@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 12:39:39
How does an NFL player decide to retire? 'I'm not done' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47985245/how-does-nfl-player-decide-retire-im-not-done-stories-second-chances
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 12:39:39
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-20 21:59:46
With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick
@joe@toot.works2026-02-21 18:08:53
This is how my weekends usually go:
- Get the laundry done
- Get the dishes done
- Get the dogs to the dog wash
- Get the groceries done for the week
- Do something that brings you joy
I'm always surprised when I get to that fifth item successfully.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-21 15:38:29
This cruelty is being done in our name.
Shame on this administration. Shame.
13,000 third country deportees so far.
Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier,
but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
https://…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-20 18:33:38
"Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits states from using military force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, except in self-defence or with UN Security Council authorisation, a principle long understood as central to international order.
None of these legal thresholds were met in the case of the strikes on Iran."
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-04-20 12:41:34
What's best
BEFORE
Take an hour to write a script, run it, take 5 minutes to validate the results. Done
NOW
Take 5 minutes to write a prompt, run it, take an hour to validate the results. Done.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-20 21:33:50
With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-04-20 23:19:41
Tim Cook accidentally retiring because autocomplete corrected “I’m doubling down on being CEO” to “I’m definitely done with being CEO”
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-21 15:41:22
The obvious answer is copyleft-type licenses.
(1) Has anybody done legal analysis on that beyond the obvious? I don’t think LLM training on copyleft code has been tested in court yet…? (Even LLM training on more restrictively licensed works seems to be surviving court challenge….)
(2) Are there copyleft licenses (i.e. “derived works must be similarly licensed”) out there that don’t have the Stink of Stallman on them? Or is GPL v3 still just the way to go despite the smell?
2/2
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-20 14:22:46
Robin Vos has finally done something good for the people of Wisconsin. He’s announced his retirement. The announcement has brought joy to so many.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-21 14:35:51
Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a $24M seed led by Eclipse (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/exclusive-humble-freight-autonomous-truck-eclipse-tr…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-21 00:09:35
Very proud that my state's done this.
Washington state bans all law enforcement - including ICE agents - from wearing masks while on duty | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/washington-bans-masks-ice-agents-b2942919.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-03-20 20:54:23
California city reports ransomware attack as LA transit agency finds ‘unauthorized activity’
https://therecord.media/california-city-reports-ransomware-attack-la-metro
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-04-21 01:50:58
#MapleLeafs
Outside my bedroom window.
It’s been an extremely dry winter, only a few inches of snow since the beginning of Fall. Lawns are mostly brown except where some watering has been done, but grasses are hardy and can withstand the dryness better than trees, especially nonnative varieties that are all over the place. I haven’t paid attention to when leaves have appeared in previo…
@ripienaar@devco.social2026-03-21 06:17:48
Shed Office nearly done \o/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-21 18:24:11
1. Put your jacket on to walk the cat. Recall that you were supposed to fix the stitching.
2. Carry the jacket to your room to take care of it as soon as you're "done with this shit".
3. An hour later, notice the jacket lying next to you. Well, you'll manage to stitch it before the bath time.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-20 10:37:46
In my head I'm just replacing "counter insurgency" with "horse cavalry."
"We're going to keep learning how to leverage horse cavalry against machine guns and tanks until we get it right."
No. No you will not. You will keep trying until you learn the hard way that it can't be done.
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2026-04-21 16:55:42
Just picked up 16 A1 sheets from the printersI Will be putting up in the Community Centre this week to celebrate the local magazines 50th Anniversary, I volunteer creating it with a small team of editors and a huge team of locals who deliver it to their neighbors. Not done any display work for quite a few years and it’s all come out great!
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-20 20:35:08
A few colleagues at universities across the country recently launched a group for discussing teaching - "patisseries et pédagogie," they're calling it - and invited me along for the ride. We had our second meeting today. It was great. Unsurprisingly, many of us have the same concerns. Equally unsurprisingly, some have come up with interesting approaches for addressing them. I wish we'd done this years ago.
Start your own group today!
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-03-20 17:21:37
“Yes hello, I would like to wait ~2 minutes for you to generate a code change I could have done in seconds with the built-in refactoring tool of any modern IDE” is truly a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-20 16:24:37
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: Well done, Jenna.
VILA: I thought we'd had it that time.
JENNA: So did I.
VILA: Cally, I could murder a relaxant. Any chance?
CALLY: It's for medicinal purposes only. You know that.
