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Happy Friday!
"Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers" by Sean Mowbray
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116223577734576821
This "friendly fire" point is really important. I am doing my best (and not always succeeding) to maintain empathy and kindness for LLM users in my critique, but this is *particularly* important for people that I like 75% agree with on LLMs. It's emotionally exhausting but we all *really* need to double down on that effort regardless, because all we have at this point is persuasion and nobody getting yelled at is getting persuaded.
I learned a technique to avoid spending too much time in front of the computer after dinner. Basically, I decided that as soon as I need to go pee, I shut it down. It works. Except then I turn it back on because “just one more thing…”
아. 냉면이나 비빔면을 먹으라고 몸이 원하고있다.
Meta spent seven years telling us they were working on true end-to-end encryption across all their various messaging apps... and finally rolled it out in 2024. And then less than three years later, they're shutting it off for Instagram? What?
www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...
Instagram to discontinue end-t...
豆腐を買おうとしたら買い物リストに毛布が入ってる回 #電話でタイプする回
FLINTA Toiletten wurden geschaffen, um Männer zu schützen
No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/
LLM 비난
와시발 온갖 고객지원에 개 끔찍한 LLM으로 헛소리 자동응답 갈겨대는 거 너무짜증나
I have to confess something: My dayjob is as a build engineer in a very large C++ project with somewhere north of four million compiles per day. On any given day, I'm picking bits and pieces of the GCC or DistCC codebases out of my beard after work.
I've also been using Gentoo as my daily driver for 19 years. And I only set up CCache for it today. And because I apparently hate myself, I put the cache on a CephFS mount. Let's see how that goes.
What I'm listening to today: "Writtin´ Rhymes", Timbaland and Magoo
This album dropped in the aftermath of clique co-leader Missy Elliot's "The Rain" going off like a bomb, and had like three huge hits on it, but basically no track on this album misses so I want to play you one of the lesser tracks that never got radio play. Timb and Missy became such huge multidecade cultural forces it's easy to forget when they were *hungry*, just obscure kids who produced for Alliyah
What I'm listening to today: "The Party Don't Stop", Mia X
This is it: The greatest track No Limit ever created. Their in-house production shop ("Beats by the Pound") as their name implies were all about *quantity*, but when they cared they could deliver pure gold, deliciously cheesy like those cover photoshops. This track is perfect, a joyous block party. And Foxy Brown's here, because like, OK, it's 1997, something incredible is happening, of course Foxy Brown's here.
English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?
Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?
#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui
John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
Link: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/2032460578669691171
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367463
Hammerspoon
Link: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367932
👋 Everyone: see what you think:
The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html
Don't claim that these are final answers - but hope they help continue constructive motion to final answers!
cc: 
@renchapRenaud Chaput 
@dansup
@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 
@scottjenson 
@newsmastNewsmast Foundation 
@andypiper 
@ricmacRichard MacManus 
@evanEvan Prodromou 
@laurenshof @pfefferle 
@fediversenews #fedidev #mastodev 
@timbray
Also: i talk up the idea of #Lemmy and #Mbin and #Piefed and the #Threadiverse in the idea on surfacing content...
Much of that idea was spurred by this from Piefed on it's potential feed format that can pull in multiple other community fediverse acocunts into one feed:
https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/
And would love to hear what 
@rimu thinks of my riffing on this for discovery fedi wide, and if he had notes.
How PieFed federates feeds (aka multi-reddits or multi-comms) - PieFed
Recently PieFed added a way to group communities into collections of related communities, which we called a “Feed”. Unlike Topics, Feeds are federated, can be created by anyone and can be public or private. There are now hundreds of feeds at https://piefed.social/feeds. A feed being federated means that people using other instances can subscribe to […]
join.piefed.social · PieFed
Link author: 
piefedadmin@piefedadmin@join.piefed.social
Valid wife, valid life
👋 Everyone: see what you think:
The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html
Don't claim that these are final answers - but hope they help continue constructive motion to final answers!
cc: @renchapRenaud Chaput @dansup@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 @scottjenson @newsmastNewsmast Foundation @andypiper @ricmacRichard MacManus @evanEvan Prodromou @laurenshof @pfefferle @fediversenews #fedidev #mastodev @timbray
@stefanStefan Bohacek - 👆how hard would it be to create “server bots” as I describe in this? For mastodon you already have json from public feed via API… was thinking it would functionally be a boosting bot like Newsmast community feeds - such as 
@breakingnewsBreaking News Channel but be just for each server’s public posts, with admin moderation, etc
Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or be left out!
— CEOs everywhere.
Valid wife, valid life
Not to toot my own horn as they say but damn this feels rewarding to see the hell thread I started thanks to 
@scan's reveal has resulted in the direct action of Open Source Collective dropping Persona. If we see something that feels off, we need to call that shit out! And this sort of action has results. It works! I knew from the bottom of my heart that I wasn't alone in my feeling of `wtf` when seeing that they were using Persona. And I didn't hesitate to shout into the void of the fediverse.
