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Boosted by jwz:
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

Most "convicted criminals" took plea deals because the alternative was waiting in jail for 3-5 years until an understaffed and indifferent court system cared enough to put you on the docket.

The entire thing is unconstitutional (literally - speedy trial my ass) and literally designed to protect the rich and punish the poor.

A "criminal conviction", in most instances, in this era, means less than nothing; and most of them are for things like "had weed and was Black or latino"

Cut it out.

Boosted by jwz:
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I am *literally begging* people to stop talking about whether or not the actual persons disappeared by ICE have "criminal convictions".

If they don't have due process YOU DON'T HAVE DUE PROCESS.

It's an all or nothing proposition.

Even people with criminal convictions and criminal records *have fucking rights*.

Our Justice system is a shitshow run by money and political influence and vibes. Judges are literally magistrates and your fate if you're arrested depends on the luck of the draw.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

And if you've read that far and you're in IT, I have one word for you: unionize. ✊

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

GitLab's CEO writes:
> Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem, the tradeoffs that require taste.

I hold judgement over this decision.

I see it as a symptom of lack of understanding of how good software is actually built. And of greed, directed by the hype train and FOMO.

And I find this blogpost, and the whole idea of pushing slop generators tasteless.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.

Slaves would be good though.

And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.

No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

The outcome of this will be *worse* software.

It will feel even more plastic, it will be even more brittle, and it's not because we don't know how to write better, more reliable software, but because the industry decided that writing better software is not how money is made.

And GitLab just went all-in, announced to the world: we're here for plastic software, we're here for shit quality code, we're here for forcing people to review unreviewable slop and then blaming them for the bugs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
flesh@transfem.social ("Tzimisce Flesh") wrote:

Don't let an LLM ruin your code.
It's your code.
Ruin it yourself.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehashman@cloudisland.nz ("e. hashman 🇵🇸") wrote:

Today is #MEAwarenessDay and while I spend every day painfully aware of the limitations this disease imposes on me, perhaps you haven't thought about it. Today is a great day to learn. Anyone can be affected by ME, and I'm one of those #MillionsMissing.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

One of the hardest yet most important lessons one learns over & over in life is that when it comes to communities (regardless of their size) there’s NO correlation between the value of service provided and the gratefulness expressed.

You should never do or sacrifice anything if you wouldn’t be OK with nobody noticing or thanking you for it.

Humans are fickle, humans are distractible, it’s not always obvious what’s important—except in hindsight when it’s too late. Don’t give more than you have.

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

shocked to learn these chocolate chip cookies have a nutri-score of E

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pdxa11yux@mas.to ("PDX Accessibility & UX Meetup") wrote:

Our next meetup is on Wed May 27th — join us in-person at the Multnomah County Library's Albina branch. We'll learn about the spectrum of options for good alt text, presented by Mark Wyner (@markwyner):

https://pdxa11yux.org/events/2026/05/27/alt-text-is-the-ocean-you-thought-was-a-pond.html

#PDXa11yUX #a11y #UX #Meetup #Portland #PDX

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

I do love ugly doors.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #green #rust

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

what are the four fundamental forces of nature?

birth, death, taxes and off by one errors?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jfslowik@infosec.exchange ("Joe Słowik") wrote:

"Those files we stole and threatened to release? Totes deleted bro, trust us!"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
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 soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/116559783670635896

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

The greatest danger of AI is not that it will become super-intelligent but rather that it will make humans super-idiotic.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

You still deserve privacy, even if you:

• don't use Linux
• use big social media sites
• aren't "techie"
• are just an average computer user

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FrOSCon@bonn.social wrote:

Dear FOSS Community, the challenging situation in the IT industry has caused many of our partners to decide not to book a booth this year. As a result, we are short on funds for the conference, including event technology, exhibition walls, video streaming, children’s and youth programs, volunteer meals, transportation costs, and insurance.

We are specifically looking for conference partners and also still need a coffee partner 😭

Help us keep FrOSCon alive: https://froscon.org/en/cfp/cfpartners/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome%5Fremoves%5Fclaim%5Fof%5Fondevice%5Fal%5Fnot%5Fsending/

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

okay that's enough for one day, i must play computer games now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116562140131863211

But MOOCs are gonna take over the world and put universities outta business.

Yep.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
manu@hachyderm.io ("Manuel") wrote:

#cern has open sourced its #kicad component library! https://home.cern/cerns-kicad-component-library-now-open-source/ #electronics

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

The AI bubble is only possible because tech as an industry has a huge infrastructure for pushing boundaries, eroding consent, and forcing functionality on users. That infrastructure isn't going away just because they decided not to use it for sparkling anus buttons any more.

It's going to still be there, in terms of prompting you to reduce privacy and increase ads, to accept locked-in platforms instead of open protocols. It's still there in terms of age verification.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
theresnotime@fox.nexus ("Sammy Arson Fox (with the big fluffy ears)") wrote:

Just dropping https://www.wikiworkersunited.org here for no reason whatsoever

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

for those who haven't seen https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116561860722986272

Goodhart? is that you?

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

i do not claim to be an economist, but i have an A-level in philosophy and I can tell when the premises do not lead to the assertion

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

As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.

i want some of what you're on

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

I'm on team blue, except that this thought experiment doesn't allow for iteration, making it entirely unrealistic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/12/oooh-a-provocative-philosophical-conundrum/