I create software for fun and profit. I'm an amateur urban designer (i.e. I play City Skylines and follow Strong Towns). I live in Dallas, and truly love my city. I like to read history and science fiction. I do my best to follow the teachings and example of Jesus. I once made a web based HyperCard clone.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage (Cory Doctorow in the Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000
Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole
The main reason people aren’t moving to a cheaper place is
You’ve moved to a cheaper place with your remote job. Cool
Your company reduces your salary 20% because of cost of living adjustments (they will).
Cool, now you live in the sticks, make less money. Maybe somewhere you don’t know anyone. Maybe somewhere you’re a minority.
You get laid off, because layoffs
Now you’re looking for a job in a place that doesn’t have jobs, and you can’t move back to California. With a ton more jobs, but harder to move back into.
That’s the real tradeoff.
But some people think success means owning a huge house in a place they don’t know anyone and have no community.
@b0rk I chose “other”. When I started using git, I was the only one on my team. We used svn to manage our code, and I was using git-svn.
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
#Apple2 FujiNet Team here: Because YellowStone does not support Character-based SmartPort devices, it does not work with the network device on the FujiNet, and we can't recommend it for use with FujiNet, until its firmware is updated.
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI", especially given all the boosters and AGI-cult members peddling their nonsense about imminent artificial minds. New from me & Nanna Inie on Tech Policy Press -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI":
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
Sorry for the wait, but Ivory v2.4 is finally available on the App Store! Features support for the official quote posts (assuming your server is running Mastodon 4.5 or later) and we've made big improvements to fetching replies and post metadata in the post detail views.
:appicon_ivory: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/
New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons. With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
@gaghyogi49 Paramount+ in the US has the combined versions of TNG All Good things and DS9 Emissary. So, when they cut the episodes in half (for syndication?) they removed some scenes?
4th Edition Unix in the Browser
#HackerNews #4thEditionUnix #UnixInTheBrowser #WebDevelopment #RetroComputing #TechHistory
@errant 1) what is that device?
2) at first glance, your WM kinda looked like LCARS
If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/want-security-starter-pack
