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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

BACKUP YOUR DATA TODAY. This is your reminder that you should grab a couple SD cards or USB flash drives and backup your data. Multiple copies, and keep in mind that flash drives only last between one and six years, typically.

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

An aspect to the “go pro might go under because of AI memory price hikes” news is that it entirely ignores that go pro has been heading that way for a long time

They’re crunched between cheap no-name action cams on the low end and superior Chinese action cams, actual cameras and phones on the high end. They’ve largely got a worse product and nowhere to go. Their line of 1 inch sensor cams is an attempt to retake the high ground but the price puts it in direct competition with actual cameras

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

A brief thread about code and communications:

Once people depend on a piece of software - not "use" but "depend" - I believe developers have a greater degree of responsibility to the communities relying on that software.

At some point "this software is provided as is with no warranty express or implied" is no more defensible a position than "this building is provided as is and if it falls down well you chose to live in it, whether or not I decide to change it however I like in the future."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Contentful spent 13 years as a trusted European vendor, and one board meeting is enough to put it under US law.

That is where Open Source matters.”

https://dri.es/contentful-and-the-limits-of-buy-european

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tehfishman@ioc.exchange wrote:

@soatok @mkj obviously not your job, but IMO valid responses include `lmao get loved loser get absolutely fucking treasured`

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

but of course he did #HeadDesk

“U.S. Is Said to Be Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting
The former congressman was referred to federal authorities after he bet on his own attendance at the State of the Union address” - NYTimes

Mastodon wrote:

We’re particularly delighted to see the @EUCommission include a call to “strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a #Mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to extend the users basis to EU institutions.”

Mastodon wrote:

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Check out our latest blog post for an interview with Tiffany Pek Yuan, one of the maintainers of the Rust programming language:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/06/03/maintainer-spotlight-tiffany-pek-yuan-tiif/

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting our amazing maintainers. 💛

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

PROTIP:

When I get messages like this, I block the other person.

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

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116684462927247927

Someone who I've never interacted with before, and neither of us follow each other, read this message and saw fit to go (paraphrasing)

How dare you. I only use this account for posting my art, the folks who follow me here aren't my real friends

If anyone has a similar impulse, please don't.

I get what this kind of posting is intended to do: a part of you might feel that Fedi is purely transactional, just like Twitter used to be.

If that's your lived experience, then my post won't help you. But there's no need to yell at me because your mental model for the Internet is strangled by the incentive structures of our economic system rather than nurtured by the community that exists in spite of it.

I can't fix everything with words alone.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NuclearOatmeal@beige.party ("Nuclear Oatmeal :paranoid:") wrote:

@soatok

I'm not a furry, but good luck. Threw in a little bit of cash.

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

Current pet peeve: podcasts where the hosts constantly talk into the end of a Blue Yeti microphone and that way ensuring, very kindly, that the guests using headset microphones don't have the worst sound in the podcast

It's a side address microphone. You're either miking the table or the ceiling.

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

People PAY to get their corpses abandoned on Everest?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/03/how-would-a-future-anthropologist-interpret-the-graveyard-of-everest/

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

:mastodon: social.lol has been updated to Mastodon v4.5.11+glitch.

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.11

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

A general rule I am currently following: if I discover gen "AI" elements to something you're working on, I will not voluntarily share it or talk about it at all. Not in a good way and not in a bad way. The only exception is if I think other people should be warned about a situation.

I doubt I am alone in this, but silence is hard to measure.

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

incidentally, you should remember to treat vibe coddists kindly by default.

they have fallen for adversarial exploitation of ordinary human cognitive biases the same way problem gamblers or candy crush players do. they are victims and your anger should primarily be targeted at the industry that did this.

this doesn't mean you have to put up with all their bullshit, but do try not to give them any more ammunition against people who weren't suckered.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Obviously only anecdotes, but the Python language is constantly moving, just as the maintainers intend. The Python you have your system today is not the same Python you will have on your system after your next update. And that's especially true if you intend *others* to run any Python scripts you have.

I don't have good answers. I'm still wrestling with all these issues myself, but if I was aiming for a utility to be widely portable, zero maintenance, and easy to build for future devs, targeting a C compiler and standard library would be on my list to consider[1]. Python would not. I especially would not port an already working C program to Python unless I was forced to.

[1] Yes, I know about your preferred language. Yes, I agree it has favorable characteristics. Yes, I am well aware of C's deficiencies.

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

Decided to listen to the album Solar Power by Lorde again. And of course, it makes sense, that album sounds like someone from New Zealand who just discovered California culture and wants to be a California girl. We've all been there.

I once bought clothes from Birdwell for a whole year for absolutely no reason

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

Knowing that a majority of the voices online in web dev now no longer care about implementation is honestly quite demotivating. Why try new approaches in web dev when you know most are going to just have their “agents” generate legacy approaches anyway? Why talk about it to a small and dwindling audience?

Why work in a field that has accepted stagnation as a standard practice?

So, y’know, feeling a bit demotivated

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

i have now spent about 3 weeks slop codding spread over the last month or so. i will be using exactly 0 of the code that it produced because even when it wasn't wrong, the amount of effort required to get there was more than just fucking writing the code.

don't get me wrong, i remain genuinely impressed with they have managed to get the technology to do, given how it's inherent never got a hope of actually being anything more than a party trick. but it's still clearly hurrendously flawed. i mean the latest claude can't even not delete files when asked not to delete files ffs. the hell i'm trusting something that can't even do that.

i do not think there is anything useful more to learn about slop codding for me. the times i have actually been writing code were more enjoyable than the times i was prompting the machine, despite the dopamine hits. EVEN THE TEDIOUS CODE.

in short, they're shit, they've always been shit and i'm not convinced they will ever not be shit. and now i'm going back to writing code thank you

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

My experience trying to run bare, non-trivial Python programs that stick to Python's core libraries across multiple Python releases has not been great. I frequently run into compatibility challenges between Python versions.

On the other hand, I have non-trivial C programs that stick to the standard library that I can move from system to system with zero changes over decades.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

TFW someone thinks a non-trivial python script is more future proof and easier to deal with than the equivalent non-trivial C program it was ported from.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Anyway, I will be using my newfound downtime on some projects to hopefully help other folks. I am starting work on my simple gallery site today so if artists want an easy to read codebase and maybe use for learning HTML and CSS they're free to do so. I'll be sharing and updating this on codeberg at:
https://codeberg.org/TealfulEyes/simplegal

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

* you're all dumb haters
* AI is a revolution just in the past few months
* yes there were regressions but,
* the new test suite is awesome you haters
* openrsync doesn't pass the new test suite! ha, you fools! (cos it targets an older version)

at least it reads like he wrote it by hand

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

endorsement implies the existence of dedorsement

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

okay i wrote it. the bit that was most tedious wasn't the bit i was expecting, it was the memory management.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mattbors@mstdn.ca ("Matt Bors") wrote:

I'm making signed prints of my Mr. Gotcha comic available for the first time ever—you can get the full comic or a large giclée of just the last panel. Signed and numbered as part of this Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic?ref=5a36va

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

very strong statement in solidarity with trans people from Disability Rights UK:

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disability-rights-uk%E2%80%99s-statement-new-ehrc-guidance

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

@brib @ireneista @Kye I can't speak to the Rube Goldberg machines these companies employ, but training the "next" frontier model is how they justify the need for more investment and hardware capacity.