@jon@henshaw.social2026-08-26 12:39:17
I woke up and removed the Google integration in my contacts app that imports from Google Contacts and it was a cleansing experience full of zero regrets.
@jon@henshaw.social2026-08-26 12:39:17
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2026-07-26 11:40:32
@… It's happened often over the past 40 years on extreme SEC rule proposals, in my experience.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-07-23 07:44:01
University of Texas study, for blind or low vision participants: Living in an AI-filtered reality: Participant recruitment & eligibility screening form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrJaZokMcnv7t0ExHT1hdVZ8dEsgV-AymJxguendMqTKxEZA…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-09-17 12:12:27
Oh my, I just bought something from eBay for the first time in 15 years — wish me luck! My last experience (selling a laptop then) was super stressful, when the buyer ended up being a fraudster and it took months to get the money...
This time I ordered a dry heat press for my silver gelatin prints, very similar (but larger) to what I had in my first darkroom 35-40 years ago... My current approach pressing fiber prints under 20kg of books takes far too long and isn't scalable (in time …
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-07-11 17:06:34
Content warning: on sexism in technology work
For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!)
It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side. There is so much embodied knowledge in that community, it's amazing. And it's also such a window into how much the mainstream of technology writing is dominated by men. We talk about it differently! We're much more likely to be critical, and to be critical of the _structures_ in tech. Sometimes that comes off as kneejerk "Ugh BRIAN!" to some of the bullshit men to do women in the workplace, but also embedded underneath is an understanding of rarely-mapped power structures in the field. So much advice out there is written assuming that there is no dissent, no silent frustration, no quiet abandoning the job when the pressures are unresolved. And so much of the tech world, press and on social media alike, has no insight that this attrition even happens.
Women, collectively, though, understand it. We notice the patterns of promotions. We understand the way that if we're in our 40s, we're rather likely to have a manager who is a decade younger than we are, with no particular experience. We notice when men are lauded for spending time with their family instead of work on occasion, but women are expected to be present at all times and rarely seen positively for doing the exact same things.
And yet, any given instance is always shrouded in deniability. The pattern generally holds, but is this one my fault? Do I not measure up? Or is it sexism?
That's what these structures rob from us: we never have the clarity in feedback that it is accurate, that is us that must change. When we stick to our guns, are we being obstinate, or are we correct? That information is denied to us by sexism. It only becomes clear in aggregate, and even then it is very hard to find action to take on it except to acknowledge it and move on.
I don't think people talk about that ambiguity enough: we're always looking for the clear sexism, the man speaking over the women, the trading sexual favors for advancement, the clear pattern of pet-to-threat that so many women experience as they age or gain skill in the field. But the bulk of sexism that we experience is in the structural poisoning of feedback.
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-07-21 14:51:31
@… ahaha I have noticed this but in my experience it seems inconsistent!
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-09-18 15:19:12
In my experience, the larger the corp the worse they are at paying small invoices. I am inclined to believe Geoff Graham over Digital Ocean.
Geoff’s pattern has been to try, twice, to resurrect CSS-Tricks on the cheap.
DO’s pattern has been to kill it, twice, and also pour money into a DHH joint.
https://
@SteveFoerster@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-22 02:20:27
@… My step-daughter's only experience with podcasts is me listening to them in the car, so her definition of a podcast is "when people talk about boring stuff on the radio."
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-08-18 21:55:53
@… Whenever it’s been a while between messages, one end of the conversation no longer receives messages in my experience. I use it with my partner, and sometimes there’ll be a month or two without a message through Delta, and my messages just aren’t delivered until she opens the app on her iPhone. Is this a known issue?
@jan_wagemakers@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 16:37:03
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-09-15 06:33:12
"My partner Anne and I had a very strange experience on 10 September 2005. We had gone shopping at Tesco in Prestwich, Manchester, and parked the car next to one of the glass shelters they keep the shopping-trolleys in. It was near closing time and the car park was virtually empty when we were putting the shopping in the back of the car. At this point, our attention was caught by a middle-aged woman pushing an empty trolley to the shelter we were next to.
