You don't have to pretend that Claude Code's source code is lovely just because you like using it or are impressed by whatever madness is going on around AI right now.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #AgenticAI #tech #dev #software #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #Anthropic #Claude #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #software #COBOL #LinkedIn

One of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised

The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever

💥 https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-compromised

#javascript #axios #webdev #npm #js #dev #compression #softwareattribution #web #webdev #successful #attack #plaincryptojs #malware

So I just bought @nileane’s TinyStart launcher and, yep, it’s beautiful.

Minimalist in the best possible way. I’m keeping Spotlight around for the moment but already I’m not sure why I would use it for anything.

So lovely to see indie devs showing trillion-dollar corporations how it should be done.

💕

#TinyStart #macOS #launcher #app #indie #dev

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The main TinyStart launcher window showing my most launched apps and links (for the moment, WezTerm, the Catalyst web site, and Sublime Merge).

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TinyStart’s beautiful emoji picker, with my last used emoji (cat face) in the Recent list, followed by the Smileys & Emotion section.

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TinyStart’s settings panel, showing the Links section active with links I’ve entered that I want to access quickly (the Kitten and Catalyst web sites and their source repository pages as well as the Gaza Verified page).

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #github #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment

I worry that few smaller companies or startups will survive, and the country will be pockmocked with half-constructed data centers and obsolete equipment. This is not like the dot-com crash that left useful and unused fiber optic networking.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/private-credits-exposure-to-ailing-software-industry-is-bigger-than-advertised-d80da378

hashtag#AI hashtag#GenAI hashtag#GenerativeAI hashtag#software hashtag#tech hashtag#dev hashtag#AssetBubble hashtag#PrivateCredit

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Adds Kitten Introspection API

I’ll record a video this week demonstrating it.

In the meanwhile, check out the change log for details:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-29

Enjoy!

💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten #KittenReleases #SmallWeb #SmallTech #introspectionAPI #web #dev

CC: @bug_elseif@bolha.us

#dev #programação #computação

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?

So that sucks.

With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).

What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into their contents to take a snapshot, etc.)

This is something I ran into with the embedded Stripe component I’m using in Catalyst². Specifically, it has a success state that I want to restore so the interface, which uses selective disclosure and has animated to that step in the sign up process, doesn’t jump if you refresh it or look different if you open it in another tab.

So what do you do if you’re obsessed with making things work as well as possible?

Apparently, this:

1. You go and manually save the Stripe iframe’s HTML and relevant CSS

2. You notice that it is ~371KB in size and you sigh

3. You use a combination of automated and manual methods to whittle that down to a 4.2KB HTML/CSS snapshot of the state.

4. You make that into a Kitten component³ so you can set the bits that are dynamic⁴

5. You make sure that it matches the original exactly using PixelSnap 2 guides⁵ (see screenshot; and yes, I told you I’m obsessed) :)

6. Et voila!

🤷‍♂️

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://catalyst.small-web.org
³ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/components-and-fragments/
⁴ https://codeberg.org/project-catalyst/app/src/commit/a3cf136f3670a9e2954a35d5b3aa227969f22eaf/sign-up/SuccessfulStripeSubscription.fragment.js
⁵ https://pixelsnap.com

#Catalyst #SmallWeb #design #Stripe #iframes #stateRestoration #web #dev

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Screenshot of the restored state of the Stripe component’s success state using a mock HTML/CSS snapshot of the state with some dynamic areas included. The screen is full of horizontal and vertical guides aligned to areas of the success message to ensure that the mock is pixel perfect.

📢 #Doyensec is sponsoring Dev World! We'll be at our booth discussing security research & how to "Build with Security" directly with the #dev community.

Stop by - we'd love to chat!

🗓 May 7–8 | 📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🇳🇱

https://devworldconference.com/

#DevWorld #AppSec

I'm not going to name and shame but I'm in the midst of a conversation on this, which is why it's top of mind.

