Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

#quote #books #reading

People sometimes say
That vi(1) is difficult to exit
But I think I'll stay in here
Until it is safe to come out

#vi #poem #programming

Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

Web devs if me blocking ads/tracking cookies/other privacy-invasive nonsense results in me not being able to log in to my account on your site, the response I get back on the "failed" login page should not be:

"An error has occurred. Please try again!"

For that matter stop giving generic errors anyway and tell me what error has occurred oh and also STOP PREVENTING LOGINS IF TRACKING IS BLOCKED

This image has been appropriated by the Better Image Description Brigade.

Maybe we should’ve defunded the police :donki:

@madgeface I didn't know about this! I like Anderson and Cera, so definitely want to check this out now

how far off do we think this is from being the default shell startup on every platform

https://thepit.social/@peter/114601765045842916

oh shiiiii

https://pitchfork.com/news/sly-and-the-family-stone-to-release-unearthed-1967-live-album/

"We are pushing people into more dependencies on big tech and centralized players while taking away spaces for them to build a different path. We are thereby normalizing everything to a white, western, colonial male perspective because that’s what those models are trained on. We are taking away marginalized groups’ opportunities of developing their own language and expression. That’s not democracy, it looks very fascy to be honest."

@tante on vibe coding https://tante.cc/2025/05/23/on-vibe-coding/

A couple days ago I saw a cybertruck in person for the first time and said "eww, fuck, why?" out loud before I fully registered what was happening.

Alternative version of Hackers where someone finds Cereal and asks "Who are you and how did you get in here" and he says "I'm a hacker and… I'm a hacker"

In 1783, nearly 3,000 Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia—free in name, but not in fate. Promised land and liberty, they built settlements from bark and memory, while the empire marked their freedom with boundaries. It is a story of what they built, what was taken, and what remains. #canada #histodons #politics #BlackMastodon #history #photography
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Image: Temporary shelters the Black Loyalists lived in on their arrival in Nova Scotia in 1783. Black Loyalists Heritage Center, NS.

@JackTheCat I wonder if they could keep the sign if they changed the name of their business to "Shame on you, Donald John!”?

Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.

"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

If demanding an industry respects human rights and respects the laws would kill this industry, this industry should have never been created to begin with.

It's okay to let unruly human-rights-destroying industries die.

Innovation at all cost is no innovation at all.

#NoAI

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.