VILA: This once?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/46
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-04-20 18:53:08
Toronto cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine.
What can organizers do?
https://www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-showing-up-to-arts-events-about-palestine-what-can-organizers-do/
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-03-21 14:20:58
The fundamental problem of expecting "the Market" to solve problems appears clearly:
‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
https://www.theguardian…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-03-21 14:20:58
The fundamental problem of expecting "the Market" to solve problems appears clearly:
‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
https://www.theguardian…
@kctipton@mas.to2026-02-21 06:54:19
Content warning: Spoilers for #astrid S5
I’m nearly done with S5 of #Astrid on #PBS (Walter Presents).
I don’t like how the writers are being lazy about what I thought would be bigger issues: Raph’s pregnancy and Tetsuo returning to Japan. They made both go away in about 30 seconds each. I expected better.
Also a little too much Astrid ‘woo’ as i…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-18 19:21:56
I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-20 14:00:07
Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-02-19 22:21:58
@… what have you done
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-04-20 08:04:04
Day off today. I’ve done some journaling, and now I’m working on post-processing photos from yesterday’s Spring Gathering at Brooklands. The urge to indulge in my mistress keeps interrupting me, though. She’s very demanding. I’m already on my third. I’ve added a photo of her.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-21 17:38:41
The green markers represent all the potholes the city filled in after I reported them.
I've done a lot of improvements to Lisbon Avenue. I'm not sure if this section is set for replacement... if not, they'll continue to hear from me.
#mke #milwaukee
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-20 16:16:09
"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-20 19:47:47
@rokku@soc.saiyajin.space2026-03-21 12:53:10
migrating nameservers is always fun. the main part is done, but i cannot change the gluerecords to the new ips at #dynadot. now i have to open and wait for an engineer to look at it sigh
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-02-20 17:05:53
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-22 01:33:22
Western car manufacturers are making what one former boss calls a
“profound strategic mistake”
as they pull back from electric vehicles (EVs) and refocus on the combustion engine -- just as oil prices are soaring once again.
Experts say the industry’s future
– and that of tens of millions of jobs
– could be on the line.
This time, however, the threat is from China.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-04-19 19:25:57
Content warning: NZPol the Neoliberal Approach
We've seen this coalition Government taking funding away from social services so that they lose viability & therefore public support, which *makes them easy to sell off* to private interests. We've done exactly the same with our natural environment. Especially our rivers. Exploiting the commons for the private benefit of a few individuals. It's all part of the same human neoliberal disease.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-17 07:09:31
#WritersCoffeeClub 17 Apr
Can plots which hinge on a misunderstanding be done well?
Oh, don't go there!
Especially romance plots. Romance plots based on misunderstandings are such an old, done, burned, cliche.
Unless you're a much better writer than Jane Austen, don't do it.
Just say NO!
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-21 16:49:43
OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-02-19 16:13:06
Well, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-19 08:20:52
Barb: 54% of all YouTube viewing in the UK is on a TV set across all demographics, making the streaming platform a "significant part of the UK's AV ecosystem" (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/youtube-televis…
@lornajane@indieweb.social2026-03-19 08:49:00
Delighted to have managed to get myself to #Monkigras this year! I have only done one previous Monkigras event and it was life changing, so who knows what this year will bring!
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-17 20:55:09
I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-17 20:55:09
I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-17 20:55:09
I’ve been using idioms like
find . -name \*.foo | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.foo}.bar; done
for decades. Now I’m preparing an exercise where students are to rename all files that do not end in .txt; so something like this should do the trick:
find . -not -name \*.txt | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%.*}.txt; done
Except... ${f%%.*} is empty! ${f%.*} works, but why!?
Finding the obvious took me an hour… And why do I only stumble upon such things when preparing exe…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-19 21:42:04
from my link log —
Linux CVE assignment process.
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/02/16/linux-cve-assignment-process/
saved 2026-02-19
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-02-19 12:21:03
Donald Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/101eb9c7-18f5-43e2-97eb-3fa1cf28f213
Archive https://archive.ph/DlT49
Trump wants AI, but it is getting harder to get that done...
Via @… on Bluesky
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-13 00:47:14
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: *dances around*
8yo: "mm"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
14yo: "which stickers are mine?"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: "Over here with mine. Don't touch mine, though."
me: "HEY [8yo] ARE YOU DONE WRAPPING THE PRESENT??"