What struck us about her …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-07-07 12:59:03
"Every time we are forced to flee, I feel like I grow ten years older overnight." -- @…
This must be the experience of many #Palestinians. Almost every family in #Gaza
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-15 15:22:15
Enjoy this week's Java Geek, special vacation edition.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/145/
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2026-07-25 13:23:17
Embracing life's challenges is crucial. They propel us onward. Concluding a 50-year career wasn't easy, but it strengthened my resolve. Remember, wisdom is your greatest ally in crafting new paths. Regardless of age, it's NEVER too late to ascend with experience and resilience. Embrace your strength! #NeverTooLate #ResilientSeniors
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-05 03:28:25
Why can drones replace soldiers in Ukraine but not firefighters?
Chief sergeant Guillaume Millet, a firefighter of 24 years experience heads the Fire and Rescue Service branch of the CFDT union in the Gironde, the region worst hit by wildfires in France this summer.
He says that while the techniques for tackling fire have not changed much, technology in forest fire detection has.
"The big change, especially in my département, is that now we've got cameras assisted …
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-08-13 09:42:26
Content warning: job anxiety
Submitted my self-eval perf review yesterday. It's so different this year around, as it felt like I was reapplying for my job. More and more I am suspecting disclosing my disability was a mistake, as the new HR in town might be looking for pretexts to cull the herd based on LLM hype. My past handful of experiences of applying for jobs while working my current one, even for curiosity rather than putting my experience up for bid, did not go anywhere.
Yet in the coming months I might …
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-07-16 22:05:09
I saw a Reddit post earlier complaining about Americans saying they invented the internet, and another just now from Oxford grads wondering if they could keep their e-mail addresses.
I then tried to find my old e-mail address, which lead me to remember that my online experience pre-dates the internet, and covers the moment where things pivoted from HALPIN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX to halpin@vax.oxford.ac.uk
(Big-endian to little-endian, in Dublin terms)
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-09-05 07:28:43
Content warning: Death, bereavement
"a wise friend said that nursing my mother might feel, in retrospect, like starting to work through bereavement in advance"
I didn't nurse Mum but was fairly involved when she needed residential care and it was clear she wouldn't live beyond a few months. I started to process her death in advance, which can feel disloyal.
Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-07-17 05:26:34
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-08-12 23:24:45
New experience last night. I dreamed in Morse code.
I didn't dream that I was sending Morse code with a key, or that I was listening to someone else send Morse code.
I was just dreaming my thoughts, expressed in Morse.
I have zero recollection what the topic was, though. Just imagining Morse, at probably about 25WPM.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-22 10:31:33
EDIT: boosts no longer needed thanks to @… with the find!
In case anyone else wants to read a sweet article about action hierarchies in video game play, the link via the wayback machine is: #GameDesign
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-02 07:40:30
There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-07-05 06:49:55
Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-09 13:14:09
Email to Washington Post staff: Jeff Bezos says Jeff D'Onofrio has been doing an outstanding job and will stay on as the paper's publisher and CEO (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2097672806393614505
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-07-05 16:17:17
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-09-09 13:00:23
“Support for `headers` Attribute”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/support-for-headers-attribute.html
Avoid spanning and/or compound table headers given inconsistent support. The `headers` attribute is largely useless, but can impact the experience for S…
@sakhavi@aoir.social2026-08-13 11:59:16
Current #LLM-driven degradation of software seems to follow an eternal pattern of humans and #technology, where the former seek the latter as a shortcut through reality and experience any resistance and complexity as loss and insult. In my publications I’ve called this “prelapsarian programming” bc it betray…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2026-07-08 02:14:34
nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-07-26 05:12:49
it's rainy on Vancouver Island which is great... but now our firefighters need to go help try to extinguish giant fires in the rest of the province. again.
it is almost every year now.
my kids have never known anything different.
but I have. And it fills me with guilt that I got to experience a better world that was ruined and continues to be ruined by people who knew better and CHOSE this.
