RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/116255252453377471

Also note the very foreign road layout, mail carrier, foreign cop, non-Scottish suburb and buildings, and all the rest of the imagery. That illustration exemplified American cultural imperialism from top to bottom. (And looking at the shadows, the sun NEVER gets that high overhead—when you can see it at all, that is!)

#YouTube is trying so hard to "poison" my feed, I can see why a lot of people start falling down dark rabbit holes this way

My feed is mostly; science, space, politics and some gamedev but especially in the first two

Made up bullshit can be used to hook people for a lot longer then actual facts these days I guess

And it's always down a negative path it seems

The future is already evenly distributed. It’s just not here yet.

while I have a level of sympathy for the california/colorado style of age-verification law, and I think many reactions against it are overheated, at the end of the day we still have to oppose stuff like this because society's ideas of what ought to be age-gated are just wrong on the merits. the goal is to ban access to perfectly normal healthy things like queer communities and still allow kids access to fucked-up dangerous adults-only stuff like catholicism and the president of the united states

Happy uv-by-openai day to all python devs who celebrate.

Good article with lots of quotable quotes. Here’s one:

“Lines of code, number of [pull requests], these are liabilities. These are not measures of engineering excellence.”

That’s a big “well duh” for anyone who’s been in the thick of the software engineering process for more than 15 seconds — but a whole lot of folks are about to learn this the hard way, as the article lays out.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

The general;

"Here is a video about something no one on this planet knows but it's of super massive importance"

Kinda a description for conspiracy theories, making you feel 'special' because you get to know something and others "just don't know"

Bullshit alarm 🐮

@andrewt Oh right, I thought it was some sort of VSCode extension. My bad! ​

@masukomi @catsalad I am not married to catsalad they're just kind of There

Making the most of what I have… it’s a weird jury rigged set up; but this is how I’m able to plane the rough edge flush and square with just hand tools.

That’s my granddads old hand plane; so about 70yrs old.

Yes that’s an asbestos garage roof. Yeah; I need to save money and get it replaced.

@ericsfraga @mstempl I learned about all three of #Emacs, #TeXLaTeX, and #literateprogramming at the same time in the late 1980s.

The first two always went together, and the third was a dream, a thing only the gods upon Mount Knuth-lympus could do.

Then, much later! Oh happy day! #OrgMode came along, and all three were baked into a warm, delicious pound cake. The tool that decisively allowed me to become a confident Emacs user was to make my config a literate Org document. Inspired by @sacha's example! Having it be a document, structured as an outline, with paragraphs of prose, was just qualitatively different from a monolithic lisp file.

Collapsing outline elements (1) allow fractal movement between a gestalt and detailed view, and (2) impose structure. There is no way to overstate how necessary are both of these for managing even as small a project as my ... HOLY SHIT, I JUST LOOKED, and my config is more than 1,800 lines of code!

Okay, point proved

@dbat @efi given that corporations have an outsized influence on the Linux kernel, and many of those corporations (eg microslop) have slop mandates, I imagine there's a lot of pressure to for the project to allow slop if it doesn't already. It is really sad.

love this

https://www.thetimes.com/article/b6bcfef6-cd4f-486f-a0d3-3e9a79333352