As someone who’s been maintaining FOSS projects of various levels of popularity for more than a decade, I need y’all to understand one thing: LLMs didn’t change the median PR quality. (1/6)
Marknote 1.5.0 is out and is packed with new features! Marknote is turning into a robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Coming up for Haiku shortly!
Read all about it at: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/
#HaikuOS #haikuports #KDE #Marknote #kirigami #markdown #Notes #opensource #software
実家Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTSちゃん
$ sudo sh -c 'apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y'
:
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnftables1 nftables
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
:
$ cat /var/run/reboot-required*
cat: '/var/run/reboot-required*': No such file or directory
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@poohlaga/116223334615431458
Amazing response from 
@OpenSourceCollectiveOpen Source Collective (OSC). They are dropping Persona now! Your voice has power! Community pushback works!
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/on-kyc-checks-and-persona
おうちUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSちゃん
$ sudo sh -c 'apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y'
:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-6.8.0-106 linux-headers-6.8.0-106-generic
linux-image-6.8.0-106-generic linux-modules-6.8.0-106-generic
linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-106-generic linux-tools-6.8.0-106
linux-tools-6.8.0-106-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev
linux-tools-common
5 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
:
$ cat /var/run/reboot-required*
*** System restart required ***
linux-image-6.8.0-106-generic
linux-base
$ sync; sync; sync; sudo reboot
(-人-)
@karussell That is a great question. They could if they wanted to
Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366666
Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?smid=url-share
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348733
soon nicolium will not have any redux code left. i will probably make a 0.1.0 soon after. 1.0.0 will give you no tailwind, proper multi-account support and the deck.
i want to start doing versioned releases because then i can do release announcements and display changelog summaries in the app
there have been some questions about my tattoo and what it signifies, and what that means for my campaign.
to be clear: it is a product of its time and of peer pressure. i am not the same person i was when i got a full back tattoo of christopher walken's face from the vhs box art of the prophecy.
@sabrinkmannSamuel Brinkmann Did you see the FOSDEM 2026 talks on the fediverse? Specifically: "The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials", runtime 10min, presentation of a short survey done by PublicSpaces
RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/116222097425619053
🎙️ We are hanging out for a few hours. Join via the secret gist or message me for a link to the secret gist.
プロジェクト・ヘイル・メアリーまだ読んでない人はそろそろ読むといいかも!! #プロジェクトヘイルメアリーはいいぞおじさん
I think something useful may come out of all this AI stuff and modern computers may finally be able to catch up with computers of the 80s.
Back when I worked at IBM for a year you could easily orchestrate multiple applications on mainframes using Rexx. It was common for applications to provide a Rexx interface. On other platforms over the intervening years we got things like Applescript and .net and variations but I find those all to be nightmarish. But MCP is pretty easy and now every application and its pet dog provides (or will provide) an MCP port. So finally my dream will come true and everything will be scriptable with actual programming languages and actual documented interfaces rather than hacks (like expect - remember expect?).
(Of course we may be beyond the time when anyone cares about scripting applications like this...)
chat do you wanna see something upsetting today https://github.com/the-last-openocd-fork/the-last-openocd-fork.github.io
寝落ちしちゃったんで風呂入ります
2日目もがんばっていきましょー
I've tweaked the template header, so that I have some fedi bits working the way that I want them.
Now for a bit of css tinkering, so that I can have a minimalist theme with dark mode support...
I'm not sure that I can suppress descriptions on the index page, but I will have a poke around.
I now have a minimal theme, with dark mode support!
It is on a test URL, but if anyone fancies seeing what I'm doing with #BSSG (Bash Static Site Generator), here's where I am so far:
Food, plant based ramen and egg
Tantanmen are my new obsession and I'm happy to report that yes you can make them plant based using soy strips in place of minced meat and vegetal milk for the broth (except for the egg of course)
And it was amazing
@MisterOpenData Gibt es eine offizielle API oder einen Datensatz, der sich regelmäßig aktualisiert, mit dem ich die Feiertage oder Schulferien von Schleswig-Holstein oder am liebsten von jedem Bundesland erhalten kann?
Ich weiß, dass es viele private Anbieter gibt, aber ich habe keine offizielle, maschinenlesbare Quelle gefunden. Gibt es da etwas?
@sabrinkmannSamuel Brinkmann @MisterOpenData Da hätte ich (seit Jahren) auch Interesse dran!
Your phone is an entire computer
Link: https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568
As someone who’s been maintaining FOSS projects of various levels of popularity for more than a decade, I need y’all to understand one thing: LLMs didn’t change the median PR quality. (1/6)
Coding then and now:`printf(` -> `print(f`
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David Lord 
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Ned Batchelder