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Acorn A4000 Keyboard (1992)
Favorite Photo: The HTV-X1 cargo craft and the Canadarm2 robotic arm by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2rY9jFr
매우 개꿀잠단ㄴ
Some cities are dumping Flock thanks in part to pressure from communities and Flock's own shady practices.
"many city officials have realized after the fact that they were sharing their data more broadly than they had known, and that federal agencies, including U.S. Border Patrol, had searched their data." #flock #alpr #police #surveillance
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
Link: https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-to-use-their-brains-not-ai-to-write-homilies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119210
Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/%C3%B8yvind-kol%C3%A5s-interview-ww2017/
The second in a series of interviews with the GIMP team, this time with core developer Øyvind Kolås, also known online as Pippin.
See also https://pippin.gimp.org/
#GIMP #softwareDevelopment #libreGraphics #LibreGraphicsMeeting #GIMP3 #GEGL #interview #gratuitousHashtag #programmer
Lol, most of these impressions were on a post I made about why you maybe shouldn't verify your LinkedIn account.
Every time I see someone saying “Oh no, I missed the CFP deadline”, I can’t help thinking about all those features in Python or Django that were deprecated for years… and then someone is shocked when they finally get removed. 🫠
Weeks of announcements. Years of warnings. Deprecation messages in the logs. And still: surprise. 😅
Maybe warnings and deadlines only become real the day after they expire. 🪄
Armin was once one of the most prolific programmers in Python. Says he never writes code anymore. Seeing more and more people like him write stuff like this on what are supposedly computer programming forums. https://lobste.rs/s/qmjejh/ai_is_slowly_munching_away_my_passion#c_jcgdju
Notably, once a person crosses this threshold, I see them still hang out on programming forums, but they never talk about any of the puzzles of programming anymore. Only about running agents. Which feels strange and sad. Why hang out on the forums at all then?
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
I have my fifth graders write a program that will convert decimal numbers to Roman numerals. They know that there are already webpages that do this with smart trim programs that always give the right answer. They know they could ask an LLM and probably get the right answers most of the time.
They still want to solve the puzzle.
"It works! It works!"
I've love hearing that when I'm teaching.
Ok, i voted, can i please stop getting a dozen text messages per day about this now
If NAT is security, double NAT must be double security! 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
if ROT13 is encryption, double ROT13 must be double encryption!
😁
コーヒーのせいか、あんまり寝られなかった
We can have negative zero, as a treat
@gugurumbeVivien (toujours dans le déni) I'm not saying people *should* use it for summarize and explore, I'm saying that's a different category of concern, if done with a local model.
However, I'll also point out you were trying to debug LaTeX, which I would argue is a nearly impossible task no matter how many resources are thrown at it ;)
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber My XKCD-style password is so strong you can’t crack it: “undefined reference begin document”
Feeling FOMO about AI? Well here's my advice!
Stay on top of what's happening. Which doesn't really require *using* the tools. Just see what people are doing.
Whether or not you do use it, stay a practitioner. And don't fall for the FOMO.
Your career won't end because you're not making the choice to use AI. (If your employer makes you use it, that's another thing.)
If you use AI, use it for "summarize and explore" tasks. DO NOT use it for *generate* tasks. That's a different thing.
If you want to differentiate yourself, *learning skills* is the differentiation space right now.
These things are easy to pick up. You can do it whenever. But keep learning.
If you see generated examples, don't paste or accept them. Type them in by hand! The hands on imperative: actually trying things congeals core ideas.
And if it doesn't help your career... well, your consolation prize is: you'll stay interesting.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Also, don't use it for "summarize" because it literally can't do that.
https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/
ございます
@renchapRenaud Chaput 
@jerryWary Jerry You might be on to something here. There are a vast number of smaller orgs whose websites are getting positively swamped by all kinds of content scraping activity, much of it to build out LLMs. There are real and direct costs, and this is an important and seldom highlighted one.
@briankrebs @renchapRenaud Chaput I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc
What Is a Centipawn Advantage?
Link: https://win-vector.com/2026/02/19/what-is-a-centipawn-advantage/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077358
TIL that GitHub Approval SPAM is a thing, and I don't see a way to deal with it without blocking the user.
Also, #GitHub is done. Again. Because it's Monday and I finally got to open a pull request today.
Harlo and Sam discuss the important privacy and security work she does every day alongside and for journalists, and why it’s only becoming more crucial.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-privacy-under-pressure-with-harlo-holmes/
えっ!?マジ...？ ほんの数分、外に出ただけでクシャミが止まらないし、目が痒いのだけど...急に花粉きてる
we just released #flohmarkt 0.16.0
it comes with new shiny things such as OAuth2 support, a redesigned item page, a new HTTP caching middleware for better cache busting and a ton of bugfixes!
Many thanks to everyone involved, first and foremost 
@midzer and 
@ProfpatschBeady Belle Fanchannel
Get it at https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/releases/tag/0.16.0
Steve Klabnik also had an interview on lobste.rs. There's a lot in it! It's a cool read! https://alexalejandre.com/programming/steve-klabnik-interview/
And then it gets to the AI part and he's just like "oh I don't write code anymore".
And notably Steve Klabnik has a lot to say about code, but it's *all in the past*.
Lots of brilliant people are becoming non-practitioners.
Feeling FOMO about AI? Well here's my advice!
Stay on top of what's happening. Which doesn't really require *using* the tools. Just see what people are doing.
Whether or not you do use it, stay a practitioner. And don't fall for the FOMO.
Your career won't end because you're not making the choice to use AI. (If your employer makes you use it, that's another thing.)
If you use AI, use it for "summarize and explore" tasks. DO NOT use it for *generate* tasks. That's a different thing.
