I asked the old punk
about the reports
of social media companies
ramping up on censorship
and after a moment
the old punk replied:
we need to remember
the only thing
we can rely on,
the only thing
we can truly rely on,
is each other.

Bruce Springsteen's new song released today - Streets Of Minneapolis.

"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free."

Lyrics are at the YouTube site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w
#UsPol
1/n

> A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision

(1979 IBM training manual)

https://werd.io/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/

Sure, Tim Cook is throwing Apple under the bus and kissing Trump’s ring this week, but don’t forget that a few months ago Apple also removed the ICEblock app

@maddy
I remember Reduce, Reuse, Recycle being everywhere in the 70s, but as I got older fewer and fewer people I met seemed to know what I was talking about, especially as Big Recycle got loud.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order!

The new CTO, started today, has decided that I am not necessary for his plans to introduce AI into the software development cycle.

I guess that’s me on the job market.

- 35+ years experience
- Ops: AWS certified, bare metal, VMs, containers, IaC. No k8s.
- SWE: DDD, TDD, architecture, design, OOP, backend or frontend
- Typescript, Python, PHP, Go, Java
- Django, FastAPI, MySQL, Postgres, Ansible, Terraform and others
- In my last role I reduced delivery from 6-8 weeks to a weekly cadence with fewer bugs by introducing acceptance tests using Playwright, units tests with TDD, the Ports and Adaptors pattern to isolate and test business logic, a Kanban board to improve flow, and humanity into the daily standup. I mentored junior developers, started a weekly book club, and ran workshops to elevate the quality of the entire team.
- I am currently reading Frictionless (Forsgren, Noda) and The Real World of Technology (Franklin)

#AI #fedihire #softwaredev

What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

Update: DuckDuckGo at least has fixed this issue, likely thanks to some folks making a good kind of ruckus! Still, I hope this has informed people how much of a pain Bing can be with this kind of thing in general.

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

@catsalad
Friend. Nice friend.

If not friend, then why friend shaped?!

Can we start a radical optimism thread? Because I need a #radical optimism thread. And I think you need a #radicaloptimism thread.

News. Quotes. Music. Thoughts. Whatever.

I'll start:

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." --Angela Davis

If this gets any traction, please boost, especially the replies. You and I are not the only ones that need this right now.

There is something deeply satisfying about watching Temuera Morrison hit someone with a stick

Also please note, white people are doing the most *visible* work right now, because it is not safe for others & because Minnesota has a whole fucking bunch of white people.

But these are collective efforts & mutual aid. There are POC *all* through this. You are not going to effectively organize in any city without POC.

And as Apollo reminds me, you should never underestimate the restorative capabilities of fresh sambusas.

I've solved about 20 traffic photo Captchas so far and I'm still getting new ones to solve.

Should I:

@Em0nM4stodon
In order to encourage my robot overlords I generally randomly select answers for the first 3 or 4 goes.

here's a question that i don't have an answer for that i think is a little bit concerning:

let's say you're building a linux distro. (i've built a small linux distro in the past. not just a toy, it got put into production eventually. like, a hardware production line)

if you want your distro to be buildable regardless of what happens with your upstream (network outage, raid, sanctions, whatever) you need to have a mirror of everything you're using to build an installable image or set of packages. that's quite a lot of storage.

if you're using a centralized system for it (maybe it's github, maybe it's codeberg, doesn't matter which one, only the concentration of resources does), then this storage is amortized among everyone who uses it. if, instead, we are in an increasingly decentralized world, then everyone who wants to do such a thing has to mirror the universe themselves.

how high is this cost? and is it justifiable? people worry about carbon impact of CI (rightfully, I think) but what about the carbon impact of decentralization itself? to what extent do we accept it because we can't, or won't, trust each other to not fuck large organized projects up?

@artemis
I am absolutely grateful for the resolve they've shown and the example they've provided. And as much as I'm saddened by the cost, I hope it gives the rest of us the capacity to stand up when our time comes.

@lightweight
I must admit I miss home, but I'm not sure that I could return. Sure, a lot of that is family, but each time I come back I get a bit worried about where the pākehā middle class are heading as well.

The land, though, and the sea, still magical and inspiring and I miss them.

Last week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possibly can.