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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Watch out for turtles — it’s that time of year. Found this snapping turtle laying eggs at the roadside near the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and watched from my car. Drew her later with GraphGear 1000 pencils, Blu-Tack, and blenders. She knew that spot long before the road was there.

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

Just once I’d like to see journalists and politicians show at least a grain of scepticism about the claims being made by “AI” vendors. Just once.

Just because anthropic styles their reports to look like scientific or academic papers doesn’t make them sound or credible.

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

I'm working on one of those brush pen drawings I mentioned above, and it reminded me of a card I made back in 2011. So I dug it out of my archive and decided to share it here.

I made this card for my stepson before he took a lengthy trip over the summer. I was trying to be silly and sincere in a way that wouldn't necessarily embarrass anybody too much.

Soundtrack for this blast from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxWP9BhI7w

#doodle #yaombaaa

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

The UX for setting a default folder color on macOS Tahoe is... insane

drag the slider toward the lighter end to make it darker?? 💀

Attachments:

• gifv: a03e929ddb885e54.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Mornin'

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

God forgives him, so does anyone believe this convicted child rapist will never sin again?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/05/forgive-and-forget/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghvTsIdFet0

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

Gnome Web/Epiphany crashing seems to be because of a fundamental incompatibility with snap/flatpak?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work%5Fitems/2715

(There's a rabbit hole of related issues, that's just the top of the chain.)

This is why desktop Linux has the reputation it has. The flagship browser engine for one of the main desktop environments seems to have fundamental issues with being run in the container environments all of the major distributions have adopted as standard for app distribution 🤷‍♂️

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

I've been noticing a trend of "my slop is different" amongst the boosters. It takes a deft hand to wield an LLM, others can't be trusted.

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

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

So, is -webkit-text-stroke broken everywhere it's implemented or is this something that just affects browsers on Linux? (Tested in Firefox and Chromium. Tried to test in WebKit/Gnome Web but just discovered that the webkit rendering process crashes whenever I try to open the dev tools, which is disconcerting.)

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

blogged: Are you standard.site?

https://dbushell.com/2026/06/05/are-you-standard-site/

don't be jealous of my fancy button 😏

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

Seeing nerds get in bed with rabid military supremacists over the cancellation of a continuation of one of the most blatant military propaganda TV series in recent history is a mood

I mean, I love Stargate SG-1 as much as the next nerd, but it was already borderline after 2001. I don’t see how you could make it work today without betraying its military supremacism

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116693202315649987

This. 100%.

It’s all intersectional. Every single injustice that’s happening to every single marginalized group is bound to the rest. To suggest that one is more important than the others is subjective and self-serving.

It’s okay to champion a single cause. Even give it most of your energy. Like Adrianna says, please avoid telling anyone else how to be an activist or where they should commit their own energy. That dilutes all of our efforts.

We’re in this together. In solidarity.

Sorry people were up in your grille, @skinnylatte.

#Activism #Resistance #Solidarity #LGBTQ

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

what x86 did right vs arm

oh gosh, i'm sure i'll come up with something eventually...

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

look at the bright side: they got rid of the delay slots!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
to@hachyderm.io ("Moved at to@fosstodon.org") wrote:

I was laid off last month due to cost reduction so I used this unexpected « opportunity » to give a boost on the renovation of my house. Doing everything by myself allows me to keep it on a decent budget but I will need to go back to work in a few months 👀

I’m a software engineer with 17 years of experience on distributed systems. I’ve been writing Rust for 6 years (prior to that PHP/NodeJs/Go). I have a good experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Databases & IaaS. Very much opened to learning embedded systems.
Open to remote part-time contract or employee status (max 4 days/week) with occasional travel.

My recent projects : https://otso.fr/cv.html

Hopefully the Fediverse will work its magic ✨

#rust #rustLang #FediHire #getFediHired #toulouse #paris

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

So it's out there that - with great sadness - I'm winding down my training business & looking for a new challenge

But it's not quite over yet. I have 3 *final* workshops for developers (and, in one case, non-devs, too) coming up - all on special offer 2day

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

On June 16th at 18:45 GMT+1 and June 20th at 09:45 GMT+1, a Refactoring workshop that packs so much into 2 hours that your head will spin :-)

Until midnight tonight, just £75 + VAT. Save ~£30.

Easily the second most important skill for a developer.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2230313

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

June 30th at 18:45 GMT+1, Specification By Example. There's no coding in this one, so testers, PMs, UX folks etc are very welcome to join us.

Again, until midnight tonight, just £75 + VAT. Bargain!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2162096

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Finally, July 7-9, my flagship 3-day Code Craft workshop - 17 years in the making - goes on its final voyage.

I appreciate this one will require your boss's approval. But it's HALF-PRICE until midnight tonight if you book online if you can expense it.

https://codemanship.co.uk/codecraft.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

One last word: as I confess in my blog post, I'm in a real hole. No point pretending otherwise.

If you register for any of these workshops, not only will I be delighted to see you, but I'll also be very grateful.

Will train for food!

It would be really lovely to finish this chapter of my career playing to some packed houses

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116696322440989333

"this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!"

That's the "AI" issue in a nutshell. We all rely on each other, on each other's skills and abilities. And we're just destroying capability left and right.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@glyph @hynek There's something to be said for AI code lacking intent; I think of it as almost a "literary quality". A good codebase gives me a good idea of how the program works through reading it, due to the intent the programmer had when writing the codebase; much like a good book develops characters, themes and concepts well. When I read AI code, I don't see the kind of intent that makes further development easy, instead I see half-formed hacks upon half-formed hacks

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

You have 10+ years of experience with some specific open source technology.

Someone posts extremely detailed, but also extremely nonsensical and evidently AI-generated technical pseudo-information to the public mailing list related to that technology.

What do you do?

(Not a rhetorical question; not sarcasm. I'm genuinely interested in people's opinions. Boosts appreciated.)

#AskFedi #AISlop

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

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

That we should unconditionally trust people who violate our trust is abuser logic and, at the moment, the free/open source communities are full of this kind of abuser logic.

“Trust the leade” is how cults and dictatorships talk.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
feilen@meow.social ("Feilen") wrote:

I feel like plurality is gonna be one of those things where it turns out like 3-7% of people are this but we never knew cause everyone assumed that's what it was like for everyone

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mynameistillian@plush.city ("tillian 🦊🇰🇿:antifa: ACAB") wrote:

genuinely sad how capitalism can worm its way into someone who hates it.

you're not immune to propaganda.

but also. there's more to life than looks and money and profit.

don't let those fuckers tell you that it's the only thing that matters. you will be miserable.

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

“What Bun Can Tell Us About AI, Open Source and Anthropic – tecosystems”

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/06/04/bun-two-lessons/

So, I keep track of what some of the usual analysts in tech are saying and most of the time it's flawed but internally coherent

But this one is weird. All those words about Bun and "AI" and not one mention of Zig’s LLM policy or other context to bun’s hasty transition to rust?

How is that not a core part of anybody’s analysis of Bun, pro- or anti-“AI”?

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@drahflow/116696527142706215

Been wondering where I want to go next in neuro and I never before now had considered "botanical neuroscience

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
drahflow@infosec.exchange ("Drahflow") wrote:

@ansuz @jonny https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8903786/ makes a decent argument for the "it is actually looking" hypothesis, no?

They put trifolata near plastic plants. Mimicry still happens.