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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
snowstormbat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("SnowyBark 🔞") wrote:

May-B

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

A point excerpted from a talk I gave earlier this week at Microsoft's internal performance symposium (alt talk title: "CSS-in-JS: Frontend's Worst Idea"):

Browsers are virtual machines tuned to efficiently turn *markup* into *pixels*.

If your system tries to generate pixels from not-markup, you'll be working against the grain of the system, and should expect to suffer massive performance penalties -- both in CPU and memory use -- as a result.

For deep reasons, this is not going to change.

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

(Also if you think this is your cue to say the Democrats are just as bad in their own way, please go fuck yourself behind the dumpster of your local gas station, you pathetic equivocating weasel)

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

I don't imagine this will come as a surprise to anyone at this point, but I will say it anyway: The chances of me ever voting Republican for the rest of my life is substantially less than the chance of me willingly running my tongue over a cheese grater, and would cause me more actual pain

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

And then, develop your skill for being oriented, for harnessing chaos into something going a particular direction. You can only do this once you've developed taste and skill and gone the wrong direction a bunch. You cannot shortcut this experience, but as someone told me at a time I was not quite ready to hear it, the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity.

Decisions get made so fast, before we're really ready for them, and in conflict. The results are mediocre to bad. It's up to us to sort through the mess and say "this way" out of it. Not as dictators or authorities, but as people who understand the territory. And who can spot when their teams are going in circles and pick a path out.

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

Building credibility this way is awkward, even painful for some people, but there is no substitute for being known.

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

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.

It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.

Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.

If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.

You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116536115292248636

This is going to leave a lot of big craters.

Institutional knowledge is the key driver of success.

Destroying the knowledge by destroying the human fabric is going to be devastating

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

Ask why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.

Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.

I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.

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

Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,

Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.

Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831

The quoted toot is dismal and true

But know that if you want to learn, people are willing to show you. You have to bring the will to learn because the temptation to skip learning will be everywhere. But if you're curious when the curmudgeonly old techie who's holding the system together says something surprising, ask them about it. We will tell you.

If you want to learn and you're not employed, I cannot state this enough, _build something_. Start with AI, that's fine, but _get under the hood_. Get your hands dirty. Understand what's going on. Your curiosity is the ONLY thing that will get you that experience now.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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 aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
flamingspork@tacobelllabs.net ("spork (pathetic girlfailure)") wrote:

does anyone need a sysadmin, SRE, or cybersecurity person with experience with cell and radio networks? i'm looking for a job to end my five month streak of unemployment

i have a BSc and MSc in Computing Security and 4 years job experience (resume upon request)

i can work in the Boston area or remote in the US

#getfedihired #fedihire

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol

“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.

The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick

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

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116536115292248636

This. It's roughly this.

And know that if you leave the table, what gets built will not be built for you :/

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

Scheduled? What kind of dufus would plan to shut down our courseware during the last weeks of the term?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/07/what-kind-of-incompetent-goofball-would-schedule-maintenance-for-the-last-week-of-classes-finals-week/

Boosted by jwz:
stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Over on Bluesky, someone asked if I ever use reference photos for expressions. The answer is: CONSTANTLY. Back before digital photography, I kept a mirror propped up by my drawing board. Now I just shoot photos. Sometimes I have my studiomates pose. Other times I pose myself and use a timer. https://youtube.com/shorts/g0RetTttweo?si=Xjp5F53PaPBi5t5-

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Thanks to a really nice suggestion by omg.lol member @lagu, https://some.pics now supports the JPEG XL image format. Yay!

Boosted by jwz:
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

pretty wild that American farmers are suffering from a fertilizer shortage despite record levels of bullshit from the White House

Boosted by jwz:
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

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jwz wrote:

"If Linux can be maintained by sending patches to an email mailing list, 'doesn’t work at scale' arguments are skill issues."
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

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

tomorrow i have to try out an agent harness, of which the first i will try is opencode, which looks like software of the quality i have come to expect from vibe coders

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

New comiCSS Game: HTML Mini-Crossword
http://comicss.art/games/51/

All the words in this crossword are HTML tags, attributes, and values. Can you solve it?

#css #html #crossword #game #webdev

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

In the movies, this would be the headline on a newspaper we see our protagonist find as they pick through the wreckage of a devastating pandemic

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5814761/hantavirus-outbreak-unlikely-to-turn-into-a-pandemic

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

well you know what, 10tps is actually quite workable. i guess this one will do for now.

i wonder how terrible it will be at writing code.

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

"May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. military naval units operating ‌in the area of the Strait of Hormuz came under Iranian missile fire following ​an attack by the U.S. military ​on an Iranian oil tanker, Iranian ⁠state media, citing an unnamed military ​official, said on Thursday."

https://www.reuters.com/world/irans-state-broadcaster-says-enemy-units-came-under-missile-fire-after-us-attack-2026-05-07/

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

oh yeah that one was much quicker. this is with unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL and averaged 9.78 tokens/second. and i'm pretty sure i fixed vulkan now.

apparently i could maybe get it faster if i could get rocm working but rocm is terrible software and they officially don't support my card even to start with.

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

LOL, LMAO. i asked it 'balls' to test it was working and some of the reasoning is chefs kiss

1. Check for safety/policy violations: The word "balls" can sometimes be used in suggestive or inappropriate contexts. However, in isolation, it is not inherently harmful, illegal, or explicitly hateful.
2. Formulate a neutral and helpful response strategy: Since the intent is unknown, the best approach is to acknowledge the input and prompt the user for clarification so I can provide a relevant answer.

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

THEY LIVE • TONIGHT
MOVIE SCREENING • COSTUME CONTEST • DANCE PARTY
OBEY • CONSUME • NO THOUGHT
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theylive #cyberdelia #synthwave #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Utah's new 'Online Age Verification Amendments' bill attempts to ban VPNs, misunderstanding how they function and raising concerns about the state's track record in internet policy. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/07/utah-wants-websites-to-see-through-vpns-thats-not-how-vpns-work/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum