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• Post #4018705

  getting exposed to average cis society's opinion of trans people in sports again is... depressing. i'm sorry, we gotta ban cis people from talking about trans rights & sports

• Post #3992560

  how god damned fascist-pilled does an organization's management have to be to switch _to_ twitter in july 2026 #mozilla #firefox

• Post #3969727

  it seems like the overarching mission plan in tech ATM is: 1. use AI to burn out the domain experts 2. ??? 3. profit

• Post #3868621

  im starting to think wonko the sane is onto something

• Post #3842125

  You know something? The reason so many developers have gotten taken completely in by LLMs is actually the same reason so many CEOs have: LLMs flatter the ever-loving shit out of you, and a lot of software engineers have egos the size of a planet. That's it. The robotic yes man is a highly addictive drug to people who are wanting to be told they're smart and clever and right about everything.

• Post #3841814

  you know. we should develop software slowly. we should actually take our god damned time to make it good. ai is slotting into a world that has software changing constantly, and promises to help us do this even more, but it's literally promising the wrong fucking thing. we don't need to get faster at making changes, we need to get better at not making pointless changes. good software hardly needs to change at all.

• Post #3780994

  have i ever said how it sucks that literally saudi arabia has been buying up interests in or outright control of things all over the video game industry? because it does

• Post #3706847

  today i found out... a) the more ergonomic wrapper for curl i'd used every now and then, httpie, somehow became a fucking startup and got a whole GUI project around it and millions of dollars of funds and WTF b) and of course it's promised AI integration. for some reason. i must stress, this isn't even as complex as postman. it is _literally_ curl but slightly nicer, particularly for poking ad-hoc at REST APIs.

• Post #3076116

  one thing the rsync thing is revealing is that the whole “rely on the sense of responsibility of some clever guys from decades ago” model of open source software maintenance is crumbling under load, and some people are seeing LLMs as an out

• Post #1969815

  wishing the inventor of the @everyone mention in discord a very "literally experience a reply-to-everyone email chain every work day of the rest of their life"

• Post #1879102

  Eh; let’s do another post. Hi friends, I am currently looking to get a job that will sponsor a visa for a US citizen. My primary skillset is in the land of SRE, devops, and related modern-ops things, but I also have some experience doing full stack dev w/ Typescript and even skill with C and C++. I know some Rust but don’t have formal experience there. I’m looking for a gig in any country that looks safer for trans people than the US right now. I currently only know English (native) and Japanese...

• Post #1798057

  i think as a species we should ban two-stroke lawncare engines. and destroy them all, in a single great spectacle. a moment of unity, to celebrate the end of the dread beasts.

• Post #1539508

  Watching a cult take over your industry is very distressing.

• Post #1539507

  well. AP-NORC has him at 33% approval. on the one hand that's still too high, but on the other hand, in the context of american politics jesus christ, he's heading for bush and nixon numbers, and perhaps more importantly... the floor broke. his _loyal supporters_ are leaving.

• Post #1314941

  RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116421779159583503 "fuck you, make me" is always the correct answer to fascists. this is a simple truth that apparently is hard as hell to teach

• Post #1187841

  one of the many horrifying things of the onset of vibecoding is the degree to which it empowers the guys out there who think they have a totally great app idea, and just need someone to make it. you know, the ones every single person who touches computers in any capacity has met? the ones with an idea that no doubt either already exists, or would be utterly impossible to do correctly, or has horrifying ethical issues, or just straight up is a bad idea? yeah. those guys? those guys adore being ab...

• Post #1187840

  ended up looking a little at the laura croft remaster collection... oh no it's got AI scaling on the textures and the cutscenes. you can turn it off to get the vintage crunchy graphics, but that's the default. and not only is it AI graphics scaling, it's _circa 2024_ AI graphics scaling. why... why did they _ship_ that? it doesn't look like high-end graphics, it looks like an amateur "high end" texture pack -- that is to say, like ass!

• Post #1187839

  The primary job of many, many white collar roles is to say "no, that's a bad idea." That's why we invented the "yes, that's a great idea" machine! Oh, fuck.

• Post #1187838

  oh right. i feel depressed because my estrogen's currently "i'm YOLO DIYing to tide me over" tier out of wack

• Post #1187837

  today i found out that one place i lived in growing up actually is in a photo on wikipedia but then it's just a photo with literally the entire town in it

• Post #1187836

  things i am learning: yes, oral estradiol is in fact bad for my migraine situation huh, it may also be bad for plenty of other shit joy

• Post #1187835

  having seen what MCP _is_ i'm shocked it took this long commentary limited because migraine but tldr: MCP is a generic API for machine use of all the things (okay...) oriented around LLMs (um...) that has a fundamental assumption that you're giving the LLM the precise set of perms you do (... excuse me?). this is not a thing designed by someone who knows about the word "security" and so surprise there's huge CVEs in something using it! https://www.blee...

• Post #960857

  i swear i didn't forget my meds, but it feels like i'm having a bad trigeminal neuralgia day today anyways

• Post #960856

  remember, friends: if you hurt and could eat, you probably should eat. it might not make you stop hurting but at least then you'll be fed

• Post #960854

  I really hate how much of American politics comes down to, not, “what must be done”, but “how do you drag political leadership kicking and screaming into even acknowledging the scope of the problem we face”

• Post #960853

  so i have a neat usb cable tester now. two questions: 1) should i get a label maker and start labelling some cables with their stats where non-obvious 2) should i make a hall of shame of cables i have that are frankly silly or overtly evil (e.g. usb A to A cables, data only cables, cables with bizarrely high value resistance?)

• Post #960852

  it's neat how many people have suddenly gone "hooray moon" in the past few days i think people are kinda grasping onto things that feel good whenever the opportunity presents lately

• Post #803111

  birthday girls shouldn't have severe joint pain

• Post #803109

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@pierogiburo/116291129998046072 honestly? let's go back in time and, instead of killing hitler, kill zuckerberg. not even for facebook per se, just for the phrase "move fast and break things"

• Post #803108

  tragic fact: mind-effecting prescription medication is, in fact, mind-effecting