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

and up is down

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fanf@mendeddrum.org ("Tony Finch") wrote:

from my link log —

Performance of the Wren programming language.

https://wren.io/performance.html

saved 2026-04-21 https://dotat.at/:/W53CO.html

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

my scientific hero is “et al.”, nobody gets as much done

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

Tiny little guy with elaborate patterns on its abdomen. Nice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/21/signpost-spider/

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Have you noticed this thing where when a type of character appears in story enough, they become dissociated from the actual nature of the original character type? E.g. being a cartoon cowboy does not imply that one is a young man who runs cattle. It's about a set of clothes and a gruff attitude. A pirate strictly speaking no longer needs to be engaged in any kind of violent robbery. A princess is someone young with a crown, but may not really need a monarchy they are in line for.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

[to the tune of ‘YMCA’]

D D o S

It’s no fun to be hit by a

D D o S

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Ranjit@friend.camp ("ranjit") wrote:

One ring to hold them
One ring to fold them
One ring to walk away
And one ring to run

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"No one wants to work, our turnover is terrible!"

Ok, do you pay a living wage?
"No"

Do you give annual raises more than 7%, the annual rate of cost of living increase?
"Also no, but-"

Do you give larger raises and bonuses to execs than to your workers?
"Well yes, but-"

Did you force people to stop working from home in order to justify the cost of maintaining real estate you own?
"I mean, we-"

Do you heavily invest in AI so you can justify massive layoffs?
"Like every other co-"

Do you ask your employees to pick up the slack for the people who have left?
"We had t-"

And did you install digital tools to spy on your remaining employees?
"Look we need to ensu-"

Sounds to me like people DO want to work, you've just made it unpatatable for them to work for YOU.

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

type therapy

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SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange ("Security Writer :donor:") wrote:

I’ve just witnessed a horrific LinkedIn trend in person.

There’s an increasing contingent of cultists saying:

“We should refer to the field of IT as ‘AI’ because that’s what the future is”

I’m not sure what podcast they heard it on, but some guy just said to me:

“You work in AI, don’t you?”

Um… no? Security and IT

“Yeah, AI”

This person made a choice to attend a major tech conference and be this stupid.

Stop the planet, I’m disembarking.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

And they are good (he said, having blurbed at least a couple because he enjoyed them that much)!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@veronicaroth/post/DXXN8DFkUqO

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

at this point, literally the only reason I stay in tech is because of the money. because wow

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

Let's just call this "Philip K Dick" syndrome and get it over with.

https://www.livescience.com/health/diagnostic-dilemma-a-woman-heard-voices-telling-her-she-had-a-brain-tumor-and-scans-confirmed-she-did

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

(yes, it's called vibe, so i can say i'm vibe coding and annoy ai bros)

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

oh yeah i was going to knock up a lisp to test vibe with

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argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org ("ARGVMI~1.PIF") wrote:

The existence of device drivers implies the existence of device passengers.

#programming #IT #computer #shitpost

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jenniebreeden@mastodon.sdf.org ("Jennie Breeden") wrote:

Hey Portland Oregon! New convention in Hillsboro May 23. Weekend ticket is $25. I’ll have a booth!
https://www.westsidecomiccon.com/events/2026-westside-comic-con

#comiccon #westsidecomiccon #westside_comic_con

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116442054483673371

Everybody here on Mastodon keeps saying something along the lines of "not all tech people", meanwhile I have had to make a pact with pretty much everybody I know in tech IRL to not talk about "AI" because they're all major enthusiasts.

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

This is so wild, and I'm not giving medical advice here, but I recently discovered that taking consistent healthy levels of vitamin C each day makes my anxiety *almost* nonexistent.

I have ADHD, anxiety, and just a bunch of things that sometimes makes my life more difficult. Over the years I've discovered a bunch of methods for helping me. I can't believe that vitamin C is like the most effective thing I've done. It's been weeks. It feel like a miracle.

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

semiring? you mean a huawei doorbell?

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

it is impressive that github's downtime situation has gotten SO bad that:

1. they've suspended signing up for PAID llm usage. they cannot take your money because they know they can't deliver

2. if you are already a customer on the middle tier, they have reduced your access and you have to pay 4x as much if you want it back

3. they've removed the best models from mid-tier because they're simply too expensive to run at rates individuals can pay

this is WHILE being an internal user of one of the largest cloud businesses in the world; github should, in principle, have effectively infinite compute as long as the customers are paying

completely independent of all other concerns both practical and ethical, it turns out that trying to run code-generating LLMs at commercial scale is just wildly, impractically expensive and unreliable

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/

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Aaron@front-end.social ("Aaron Gustafson") wrote:

Browsers crash. Tabs close. Life happens. Here’s a web component that saves form progress so your users don’t have to start over from scratch. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/never-lose-form-progress-again/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I know I am just doing leopards eating faces here but that metaphor is starting to break down because leopards eat things other than their allies’ faces sometimes

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“I have had such a good relationship with the Great Betrayer. I cannot understand why, at this particular time, he has chosen to betray me. I know that all the other appeasers who offered him gifts and abandoned their principles to accommodate his arbitrary demonic whims were betrayed but their gifts all sucked and mine were great. It doesn’t make sense that the Great Betrayer would betray *me*, I am built different!”

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kittyboy77@tech.lgbt ("Chaotic Catboy") wrote:

I was recently in a study skills workshop where speech to text software was discussed as helpful if you can say words more easily than you can type them.

Obviously being mainstream education, there were recommendations for Windows and macOS, but nothing else.

I want to go back to the accessibility team with suggestions, because if I complain they didn't have any they'll most likely say something insincere and then never do anything about that.

So, if you have #recommendations for free or low cost Speech to Text software for #Linux users, please could you share them with me?

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

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

i have locally reduced the entropy of my bedroom

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

the ash would melt

i thought the point of ash was that it had gotten past the melting stage?

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chrysanthos@meow.social ("Chrysanthos") wrote:

@sudo_EatPant I can't believe you've done this

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

If you thought my teardowns of Matrix, Session, et al. were brutal, I never once made a Lockpicking Lawyer style video tearing them apart.

This is gold.

https://www.heise.de/news/TeleGuard-Sicherheitsexperten-entschluesseln-Messenger-Nachrichten-11261132.html