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

If this were a novel, a space disaster timed to coincide with the needless destruction of the energy and resource infrastructure needed to keep big chunks of the world functional would be a devastating "all is lost" moment.

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

Given the earlier concerns about the heat shielding and, y'know, persistent "what would be the most demoralising thing to us all that could happen right now" thoughts, I have to admit that I have some anxiety about Artemis II return journey.

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

spongeboob

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

i would simply mmap 2**42 bits of virtual memory

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faden ("Andrew Faden") wrote:

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

Attachments:

• video: e71399ffc6b87456.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elizayer ("Elizabeth Ayer") wrote:

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

American president: fuck shit fuck die boom boom!

Mainstream media: The strategy behind the president’s unorthodox approach to international conflict and diplomacy appears to be…

American president: I go wee wee on your head!

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

Welp, It looks like Apple lied outright about how it's stifling browsers in its latest DMA compliance report with the EU. Will they pay any price? Will the press (finally) cover the web as an engine of interoperability and our best hope for an open mobile future?

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.

I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.

Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

There are only a few places online where people can gather and interact that _isn't_ massively tipping the scales in favor of AI. But there's no secret cabal of terminally online posters coordinating harassment campaigns to keep AI fans out. (As a terminally online poster, I feel like I would know) It's just that they're not popular here. Which is, actually, extremely predictable. They are artificially supported everywhere else, so if course this space has a higher proportion of members who are less than interested.

So, if we're an unusually tough crowd, it's because they did a bunch of crowd manipulation most everywhere else. And if they can't handle a tough crowd, that is no reason to suggest doing that same crowd manipulation here. 🤷‍♀️

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.

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

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

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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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