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How important is it for software engineers to have professional experience?

#EvanPoll #poll

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#PhotoOfTheDay #Photographer #Photography #Story #Prompt #UrbanExploration #Photo

폭룡적 실루엣 #산뽀미치 #고양이

폭룡적 실루엣 #산뽀미치 #고양이

it has been 0 days since i had to resend an email because it had the wrong from: address

i sure "love" email

Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

Link: https://klausai.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337249

Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents

Link: https://github.com/theredsix/agent-browser-protocol
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336171

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/893270/grammarly-ai-expert-review-disabled

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

Thinking about one of the least helpful comments I ever got. In response to someone saying "Well, all this Spritely stuff seems interesting, but will anyone ever really get it? Could any of the things you're working on really take off?"

To which I had said: "When we were working on ActivityPub, it wasn't obvious that it was going to succeed, and a lot of people told me the whole concept of a decentralized social networking spec is ridiculous. And Jessica Tallon and I, who both worked on ActivityPub, are working on Spritely."

To which they said: "Yeah, well lightning doesn't usually strike twice, so is it really likely you'll succeed again?"

Like WTF dude

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기사 포스트 지웠군.. 시바 누구든지 전기 민영화 건들면 주옥되는겨..

경북 성주군 소성리 주한미군 사드 기지에서 발사대 6기가 빠져나간 뒤 중동으로 이동한 사실이 뒤늦게 알려졌습니다. 소성리 주민 등으로 구성된 사드반대 단체는 ‘대북 방어’라는 사드 배치 명분이 명백히 사라졌다며 사드 기지 철수를 요구하고 나섰습니다.

주한 사드 발사대 6대, 3일 반출 확인…“명분 사라졌...

the poor will start eating the rich if they have nothing left to eat. boy, am i hungry

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.

Wiz joins Google

Link: https://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wiz
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336476

The MacBook Neo

Link: https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334293

preventDefault() should always throw a "are you fucking sure?" warning

Neuer Look: Super Mario trennt sich von seinem Schnurrbart https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/03/mario-ohne-schnurrbart.html

제미나이 프로, chatgpt 프로(1달째) 둘 써보니까, 도구로서는 제미나이가 낫고, 가지고 놀기엔 chatgpt가 더 재미는 있고 그렇네. 돈 낼 거면 제미나이. ㅋㅋㅋ;

Lydia has been hanging out with me for #WhiskersWednesday

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

ダジャレで冷却はエコだね

✅ @eurosky.social@bsky.brid.gy has been verified by @bsky.app@bsky.brid.gyBluesky.

キラウエアからの火山灰の影響で昨日のヒロ空港便がいくつか欠航。ぜんぜん知らんかった←

Hilo flights canceled as Kilauea eruption drops tephra, volcanic ash
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/03/11/hilo-flights-cancelled-kilauea-eruption-drops-tephra-volcanic-ash/

Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/are-we-finally-at-the-point-where-phones-can-replace-computers/

Microsoft says you build next-gen Xbox games by building them for PC. My colleagues @seanhollister.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy + @jaypeters.net@bsky.brid.gyJay Peters are in line for Xbox GDC keynote, but look at what they spotted. "Next-gen game preservation" and building for PC for next-gen consoles 👀 www.theverge.com/news/893196/...

How Spartan Women Enjoyed Sexual Freedom Unlike Other Ancient Greeks
By
Dimitrios Aristopoulos
March 7, 2026

https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/07/sexual-freedom-spartan-women/

Microsoft's next-gen Xbox Project Helix details: • next-gen version of AMD’s FSR upscaling • custom AMD chip with “an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance” • alpha versions of Project Helix to devs in 2027 www.theverge.com/games/893119...

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project...

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We announced some 2026 plans recently.

• CoreCLR Editor - 6.8 Alpha
• Experimental CoreCLR Desktop Player preview - 6.7LTS
• Fast Enter Playmode (FEPM) default for new projects - 6.6
• 32-bit instance id -> 64-bit EntityId
• And more!

https://discussions.unity.com/t/coreclr-scripting-and-ecs-status-update-march-2026/1711852

Fedidevs interface is now also available in Galician! Thank you isabel saa for the contribution!

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/swiss_evote_usb_snafu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334982

TIL BBC used to have an "Ethics" portal where they tried to cover moral issues from different angles. It includes pages that claim, among others, that "Contraception is inherently wrong", and this lovely passage on hunting:

• hunting provides human employment
• hunting preserves Britain's cultural traditions
• hunting provides sport and pleasure to many people

The portal is "archived and no longer being updated", but the pages are still up. I kind of see why one would want to have a list of all sorts of arguments, but... Idk, this "we're being centrist in the debates" might be a bit too much for me.

The "There are people who say that Contraception is inherently wrong" page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception/against_1.shtml

network namespaces

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/network-namespaces

Borb, now with color

Hey, Fediverse … Fedi advice needed.

I’m looking for an instance to host an account for my book. I really like .art, but it has defederated a lot of instances so I’m concerned about reach.
I considered bookstodon, but don’t want to CW violence (my book is gothic horror). People like beige, but it feels off brand (see: gothic horror).

So, suggestions?

#AskFedi

おはようございますあそばせ。

My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol by @aksAkseli ​ https://lobste.rs/s/vb7ipx #security #web
https://akselmo.dev/posts/they-broke-my-server/

🎨 Video accounts about #Art & #Artists to follow:

@helenmclaughlin - Painter posting detailed timelapses of how they create their art
@jamesakers - Sculptor of glass, neon, electronics, social commentary
@coreyartusCoreyartus Imagery - Illustrator & painter with long-form & timelapse videos, paints animals, nature, fairy tales etc
@potterybyosa - Ceramic artist & potter
@brandkopfsommerlich.art - Paints & draws realistic detailed scenes & figures, often fantasy themes

#PeerTube

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poodle asking the same question to the tarot until getting the answer she wants