Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

#Rust is a good example of how human behavior affects the perception of technology. While the language may be interesting (sort of: too many issues anyway), the constant insistence that everything must be rewritten with it and everything else is bad/stupid/vulnerable is a huge turn off. Lots of people don't want to deal with that toxicity.

If I cannot tolerate a GC and/or really need to use a lot of #C libraries, C99 works just fine and it's not going away any time soon.

It's quite astonishing how many people are so caught up in a world of products that, when given a choice, they often forget about the choice not to have any. Like, what's better for the environment, combustion engines or electrical vehicles? The answer is, of course, no cars! We don't need to pick between two kinds of car. We need be able to work from home or near our homes; we need buy our groceries in walking distance; we need public transport to get to other places.

Once I had understood the argument, I started seeing it everywhere: The choice between A and B is offered and the best choice is to choose neither.

The tale of "convenience" is a bit of a trick. A lot of corporate provided services maybe were somewhat convenient a decade ago, but they are now increasingly authoritarian, and people tend to ignore how much time they steal.

Total number of hours spent solving captchas or consent screens with #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc apps: 0 (zero). Nada. Zilch.

Compare with the estimated 819 million hours which humans spent with Google's recaptcha alone https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html

@flyingpenguin it's 10x slower I'd wager because as well as the analysis the NHS wanted there'd be a load more analysis in the background for all manner of other agendas...

what is infuriating is not your blatant disrespectful provocation but how detached you are from reality:

realize f-droid is a SMALL techie niche

you want to count numbers? just in google play alone #DeltaChat has +1 MILLION downloads while your app is only +100k

this is without counting downloads for iOS and desktop versions

the irony of you saying "perspective on loudness on social media vs reality" is so big that it is laughable, go out and touch some grass bro

https://gultsch.social/@daniel/116615454331573701

Hot take: everyone #SelfHosting their Mastodon instance and the like is duplication of effort. There has to be a middle ground.

why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

By treating ChatGPT and similar LLMs as being in any way concerned with truth, or by speaking metaphorically as if they make mistakes or suffer “hallucinations” in pursuit of true claims, we risk exactly this acceptance of bullshit, and this squandering of meaning.

Such a good paper.

M. T. Hicks, J. Humphries, and J. Slater, “ChatGPT is bullshit,” Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 38, June 2024, doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.

Anthropic Mythos: supposedly so good at finding security flaws it might be "too dangerous to use"

Anthropic Claude: so riddled with critical security flaws (and obvious to anyone competent) it actuallly *is* too dangerous to use

#AI

@lcamtuf Rustaceans are the problem, not Rust itself. theyre like a lobbing group trying explicitly to boost their future employment demand much more than prioritized on doing the right thing as engineers or for the community. much like the AI VC are "talking up their book" even if its poison for the rest of us

@wolf480pl @sten @ChuckMcManis @lcamtuf most serious race condition in production is the race to push to prod before you bounce on a Friday afternoon

@adapalmer Or the whales are sick of our BS and have started to unionize

@tj I’m personally pissed off at browsers for giving web authors this ability. The browser is supposed to be the user agent! My features! Not yours!

Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that it justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/116505223145222985

All of the advances in #deltachat apps and the growth of the #chatmail relay network, wouldn't be possible without public funds and private donations, an estimated 800K EUR in 2026 ❤️ money goes to ~16 FOSS contributors with no money left for president, board or director salaries 🖤

Signal uses >50 Million per year, Telegram and Whatsapp 100's Millions, and they are all not building permission-free decentralized chat infra and apps, let alone secure mini app ecosystems https://webxdc.org

@vnikolov @janneke @spook I do wish Real Programmers™ would stick to #Perl, which was written especially for (and by) them.

@maxtepafray its really funny to see the tribal blindness. elon takes over and suddenly twitter is turbo fascist bad evil and you point out they're literally doing the same things they've been doing for ten years and everyone goes