Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

How I fought my smartphone addiction - Ploum:
https://ploum.net/2026-03-13-phone_addiction.html

I often think that there will be an equilibrium reached in the end, for all tech, and like always, people will say: "see, the nay-sayers weren't right." But actually the nay-sayers managed to shift the balance until it was more or less all-right. And sometimes the fight takes decades. And sometimes the balance is distributed unevenly. But the important thing is this: Just because the world is not going to turn the way I want, that doesn't mean I have to shut up. My voice is part of what makes up public opinion.

Anyway, that's how I feel on a good day.

It’s pretty weird, not to mention hilarious, that when a true fourth generation programming language finally arrived, it was Markdown.

Devuan it is then. (Edit: or not, ugh…)

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

Scheme man pages? Yes!

https://github.com/schemedoc/manpages

The abundance of man pages is one of the reasons Perl is great. All the packages also serve as man pages!

I miss this aspect in all other programming languages.

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms.

#iran #us #israel #iranwar #ukraine #religion #war #usa

@cwebber just to throw a fun little counterpoint as devil's advocate: humans are also story machines.

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Yeah, OK, we're more than just that, but it's an interesting thought. See also Zombies (philosophy).

@cwebber

At long last! We have created Skynet from classic sci-fi movie franchise Don't Create Skynet

@NicksWorld @Sarahw

If it were me I'd rather have a planet with oxygen and water to live on but hey you do you, sparky.

Caroline Crampton on what it is like to manage and read almost 2,000 RSS feeds.

Somehow, still using RSS, which is a beautifully simple bit of tech from the early days of the web, makes you part of a community of like-minded strangers.

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss

#rss #blogs

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity