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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

TSA, the 25-year old boondoggle dedicated to the detection of shampoo and water bottles is facing funding challenges.

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Trump's approval rating is 27%

https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html

Boosted by jwz:
coderanger@cloudisland.nz ("Noah K") wrote:

I don't mean to be a killjoy but "vouching for trusted people" is not a scalable way to build a software ecosystem. I was there, I ran signing parties, I was a CAcert assurer, I've got a strong-set GPG key in a hardware token, none of it worked beyond the most fringe of the fringe dorks. You get a few ossified relationships between major public figures and a small ring of friends around each, and then your permissions are effectively locked down forever. Do you want to live in the world where you need to have a million followers to launch a new framework?

The ecosystem we've all been building in and on top of for decades is so deeply permeated by "assume good intent" at all levels that I'm not sure people are ready for the velocity reduction that is coming after the next few claw-based JiaTans. The first one will be an oddity, but eventually we're going to have to grapple with buying huge vertically integrated dev stacks from Trusted Vendors™ or we make everything from scratch again.

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

Overall, our results show
that the newer CAS instructions do not perform well on TX2 and A64FX, and the older LL-SC instructions can bring significant performance improvements on all Arm-based systems tested

LOL, LMAO https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370682772%5FA%5FStudy%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPerformance%5FImplications%5Fof%5FAArch64%5FAtomics

jwz wrote:

Update: after only a week, Plasti-Dip has proven to be even more bullshit than Sugru.

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

i just wrote one of those fancy 'header only library' things in c. it's an mpsc stack with optional locking on the receiver side

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

regular reminder that Git is not GitHub - you're not locked into this car crash

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

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

Big news for rats! 🎉🥳

🐁 Ratatui is now running on Nintendo Switch 🔥🎮

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs's mousefood backend

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/sermuns/ratatui-on-nintendo-switch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #nintendoswitch #embedded #gamedev #opensource

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

there is an utterly cursed shitpost cartoon playing out in my head where satya nadella is the only person who believes in the poor little LLM who just wants to be recognised for its brilliance.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

first monday after a week of vacation, and I already almost missed one meeting, and just joined another meting 30mins too early, being confused why nobody is there.

brain, get your stuff together, please. :)

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

our commitment to bland sounding bollocks quality

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"?