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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
OrionKidder@mas.to ("Orion Ussner kidder") wrote:

@koen_hufkens Haven't read the article (yet!), but this excerpt is quite convincing.

FYI to all, this has a name. It's called "deskilling." It's also how we've been trained to buy pancake *mix* even though it's three ingredients and the whole point is they're very very easy to make.

It serves capital to slowly deskill us all to the point where we're dependent on them for *everything* rather than being able to make and fix things for ourselves and FOR EACH OTHER bc none of us is an island.

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

yesterday i wasn't able to slop as much as i'd like, and the reason is entirely predictable: i ran out of fleshed out work specs i could give it.

one thing i am not seeing is an increase in the number of positions for people who write the tickets. what will happen when the backlog runs out? will the infinite productivity hack stop working?

well i suspect it will make too much of a mess for that to become a real problem in most orgs, it's not exactly producing the most maintainable code here.

so uh, so far it looks like even if we take the productivity gains as axiomatic, it's pushing the work elsewhere. even ignoring the fact it's pushing reviewing the work to me instead of writing it.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

More #Freebooters goodness for y'all:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/o8Wsn5pMsKNhFQ8HX4nnxB

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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

two notes:

"Role right-sizing"
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-12T05:14Z/

and a dog named Kubernetes
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-12T05:55Z/

🫩

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io ("SnoopJ 🔜 #PyConUS") wrote:

They say you're supposed to scratch your own itches, so here's my take on a printer-friendly version of the #PyConUS 2026 schedule:

https://snoopj.dev/files/PyConUS%5F2026%5Fprintable/

My target here is to fit one day on a double-sided landscape 8.5x11" (on my browser/printer) and it just about squeezes down this way.

#PyCon #Python

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
arichtman@eigenmagic.net ("Ariel") wrote:

Found the 10x dev, what a champ

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

Argh why did I not realize my machine can accept 64GB of RAM back when that was an affordable upgrade?!

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@revoluciana You've gotta find wins where you can!

(Says a guy who has spent many a day working on tools for task management vs. doing tasks.)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I’m sorry this is just the funniest thing that has happened all year

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

and another thing. I’m not worshipping a golden calf. don’t put it in the newspaper that I worshipped a golden calf

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
revoluciana@chaosfem.tw ("Revoluciana") wrote:

Girl who makes a checklist of things to accomplish.

Spends entire day not doing any of the things on the original checklist, but doing other things instead and then adding new entries then ticking off the boxes after each one.

#adhd #audhd

Boosted by jwz:
politicalbillsc@universeodon.com ("Political Bill SC") wrote:

For those who are not from South Carolina: Yes... Confederate Memorial Day is a real thing in the year 2026.

#SouthCarolina #ConfederateMemorialDay

Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

"if you don't build me a world eating data center my shitty autocomplete algorithm will run slow :(" meanwhile in the 90s if your code needed more than a few bytes of ram they just took you into the parking lot and shot you

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One student's paper included footnotes for each "fact that ChatGPT got wrong" that was relevant. Interesting flex!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

News organizations are increasingly blocking the #WaybackMachine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @mark, Director of the Wayback Machine at the #InternetArchive, explains how major newsroom staff rely on archived web history because their internal archives often miss the deeper public record.

🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/preserving-the-web-in-the-age-of-ai
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

Attachments:

• video: ead36affc324e4de.mp4

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The reason I ask is because of a threshold I'm seeing getting crossed with Windows 11 in particular. I'm often The Computer Person in my crowd, for my myriad sins I suppose, but the threshold I'm thinking of seems to be something non-computer-toucher people who have had Windows and its polynefarious quote-up-unquote-grades inflicted on them and have said.... That's enough. I don't even know the words for whatever the fuck this is but I've had enough of it. What are my options, Computer Person.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I hate the term 'normies', but I would like a term for the non-domain-specialists who have had computers shanked into their lives involuntarily and have to navigate the Many Indignities Of Computer despite Not Being Computer People. "Users" sounds like somebody saying they only use meth for the articles or something. "Operator" is sort of specialist-inflected already; so much of the terminology around this nonsense is tied to identity and anchored in an undeserved elitism that I despise.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

time for the ceremonial pre-PyCon last minute apple OS security update on all devices

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

on LOUD https://pandora.app.link/slVstFKh42b

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

Not really. I do fine for a public reading, but for a whole 8-to-12-hour audiobook I want a professional in there. If (EXTREMELY unlikely) it came down me or "AI," I would do it; likewise if I ever do a memoir I might narrate that myself. Otherwise, I'm happy to let Wil or Amber or Tavia or any of the other excellent narrators I've had be the ones to read it to you all.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@gm106db/post/DYNp2zJiITK

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The number of people who think their thoughts sound better when regurgitated by an LLM is too damned high.

It makes you sound beige. Like the sea of slop that is overtaking the internet and our lives.

Have some of your own personality and quirks. Can we just communicate like humans?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you use Tanstack the packages all got compromised in npm with credential stealing malware. https://socket.dev/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

You can't put the genie back in the bottle 🤡

Meanwhile, the genie is only kept out of the bottle by the force of literally the entirety of the world's available investment capital

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://cathode.church/@kaye/116549489237944586

#librewolf ❤️ 😃

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
feliks@chaos.social ("feliks✨") wrote:

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

TIL: The highest grossing film of 2025 was an animated movie titled Ne Zha 2 and it made 2 billion on an $80 million budget.

I never even heard about this movie 😭

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2026.05.08 元成徳中学校から玄関扉とアマリリス。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://cathode.church/@kaye/116549489237944586

Follow your dreams

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

Don't use "AI" to generate your passwords. Use pwgen like a normal person. And in a pinch, /dev/urandom is also right there.[1] Sheesh...

[1] On Linux, but BSDs have variations on this as well.[2]

[2] This is meant to be a joke, why am I adding footnotes?