Including every PM
Carney
Trudeau Jr
Harper
Martin
Chretien
Mulroney
Trudeau Sr
..... all of them had choices they could have made.
But it is the most recent ones that are the most culpable...
because every day, every year, that passes, the losses
mount, the path gets harder, the damage grows. "Evidence" at this point is irrelevant because every damn person knows it in their soul regardless what words come out of their mouth.
Every politician that continues this is complicit and should have done more. That includes every level of government including my brief moment.
So we fight on. So our kids might know something other than it always getting worse.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels
https://cheknews.ca/island-firefighters-deployed-to-help-battle-b-c-s-more-than-120-wildfires-1338610/
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-08-02 00:53:38
For a while programming looked most under AI threat, but math has taken pole position. My theory for why is 2-fold:
1. Math has had 1000s of years to get to clean formulations.
2. Math is self-contained: no "network misconfigured", etc. to gum up the works.
The latter brings to mind Davis and Hersh's definition of mathematics in "The Experience of Mathematics": "the study of mental objects with reproducible properties". That makes it (like…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-08-30 14:42:02
from my link log —
Don’t feed the thought leaders.
https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/
saved 2021-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/Q3CV1…
@Gord1i@fosstodon.org2026-07-28 14:47:30
I'm moving on from the City of #CapeTown in just under a month. It's been a wild ride, and in the fullness of time, I'll definitely write something long form on my experience.
However, if I owe you something City-related, now is the time to ask before the train leaves the station!
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-06-29 08:06:14
My wife went to do yoga on the beach this morning... Accordingly to her it was such a terrible experience: sun recently rising was already shining strong, the sand was making changing postures difficult, noises made by the sea were distracting... and sand everywhere was just so annoying...
I like to say: typical problems of the "privileged" people!
Contrary, I love the beach, especially in the morning, because there is hardly anyone and it's not too hot yet.
It …
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-06-29 00:43:20
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2026-09-03 22:14:48
@… I concur! I also use KeepassXC for my Linux desktop, because there isn't another decent port to Linux, in my experience.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-09-20 01:40:05
Content warning: Sorry, I have no information on the very specific question that you asked just to people who have experience in said subject (which I have none), HOWEVER, here is my unrelated opinion
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@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-08-07 16:25:21
I was unaware that I could not keep the original CodePen editor (yes, probably in one of the emails I didn’t read). But I tried the 2.0 once and didn’t go back.
Today I was forced into the 2.0 and my first experience was… underwhelming.
This after the window sat idle for 10 minutes.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-09-13 19:31:26
In my experience, at least, it feels like offshoring went through a productive evolution over the years, from
“Just farm it out to a bunch of those third world people who are cheap and barely even exist as humans!!”
to
“We can totally have globally distributed software teams with some people in places with a lower cost of living, as long as we work extra hard to make sure everyone functions as a team.”
That may be a rosy picture that comes from my own limited circles, but…that's the progress I saw. I wonder when / if folks will do similar learning about the current cost-cutting manias.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-09-13 13:30:02
If you're genderfluid how frequently does your gender, or more specifically your pronouns, change on average?
(pls elaborate in the comments!!)
If you have static pronouns but gender that changes, do you not feel uncomfortable with the set of pronouns that is not matching your current gender? Or do you use neutral pronouns? Or do you usually fluid to a demigender or bigender like state? Or is your experience something else entirely?
#poll #genderfluid #gender
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-11 23:25:20
Just finished "What Elephants Know" by Eric Dinerstein. Leaves me with very mixed feelings: it's a novel in many ways about Nepal, and I don't doubt that the author's experience living there gives him a not-insignificant window into the culture, plus there are multiple people mentioned in the acknowledgements as judging faithfulness to Nepali culture. I myself have no direct connection to the country, nor enough knowledge to see any clear inaccuracies in the writing, nor ways in which it directly disrespects the culture.
