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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Medical scares are “fun”, I love them, they jolt so much energy into the very fabric of your being. The best part is when it turns out to be nothing at all, you’re just OLD

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
noy@mastodon.world ("น้อย คงคะดี") wrote:

Adding #sketching / #drawing to #fediverse

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

⌨️ I have created a plain text mirror of my site. It uses less than 1.5kb of CSS, and has no JavaScript, colour, fonts, or images. I designed it for terminal browsers and legacy hardware.

https://plaintext.brennan.day/

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

"ready to go live, any final issues?"

me: "yeah sorry lads i fucked it trying to update a wordpress plugin"

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Headline Writer Hit By Subject-Object Confusion, Unable to Tell Who is Responsible for Layoffs and Who They Happened To.

Boosted by pixxl:
MollyNoise@shrike.club ("Molly Noise") wrote:

if anything it most reminds me of the aesthetic smear that is windows 11 - things changed for the sake of changing things and made worse in terms of usability for the sake of an imagined someone who just started using a computer *today* and needs everything wrapped in more layers of plastic

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Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sebastian@phpc.social ("Sebastian Bergmann :phpunit:") wrote:

In an article he published in July, @andrewnez explains the size of npm dependency trees with the resolver.

In PHP, the resolver is ultimately the engine itself: one name, one definition, one version per process.

That is why PHP trees stay small, and why PHPUnit's PHAR has to rename its dependencies:

https://phpunit.expert/articles/one-version-per-process.html?ref=mastodon

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Omg I just ran into Mark Bodē.

jwz wrote:

JFC, Xcode 27 is pushing the AI bullshit *harrrrrd*. There are 3 or 4 preference checkboxes for "No AI plz" but they barely do anything. Every single compilation warning has a little sparkle-icon where you can ask the plagiarism machine to drop a turd onto the deprecated method you were calling. You can't make it go away, at all.

"In Xcode 27, agents are becoming the primary way to interact with the coding assistant" -- eat my fuck you goddamned traitors.

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over. https://anildash.com/2026/09/29/facebook-fake-out/

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

So apparently bluesky has an anthropomorphized Torment Nexus account, which is pretty much on-brand for there.

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

Average open source experience on GitHub in 2026

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Yeah ok, Rust looks ugly, but have you seen a Perl one-liner after someone's been awake for 36 hours?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
senil@gts.social.senil.me ("Senil 🍹") wrote:

Job hunt is going SWIMMINGLY (sarcasm). Going to just put this out there again to refresh things now that it's been... a while.

Trying to #GetFediHired as some form of controls/automation engineer in the #Portland metropolitan area - I've done a decent bit of work with SEL and Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLCs, with some support for manufacturing at my latest job and helping upgrade an old controls system from Allen Bradley to SEL Axion PLCs at a hydroelectric plant. Open to pretty much any field related to electrical engineering. If you happen to be in the Portland metro and know someone who knows someone (or you are that someone), shoot me a DM here, via Signal (SenilTheSynth.16), or email (linked on my website, which'll get updated soon).

I'll have a loose resume on a page at https://sean.howland.cc later today, just kind of a highlight reel of the general roles I've been in and what I've done. Please reach out to me or just. Send shit my way if you know of anything. Fully aware that my kind of job can't be readily done remotely, at best some degree of hybrid would be nice but also 90% of what I've done and will continue to do will inevitably be in-person or hybrid but on-call.

I will state that I have not taken the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an EIT, however I have the materials to study and can at least make my first attempt prior to hiring (soon... if I can get the money to pay for the fucking exam fee) or shortly after starting. Can start basically as soon as background checks and all that clears.