8yo: *dances some more*
me: "Okay, I'…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-03-20 17:25:18
Oh phew, someone else on the team built a “Slop Detection” “skill” for the LLM so now it will magically stop being a statistical model and instead be a statistical model with ✨ slightly different inputs ✨.
Thank you kind stranger, I couldn’t have done it without you.
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-21 10:18:23
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Martika:
🎵 Love... Thy Will Be Done
#NowPlaying #Martika
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-21 13:22:39
Just email someone. I always like it when people email me about some weird blog post or project I’ve done.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-15 20:51:15
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince:
🎵 Love… Thy Will Be Done
#Prince
https://toadstoolrecords.bandcamp.com/track/youth-large-love-thy-will-be-done-martika-prince
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 22:11:26
Javonte Williams, Cowboys agree to 3-year contract ahead of free agency: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7062761/2026/02/21/javonte-williams-cowboys-contract-nfl-free-agency/
@jake4480@c.im2026-04-18 17:41:01
I've met so many of you since I last talked about it, so maybe I should briefly mention music I've done. I recorded a bunch years ago & was in bands years ago but haven't recorded much but demos for many years. Some of these are rough. Some more polished. These are me. Wrote (minus covers), sing, play bass, sometimes regular guitar on all. More eventually? Maybe.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-18 17:57:37
Needed to do some errands, wanted to do some sports and had a stiff neck ...
So .. drive to the nearby shop and cycle afterwards before it's fully dark?
Or .. why not have a ~30-40 min quick walk to the shop and back?
Errands done, had physical activity, I feel relaxed and I didn't have to drive ...
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-18 11:01:16
Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31dWsRj9tVhI4YolO-4zzIE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p18#a260318p18
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-19 01:38:39
"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-02-19 16:41:43
@… I appreciate what you’ve done here
@mikebabyak@musicians.today2026-04-18 14:18:28
Seven days to go in our kickstarter and we’ve done it! We also recently received a little funding directly so we’ve got mastering, artwork, CD manufacturing all covered! Might even manage some vinyl. Release date late May.
If you’re local to the Triangle area in NC the release show is Sunday afternoon June 21 at the Community Church in Chapel Hill. Time TBA.
#acousticmusic
@sproid@social.linux.pizza2026-03-20 02:50:20
The Beekeeper movie is a great action film but is also a mixed bag of values making it a bad movie. Ends up being not a good vigilante movie, not a good anti-hero movie, zero suspense, wasted conspiracy potential, unapologetic copying and badly done trope of the 'John Wick as the boogyman for bad guys'.
I understand movies that just try (and many times succeed) to be mindless action movies where the plot is not the priority. But the Beekeeper movie does try to have a moral mes…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-04-17 08:12:07
Has anyone done a test implementation of https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html yet? Is there any open example code?
I'm wondering how many Kbity of flash space I might need
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-03-14 16:15:28
"To confront the Iranian regime was to walk, with a lit match, towards a tinderbox soaked in gasoline. If it were to be done at all, whether by military or other means, it had to be done with the greatest care. But Trump has blundered in, crushing and trampling all before him, making a bad situation worse. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt."
@drbruced@aus.social2026-03-18 07:14:19
First batch of #hotcrossbuns for the season. Some work to be done on my cross technique #baking #sourdough
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-03-20 11:38:42
It’s another pleasant sunny morning. I’m enjoying a coffee on my break. In just over three hours, I’ll be done until the 30th.
There was a a nice sunrise, but it was quite chilly. It’s warmed up somewhat since then though.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-03-18 15:59:54
Trying out Jules, a coding agent from Google that is similar to Claude Code. But it's all hosted: you use a web UI to talk to it, it checks out code from GitHub and runs it in containers. And it operates asynchronously, you give it tasks and it comes back 5-15 minutes later with work done. I like it quite a bit, but there's a question whether the Gemini models are as good for coding as Claude.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-17 06:21:03
Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. https://nos.nl/l/2602799
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-18 00:55:43
vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
#uspol
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-20 01:20:18
Pathetic. They've done that before; shouldn't be allowed.