#tech #dev #crypto #security #cybersecurity #InfoSec

Peço desculpas pela demora, validando internamente de fato seria necessário o envio da documentação pela plataforma, logo seria necessário o aceite dos termos, infelizmente não conseguimos seguir de outra forma.

Eu estou impedido, mas, se alguém se dispuser a aceitar isso e, a partir daí, desenvolver sistemas que ofertem serviços a seus próprios clientes que, por sua vez, utilizariam apenas software livre, parece algo viável, segundo a documentação.

#softwareLivre #soberaniaDigital #brasil #pix #finanças #banco #dev #oportunidade

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Adds `rawBody` to non-multipart POST requests.

This property, which is a Buffer, is necessary if you want to verify signatures (e.g., for webhooks).

I had to fork express-busboy as they already ruled out adding it. The fork (@small-web/kitten-busboy²) also allowed me to type the middleware extension point for Polka³ instead of Express (Kitten uses Polka) so that’s one @ts-ignore removed (hey, dev is a string of little wins) :)

Change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-18

Caught a bug and feeling a little under the weather at the moment (nothing major, mom and dad – no need to worry) so apologies if I’m not responsive here.

Enjoy!

💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/busboy
³ https://github.com/lukeed/polka

#Kitten #SmallWeb #KittenReleases #busboy #polka #express #bodyParsing #middleware #NodeJS #web #dev

LLM hallucinated spam slop

Even a parrot would formulate a better set of sentences. This is easily sent to /dev/null

#LLM #slop #AI #InfoSec #spam #unsolicited #email #dev #null

@stefano

I think some of the strange shifts we're seeing in high-profile folks in tech who already had authoritarian impulses---which, let's be real, is uncomfortably common among tech workers---is that they are groping for ways to embrace taking power that do not run afoul of other values they've endorsed. This really can't be done unless the person was already pretty antisocial, so we see weird behavior such as running self-serving "surveys" about AI with foregone conclusions, microaggressions and dissembling, attacks and other forms of hostility, being "one shotted" or conflating a computer program with humanness, etc. It's really a general problem, in that view, given how the US regime has shifted away from social democracy/liberalism into a much more brash, violent, and authoritarian stance. There are a variety of ways to cope with such a shift, one being to embrace it while bursting into a cloud of internal contradictions.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #tech #dev #software #power

English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui

There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:

• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.

• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.

Others (not shown): Browser(s) on a third screen and my laptop’s monitor as a fourth screen sometimes for other apps (read: distractions) :)

What’s yours like?

¹ https://wezterm.org
² https://helix-editor.com
³ https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi
⁴ https://www.sublimemerge.com

#myDevSetup #web #dev #WezTerm #HelixEditor #Yazi #SublimeMerge

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Screenshot of a macOS system with WezTerm running maximised (with a little bit of margin because shiny colourful wallpaper FTW). It’s split into three panes: Helix Editor running in the left with the source code for a file called src/Server.js open. A top-right pane showing unit, regression and end-to-end tests running (179 unit tests passed, 94 regression tests passed, running 7 end-to-end tests, currently at 5/7, running tests/end-to-end/kitten-kawaii-spec.js in Chromium). The lower right pane has Yazi, showing a three-column file system view where the app folder of ~/Projects/kitten/app is selected in the first column, its contents shown in the second, with jsconfig.json selected and the contents of that file showing the final column.

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Screenshot of Sublime Merge running maximised, showing 2 unstated files with side-by-side diffs of their changes.

#AskFedi time.
Can someone recommend me a good exchange rates API, probably hosted in Europe?
Not long ago, I was visiting a website of some open source project, and they were advertising their own exchange rates API. But I can’t remember the project or a website address. =(
Help.

#api #dev #development #softwareDevelopment #fedihelp

When Should JavaScript Devs Use the Power of WebAssembly?