That said, my instincts say this is a portrayal of the culture and country that probably elides much about the downsides of foreign influence and the monarchy (something I naturally distrust as an anarchist). At minimum, the internal contradiction is clear between the police as an inept and dangerous institution when encountered directly, but as a clean and unproblematic way to resolve problems with criminals when the Maroons subplot needs wrapping up. This is typical of neoliberals who have begun to acknowledge the most obvious problems with police but who refuse to admit the necessity of police abolition. Furthermore, there's a strong thread of white saviorism thrown in, and a big piece of meritocracy to go along with it. This story presents only highly particular fictionalized solutions to the real structural problems facing the elephants and other animals it describes, and the solutions it imagines require reliance on institutions which are in the real world fundamentally untrustworthy.
I enjoyed learning about the ecology of the Nepali borderlands, and about the cultures surrounding elephants there, plus some of the diversity of religions and cultures that interact in the area, and the story was satisfyingly written in terms of the main character's trials and responses to them, if I disregard the issues mentioned above.
If anyone has recommendations for novels in English (including via translation) by actual Nepali authors, I'd love to hear them, as I'll be looking for that perspective to balance this one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-07-02 21:51:07
#Medicare #USHealthcare
question for anyone on Medicare. My spouse will be enrolling next year.
Her b'day is in August - which I'm wondering if that means she gets hit with double deductibles, one for the current insurance from Jan - July and then another for Medicare from August - December.
Was that your experience? Seems a obviously unfair 'feature' for b'days in the middle of the year and just wondering what or if they've done to address it.
The fun unusual twist is she's already on Medicare Advantage due to disability for her current insurance.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-09-03 21:56:42
I really do find the improvements in AI very exciting. I've been coding with Jules Gemini for awhile and recently switched to Claude Code Opus. And OMG it is so much better. It's like having software engineer with ~5 years experience instead of one with just 1 or 2 years. It's regularly inferring details from vague instructions and anticipating challenges I hadn't considered. And the code it emits works.
I see GPT 6 is about to come out. And Claude has Fable, even better than Opus. I don't know where this improvement curve tops out but it feels pretty close to my own skill level for programming already. And way more patient and with way more breadth of knowledge. Still lacks some judgement and overall perspective, some role left for the meat that thinks.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-08-02 12:42:50
I do like #jellyfin and have come to depend on it, but it's these dumb design decisions, and when the back-trace is littered with references to Microsoft code, well, I don't want to profile anybody, but it's a red flag in my (long) experience. It worries me.
It's just dumb. Deleting a missing file is a warning at best, not a stacktrace abort; a playlist fail shouldn't stop the party and call for a tech.
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-09-05 15:32:30
I'm now on TTFA:
"How should we teach Programming Languages in the age of AI?
New TTFA episode! 🎙️
We sat down with [me] to talk about PL education, how LLMs are changing the way students learn programming, and what we should actually be teaching when AI can increasingly write the code for us.
We also dive into Racket, programming language design, and [my] decades of experience thinking about how we teach people to reason about programs.
A fascinating conversation!"
https://youtu.be/dS5e8z8S8Fc
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2026-07-12 16:46:51
My wife and I went to a "Yakshagaana" #play today in #Udupi #India. It was only the second play we've ever sat through fully (our first was just last week).
I've so much to say about the experience but don't know where to begin, except say it was mind blowing and wish all #theater was this masterful.
🤯😊🙇♂️
#review
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-08-09 20:47:23
back into the trenches, literally. I'm continuing to get the trenching done for electrical, internet, and plumbing out to the shed.
If anyone sees this who has experience with home fiber networks I would be interested in their advice. Our home is mostly wired with CAT5 but there are increasingly heavy bandwidth loads over the past few years.
We have 10Gb fibre to the house from Telus. I would like to gradually add a few ports of fibre to key points but it is out of my day to day networking experience.
First question would be, can I bury fibre with the electrical?
suggestions welcome.
here are some pics. I have dug this trench before, almost 20 years ago.. when we first put solar and power to the old shed. 110 and 220V circuits.
different route this time arohnd the ponds, and also more connection points for both 220 solar and 110 home. Only want to do this once every 20 years at most, so now is the time to do it all. 😝
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #networking #fibre #cat5 #gardening #home
