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

Wake me up when he's not a trillionaire anymore thanks

https://futurism.com/space/spacex-stock-fallen-down-160s

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

We don't have a skills gap. We have a "why would I do that for this salary" gap.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@webstandards/116793160104521801

You should go. No, really.

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

My dear fellow Ohioans, stop electing Republicans, they actively hate you and wish you ill

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-will-lose-51-000-jobs-5-3-billion-due-to-trump-cuts-by-2029/article%5F6a7077f3-e66d-55ab-9aa5-f803fdf55e98.html

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

“Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!? Some Gmail spam from Apple made me test their claims. Is WebKit faster than real Blink-based Chromium on iOS? Is WebKit uniquely private and secure? https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/safari-blazing-fast-o-rly/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ryan@m29.us ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

@cwebber It's a banger.

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

I swear that alien movie by Steven Spielberg is a psyop lol. They want us all back on the alien conspiracy theory trail with our free time. Anything to thwart class consciousness

jwz wrote:

Every "imagine how they would have reacted if Obama had done this" post is less an indictment of MAGA than of the feckless Democratic party.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

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

(the reason i am asking is because i am plotting to make some changes to idris-mode)

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

dear idris users: please tell me about how you edit idris code.

i don't need to know everything, but for example my general idris dev workflow basically involves keeping the holes window open and doing this in a loop:

• edit code (which could be emacs commands that edit for me)
• save file
• reload file

what do other people do different?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Losing my mind dealing with Lufthansa over the last few weeks.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ekuber@hachyderm.io ("Esteban Küber :rust:") wrote:

For any project that relies on collaboration, it doesn't matter how smart an individual is if they drive other people away. The underlying technical points might have a lot of merit, but I would not want to use a tool that would have me interact with people like that that would berate me for filing a bug. I would certainly not want to contribute code to such a project.

I am amazed how many people confuse "being a dick" with "having a personality". I hate the "asshole genius" trope because all it's done is convince assholes that they are geniuses, and non-geniuses to think the way to appear smart is to be an asshole.

If you can't communicate effectively ("play well with others"), you're not nearly as smart as you think you are. Smart people know how to get shit done, and the only way to get shit done at a scale beyond what any given human can do on their own is collaboration. And no one wants to collaborate with an asshole.

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

Anyone but DJT.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/22/its-always-someone-elses-fault/

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

I am absolutely obsessed with this. There's something here, I'm sure of it. Thinking about a "so you accidentally destroyed the universe, here's a chance to undo it" module...

https://dice.camp/@periaptgames/116773892429530014

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
periaptgames@dice.camp ("Periapt Games") wrote:

If you were around the tabletop games hobby 20 years ago, you probably remember the infamous game-that-never-was, Tuatara Deliquescence. A product of early forays into crowdfunding, production flared out and the developer vanished.

The project was abandoned. But I have stumbled upon a staggering 63 pages of lost Tuatara Deliquescence development material, from character power cards to magazine covers! You can currently get it for free, with my commentary: https://periapt-games.itch.io/tuatara-deliquescence

#TTRPG

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

this is mainly because i cannot do all of the things i want in any other language yet. and i've stripped back a lot of the design complexity now to the point it probably wouldn't even be awful in C.

well okay it would not be awful by C standards.

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

okay, after much deliberation i am just going back to c for now.

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

Another prime minister?

Attachments:

• video: A lady exclaiming that there's too much politics going on at the moment.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
spacehobo@teh.entar.net ("Space Hobo") wrote:

Here is the full text of The SpaceHobo Conservancy's Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI Systems for FOSS Contributions:

> Don't.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"ooooof" followed by like ten million "f"s

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116794883708372095

I don't think I could say it better

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

I have seen some posts that seem to imply that people's discomfort with code generated by AI is an matter of identity, that is, the threat that outsiders will be able to make code, and thus those in the know, the "elites" feel threatened. That the only way to move forward is to accept that coders need not be experts anymore, and that the role of the software developer will change.

But this is not how I view the practice of writing code at all. I want code to be more accessible and understandable by more people. My complaint with LLMs is that they are actually antithetical to this goal. Yes, someone who doesn't know how to code can now create an app that solves a problem stated in plain English, and it may work correctly most or all of the time. But that is not actually making code more accessible. Indeed, if everyone relies on LLMs to write software, nobody will know how the software works anymore!

As someone with over 10 years of experience coding, I know that reduced understanding of code always results in bad outcomes. There's bad performance, bad functionality, all sorts of things. People get apathetic and assume that the performance issues are inevitable. But computers are absurdly fast! Very few computations these days have any reason to take longer than an instant. The solution is knowing how to read code to find the problems! This can't be done reliably by a machine. I want more people to develop this skill, not fewer! LLMs just allow people to bypass any ability to identify issues. So my concern with them is that we will have more code to sift through, and less careful consideration at play.

This isn't about a threat to my identity, it's about a threat to the stability of all software, and the abilities of all software developers. This deskilling will only fossilize software and prevent us from developing something that is actually more democratizing.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

Well, fuck

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-06-18/panel-of-federal-judges-upholds-ohios-age-verification-law-on-social-media-websites

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:

@gettie @soatok I wanted to publish an article about corrosive societies. Which I think is turning into a worldwide epidemic, where it's the same companies coming to small towns and telling people to either die in a warehouse or be treated sub-human in the restaurant industry. If you can't do either, then somehow it's your fault you can't work. You're mentally ill.. etc..

The reason why I haven't published it is it violates a rule. I have to have a solution.. A way out. Which I'm not smart enough to complete without.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nancycomics@social.miyaku.media ("Nancy Comics") wrote:

Nancy - 2026-06-21 https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/06/21

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

Study finds narcissism the only trait that predicted objections to remote work. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — the more they favored return-to-office mandates. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Monday's the best day to get into Clues by Sam (my favorite daily puzzle game): https://cluesbysam.com

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tinybird@timetheft.social ("max") wrote:

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

Anyone have any updates re the AUR supply chain attack? Has it died down yet?