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Last night I went to a 70th birthday party and ended up sitting next to Frank.
Frank used to work as a computer programmer, because this was the 1970s to 90s and people had normal job titles that described real things, instead of "full stack orchestration engineer" or "solutions architect".
Anyway Frank's employer was the Victorian Attorney General's department. He wrote, updated and maintained in-house software for managing the court system, trial documentation managements and so on using low level languages.
The point of this post is that there was nothing special about this period of history that made it possible for government departments to write and maintain their own software to solve their own problems then but not now.
The complete lack of any in-house capacity to do this kind of thing is a political choice. Frank is a reminder of that.
Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.
Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here:
Please don't reward ripoff artists.
If you're at or near Berkeley, mark your calendar -- I'm speaking about my Opt Out Projects this Wednesday from 4-5:30. Register here:
Hi! I'm Kristin. I love to draw. Graphite and charcoal have my heart, but I've been experimenting with digital painting recently. I joined to meet other artists and find new sources of inspiration. #introduction
A little something from the Pacific Northwest.
#SilentSunday #Nature #Waterfall #PacificNorthwest #Oregon #PNW #Photography
Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.
You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.
I'm glad you're here 💝
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/
Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...
Just released a major 3.0 version of SharpYaml https://xoofx.github.io/SharpYaml/ 🎉
Back from maintenance mode, this new version brings significant improvements: Compatibility with System.Text.Json attributes, NativeAOT support built-in, more built-in serializable types supported, faster than ever and full documentation website! 🚀
I had a need for NativeAOT support for a new project, here it is!
Hi, the Mastodons. I don't know how this works yet or how active I'll be here, but I thought I'd introduce myself.
I'm a UK-based female AuDHD adult, choosing to remain mostly anonymous. I'm really just curious about how the Fediverse works - I can be ambivalent about social media but I thought this sounded refreshing in contrast to the big, powerful platforms which feel scarier to me by the minute. I've also been getting to grips with Linux recently, and am thinking about other ways within my limited means and courage to try to be involved with more of the small things that are about moving away from exploitation and towards caring for each other.
Take care out there :)
the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem
ML ethics: here's why including ZIP codes in the data used by a classifier is bad
AI ethics: what if some cryptogod hundreds of millennia in the future gets their feelings hurt by mean posts and decides to invent hell?
AWS Middle East Central Zone (UAE) down, apparently struck in war https://lobste.rs/s/pf4r2b #devops #networking
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
AI is making junior devs useless
Link: https://beabetterdev.com/2026/03/01/ai-is-making-junior-devs-useless/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206663
Hello Fediverse! ⚓
I joined Mastodon because I miss the "old internet" feel where you could actually get to know someone through a long-form exchange. I’m a fan of details, technical specs, and hearing about people's lives from different corners of the globe.
Give me a follow if you like ocean views, boat talk, or just want a pen pal who actually writes back.
#Introduction #NewHere #OceanSurveyor #StuartFlorida #Maritime #LongForm
I joined the Fediverse last month to escape big tech, and wow… I was NOT ready for how awesome this community is.
Hey, I’m Leo! I’m a world citizen from Brazil and I love meeting people from everywhere, especially those who are deeply obsessed with super specific things, from Furbies to geopolitics.
I usually toot in English or Portuguese, but we can also be Spanish or French pen pals. Feel free to DM me anytime!
Less scroll. More soul.
@julian presented a case study on building community from the ground up — making the case for forums over feeds at 
@info
#nodebb #fedimtl #forumsoftware #doomscroll #communitybuilding
One of my favorite things to do here is to periodically browse the #introduction tag and boost new people. Such a simple way to help new people get a foothold and make the #fediverse thrive
こういうの昔から欲しいなあと思ってたんだけどふと老眼には厳しそうって気づいちゃったよね🥺
液晶画面付きのスマートリングがエアリアから、歩数計や心拍数測定・睡眠トラッキングなど対応 - AKIBA PC Hotline!
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/2088965.html
Less scroll. More soul.
@julian presented a case study on building community from the ground up — making the case for forums over feeds at @info
#nodebb #fedimtl #forumsoftware #doomscroll #communitybuilding
You know what? Mastodon and Bluesky are giving me the same no-good shitty feelings that Twitter did way back. I've removed the apps from my phone, sometimes remember to check on my laptop, and don't feel like I'm missing much besides a bunch of existential hang-writing into the sky.
「それにしてもイオスの画像はLレンズを付けるとTheキャノンっていう感じになる気がします。Lレンズを付けると発動するLUTSがファームウエアに仕込まれてるような気がするほどです。」
https://note.com/sugarraymk/n/ne251c1cc0254
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME is a mesmerizing, ethereal 2016 documentary by director Bill Morrison about the 1978 Dawson Film Find, in which copies of hundreds of silent films thought lost forever were discovered under the abandoned hockey rink of an old Yukon Gold Rush town. Morrison interweaves the story of the town's boom and bust with footage from the restored films themselves, tying them together with a haunting soundtrack. The effect is like floating through a dream. I loved it.
Which is why I was excited to discover that a few months ago, Kino Lorber put the whole film up for free viewing on YouTube.
Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
Link: https://glthr.com/XML-fundamental-to-Claude
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207236
"削除された高市早苗コラム（ブログ）の記事をInternet Archiveから収集し、全文検索できるようにしました。"
したのか笑
高市早苗コラム アーカイブ検索 https://sanae-68m.pages.dev/
"These drones are basically being pushed as flying cops, but a cop is not allowed to just take a peek in my backyard whenever they want," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Law360, nor are they “allowed to just be taking notes about what's going on in a private space." https://www.law360.com/articles/2444886
New nail art!
Ah, nice! A local teacher providing lessons on how to make HTTP requests from the command line! 😃
Er, hmm…maybe that's not it actually. Sorry 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg://, I think I got too excited there for a minute! 😅
Long Range E-Bike (2021)
Link: https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165965
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/116149771597152151
This is the first time I have felt like I want to get my nails done
@mcc ARGB? it also has a transparent lighting channel‽ I hope the color order is correctly specified!
@mcc ARGB? it also has a transparent lighting channel‽ I hope the color order is correctly specified!
Gmailの+がRFCに登場してる（と言えなくもない）の以外だった
RE: https://mastodon.social/@stonedonkey/116155173307282248
Mastodon definitely needs something like this. Main reason I don't really like to follow hashtags, even though it's a great feature.
Expanding our Peninsula coverage with #CampaignData for #FosterCity going back to 2024 and updated every other day:
Upper West Side - Riverside Park ❄️
Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference https://lobste.rs/s/furd6t #plt #python
https://pyrefly.org/blog/container-inference-comparison/
new sale, my biggest yet.
"Ok then: 50 pixel fonts for 50 dollars. How about that?"
https://itch.io/s/181080/ok-then-50-pixel-fonts-for-50-dollars-how-about-that
DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
AWS Middle East Central Down, apparently struck in war
Link: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781
Kensington Market
Hello #mastodon friends!
Can anyone recommend how to find older posts you've made? I'm trying to search "scottjenson KEYWORD" but I'm hardly getting anything. Perplexity actually was able to find things better than Mastodon.
Maybe there is a utility app I could use? I'm even willing to download ALL of my posts once a year to maintain my own archive...
Suggestions?
Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
pictures you find when going through your google photos
qman: A more modern man page viewer for our terminals https://lobste.rs/s/zuh3zm #unix
https://github.com/plp13/qman
rob pike
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Danny Garside
Misty
✧✦Catherine✦✧
Foone🏳️⚧️
Andreas Freise
phildini
mike bayer 
Chao-c'
nicole mikołajczyk