Happy trans day of visibility, especially to all non-binary and transgender developers!
We have the power to build a world where computer systems accept and understand all kinds of people. DBAs, add those preferred name fields! Web devs, add a pronoun flair! You can shine the light of love and […]
Good news today! Copyright liability reduced for ISPs, increasing user privacy as ISPs need not police user internet activity for copyright purposes. The courts agreed that it's not worth sacrificing everything for the sake of policing copyright. Read EFF's press here […]
Ithaca College's Ed Tech Day panel on Student Opinions with AI:
I'm really happy that I was invited to be on the panel and talk with folks afterwards. AI and Large Language Models' integration into collegiate institutions is really hard to get right, and I hope we continue to improve on privacy […]
@vetehinen it didn't crash an no one was hurt but it was far from comfortable
@vetehinen So much. Cut a truck off in a salvation army parking lot, went past me twice before I even got in, went down a street that was too narrow and didn't pull over to let the other car thru, tried to turn when there was somebody coming out of a street that it couldn't fit thru (they had to […]
Waymo is so scary. Perhaps not unsafe, but still scary in the way it drives. Undercooked, I think. Will stick to the feet & the bus for now! #waymo #technology
Hello! I am new to Google summer of code and I'm wondering if anyone knows how the application process works. I opened the website this morning and the button is still grayed out, but it also seems like I was supposed to be emailing the organizations already from their video. Where am I supposed […]
If you feel like UML diagrams aren't very concise or helpful, here is an infographic from a 2014 study about how diagramming works in practice, and what is helpful and gets archived vs not. I found it very educational! #softwaredevelopment #swe #programming #uml […]
Listening to the 36th best album of 2006
Oh Pitchfork, you little ghoul 😝
Do you think there are okay ways to use #GenAI or #LLM s?
Satya Nadella seems to think so, as long as we reach a theory of mind sophistication equilibrium (...?)
Here's my more specific, less buzz-wordy stance on how I approach building ethical LLM-powered software […]
New post out on my workflow using Podman and Systemd to create and manage rootless containers! Hopefully y'all find this useful, I use this when deploying small apps that I want to maintain long-term without having to manage physical machines or Linux configuration.
Really exciting that we live […]
Happy #BandcampFriday . Here's an awesome rock band from Miami I first heard on #WICB
palominoblond.bandcamp.com/album/you-feel-it-too
This whole Cox/Sony business reminds us that copyright law is only about the big guys. Copyright law was never made to support individual producers, and it is just twisted and bent to chase after individuals when pennies on the dollar go to the artists themselves.
We can live in a better world […]
I know it's actually a "Unicode floral heart bullet rotated" but I love it just the same
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ensmallification
Make everything smaller
Premium price should buy premium raw materials. Tired of this polyester-socks aluminum-can-iPhone era we live in. Bring back wood, leather, granite. Make a statement piece that is refined and timeless. Make it right and make it last. I see a future where computers are like countertops.
Sorry @toot_receipts_bot you were too boring :(
- ASCII radish in everything (thank you mastodon app)
Bring back:
- Apps/OS having intro music
- Esoteric file formats
- Browser wars
- Kernel panic all the time just for fun
- Every version looks totally different even if it's basically the same hardware
- Proprietary cables, everything should have it's own cable and they should match colors, or […]
A receipt printer with a blue light and a red light, branded "TEROW", and two drawings of a heart on receipt paper coming out the top.
Pass me a note! Draw something cool and print it out to the receipt printer on my desk.
https://robog.net/gallery/piece/passing-notes/
Rest in peace, Miss Major.
We will carry the bricks forward.
I just set everything up so that any book I download to my computer and import to Calibre (which also includes PDF articles that I can convert to EPUB for easier reading on a smaller device) all gets instantly transferred to my jailbroken Nook cable-free. This is the experience of "setting down […]
syncthing + calibre + librera reader + public domain epub books + hacked nook with android exposed = very cool
#github #developers #GitHubDown Seeing a lot of negativity about the current stability of GitHub as an organization during this current outage — Dear devs of mastodon, have you considered moving away from GitHub? If so, what organizational hurdles did you face/are facing in your migration?
