything.

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

"UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them."

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux-works-through-social-relationships-ai-tools-are-erasing-them

> AI has managed to 10x the noise, but not the value.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
nathanael@dalliard.ch wrote:

perfect for you

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

memory_order_lol

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

"Yanking for cherries"

https://reach.crownandreach.com/posts/yanking-for-cherries

> Except the bottleneck was never really building. It was distribution. It was whether anyone wanted the damn thing. It was whether the thing filled an intolerable gap in a situation that someone had to deal with. And it was whether the someone could find the thing when the gap became intolerable.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The product delivery lifecycle is composed of service relationships. AI's main value proposition is freedom from relationships.

When designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

If we don't want to serve as janitors for vibe prototypes, We must invest in deliberately designing the service relationships that make up the PDLC.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux-works-through-social-relationships-ai-tools-are-erasing-them

#UXDesign #LLM #AI #Tech #softwaredevelopment

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.