The problem with always being on the cutting edge is that you're never quite sure whom that edge will cut.

OH: "So much of neoliberalism involves burning your furniture to heat your landlord's house."

@futurebird You don’t need to be an expert to know war is evil and to say so and to be against it, you just need to be a decent person with a solid moral foundation.

He admits it, it was never about drugs, it was always about Element-710 https://archive.ph/2026.01.03-220141/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela

I had really hoped 2026 would be a big improvement on 2025, but this proves 2026 took just 2 days to prove me wrong https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115827646863388901 Sadly, an important thread for 2026.

When I see supposedly responsible Software "thought leaders" post shit like "It's everybody's responsibility to move fast" it makes me wince. It's like saying "It's everybody's responsibility to carry a firearm". Yes, possibly. If you're in the Army, maybe. But for the vast majority of people […]

RE: https://agilodon.social/@thirstybear/115791254461438511 Those people who think programming was ever about typing should be relegated to only management positions, where they can do the least damage.

It took a while to finish, but I thought I'd better get it out before the end of the year: The Chi Problem https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/1044e924a43f3f465b0c903b63b91b39

Sometimes I really wish there was a 'dislike' button.

I have been told by an #audiophile that I should only use pure silver speaker cables, otherwise during a full moon my woofers may turn into werewoofers.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633 Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115772541068141219 Think carefully about the use of #llm and #generativeAI and how they financially strangle and silence artists and writers, and how this advances the causes of fascists. Even if you do find some benefit in using #ai, ask yourself whether it is worth […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/115759307049951565 I mean, this is what bugs me about the incessant "What can we learn about Software Delivery from F1 teams?" Nothing. The answer is Nothing. You don't have a multi-million pound R&D budget. The engine of your business needs to last longer […]

RE: https://c.im/@matdevdug/115753332641139246 Although both are technically cars, to consider them as comparable in any realistic sense is a category error.

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that 'it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.'" This is a post about #ai #llm […]

Learning any practice based art or skill from videos is like trying to learn swimming from videos but without ever visiting a pool, lake or the sea. When you fall in the deep end, no amount of video lessons are going to help.

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called: “Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of […]

@pachli Why oh why have you disabled the soft buttons at the bottom of the screen (particularly the back button) when an image is clicked on? (full-screened) The only way of going back is now to touch to bring up the overlay and hunt for the back arrow in the top left, which is often hidden in […]

TFW the consultancy that you work for sends an @everyone email titled "Introducing our Enterprise Architecture Service"

Some people say LLM code generators really help them, a smaller dissenting group say that LLMs are not worth the time to use because they generate crap and the person can do a better, faster job themselves. There's a lot of argument about who is right and who is wrong, and much mud slinging […]

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission: "I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." […]

My "read something on the Internet on mobile in 2025" workflow: 1. Click link to page 2. Get page full of ads, popups, cookie notices... in horribly unbearable layout, font sizes, colour schemes etc. 3. Touch browser menu icon 4. Touch 'share' button 5. Touch 'copy to clipboard' icon 6. Touch […]

Good morning

"It’s extremely rare that the brilliance of a “brilliant jerk” overcomes the damage that comes from them being a jerk." No, it's not 'rare', it's non-existent. I've seen plenty of jerks who thought they were brilliant, a very very small number of jerks who were actually brilliant, and precisely […]

You do use git commit --gpg-sign, right? https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/115627105180868176

The 'S' in 'NPM' stands for 'Security'.

It seems when you click on an image to make it full screen in the Android #mastodon client, clicking the back button now no longer takes you out of full screen and back to the original post, instead you have to click the tiny X graphic, which is sometimes hidden. This strikes me as an […]

"72% of Millennials would happily have an agent shop for them today" Don't bother. I'd rather not get anything from you if you can't even be bothered to think about buying me something I'd actually like. You could even, you know, talk to me? #noai

Great piece about the use of dependency cooldowns like distros do as an organizational security system. https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns #security #devops

One of the all time great bug stories: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415

I disagree with the author on some points, but they are on the mark with understanding that #llm pose an existential threat to #opensource https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/11/17/llm-oss/

If someone says something in public, and they are wrong, it is quite okay to gently point out to them their mistake, and quote sources. This is not 'bullying', this is correcting a factual error. Accepting gentle constructive feedback in public I would argue is a part of being an adult in a […]

So much work right now to remove something (in this case Rancher) that was originally added to the system because it adds a layer of abstraction over a thing (K8s) because it was thought we would need something that could manage multiple sources (infrastructure providers). Instead the thing […]

Sometimes you meet a person who is moderately famous on the Internet and spend some time talking to them, and they seem like perfectly nice, sensible, reasonable people. And then, months or years later, they go publicly off the rails, and you think "Did I just not see them for who they really […]

PSA: When you are thinking of a name for your product or open source project, please please please do a search first and see what results pop up. Because if you've picked the name of a well known thing, then you're a) just making it harder for your customers to find what they need, and b) you're […]

I saw a new exhibit of some of hiroshige’s 100 famous views of edo today and this one stopped me in my tracks

No. Just fucking no. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger

Because things are so different in America? https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/115565682135844904

Apple customers, fashion victims - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn97ndgpnq7o

My issue tracker, zero LOC and zero person-hours: `issues.md`. https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/115561193061266262

PSA: The answer to "too much cognitive load in your legacy codebase" is not "make someone else deal with it". Yes, this is a post about shitty teammates or managers, but it's also a post about #ai too.

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Security is but one axis of NFRs. By definition, if you have a problematic lack of security, you have a quality problem, because security is a subset of the total system qualities. https://infosec.exchange/@boblord/111364179503219142

Any time you hear people make a dismissive reference to "DEI," take a moment to reflect on what that says about their character and values. Apparently they're opposed to the very idea of diversity (vs. homogeneity) or equity or inclusion. (Or else they just mean "I'm a racist bigot.")

One would have thought that the logical successor to the Honda CR-X would be the Honda CR-Y?

The one and only reason the heroic train guard was there at all to save so many people's lives was thanks to the resistance of the magnificent RMT to driver-only trains.

So, the original was: "The theory was that if you had a million monkeys banging away at a million typewriters you would eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this is not the case." https://ohai.social/@redsad/115465169355314751