If you want to differentiate yourself, *learning skills* is the differentiation space right now.
These things are easy to pick up. You can do it whenever. But keep learning.
If you see generated examples, don't paste or accept them. Type them in by hand! The hands on imperative: actually trying things congeals core ideas.
And if it doesn't help your career... well, your consolation prize is: you'll stay interesting.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/116121840547051962
AI psychosis is such a huge problem already and it will only get worse
you stop talking about programming because you are content to not program anymore and let your ai agent do it
I stop talking about programming because I am buried in paperwork and desperate to program again and want nothing more than to do it
we are not the same
gpg --quiet --decrypt --no-tty --for-your-eyes-only
8. 사수자리
物知りで情報通の友人がキーパーソン。ＡＩに聞くよりも役に立つ回答をもらえます。すぐに相談してみて。
ラッキーカラー：ゴールド
幸運のカギ：ヒップホップ
지식이 많고 정보에 밝은 친구가 핵심 인물입니다. AI에게 물어보는 것보다 더 유용한 답변을 얻을 수 있습니다. 바로 상담해 보세요.
행운의 색: 금색
행운의 열쇠: 힙합
7. 양자리
何事も勢いに乗ることが大事な日。迷ったら直感を信じましょう。作業は下準備を念入りにすることが成功への近道。
ラッキーカラー：ネイビー
幸運のカギ：ハウツー本
어떤 일이라도 기세를 타고 나아가는 것이 중요한 날입니다. 고민될 때는 직관을 믿으세요. 작업은 사전 준비를 철저히 하는 것이 성공으로 가는 지름길입니다.
행운의 색: 네이비
행운의 열쇠: 실용서
I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it
You, consulting a magic eight ball: signs point to no. Definitely yes. Reply hazy.
Me, consulting sixteen magic eight balls simultaneously and validating their answers against tested, non-magic right balls: 8.
Some cities are dumping Flock thanks in part to pressure from communities and Flock's own shady practices.
"many city officials have realized after the fact that they were sharing their data more broadly than they had known, and that federal agencies, including U.S. Border Patrol, had searched their data." #flock #alpr #police #surveillance
Some more lichen detail from the wooden seat outside the local shop. I think there are examples here of crustose (grey crusty one at the very bottom with raised plateaux), foliose (blue-grey lobed one on the lower right that looks like waves in a storm), leprose (powdery yellow one in the bottom right corner that's growing on something else), and fruticose (grey-green branched one top left) species, all in one shot.
These are growing between two of the slats forming the back of the seat, a shadier and more protected spot than the previous post which was of part of the sitting surface of the seat.
#LichenSubscribe #MacroPhotography #Photography #Nature #Lichen #NaturePhotography
Why am I unable to part with any freaking kind of cable whatsoever?!??? Arg!
Armin was once one of the most prolific programmers in Python. Says he never writes code anymore. Seeing more and more people like him write stuff like this on what are supposedly computer programming forums. https://lobste.rs/s/qmjejh/ai_is_slowly_munching_away_my_passion#c_jcgdju
Notably, once a person crosses this threshold, I see them still hang out on programming forums, but they never talk about any of the puzzles of programming anymore. Only about running agents. Which feels strange and sad. Why hang out on the forums at all then?
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber i miss the good old days, when people stopped writing code because they burned out and never wanted to go near a computer again
You, consulting a magic eight ball: signs point to no. Definitely yes. Reply hazy.
Me, consulting sixteen magic eight balls simultaneously and validating their answers against tested, non-magic right balls: 8.
Jobsuche
Hey Fedi!
Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem neuen Job (80%).
Ich will interessante Probleme lösen. Wenn das am Ende Mathelastig ist - I'm in! Wenn das Linux Treiber schreiben ist - call me! Wenn das Software Entwicklung ist - auch gut!
Ich habe die letzten Jahre hauptsächlich It-Administration gemacht. Kann mich guten Wissens als Linux-Expertin bezeichnen, habe einen ganz guten Bezug zu Netzwerk-Themen und kenne mich mit Docker/Podman aus.
Ich habe solide Programmiererfahrungen und komme auch mit Low-Level Kram (Embedded, Linux Treiber, etc.) gut zurecht.
Eine große Stärke ist die Analyse (und Lösung) komplexer Probleme sowie meine sehr schnelle Auffassungsgabe.
Also falls bei euch aktuell jemand in Darmstadt/Frankfurt/remote gesucht wird, gebt gerne Bescheid :)
#getfedihired
Girl on the train with a denim jacket with a sewed on panel of Judith slaying holofernes (artemisia version): please be my friend
18 maart kun je kiezen voor een gemeente waarin iedereen gelijk behandeld wordt. Ongeacht wie je bent, van wie je houdt of waar je vandaan komt ❤️
Kan dat? Natuurlijk. Moet je alleen even op ons stemmen 18 maart! ✏️
Sagt mal um diese tolle halbe Milliarde Microsoft beim Bund Debatte; hat irgendwer mal rausgefunden was da eigentlich genau gekauft wird? Was die wirklichen Kosten für einen Arbeitsplatz sind? Wieviel davon vermutlich wirklich völlig nutzlose MS-SQL Lizenzen sind? Wieviel davon sind Azure Kosten? Wieviel irgendwelche Anpassungen? Wie hoch ist der souveräne-Cloud Zuschlag?
this is absolutely doomer shit
if "databases" turn out to beat "climate change and environmental degradation" to the punch as the best candidate for a great filter, i guess at least it's kind of a funny punchline.
今夜も頑張った…そろそろ寝ちゃいますね…！
いいこともあったし、明日もまた頑張れる…！
それでは
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Chris Siebenmann
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
좌표 밖 땡스 
Paul Cantrell
Dr. Anna Latour
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