Hip Hop and Breaking are at a deep level about fully inhabiting the space you're allowed and filling it with life and a kind of bare metal truth.

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

How is there no rendition of Carmina Burana out there that's sung in Klingon? It feels like a logical choice for a fun choral experiment.

@ahl saw your DDD course here https://learning.oreilly.com/live-events/domain-driven-design-first-steps/0636920436867/0636920051628/ -- and i see the examples are just java + C#. would you like some help making a Python version?

by the way, the confusion in my partner's face, eventually replaced by an indescribable look of total, existential, disappointment is giving me life right now.

If you're using LinkedIn and you're in Europe, you definitely want to prevent Microsoft using your data for training whatever crappy AI they are cooking. Just say no! #ai #linkedin #eu https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

This is a helpful and frightening perspective on why Americans have such different views of who Charlie Kirk was. Screenshot from FB; original poster's name is in the screenshot but I'm not typing it because she might not want it searchable outside FB: "One thing that […] [Original post on c.im]

Test doubles expose design flaws in the code. Developers usually tend to respond to the pain that this induces by blaming test doubles instead of interpreting these signals as an issue with the design. If solitary tests are amplifiers for design flaws, then […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you are a member of Github's "maintainers" community (AFAIK this is invite-only but I suspect many folks here are likely to be included) please also register your displeasure here: https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/594 Boosts appreciated assuming you are a Software Person […]

Adobe Acrobat is now a 709MB download

if she’s your girl then why does her leitmotif intertwine so delicately with mine

got some changes to the "git-rebase" man page merged into Git, hoping it will be a bit clearer for future people reading the docs https://github.com/git/git/commit/e345b776f6bdbc48b54f80f2bb990caf36a95a48

Growing up poor, I decided that I never want to live like that again. I bought into the work gospel: work hard to get a degree, get a nice job, be a productive member of society. Well, that doesn't work for anyone. You get this temporary safety buffered by income and savings. I'm not them […]

Someone I respect wrote this: "Because network and attention trump everything. People understand how difficult it is to get attention" -- and I was sad to read it. We've capitulated to the worst people because we can't understand that honor and integrity matter more than attention. Or should...

❝ AI researchers know LLMs can't plan. The planning community has written papers about it. But here's what nobody had connected: LLMs are literally solving the mapless traveling salesman problem in token space. ❞ https://fluxus.io/article/why-your-ai-never-works-on-the-first-try

Has anyone seen those Coinbase ads in the tube? I saw one at oxford circus. The pitch is "can't afford to buy a house? get into crypto!" and boy i'm deeeeeply uncomfortable.

I Deleted My Second Brain Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

Claude code kinda-sorta recommends #tdd: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices#:~:text=b.%20Write%20tests%2C%20commit%3B%20code%2C%20iterate%2C%20commit missing the refactor step, but still, well done @anthropicai , partial credit! Lines up with what I'm planning to […]

Got distracted by looking for the Most 1980s Song Ever and one theme is that is every 1980s music video ends with you saying "what the HELL did I just watch".

This is a hill I will die on: there was a turning point of the net, unnoticed by nearly everyone, that laid the ground work for the global political fuckery and rise of fascism we live with now. It went unnoticed by most of the world, a totally inscrutable event. But everything changed after […]

the pure unbridled neurodivergence of some British urban explorers is a delight, to be honest source: @schurke8112.bsky.social via shrewsburyfromwhereyouarenot.blogspot.com/2021/09/shro...

What's the best book about the Luddites? asking for a friend...

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

One last push: The peertube app campaign is just €7000 away from it's €55,000 target, and 2 days to go. Surely there are #fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better […]

Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website 🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them 🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]

Putin: What happen ? FSB: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Putin: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Putin: It's you !! Zelenskyy: How are you gentlemen !! Zelenskyy: One-third of your heavy bombers are belong to Ukraine. Zelenskyy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Both #yandex and #meta used obfuscation techniques to hide that the traffic occured and/or that the apps were listening to these requests: ➡️ Meta traffic was using #webrtc, which does not show up in the browser's developer tools ➡️ Yandex traffic looked non-local ➡️ Yandex apps started […]

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

what do people recommend as an introductory #javascript book these days? it used to be "JS the good parts" but that's presumably too old now?

Y'all ever see those "utm_" parameters in your web logs and on social media URLs and wonder wtf "utm" stands for? It stands for "Urchin Tracking Module" and comes from a web stats analysis product made by "Urchin Software Corp.", which Google bought around 20 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way (they kind of know Python, CPython, and its internals well 😉): Eric Snow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowcurrently/ Irit Katriel: […]

Happy bats in the margin Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

"the difference between an LLM and a rubber duck is that the rubber duck knows to shut up when it has nothing of value to say." -- @david_chisnall (tyvm, may reuse) https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/114494746307179113

"So, to me, Project Xanadu is a case-study in why designers must mock-up and prototype their designs before too much is invested in them. Xanadu wasn’t the victim of “Worse is Better”; it was just a solution in search of a problem." https://gwern.net/xanadu

"It is well known that LLMs have hallucination problems, but they are nothing in comparison to the hallucinations of Internet commenters." I doubt I'm going to read wiser words today.

A wider angled shot of the huddled Mallard Ducklings with their mum. #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling

Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these […]

https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html how to deplatform your website #html #javascript

#Genocide #freepalestine #Gaza #israel

who do i know that's used #UpCloud? @danielquinn#upcloud? @carlton ? interested in experience reports...

I haven't seen much on Mastodon about what the #nypd are doing in #bikenyc to criminalize cycling, so I'm going to start a thread to chronicle it. Under the direction of the embattled Adams administration, the NYPD has started writing criminal court summonses for six traffic infractions when […]

the good thing about spending 6 months working on writing a zine about the terminal is that when I just saw this error message: $ rm * rm: illegal option -- b I could just pause for 5 seconds, think "oh, right, I guess I have a file that starts with -b for some reason” and then just run "rm -- *"

*Bribing random Telegram loners to go set fire to stuff https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/these-people-are-disposable-how-russia-is-using-online-recruits-for-a-campaign-of-sabotage-in-europe

[bodily fluids, unusual behaviour, can't unread, hilarious] couldnt just rt this one cos it's too much but i am in tears. https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114449075848056840