Learn how WebAssembly (Wasm) can boost your JavaScript app's performance. Discover modern tooling and follow our introductory tutorial for JS developers.
— by @TheNewStack

🧑‍💻 https://thenewstack.io/when-should-javascript-devs-use-the-power-of-webassembly/

#wasm #webdev #javascript #web #js #c #rust #rustlang #cplusplus #code #coding #dev #webassembly #website #developer

Até então, realizava isso com um script que já tinha contribuído ao projeto e que executava manualmente quando queria atualizar a imagem que depois usaria neste servidor.

Outra novidade é uma variação "full" da imagem de contêiner que acrescenta os pacotes ffmpeg e imagemagick. Eles, recentemente, podem ser usados pelo snac, se isso for definido no server.json, para remover metadados EXIF de arquivos de imagens e vídeos enviados. O porém é que isso a torna praticamente 10 vezes maior: 60MB, em vez dos menos de 7MB da imagem padrão. Custo-benefício depende do gosto do freguês.

#FediAdminBR #dev #blambers

Here's something I've been idly wondering about: if you had some time to prepare (let's call it three days) and you wanted to make sure you'd be able to develop as many different kinds of software as possible without an internet connection, what programming language would you pick and, if you're stashing libraries, how would you do so?

I suspect this varies by operating system, preference, etc. OpenBSD ships Perl in base, I believe, and Apple bundles (old versions of) Ruby and Python and others with macOS. But Perl is a Git dependency, so if you're going to be using that for version control, the language comes along as a freebie. (Except for storage.)

My intuition is that C would be the easiest to prepare and a language like Rust would be a fucking nightmare. But maybe I'm wrong and there's a cool way to grab the 4000 crates you'd need and make them available to Cargo in a way that makes sense.

#programming #dev #collapse

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.
— by @mozilla

🧑‍💻 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/

#webdev #webassembly #web #dev #it #website #development #developer #js #javascript #firstclass #rust #rustlang #c #cplusplus

I’m rewriting one of my pet projects from #Flutter Web to server-rendered #HTML. Because there are too many shitty mobile devices with a single vendor-provided browser that doesn’t support nice things or have fundamental bugs in those things.

#FlutterWeb #Browsers #PetProject #Dev #development #softwareDevelopment

#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #tech #dev #SoftwareLicensing

Knock knock
Race condition
Who’s there?

(Credit: Ian Coldwater)

#Dev #Development #Jokes #RaceCondition

For the uninitiated, what are typically called side effects include:

• Input/output (to the screen, to/from a disk drive, to a printer, to/from the internet, etc.)
• Relatedly, interaction (with the mouse, with the keyboard)
• Statefulness ("remembering" data in RAM)
• Parallelism (doing more than one thing at a time) and asynchrony (doing things out of order)

In what sense, then, are they "side"? And what on earth is being "managed"? Isn't that what we mean by "programming"?

#ComputerScience #SoftwareDevelopment #tech #dev #politics #FunctionalProgramming #SideEffects #effects

Still using `npm init -y`?

May I introduce you to `npm init --init-type=module --init-license=AGPL-3.0-only -y`?

👍 Free software license (makes “open” as in ”open for business” folks squirm)

👍 ES modules (because it’s 2026)

#nodeJS #npm #FreeSoftware #AGPL #ECMAScriptModules #JavaScript #web #dev

🥳 New Kitten release

Just released a new version of Kitten that now includes JSDB 7.0.0 with its improved JSTable.PERSIST event.

https://kitten.small-web.org

Note that this is a breaking change. If you’re listening for the old 'persist' event, please update your code.

For more information, please see the changelog: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#breaking-changes

Enjoy!