Oregon Senate Republicans end one-day walkout ahead of transportation referendum vote • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/19/repub/oregon-senate-republicans-end-one-day-walkout-ahead-of-transportation-referendum-vote/
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-04-18 22:48:18
I'd prefer to ask the community this than search haphazardly - what is some good (ideally freeware) software to capture your computer's screen and audio? Embarrassingly I've somehow never done this until now. But just in case there's any interest out there, I'd like to share what's going on with released music / the software side of my work sometimes, and not just piano improvisations. :-)
@mlncn@social.coop2026-04-17 14:54:16
i know it is hardly the worst thing Mozilla has done to the community but after the SpreadFirefox campaign (an early "high profile" #Drupal site!) driven by a huge swath of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community lo so many years ago it feels like a punch in the face to not have a single mention of ditching Windows entirely as an option on the Firefox page about Microsoft ending W…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 06:34:13
Smith-Njigba: Believe I deserve to be top-paid WR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47992564/seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-believe-deserve-nfl-highest-paid-wide-receiver
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-20 01:31:01
Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, is released on $10K bond from ICE custody following her arrest on March 4 during a traffic stop (Jonathan Mattise/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/reporter-ice-ar…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-18 13:26:13
OK, I'm done. I'm too stupid to program computers today.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 22:09:31
Javonte Williams, Cowboys agree to 3-year contract ahead of free agency: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7062761/2026/02/21/javonte-williams-cowboys-contract-nfl-free-agency/
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-18 17:08:08
After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-18 17:08:08
After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-03-18 17:08:08
After getting the teaching done, I coulda, shoulda… But my energy levels are so low :-(
🪫
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-04-16 22:20:59
@… we’ve* all done this, I think
*I… I have done this: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight/issues/93
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-04-18 16:09:10
We had our dryer vent blown out yesterday. Not quite 3 years since the last time. Our vent’s only got about a 20-25 foot reach, and horizontal, but it still coughed up about a basketball-sized bolus of lint dust. If you have a dryer in your home, when was the last time you cleaned it out, or had it done? Distinct fire hazard as it fills up. It’ll also work more efficiently afterwards. #PSA
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-20 01:47:25
The U.S. economy is more distorted than ever.
The widening gap between corporate profits and average workers
— between capital and labor
— helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.
Consumer confidence is in the basement.
The gap was widening before Trump was elected. It explains in part the rise of MAGA and why Trump won in 2016 and again in 2024.
But Trump hasn’t done a thing to alter these trends.
In fact, …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-09 13:30:44
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-14 18:15:38
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Young Kulcha:
🎵 More Work to Be Done
#YoungKulcha
https://fruitsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/more-work-to-be-done
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hwmou2XydBZzb3GYZGbX6
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-18 21:33:50
So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-19 22:46:37
@… It is done - Went to Costco just now and they were still in stock 👌
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-19 14:25:17
I really need to start making my own vanilla extract...
Any tips from those who have done it?
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-17 06:20:55
Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. https://nos.nl/l/2602799
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-04-17 18:51:30
I was planning to get some research done today. Instead the past 6 hours have been non-stop admin.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-18 04:17:33
ICE activity seems to have been relatively quiet the last couple of days in my part of Minneapolis.
I heard they’ve been super active recently in the outer suburbs and rural areas, and it sure doesn’t seem like anybody’s assuming we’re done with their awfulness here in the middle of the city. But I’m happily embracing the chance to take a breath.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-18 18:56:39
Mullin claims he’s done classified work — but the FBI says otherwise: senators - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/markwayne-mullin-2676286348/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 03:56:19
Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is 🔥proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression,
⚠️ listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
"And I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration
is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can,
but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine a…
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-03-19 11:26:58
Just two working days to go, including today. From Saturday, I have a nine-day break, which is always welcome.
The weather is getting more spring-like, and if it keeps up, I can get some digging and planting done in the garden.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-17 19:53:09
"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-19 01:25:22
Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive.
Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks.
-- But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.
It’s not that the fossils are suffering yet.
As prices have soared since Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, oil executives have been selling sha…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-18 14:31:26
Donald Trump does not think strategically.
Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally.
He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later.
He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions.
He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong.
Instead, he acts on whim and …
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-17 20:04:31
Milwaukee didn't even make it more than 9 months since flooding due to heavy rain ruined everything. Climate change is a thing.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/16/milwaukee-again-cleaning-up-from-overwhelming-force-of-nature/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-18 23:42:19
On March 26, billionaire investor
David Sacks stepped down from his White House role as the
Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
This may come as welcome news to people stupefied by the extent of Trump administration’s constant corporate giveaways to the AI and crypto industry, which Sacks orchestrated.
But don’t be fooled:
just a day before his departure as an advisor, Trump announced that Sacks would be co-chairing the President’s Council of Advisors on Science …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-19 00:12:06
White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”
“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-14 17:01:20
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0
-- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars
-- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
https://…
