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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
plexus@toot.cat ("Arne Brasseur") wrote:

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

There's no five pin DIN so how do i connect these to my euro rack?

Boosted by jwz:
Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Not convinced about the new US Army Chief of Staff, tbh. #Trump #USpol #IranWar

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

Look, the Web Engines Hackfest is now a W3C-endorsed conference: https://www.w3.org/events/conferences/2026/2026-web-engines-hackfest/
Some working groups might arrange meetings at the hackfest. Thanks to @w3c for your support and collaboration.

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

i love when Figma zooms in to 97% - yeah that's exactly what i want thank you

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

Programs in those days were freely exchanged among corporations

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

what has laplacian geometry ever done for me?

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

why is this strange man with this loud shirt telling me things?

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

happy monday

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Look, I'm not saying that rebuilding perfectly workable websites with React is the plastic gears of frontend bu...wait. That's exactly what I'm saying:

https://youtu.be/zVGjoc998D0

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jpsays ("J.P. Stewart") wrote:

This story about enshitification of KitchenAid is a story of modern technology and engineering. :(

More people should watch this.

https://youtu.be/zVGjoc998D0?si=sTxRd5-lVxhI-gwz

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

This is really good https://skywriter.blue/@eliothiggins.bsky.social/3mitbqzpvhk2x”

"Disordered counterpublics simulate VDA but invert its meaning. 'Verification’ becomes selective sourcing. 'Deliberation' becomes a loyalty test. 'Accountability’ means naming enemies. They look democratic on the surface but accelerate collapse.”

So much of this applies to so many spheres right now, but I see a lot of what I quoted in nominally leftist spaces.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”

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

28 Years Later is such a bizarre movie. It deserves so much credit for not playing it safe. I think people will grow to appreciate it as time passes

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
slashdot@mastodon.cloud ("Slashdot :verified:") wrote:

Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/06/046228/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-tos?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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

Y'know what's exhausting?

gestures vaguely at humanity

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

There's also some fun snippets with Vincent Price and Alfred Hitchcock.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I was listening to the most recent episode of "The Score" and was delighted to hear this snippet of an interview with Gerald Fried, who is the composer of the Star Trek "fight music":

https://daisy.allclassical.org/ondemand/2026-03-31-14-03-12%5F50181aa.mp3#t=787

(Attempting to start it at about where the snippet occurs.)

https://www.thescore.org/

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

I wish I could be this far away from this planet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/far-far-away/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/#veena-dubal

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

https://www.threads.com/@johnlorenz/post/DWy-QgXkeqC?xmt=AQF0VjJmah4azTsPMYfFXJx-JgQbHs4TOyR7QbEj--tTuAOkeisnQSe0GKv1b2EUdt1M6M0&slof=1

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

That feeling the UI sets a date range exclusive of the end day but you always think of date ranges as inclusive, only to realise at the last minute that you need to add a day to get the actual range you want

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

There's a problem with this logic though.

There are journalists here. There are a lot of them, even.

They're just not the same journalists that used twitter or currently use bluesky.

He doesn't want journalists to come to the fediverse and make friends and participate in the community, he wants to replicate Journalist Twitter.

He wants mastodon users to be accepting of and willing to embrace broadcast only users who are unwilling to build a network here.

That's not how the fediverse works. If you want people to see the things you have to say, you have to put in some work to be a person worth seeing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's a door.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #rust #barn

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

60 tons

oh, lightweight!

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

265G

that is quite a lot of collision force, yeah.

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

Stripe has a set number of countries it supports for sellers and anybody outside of that is told to incorporate in the US.

I'm not going to incorporate in a failing state that's in a trade war with the world and an actual war with a chunk of it, just to sell a few ebooks.

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

This is the reason why I jumped ship to Payhip, even though it's arguably not quite as good, as soon as Stripe bought Lemon Squeezy. Iceland's not on the list of supported countries for sellers for the service that's going to succeed Lemon Squeezy

https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/blog/2026-update

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

If i can slip in a quick PSA while my typically sleepy notifications are exploding, these are all very annoying things to say and you might want to reconsider whether they're worth ever saying in a reply directed at someone else - who are they for? what do they add?

• "why are you surprised"/"even worse than {thing} itself is people being surprised at {thing}": unless the person is saying "i am surprised by this" they are likely not surprised by the thing. just saying something doesn't mean you are surprised by it, and people talking about something usually have paid attention to it before the moment you are encountering them. this is pointless hostility to people who are saying something you supposedly agree with so much that you think everyone should already believe it
• "it's always been like this": slightly different than above. unless someone is saying "this is literally new and nothing like this has happened before" or you are adding actual historical context that you know for sure they don't already know, you're basically saying "hey did you know this thing you care enough about to be paying attention to and talking about frequently has happened before now as well." this is so easy to frame in a way that says "yes and" rather than "i assume you dont know about the things i know about due to being very smart." eg. "dang not again, they keep doing {thing}"
• "{thing} might be bad, but {alternative/unrelated, unmentioned, non-mutually exclusive thing} is even worse": multiple things can be bad at the same time and not mentioning something does not mean i don't think it's also bad
• "funny how people who think {thing} is bad also think {alternative/unrelated, unmentioned thing} is good": closely related to the above, just because you have binarized your thinking does not mean everyone else has.

anyway if the mental image you are conjuring for your interlocuters positions them as always knowing less than you by default, that might be something to look into in yourself!