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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

For the first time since 2015, I’m on the open market, looking for my next gig!

Details in the post, but tl;dr, I’m taking on some short-term consulting gigs while exploring opportunities for a full-time role.

If you’ve ever wanted to work with me, or have been curious about what I’m actually good at, let’s talk.

If you have or know of something that might be a good fit, drop me an email or pass along my LinkedIn profile to anyone you think should know about me.

https://loudpoet.com/2026/05/07/personal-news-open-to-work/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up

but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.

so what do you envision this might be?

for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.7 is available

• Add thread indentation and goto parent link
• Better page style
• Add profile banner ratio in prefs
• Add missing translation in aria
• Add RSS feeds discovery for profiles and tags
• Add instance info page
• Stay on profile and post pages when switching account

Source/download

Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse #nojs

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
FabMusacchio ("Fabrizio Musacchio") wrote:

#Deepfakes are everywhere, but #DigitalForensics investigators are fighting back:

🌍 https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
webstandards_dev ("Web Standards") wrote:

Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts. Modern phones have notches, cutouts, and floating buttons that overlap your UI unless you account for them. The Polypane blog walks through env(safe-area-inset-*), why you need viewport-fit=cover in the , combining insets with calc() for extra spacing, and the new safe-area-max-inset-* values that stay stable even when the address bar hides on scroll. #css #layout

https://polypane.app/blog/using-safe-area-inset-to-build-mobile-safe-layouts/

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

This genuinely looks like a recipe for a US federal wire fraud charge down the line.

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

May the murderous freak suffer a thousand more spider bites. May the invisible communists crawl out from under his bed and pummel him with pig's bladders. What a pathetic little man.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/07/i-had-nothing-to-do-with-kyle-rittenhouses-recent-hospitalization/

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

The fact that many payment companies seem to be all-in on "AI" feels iffy. Even iffier when most of them were all-in on cryptocoins.

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

In today's "surely this is a bad idea?" news, as a part of my ongoing search for a non-shitty Merchant-of-Record service, I came across one called Kelviq that runs it's business verification (i.e. the bit that weeds out scammers, fraud, etc) entirely using OpenClaw

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/we-automated-our-business-vetting-with-openclaw-788b285744

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

“The language is leaving me – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/05/07/the-language-is-leaving-me/

> Hence renaming it parasocial media, as a phenomenon which “creates the conditions for people to objectify one another at a distance as mediatized objects, helping realize the different layers of toxicity that social media scholars document.”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This is hilarious, crushing, zany, bleak, beautiful, and true.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

(ht @drahardja)

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

new bio: all opinions are those of my own LLM and not those of my employer's LLM — I mean, I do use my employer's LLM 'cause hell if I'm paying for it — but I prompt for my own opinions — contractually they're owned by my employer but not endorsed — is what I'm trying to say

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
EdinburghGreens@mastodon.scot ("Edinburgh Greens") wrote:

Today's polls show that if enough people vote Green then we can stop Reform, with many regions facing a Greens vs Reform contest for that final 7th seat on the regional list, elected with the peach ballot.

And if you have a Scottish Greens constituency candidate, it’s Both Votes Green to get us over the threshold to win our first-ever constituencies. Let’s do this!

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

"there's thousands of those, but this one is mine" — love it, best way to learn IMO

https://thatalexguy.dev/building-with-intent

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

Happy ‘vote strategically to keep nationalists from controlling your local area’ day to the Brits. We’re having one here in Iceland next week.

Boosted by typst ("Typst"):
erou@mathstodon.xyz ("erou ⏚") wrote:

I am discovering @typst and it looks fabulous. Very beautiful, versatile, and way more intuitive than LaTeX. I just read the tutorial really, but now I am looking for things to write with it.

#typst

typst ("Typst") wrote:

You can enable 2FA by signing in to Typst and going to the "Multi-factor authentication" section of your account settings.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

A second authentication factor protects your Typst account even if a hacker has your password or access to your email inbox. To enable 2FA, you need a code generator app. Your password manager or device may already include one. Alternatively, you can download one from your phone's app store.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

We know that many of you are doing some of your best work with Typst. To prevent hackers from hijacking your Typst account, you should enable the new two-factor authentication feature.

#Typst

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

dutch isn't real, i'm not sure why they pretend it is.

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

*screams into the void*

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

actually forget the stawberry game, I've pivoted to a "put a bikini on her" PWA — it's privacy-preserving, no need to expose your identity on Xitter anymore — but don't worry i'm added social sharing for the feddy/atmosphere

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

i bet these guys will cheer up after they play my awesome new web app "how many R's in strawberry!" (Chrome-only)

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

https://social.lol/@db/116528473759597758

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

panic

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Gina@fosstodon.org wrote:

If the earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off it by now.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anj@digipres.club ("Andy Jackson") wrote:

FWIW, the Green Party are the only party who are serious about taxing wealth, and so I'll be voting Green. #TaxWealthNotWork #ukpol #ukelections https://youtube.com/shorts/uMe%5Fj2rr850

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bremner@mathstodon.xyz ("David Bremner") wrote:

OK @glyph challenge accepted. Here is python programming talk.

I have a script that uses "with Popen(...,stdout=PIPE)" to run a program and roughly run grep. Now I'd like to add a timeout, but I don't want to buffer the output (because it is unbounded), so run is out. Currently I am running /usr/bin/timeout from python, but this is, uh, unpythonic.

#python #MastOverflow

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
ericmann@tekton.network ("Eric Mann") wrote:

Running my own LLM systems on local hardware means I control the compute, I control the attack surface, and I control the data.

It's a serious upgrade over using somewhat flaky (and privacy-stupid) cloud providers.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

Why do kids want to be influencers? Probably because influencers can buy houses