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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
stfn@fedi.stfn.pl wrote:

"In order to access this webpage, please cast a fireball".

I'm tired of all these mage verifications.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116494325053589512

Reminder that I will be speaking next week at this DevEx research forum, and since the focus is on how software research can benefit industry I will be giving a more meta talk than usual about the things I wish more software research were doing to include and benefit real developers and their teams. 🌶️

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

This thinking is shaped by my experiences with:
- community based methods
- testing field interventions
- enabling teams to design their OWN evidence rather than buy it from an (expensive) DevEx box
- my very serious concerns with the quality of evidence in software research, but coupled with
- my faith that people want to have impact and need ways to integrate methodological insights from other fields

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

Silicon Valley was brave enough to ask the question—what if ordering a latte took enough compute to kill a dolphin?

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/915821/starbucks-chatgpt-app-testing

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

Should I install my own #Forgejo server to help #Codeberg?
I only have a few repositories, so I'm not sure if it's worth it.

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

I write these post sitting in a bus that drives me basically to my front door for costs way less than a car would costs in fuel alone, not to mention insurance, tax and car degradation

Bonus, all busses are electric! ⚡️

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

When Rosetta x86 emulation ends on Apple Silicon, won’t that effectively kill all techniques for running x86 Windows programs on those chips, too?

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Looking through some paperwork, and it looks like at my last doctor visit they measured me at 5’ 11.5”. Yay for under 6’? I was 6’2” at my first endo appointment back in 2021.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm sitting here contemplating how much caffeine I'll need today, and this song suddenly popped into my head, which isn't really about caffeine, but I like it. Sharing now.

Bobby Bare Jr.'s "Sticky Chemical":

https://bobbybarejr.bandcamp.com/track/sticky-chemical

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Folks!! Lovely news!! The Psychology of Software Teams ebook will be available DRM free !! 🥰

I've gotten several questions on that and it will begin to be available at my publisher and other retailers closer to the publication date (July 14; preorders June 23 although apparently available at a few places already).

https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389

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

opencode does not like to be built from a source release tarball, apparently 😬

you may recall that at first i simply attempted to use their binaries, which did not work. "i know, i will simply build it myself", a tale as old as time.

where should i go next?

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

I appreciate reading detailed technical descriptions of my knee, but I lack the medical background to know what this means for my appointment with a surgeon. It's nice to know it's mostly normal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/08/fun-with-knees/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ppk@front-end.social ("ppk 🇪🇺") wrote:

Is the email system breaking down?

Just now I went to an art gallery and a board game shop, and both proprietors complained that their mails never arrive any more.

Coming home, I discovered a mail I was expecting for days in my spam box, while there was no reason for doing so.

Is the pressure getting too high or something? It's getting impossible to mail people.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

ICE is still not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, but I’m willing to say that we are no longer under •siege•. The Eye of Dumbass Sauron has moved elsewhere. Now it’s more an ongoing threat, usually background-level but sometimes not, that continues through normal life. You know…like the supposed criminal gang activity they used to justify their mass attack on immigrants in the first place.

It’s not over, but it’s not just MSP. It’s the whole country’s problem.

6/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

So the Claude extension allows any other extension to inject JavaScript into claude.ai and run it? Cool cool cool.

Yeah, don't let this one in.

https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/a-flaw-in-claudes-browser-extension-allows-any-extension-to-hijack-it/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
leibnizopenscience ("Leibniz Open Science") wrote:

"Governments enable corporations to treat personal data as raw material for commercial extraction. But if sensitive open data has economic value, we should recognize the economic rights of the people from whom it is collected."

https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/the-commodification-of-sensitive-open-data

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116539229749804943

This is what's fundamentally wrong with 95% of software you interact with because you have to

your city's parking app
your school district's portal
mychart
the list goes on

the concerns of you the end user probably don't even make the top five list after Karen in HR and Steve in Accounting are done with things

I left an employer’s internal project because an SVP said “infrastructure tooling doesn’t need UX people” and six weeks later it’s “we have to rearchitect $PROJECT around developer experience!”; their initial concerns were entirely stakeholder-driven, not end-user driven, and the project was an utter failure

this is Conway’s Law in action: Software design reflects an org chart, and end-users typically aren’t on that

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

Posted this yesterday for creators to tell folks about their cool stuff - now I'm reposting it for the people who want to support creators in this moment. There are hundreds of posts of cool books, music, crafts and more in here. Check it out and share! And buy stuff, maybe, even!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DYCuPwyAKJr

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

Revoking passports is why passports shouldn't exist, just like "individual sanctions" are why the global banking system shouldn't exist.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/state-department-passport-revocations-child-support

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

i am learning a great deal already as i get set up

• llama.cpp seems ok? the documentation is patchy and things could be clearer, but with some educated guesses it wasn't too bad. it probably helps that i used to be a linux distro maintainer (and gosh have all those memories been flooding back!)
• everything north of llama.cpp is vibe-coded shit. i am going in with the expectation it is shit and somehow it is worse than i was expecting. at every layer there are surprises.
• build procedures tend towards 'download these binaries' with no instructions for not doing that.
• nobody is testing these binaries, or at least not the release tarball i used, clearly
• i can probably look forward to adding more and more services to this stack to unlock more excitingly broken functionality.
• i had my first forced reboot in weeks earlier. i think it was the radeon card but i can't be sure.

i am on day 3 of packaging all this shit and i still do not have an agent running, but i'm working on it.

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

We love to see it <3

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116538637460986985

It's not a recession, it's an AI boom! /s

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

LBC - Labour Party slated to lose as many as 2,000 seats across the UK in results which could see Sir Keir Starmer ousted as prime minister. https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/live-updates-uk-local-elections-5HjdYnQ%5F2/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Freexian is excited to support MiniDebConf Hamburg, currently underway at dock europe, Hamburg, Germany!

The talks are scheduled on May 9 and 10. If you can’t attend in person, the talks will also be live-streamed: https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/

#debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #freexian

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ado@lio.nz wrote:

See you out there :3

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
williampietri@sfba.social ("William Pietri") wrote:

@aredridel I love this thread and totally agree. But I'd add that once people have built something, they should next tackle building something *for someone*. There's a whole other set of very valuable skills around understanding needs, making something, seeing how it meets the needs, and iterating.

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

if you need me i'll be in the crypt

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/Vampire%5FCrawlers%5FThe%5FTurbo%5FWildcard%5Ffrom%5FVampire%5FSurvivors/

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

just had my first forced reboot in a while.

amusingly, this was after i terminated the shit machine and even terminated the docker it was running in.

on the one hand i would like to know how the fuck that happened. on the other hand i'm not sure i can cope with the answer.

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

Seeing Cloudflare do a 20% layoff doesn't bode well for the tech industry which already has a problem of too many overqualified people looking for too few jobs.

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

Dragon horde from last #Gdakon!
With:
💙💚 @Dragoth
💚💛 Me
💙🧡 @Aeeon_Sky
💙💙 @GirlLowrider
🖤🤍 @Preturnax
💙💛 @LennartDragon
💙❤️ @Takkju
📷 ???
#FursuitFriday