(ekstremalna herma) a wiecie, że werblan jeszcze żyje?

if you're not an american and this toot makes sense to you, i'm terribly sorry. https://circumstances.run/users/mawhrin/statuses/115249461032003208

lolsob: while working on jumping on the white supremacy gravy train, shaun king decided to pivot to antisemitism.

is there any movement on the ruby/rails side to properly distance themselves from dhh yet?

jakie młode ludzie mają zajebiste stylówy!

having to run a corporate windows desktop again (after five years break) makes me appreciate my quirky linux setups even more.

(Nazi On Rails? Just Say No.)

so after reading a bit about the way the rails foundation is structured and the trademarks governed, i think the way to go is a hard fork on both project and organisation level. of course there's also the option to do nothing and stay the pet project if a literal nazi. #rubyonrails #dhh […]

the last moment to stop using american tech infrastructure approaches quickly and we're so Not Ready for it.

the nice thing about having public healthcare integrated with other governmental services is that you get notified of a free referral when the covid vaccine gets available, and scheduling the covid vaccination requires just a few clicks in the web or mobile healthcare app. (one can, of course […]

what's the ruby on rails project reaction to david heinemeier hanson going full fascist mode and publishing white supremacist screed with a side of transphobia? what's the reaction of projects using ruby on rails?

david james cleary, the bloody sunday murderer, goes to trial

[russian drones in poland, again] sooo eastern poland had first actual drone sirens today. how did our oh so great government react, what alert did they send? "Threat of air attack. Exercise extreme caution. Follow the instructions of the authorities. Await further communication.". does it say […]

This is why I believe we're going to need better tools for reading and exploring codebases "Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier […]

i see the author of the ice cubes mastodon client (thomas ricouard) is still having temper tantrum because the gotosocial devs don't allow llm-generated or -assisted code. it's a long week of showing how much does he not care about it, for sure.

should i really explain the importance of context to a lifelong programmer and book author with a widely-read blog?

every time someone says that it's impossible to stop using widespread technology with visible useful results, whole industries built on top of it – and causing irreparable harm to people, i have one word in reply: asbestos.

you wouldn't believe the amount of racist crap the _de nomine_ catholic polish tv trwam is feeding to its viewers. (you probably would though.)

A good coat is a good coat, no matter who is wearing it.

happy thirty fourth, #ukraine and here's to the hope the future improves over the last few years.

It's today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ribbon_Day

the best way to be awake at five in the morning is, when you have ADHD, to not fall asleep at all. hello from the other side of the saturday

Just learned our friend and the entire #dance programming staff was fired today at the Kennedy Center, despite being in the midst of unionizing. Please make noise about this as this is a blow to the entire national and international arts community. #kennedycenter #union #unionization […]

is there a nice way of telling friends that if i wanted to talk to confabulation machines, i would have done it without a go-between?

‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth crisis in Ukraine #Ukraine

Just a periodic reminder that Forgejo, the software that powers the open-source GitHub alternative Codeberg, has been working towards implementing federation. https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/ Might be worth contributing, if you have the time and skills! #forgejo #codeberg […]

so i got a new polish id card, which includes the e-id functionality. does anyone know if it can be used for user authentication in linux (i'm talking PAM here specifically). (note: there is govt-supplied software available for using the electronic signing functionality etc., but that's not […]

if that puddle was a dog, it would've been an extremely good boy. https://gram.social/p/Alice/863807701219715760

Exposure to "AI Assistance" lowers doctors' ability to diagnose cancer just after a few weeks. "AI"s main effect on people is skill decay. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

did a quick look at the infamous simon peter's “wayland & redhat are the source of all evil” github gist, and – lordy – the right-wing radicalisation of the anti-wayland crowd is a real thing. seems that embracing x11libre somehow helps with accepting and embracing x11libre's maintainer […]

This is a very good thing! And it will be available for other browsers to use. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/crlite/ #firefox #certificates #revocation

(i'm terribly sorry to say that, but neither systemd nor freedesktop are conspiring against you or your system.)

In Malaya, they put almost half a million people, mostly Chinese, in what were effectively concentration camps. For more than a decade. https://www.thevibes.com/articles/opinion/100970/chinese-new-villages-were-british-designed-concentration-camps-kua-kia-soong

it seems i'll be visiting stuttgart in early september – any recommendations for a very quick sightseeing bouts outside office hours?

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

firefox users: because mozilla are confabulation machine-brained wankers these days, remember to set both `browser.ml.enable` _and_ `browser.ml.chat.enabled` to false, because the first doesn't affect the second.

What is your favorite ship name from the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks? Mine is the Offensive Unit named, in small print, "I Said, I've Got A Big Stick". #books #bookstodon #sciencefiction #theculture #iainmbanks

My #froscon keynote video is now available https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3407-ai_slop_attacks_on_the_curl_project

(cheese is always an option)

AI scraping volume is centralizing the web by making "hosting a website" as difficult as "hosting your own email". even if you are fine having your site crawled, the scrapers are so aggressive that you basically need to use a CDN or tool like Anubis or be able to serve millions of req/day

Napisałem krótki tekst z okazji 7 rocznicy zamachu terrorystycznego w Charlotesville, niestety obawiam się że zeitgeist i social media tak działają, że ataków z użyciem samochodów jeszcze trochę zobaczymy w przyszłości. (Oraz bardzo polecam podcast Weird Little Guys, Molly Conger robi kawał […]

for our kind readers, reporters and correspondents from fosstodon.org, please read our server rule #7 before using the reporting interface and act accordingly. it will spare the time of our moderators. i'm repeating the server rule #7 verbatim for your convenience: > Addendum: we're following […]

an irregular reminder that justine tunney is a technofascist

so I read things like an article about experimenting with using coding agents to generate useful code, and i can't help but wonder, what am i missing here? i see the whole experiment as an utter failure, what aspect of the experiment can be even qualified as a partial success?

Neurotypicals: "Just break big tasks into smaller steps!" ADHDer: breaks task into 108 micro-steps, gets overwhelmed by the long list, abandons task, start to research road building in the Roman Empire for 6 hours. #adhd

(also “calling people NPCs is normal gen-z language”, lol no, but it tells me very precisely what particular communities you frequent, my nazi-curious dude.)

the primary failure mode of lobste.rs website moderation is that you can be as nazi as you want there, you just need to be polite about it and pretend you're not a political animal.