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Jack Jackson

scubbo@fosstodon.org

<p>Engineer at Vercel. He/him.</p>

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    @losttourist &amp;quot;Don’t ship before you walk out the door on *any* day.&amp;quot;

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    When you get a pedantic correction from a FOSS maintainer: https://hackaday.com/2025/06/28/open-source-knob-packed-with-precision/

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    🙄

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    Extremely bleak that the comically-overpriced &amp;quot;combat healthcare&amp;quot; in Cyberpunk 2077 costs within an order-of-magnitude of standard American healthcare.

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    It&amp;#39;s surprising there aren&amp;#39;t more dating apps explicitly catering to poly people, since they&amp;#39;re the only demographic for whom &amp;quot;successfully using the app&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#39;t lead to &amp;quot;deleting the app&amp;quot;.

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    Just had an important NAS drive die. Test your backups!

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    Ok, time for a social media break. I am already keenly aware that: * America is a fascist shambles * AI, often (not always! but often), was sourced, and is deployed, with paltry regard for creators&amp;#39; rights or for long-term sustainability (of product quality or of the environment), respectively I can do very little about either of these; but what I can, I am. Being reminded of them does not spur me to greater action, it just pushes me into despair. I hope for a happier time when I can...

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    I&amp;#39;m still 99% Not On Social Media (and much happier for it), but thought it was worth acknowledging here (as I have already done on my blog) that my opinion on AI coding tools have one a full 180 since I was last posting. When used judiciously and with appropriate safety tooling, they can be an enormously powerful lever. (The valid concerns about intellectual property, capital accumulation, and environmental impact, persist - but I cannot and will no longer say that the tools don&amp;#3...

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    Wake up babe, Godwin&amp;#39;s Second Law just dropped