💕

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #Kitten #KittenReleases #web #dev #JavaScriptDatabase #JSDB #NodeJS

Getting the whole argument just right is fiddly, but the basic idea is this. You feed some kind of theory into the AM/AS, which is a black box. It churns on this and spits out a result, which is added to the theory (I'm neglecting the case that the result is inconsistent with the theory). It can now churn on theory + result 1. For any given and potentially very large N, after doing this long enough, it's churning on theory + result 1 + result 2 + ... + result N. Whatever it spits out will be dependent in particular on results 1 - N. When N is large enough, unless you know these results you will not be able to understand what it outputs because the output will almost surely depend critically on one or more of results 1 - N. In other words, the output will look like noise to you. If the AM/AS is appreciably faster at producing results than people are at understanding them, there will be an N beyond which no one can understand the output up to that point. It'll become indistinguishable (unable to be distinguished) from random noise.

If you're into software development, this would be analogous to a software system that generates syntactically-correct code and then adds that code as a new call in a growing software library. If you were to run this long enough, virtually all the programs it generated that were short enough for human beings to have any hope of reading and understanding would consist almost entirely of library calls to code generated by the system. You'd have no idea what any of this code did unless you studied the library calls, which you wouldn't be able to do beyond a certain scale. If the system were expanding the library faster than you could read and understand it, there'd be no hope at all.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether this is a desirable thing to do and whether it's happened yet. I would offer, though, a question to ponder: what reason is there to believe that a random number generator hooked up to an inscrutable interpreter produces human flourishing, for any given meaning of "human flourishing" you care to use?

#tech #dev #mathematics #AutomatedMathematician #AutomatedScientist #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #ThoughtExperiment

#tech #dev #SiliconValley #SocialMedia #AI #GenAI #etc

The only way of coding

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

#dev #shitposting

Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?

Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).

https://github.com/yassinebridi/serpl#readme

(Also, it appears they’re looking for maintainers. It’s written in Rust.)

#searchAndReplace #findAndReplace #CLI #app #serpl #dev

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Screenshot of me serpl with Search, Replace, Result List and Preview panes in a command-line interface. Search has /setup and [Match Case] mode selected, Replace has /settings with [Simple] mode selected. The Results List shows about 20 items and the selected file is shown in the preview pane with three replacements in diff-style red/green highlighting on lines 27, 28, and 35.

#tech #dev #cloud #CloudComputing

Alex Hyatt is a professional software developer who makes videos about programming, design and related topics. You can follow at:

➡️ @alex

Hyatt has already uploaded 49 videos, if they haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at:

➡️ https://videos.alexhyett.com/a/alex/videos

#FeaturedServer #Programming #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #Dev #PeerTube

At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility

In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.

If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.

It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).

🥳 Multiple major releases today

• @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost/#readme)
• @small-tech/https v6.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https/#readme)

These releases bring short-lived certificates, IP Address (IPv4 and IPv6) support, and ACME Renewal Information (ARI) support to Auto Encrypt and @small-tech/https, implement a consistent asynchronous API across all three packages, and include loads of little fixes and code quality improvements.

This brings us very close to getting Web Numbers¹ support implemented natively in Kitten².

OCSP support is removed from Auto Encrypt and Windows support is dropped from all three packages as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people³ and Small Technology Foundation⁴ stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Furthermore, Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

Enjoy!

💕

🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
² https://kitten.small-web.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
⁴ https://small-tech.org/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #AutoEncryptLocalhost #https #TLS #NodeJS #web #dev #ACME #LetsEncrypt #WebNumbers #Kitten #BDS #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity

#Filen is hiring: Senior #FullStack #Developer (#React + #ReactNative & #TypeScript)

https://filen.io/hub/were-hiring-senior-full-stack-developer-react-react-native-typescript-m-f-d/

#privacy #cybersecurity #dev #job #GetFediHired #Europe #FOSS

The future lies in embracing statefulness and effectfulness in self-modifying code. Unlike the bureaucratic procedure of rule-based coding, this style of programming is more like surfing, or performance, or gardening. Your task as a programmer is to plant a seed of code that unfolds into something beautiful, possibly guiding it as it unfolds if you have the mastery. I'll leave as an exercise for the reader what the soil is in this metaphor.

(I'm only half joking!)

