hmm... why is the greener grass guy taking 12 swa flights in a row "this is our number one requested video by a mile" ah, hazing.

Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement […]

Remember that point in history around 2021 where suddenly there was a rush of supply-chain attacks that were all *VERY* focused on infostealer malware that could detect metamask wallets, specifically? Now imagine that instead of a few threat actors uploading a few scam typosquats, the people who […]

Real talk: the real "supply chain risk" is that you treat your open source "supply chain" like shit and assume that we will all take any amount of abuse from you and just keep doing volunteer labor forever without ever complaining. And, equally real talk: most of us—myself included—actually do […]

One more thing I should add about the amplification farming content: This is the nature of objecting to "labelling" -- as bettridge's law question headlines are to actual headlines that state something, so objections to "labelling" are to objections to actual conduct: they're a sort of objection […]

without amplifying anybody's amplification farming, I'm seeing some goal post movers have now settled on explicitly recommending, for lack of a better description, doublethink about llms in a sense this is actually a win because it means them actually acknowledges the downsides,

LB x2: I don't usually react to "for anybody who remembers X it's time for your back medicine" type jokes, but I just realized I'm a linux user who considers rsync newfangled since it became widely included in distros in the oh so recent year of... 1999.

RE: https://toot.cat/@devopscats/116666391278187359 In a country where police commissioners think politicians answer to them instead of the other way around, this is the kind of three ring circus you get

LB: imagining the parallel universe where that kid from grade school who swears their uncle works at the video game company has a lot of stories about secret areas to avoid if you don't want to get hit with an unexpected compliance audit

LB: honestly i see concept product demos, and just say "that looks so fake", and like i could look up to see if it's a real one from like ces and mwc, but that assessment would still be correct so,,,, thanks, I guess...

LB: there's no 'u' in australian 'labor'

LB: i feel like the existence of that "first class demo" sort of illustrates the tension a startup is always in between actually selling things and getting attention on its projects, even way back in the transition period to modern computing in the early 90s

Weirdos: "Why would anyone learn to code, LLMs can do that now" Actual programmers: "I made a new game for the ZX Spectrum"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rakslice/116383902585132177 LB: related

[Long thread/18] RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116662854380711549 I mean this is all good, you have me up to here, but the trouble is, how do we actually do that supposing it's even possible?

it's possible this gets over the line with revised numbers but for now seems like we're gonna just fail to eke this one out with a 0.1% decline in Q1; is it time to start figuring out my cover of ghost town yet or, https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352

LB: backup singers: 🎶 that fucking pile of shit / never gets it very far 🎶

thesis: "POS terminal" is an example of nominative determinism

LB x2: tl;dr of that thread

and like, even if it wasn't, anybody adjacent to infosec has seen this sort of panic, about a new technology finding lots of previously unknown vulnerabilities all at once, many times before, with SAGE, fuzzing, automated theorem proving, assorted static code analysis tools, automated scanners, etc.

now you get these things where they think it's actually moving the needle on what's possible. but it how it actually performs is it makes an extremely rank amateur into a slightly less rank amateur and that's it.

Thread from the other site: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wzn7wmvxillkzjduk26ifabo/post/3mmy4znjxa22z

LB: honestly i don't know how much people realize that the ~90s move to "off the shelf" (a trend which probably few people understand to begin with) created this situation where you'd have like quarter of a million dollar amplifiers in a rack together with stuff where somebody had the thankless […]

LB: it's not that unusual an interpretation that the sheer scale of the us military and the nature of its recruitment has made it sort of the thing that the us has in place of a social safety net

LB: honestly, as a cis guy with a college technical diploma, i think it's sort of fitting that guys like this say "working-class" as a kind of verbal tic because they don't know who they're talking about but they really hope it's somebody who will buy their bill of goods

Is there any way to make the linux version of discord not leak handles so hard that I don't have to close it after a few hours because all the display connections are in use

LB: with that said we will still be stuck with a lot of bozos when it goes

it's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability

honestly the best thing about the rise of llms, such as it is, is that their industry's persistent "why would we do a minimal amount of integration work to make something that doesn't suck for the stated purpose when we can just believe they will just magically be good enough somehow" attitude […]

LB: this is worth reading even if, maybe especially if, you don't actually care about age verification

LB: looking up the other meaning, that certainly puts a more nuanced spin on that thing that time the folks from allentown

[ageplay] someone just mentioned the word "agere" in a conversation with me and i thought they meant the latin verb "agere", as in Agere Systems. it turns out they did not mean that

LB: i actually think it's been low key like this for a long time, it just wasn't 200% overt on display in public on a huge pedestal like it is now

I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now

Thinking about some discussion of software development and deferral of security considerations I saw go by, I feel like I should whittle away at a thread on a subject: my hot take is that memory safety in software is just another concern in this line, like any other

LB: honestly, so many companies fall into this trap of thinking their customers are gonna keep their employees on task or do their performance reviews for them

LB: I feel like m. machot's moto should have an icier aura, considering

LB: but of course the age verification requirement without this open source exception is already passed and signed into law in california, and this is just a proposal, so maybe hold your horses for a moment let's say it's useful on a sufficiently long timeline to pay attention to which […]

LB: eniko conveys various ways this is dumb and bad, but i feel like should say for context for those who don't pay much attention to the place or contrast its policies with those of other countries regularly, this is very reminiscent of the arbitrary and capricious stuff their immigration […]

LB: i think if we're being honest any og "profit sharing, decent wages, and stock options" were quite unevenly distributed; a matter of degrees as a qualitative difference

LB: in a way it's a bit before my time and known only by reputation, but can you imagine a company ever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as hard as Digital Equipment Corp?

LB: i usually avoid cell data like the plague because it is basically "priced not to sell", but when the fixed line service is on the blink it sometimes seems like a parallel universe where the sociopathic companies behind services actually care whether they are working or not

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/politics-cm931oj8z/-/a-oPIvk4cjQ4-pdE-NXhnUqw%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0 forgive me if I say I'm going to take congress' reassurance for what it's worth given the progress of the war powers resolution

Reflecting more about these, dc's in the middle of high density urban cities that are colossally stupid land use on their face for a facility you could put anywhere on the grid is one thing, but the basic energy use goes with it wherever you put it in the country, and this has me thinking a lot […]

LB x2: it's funny that people who tell you that an soa should be about responding to e-mails fast or whatever don't re-target their quality efforts to suit that goal, they just turn the quality off and go through the motions a minimal amount; it's like mvps: people don't say this because it's […]

LB: like, couldn't happen to a nicer company as they say, but also pressure applied to social media companies can pretty straightforwardly be interpreted as a request to fiddle with things under the current political circumstances

RE: https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/116616933784489377 O rly?

anyway, why i'm reading the gazette is: truly there is no government function that the US doesn't want to fill every opening of with the most clammy-handed racist dubious policy decisions https://montrealgazette.com/news/u-s-bound-flight-diverted-to-montreal-due-to-ebola-travel-restrictions/

it seems wild to find a jurisdiction piloting this functionality for the first time in 2026 which is decades old news in other provinces and territories https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/quebec-health-workers-praise-digital-records-system/

I don't understand some of the people reacting to the ahmadinejad thing in the last hour that was literally news from 2 days ago