Update on: https://gts.social.senil.me/@senil/statuses/01KFF2YQTY1HK8W3HF5D85NTCS

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

One of my favorite things is when someone becomes obsessed with a craft, no matter how trivial, and makes it their Thing™. This guy was one of those people.

https://blakewatson.com/journal/polyhedral-dice-showmanship-and-loss/

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
winter@translunar.academy ("Winter :flagLesbianBreizh: ") wrote:

@bartholin @izzy people who think engineering is not art is one reason for all modern infrastructure being such a shitshow

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
izzy@social.shadowkat.net ("Izzy :powerpc_transbian:") wrote:

programming is art actually and I'm perplexed that this is apparently not a widely held position

I would compare it to writing fiction, you can write fiction in an adequate way to get a paycheck (see average pulp sci-fi) or you can get really weird with it. pour your whole soul into it. agonise over it for weeks. use it to work through some shit.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

3rd "oops I installed omarchy without knowing how much of a piece of shit DHH is" this month and I am still kind of at a loss for which distro to recommend. I think I'm going with Silverblue because "slop-free" does not seem to be an option but at least I can recommend something immutable?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Oh hey, apparently earlier this month The Register cited The Futzing Fraction. That's neat. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/01/insider-red-hat-is-capping-devs-bot-budgets/5292620

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

wooooo go Canucks!!!

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

@ramsey @atax1a @catsalad Ultimately there's just not going to be a way past the fact that LLMs are a machine for lying, and that means anyone who would create one is going to be, by nature, a liar

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

"These things are good at generating code" is a phrase that makes me think that you do not review the output of the code generating hell machine.

For example, Muse's had a shell script who's usage example is (working from memory of @jonny 's thread) `print_home_dir.sh ` that was literally just an `echo /hard/coded/dir`...which is just consumed by several other shell scripts in the environment, and included a big "AND NOTHING ELSE" in it. It's peak stupid.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why did mastodon change the mapping of the 'enter' key on the alt-text edit box to mean "delete all my alt text"? I would expect it to either mean "insert a newline" or "save my alt text"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed from LinkedIn and only you can access it."

Big tech is more and more mask-off every day.

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

The main unprivileged body of a Space is not supposed to access the filesystem. This is enforced by.... regex

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ml@eldritch.cafe ("Megan Lynch") wrote:

🚀 Boost, baby, boost! #Introduction

Disabled activist & always-learning horticultural scientist currently looking for a PhD gig in the EU, NZ, or Canada. Expertise in almond bud development and carob.

Founder of UC Access Now, speaker on anti-ableism and accessibility, especially in the worlds of academia, science, hort/ag, and cycling.

Interested in folks to collaborate with on fruit breeding, agrobiodiversity germplasm conservation, plant tissue culture, horticulture, interdisciplinary work between STEM & humanities, and other projects, including a podcast launch.

Too many interests to fit in this toot. 🚴‍♀️ 🍏 🌳

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

The #FSF comments on Newsom's executive order on so-called artificial intelligence: https://u.fsf.org/4cn #California #MachineLearning

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk ("Dr Tess Machling") wrote:

There's nothing that says women can't work gold. So many people roll their eyes when I talk about 'craftspeople', not 'craftsmen'.

But this is why...

There's female goldsmiths with their own marks in medieval London, so why not earlier???

I can't tell you how much it makes me chuckle with glee to see this finally being recognised in prehistory!!

P.s. still not 100% convinced on the shaman bit though - let's have a closer look at some of those supposed decorations... cough... *burnishing*

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/14/ancient-dna-analysis-reveals-upton-lovell-shaman-was-woman-wiltshire

... and if you want to know about the tools *she* was buried with, it's all here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/materials-in-movement-gold-and-stone-in-process-in-the-upton-lovell-g2a-burial/3BBA3D012898FA68D9F35EA27478BE03

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

A New Design: Tradition, Rituals, and Astrology

https://brennan.day/a-new-design-tradition-rituals-and-astrology/

#religion #spirituality #ux #webdev #astrology

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Geri@veganism.social ("Totts") wrote:

How much did #netanyahu know about the #Oct7th attack before it happened?