#ComputerScience #SoftwareDevelopment #tech #dev #politics

#ComputerScience #SoftwareDevelopment #tech #dev #politics

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).

https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme
² https://kitten.small-web.org
³ https://catalyst.small-web.org/

#WebNumbers #SmallWeb #AutoEncrypt #Kitten #Catalyst #peerToPeer #web #dev

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Screenshot of a browser showing a Hello, world! Page at https://91.98.66.193

So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.

I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
² https://kitten.small-web.org
³ https://catalyst.small-web.org
⁴ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
⁵ https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SmallTechnologyFoundation #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #WebNumbers #decentralisation #web #dev #humanRights #democracy

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Screenshot of ssh terminal connected to remote host (aral@linux): > curl https: //91.98.66.193 Hello, world! > curl https:// [2a01:4f8:1c1e: 4207:0:0:0:1] Hello, world! > curl https:// linux.ar.al Hello, world!

Let this be a lesson:

People can actually change if you give the opportunity to do so.

A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

https://www.polygon.com/steam-dev-deleting-own-game-generative-ai/

#Steam #Dev #AI #PC #Gaming

🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname

The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/macOS and Windows.

We no longer support Windows as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³.

Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

When supporting Linux/macOS, just use the built-in os.hostname() method which works the same way on both platforms.

¹ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² https://small-tech.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #crossPlatformHostname #npm #module #deprecation #BDS #Microsoft #Windows #NodeJS #web #dev #FOSS #SmallTech #SmallWeb #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #techIsPolitical #codeIsPolitical

🥳 Auto-Encrypt Localhost version 9.0.0 released

Bye bye, Windows.

• Windows is no longer supported as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³. Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

Enjoy!

💕

About Auto-Encrypt Localhost:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost#readme

Auto Encrypt Localhost is similar to the Go utility [mkcert](https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/) but with the following important differences:

1. It’s written in pure JavaScript for Node.js.

2. It does not require certutil to be installed.

3. It uses a different technique to install its certificate authority in the system trust store of macOS.

4. It uses enterprise policies on all platforms to get Firefox to include its certificate authority from the system trust store.

5. In addition to its Command-Line Interface, it can be used programmatically to automatically handle local development certificate provisioning while creating your server.

Auto-Encrypt Localhost is licensed under AGPL version 3.0.

#AutoEncryptLocalhost #SmallTech #SmallWeb #localhost #TLS #SSL #certificates #web #security #dev #FOSS #israel #microsoft #BigTech #genocide #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

¹ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² https://small-tech.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/

How could I miss the #Serverpod 3 release, which I was waiting for so long!? Now it is possible to serve a #Flutter web application directly from your backend. There are also a lot of other cool features.

#development #softwareDevelopment #dev #fullstack #Dart

Every developer or dev team can relate, I hope -

#dev #development #Tech #techdev

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The image proposes a "Pride versioning" system for software, contrasting with the standard semantic versioning.  Proud version: The major version number (e.g., 2 in 2.7.123) is incremented for releases the team is proud of. Default version: The minor version number (e.g., 7 in 2.7.123) is for normal or okay releases. Shame version: The patch version number (e.g., 123 in 2.7.123) is bumped when fixing embarrassing issues.

JavaScript engines zoo

This is probably the reason why certain JavaScripts do not run everywhere, because they are "optimized" on their engine again. In my opinion, this is a tedious tinkering as it was back then.

https://zoo.js.org

#javascript #zoo #coding #webdev #js #code #jsengine #scripts #scrpt #dev

Hello programmer types,

I'm wanting to learn the various assembly languages my retrocomputers use. It's important I set myself a first step goal that's as easy as possible, or else I'll likely get frustrated and bounce off of the entire project.

I have a variety of 6502-based and 68K-based machines, as well as x86 machines. Where should I start, and what resources are available?

