"The Copilot Delusion" by Jj https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

"You’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."

Infinitely quotable. I wish I could write like this.

If you're looking for a #Pocket replacement, give #Obsidian Web Clipper a try — it's open source (MIT) and works with any app that supports Markdown, not just Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/clipper

Nope.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2025/5/22/will-donald-trumps-golden-dome-protect-america

#betteridgeslaw

It's a grift unlike anything I've ever seen during my nearly sixty years in politics.

“If you ever needed evidence that Trump is phoniest of phony populists, here it is. He's not even bothering to lip-sync anymore.” https://open.substack.com/pub/econjared/p/ive-seen-a-lot-of-budgets-but-this?r=lw1uu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

@eniko how so?

We crossed the borders from Netherlands to Belgium to Luxemburg to France today with only the road signs making us aware that there is the (imaginary, human-made) border at all.

I don't want to live, again, in a world where there are more borders.

You don’t YOLO emergency response. Having a bunch of incompetent, unqualified, know-nothing dude bros in charge of our nation’s emergency management is going to kill people. It is going to kill people this year. Some of those people will be firefighters. Some will be medics. Some will be law enforcement. Some will be citizens needing help. People will be put in harm’s way, safety protocols will break down, and people will die.

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

@mcnado seriously. The clown in chief is really trying to outdo himself with this one. Most likely a bribe to his cronies * cough * Elon * cough *

No dictator worth his self preservation salt will attempt to attack the USA directly.

Now doing it from the inside... Or waiting for them to implode and then collect the pieces.

Nonetheless, doing anything against that wouldn't be shiny and golden.

#AndroidAppRain today brings 16 updated and removes 1 app: Infinity for Reddit was removed as it was not fully FOSS (no offense to the dev, but that branch the APK was built from is not public).

How did we figure? Well, ALL attempts to achieve #reproducibleBuilds failed, as the commit the APK was built from could not be found. That's what we mean when we say RB proves it's build from that exact code, with NOTHING ADDED or taken away.

So: enjoy your 46.1% RB apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo!

@eniko
Tech bros really thought, "We haven't had an immense, incomprehensible force accidentally wander through our reality, completely unthinking, unfeeling, and/or uncaring as to the human suffering it leaves in its wake... and that's a shame. Let's create that ourselves."

hello, #gnome friends! @sri has posted a call for participation in the upcoming @Endof10 campaign. everyone is welcome to help out by joining #endof10-en:kde.org but if you'd specifically like to be on the promo team, reach out to me or @sri on #engagement:gnome.org!

https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2025/05/21/call-for-participation/

@mcnado it's what Jesus would do! Oh wait... We're just pretending to be religious, right?

@eniko this morning, in fact.

guarantee you everyone who boosts this has cleaned up cat vomit at some point in their life

@brook ugh. I hate mosquitoes.

Sometimes the stupid really does hurt.

"Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly asserting that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-deportations.html

@deobald a conversation you never thought you'd have, or one you hoped you would never have? 😉