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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
llorenzin@infosec.exchange ("Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)") wrote:

This is *brutal*...

"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

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

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

These war relics I've been posting are remnants of Camp Tinker in Rauðhólar. Rauðhólar, or Red Hills, is a beautiful area where you can see pseudocraters.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

Mozilla has provided behind-the-scenes details on the 271 vulnerabilities it discovered with the help of Mythos. Those details include full Bugzilla reports on 12 of the vulnerabilities. I'd be curious for people to look at the reports and hear what they think.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

“My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS”

If you're sick of Chrome OS on your Chromebook, or can find a Chromebook for cheap somewhere but don't actually want to use Chrome OS, have you considered postmarketOS?

Since I was kind frustrated with ChromeOS, I decided to take a look at something that I knew supported my Lenovo Duet 3 for some time: postmarketOS. For thos

https://www.osnews.com/story/144897/my-favorite-device-is-a-chromebook-without-chromeos/

#Linux

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ THEY LIVE: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 7, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theylive #cyberdelia #synthwave #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

@glyph Definitely! Just use different words!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I'd love to see both bits of information! But like… they're very different bits of information

jwz wrote:

@glyph Yeah I think so

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I know I've been seeing it a lot more after a relatively recent update. My suspicion is that it only used to mean one of these things — probably "truncated" — and recently came to mean the other?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

A new federal bill would wipe out dozens, if not hundreds, of existing state privacy protections. It’s hard to take seriously. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation

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

Brum Furs Attendees! 20.01.2024
#furry #furryfandom #furryphotography #fursuitphotography #fursuit

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Republicans in Tennessee are trying to quickly redraw voting maps to carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional seat. Despite significant public backlash, they may approve these racist redistricting maps as soon as today. Indivisibles and people across TN are mobilizing to the state capitol this morning. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/IndivisibleTennessee.

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Fuck Work, call-in sick"
Seen in Chicago

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"At least we're getting richer"
Anti-Shell subvertising in the London Tube

jwz wrote:

@glyph Yeah, I wasn't sure if it had always done this or if it was a new thing.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz oh is THAT why it's showing up nearly all the time now

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

in news that will shock noone, intel has cancelled ARC graphics

jwz wrote:

I do not like that the "Read more >" link on the Mastodon web interface means two different things and you can't tell them apart:

• This post was more than 500 characters and has been truncated;

• There are replies in the thread.

One of these I care about a lot, the other not so much.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tafnn@universeodon.com ("McSpocky") wrote:

A new “Donald J. tRump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” just opened in NYC.

3.5 million pages. 17,000 pounds of DOJ Epstein files. Full timeline of their 20-year Palm Beach/Mar-a-Lago bromance.

The evidence is on display for the world to read.
https://mcsp.short.gy/jx9X

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

Chief Justice John Roberts on how the American people view the Supreme Court:

“I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do. I would say that’s the main difficulty.”

sorry, no. the main difficulty is how you act.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Deconstruction

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

„The Customer is King“ to which my French girlfriend replied „and you know what we did to kings“. Touché, ma chère. Touché.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

In the UK, “wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels for a record 15 months in a row. […] this included a full winter season for the first time in 2025-26.

Yes, that’s right, renewables work in the UK in the winter.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wind-and-solar-have-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1-7bn-since-iran-war-began/

#renewableenergy

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Nobody cared about my little tool for 4 years. But published it on a git forge, and two days later got 5 (five) feature requests[1]. No, not pull requests, *feature* requests. Someone decided to graciously enlighten me what I should spend my time on next.

And sure, they mostly look reasonable. That's not the point. I just keep being amazed about the completely broken contribution "culture" that's grown out of GitHub.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/isagalaev/nfp/issues?q=&type=all&sort=relevance&state=closed&labels=&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&archived=false

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:

“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Something very nice: Alabaster Dawn opens with a dialogue explaining that they would like to use analytics to help find Early Access bugs, and that asks your permission to collect and send telemetry. If you say yes, it pops up a "thank you" dialogue box.

Feels a lot less exploitative when there's a clear request, when consent is respected, and when they acknowledge what you're doing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

“To refuse is a creative act. What is created in a refusal is a gap, a space, a moment in which something else makes ready to emerge, something that waits upon our invitation and a bit of water or sunlight to pop itself out and set down roots. To refuse is to create that which can only exist in the shade of that refusal, the refusal giving shelter to the choice that appears behind it. *To refuse is to choose.*”

— https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

It is very possible some of you haven’t read @aworkinglibrary before. Her latest essay—on war, on work, on refusal—is possibly the best opportunity to remedy that: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

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

"Into the gap"

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

> If we are truly committed to not working for war, we must not work for any of it. Not for the weapons manufacturers or the drone makers or the algorithm authors; not for the papers or the products or the schools.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
deabigt@universeodon.com ("David Abigt :verified: 🌎 🎄") wrote:

@tafnn That was almost year ago. Imagine the crowd now.