#retrocomputing #programming #dev

#CodingMitDom:

Windows zu #Linux: Mein 5- #Monitor C# #Dev #Setup:

#Microsoft macht es einem aktuell nicht leicht. Zwischen #Recall, #Telemetrie und ungefragten #Updates ist für mich als Selbstständigen eine Grenze überschritten. Aber kann man als professioneller . #NET-Entwickler wirklich komplett auf #Linux umsteigen, ohne seine Produktivität zu opfern?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqjoo98VSF0

Replacing JS with just HTML

For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web. If you wanted to do something that couldn't be done with just HTML and CSS, you could usually find a way to do it with JS.
And that is great! JS has helped push user experiences forward, and honestly helped push HTML and CSS forward!

🧑‍💻 https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/

#javascript #html #webdev #js #css #web #replaced #htmhell #dev #forward #help

»Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025:
Despite AI and the push for simplification in web development, JavaScript frameworks aren’t quite ready to yield their hold on the frontend.«

Personally, I'm not a JavaScript fanboy, but you can't avoid it for web frontend. I prefer TypeScript in this regard because in my opinion it is more precise.

🧑‍💻 https://thenewstack.io/trends-that-defined-javascript-in-2025/

#javascript #trends #trends2026 #js #dev #web #frontend #webdev #ts #typescript #webfrontend #notafan #myopinion #webdevtrends

One of my favorite "security challenges" is the "verify your email" one. By this point my email has been verified so many times it should have top secret clearance.

#SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #Slack #tech #dev

TypeScript-Funktionen dekorieren: Nicht nur zu Weihnachten!

Der Vorschlag für Decorators in ECMAScript hat mittlerweile Stufe 3 erreicht und somit sehr gute Chancen, in einer der nächsten ECMAScript-Versionen enthalten zu sein.

🧑‍💻 https://vimeo.com/1086790183?fl=pl&fe=sh

#typescript #webdev #ecmascript #dev #ts #funktionen #vimeo #video #coding

One Open-source Project Daily

Easy setup of common tools for developers on Ubuntu.

https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-make

#1ospd #opensource #ubuntu #dev #tool

Sorry folks, hearing that this one is vibe coded (just checked myself and Claude’s all over the commits)… @rmi suggested Micro instead:

https://micro-editor.github.io/

Going to check that one out when I get a moment to see if it’s good to recommend for beginners.

My daily driver is Helix, and I love it :)

https://helix-editor.com

#dev #editor #CLI #nonModal #micro #terminal

O Mastodon 4.5.3 foi lançado e com ele a primeira leva de traduções de que ativamente participei.

Neste começo, estou atuando principalmente na uniformização das traduções pt_BR para que os mesmos termos originais tenham as mesmas traduções em toda a interface e para corrigir erros óbvios, principalmente na troca de verbo <-> substantivo.

#mastodon #dev #fediadminbr

#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web

"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.

#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations

Wondering how #DevOps, development, and AI-powered #dev tools will evolve and impact the industry in 2026? Several experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and even some controversial predictions — in this DevOps Digest article. ⬇️

🎤 Hear from several industry luminaries on the topic of AI-powered SDLC, including:
🔹 Sunil Senan, Infosys
🔹 Ensar Seker, SOCRadar
🔹 Rishi Chohan, GFT Technologies
🔹 Lee McClendon, Tricentis
🔹 Jithin Bhasker, ServiceNow
🔹 Emilio Salvador, GitLab
🔹 Greg Ingino, Litera
🔹 Nuha Hashem, Cozmo AI
🔹 Rohan Gupta, R Systems
🔹 Robert Rea, Graylog, Inc.
🔹 Ian Livingstone, Keycard

"In 2026, DevOps culture will be defined by systems that coach, correct, and collaborate alongside engineers." — Robert Rea CTO, #Graylog

https://www.devopsdigest.com/2026-devops-predictions-6 #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #SIEM #AI

#Rust #Dev #Programming #Shitpost #Memes

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One of the penguins from the "Madagascar" movie giving a thousand-yard stare, with a close-up superimposed over a wider view. Caption: "Rust developers being told they have to unwrap their Christmas presents"

Little JavaScript tip:

You know you can comment out code to quickly disable it:

```js
/*
console.log(‘I won’t run’)
*/
```

But did you know you can also use a labelled block with a break statement to do the same thing in a more flexible manner?

```js
disable: {
break disable
console.log(‘I wont’t run’)
}
```

Then, you can quickly the move the `break disable` to different lines to execute different bits of code within the block.

(Of course, ideally, you should use your JavaScript debugger and break points but, hey…)

Enjoy! 💕

#JavaScript #tip #dev #debugging

#slack #DarkPatterns #tech #dev #web

Just shared my WezTerm¹ configuration. It’s not very long and mostly just adds a few keyboard shortcuts that I find more ergonomically-pleasing, specifies light/dark themes and improves colour scheme consistency and also, if you use Helix Editor², automatically implements light/dark mode theme changes for it in line with the rest of the terminal.

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wezterm.lua.md

¹ https://wezterm.org
² https://helix-editor.com

#dev #terminal #WezTerm #HelixEditor #config #configuration #dotFiles #gist

So I’m teaching a friend who doesn’t have any development knowledge how to get started with Small Web development and I thought it would be a good opportunity to start creating and sharing the course on the Kitten web site, one lesson at a time.

So here’s the link:

https://kitten.small-web.org/course

It’s a work in progress that I’ll be adding to along with our lessons but the draft of the first one, on setting up your development environment (which I whipped up in the pub last night, so expect typos) is here:

https://kitten.small-web.org/course/setting-up/

Please feel free to follow along and file issues if you have thoughts for improvements, etc.

The Setting Up lesson will actually likely end up being the second one with the first being a theoretical one on Small (peer-to-peer) Web development and how it is similar to and differs from Big (centralised) Web development.

Enjoy!

💕

#SmallWeb #Kitten #SmallTech #web #dev #course #education #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS

I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)

https://kitten.small-web.org

💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #StreamingHTML #EventBasedProgramming #ObjectOrientedProgramming #JavaScript #NodeJS #web #dev #GazaVerified

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Screen capture of the Team schedule interface from the Gaza Verified admin site. It is a table of names and days (Aral, Casey, Joy, Aseel, Fabio And Mondays … Fridays) with checkboxes at each name/day pair. It starts out greyed out. The Unlock to edit button is clicked and the interface comes alive (opacity returns to full and the checkboxes become green and clickable). The person toggles a few checkboxes and clicks the Lock button to lock the interface again and then repeats the process to undo the changes they just made.

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Screenshot of code (the lines editable=false and the button tag code are highlighted): class TeamSchedule extends kitten.Component { editable = false html () { return kitten.html` <section> <h3>Team schedule</h3> <button name='toggle' connect >${this.editable ? 'Lock' : 'Unlock to edit'}</button> <table id='team-schedule' ${this.editable ? '' : 'inert'}> <caption id='caption'> <markdown> Shows which team members will be present on calls on which days. </markdown>

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Screenshot of code, continuation of the same class, starting with the end of the html() method from the previous screenshot and going till the end of the class (the table[inert] style and the onToggle() method are highlighted: <style> table[inert] { opacity: 0.9; filter: grayscale(100%); } </style> </table> </section> ` } onToggle () { this.editable = !this.editable console.log(this.editable) this.update() } }

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Screenshot of code (the <${TeamSchedule.connectedTo(this)} /> line is highlighted): export default class InterviewsPage extends kitten.Page { html () { const today = db.calendar.today const futureDays = db.calendar.futureDays const pastDays = db.calendar.pastDays return kitten.html` <${MainLayout} page='/admin/interviews/'> <h2>Interviews</h2> <${SignUpsSwitch.connectedTo(this)} /> <${InternalNav} /> <${TeamSchedule.connectedTo(this)} /> <h3 id='today'>Today</h3> <if ${today !== undefined}> <then>

🥳 New Kitten Release

https://kitten.small-web.org

You can now use the simple `on:` prefix instead of `hx-on:htmx:` to define inline event handlers for HTMX events¹.

Also, there are three new event shorthands for responding to your Kitten page’s connection lifecycle:

• on:connecting
• on:connect
• on:disconnect

(These expand during render to `hx-on:htmx:ws-connecting.window`, `hx-on:htmx:ws-open.window`, and `hx-on:htmx:ws-close.window`, respectively.)

These are useful when using Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow.

Full change log:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-12-10

Enjoy!

💕

¹ https://htmx.org/events/
² https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/

#Kitten #SmallWeb #peerToPeerWeb #web #dev #SmallTech #KittenRelease

AI is intellectual Viagra

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #DiffusionModels #tech #dev #coding #software #SoftwareDevelopment #writing #art #VisualArt

🥳 JavaScript Database (JSDB) version 6.1.4 released:

• Adds TypeScript type definitions

Been meaning to do this for a while and finally got round to it :)

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#javascript-database-jsdb

#JavaScript #database #JavaScriptDatabase #JSDB #native #data #web #dev #NodeJS #SmallWeb

Já podem seguir o @shitpost_Dev

#desenvolvimento #programação #dev #bolhadev #lemmybr #SoftwareLivre #codigoAberto

@tecnologia

@mingueo https://bolha.one/@mingueo/115481404620598272

What's your favorite setup ?

#dev #programming #WebDevelopment #webdev #softwaredevelopment #Devops #setup

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The image displays a grid of nine illustrations showcasing various computer monitor setups. Each setup varies in the number of screens and their arrangement, highlighting different configurations for workspace or gaming environments. ## Description of Each Setup ### Row 1 1. **Single Monitor**: A standard desktop monitor on a stand. 2. **Ultra-wide Monitor**: A wider, single monitor that offers more horizontal screen space. 3. **Dual Monitors**: Two monitors placed side by side, ideal for multitasking. ### Row 2 4. **Vertical Monitor**: A monitor positioned vertically, useful for reading long documents. 5. **Triple Monitors**: Three monitors arranged in a row, expanding workspace significantly. 6. **Curved Display Setup**: A set of three curved monitors that create an immersive viewing experience. ### Row 3 7. **Compact Monitor**: A smaller monitor with a minimalist stand. 8. **Stacked Monitors**: Two monitors arranged vertically, saving desk space. 9. **Laptop**: A portable laptop, suggesting a mobile or flexible workspace. Overall, the designs cater to varying user needs, from casual browsing to professional multitasking and gaming.

In a GitHub issue about adding LLM features:

I definitely think allowing the user to continue the conversation is useful. In my own use of LLMs I tend to often ask followup questions, being able to do so in the same window will be useful.

In the bug report:

Wow, really! What is it with you people that think you can dictate what I choose to do with my time and my software? You find AI offensive, dont use it, or even better, dont use calibre, I can certainly do without users like you. Do NOT try to dictate to other people what they can or cannot do.

Personally, besides the fact that I have a zero tolerance policy about generative AI, I've had enough of arrogant software developers. Read the room.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #calibre #eBooks #eBookManagers #AISlop #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill #dev #tech #FOSS #SoftwareDevelopment

Developer vs. Timezones

Why does this have to be so complicated?

#rant #dev

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @TheKeystoneCollective

🔣 https://www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse-beauty-of-regex-a-love-letter-to-the-worlds-most-efficient-torture-device/

#regex #strings #dev #blog #letters #it

#Cloudflare #SecurityTheater #surveillance #web #tech #dev #DarkPattern

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #DataScience #science #ComputerScience #EcologicalRationality

- browser.aiwindow.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
- browser.ml.chat.sidebar
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- sidebar.notification.badge.aichat 

Enter "about:config" in the browser bar and then search for each of these and disable them, turn them off, or set them to false as appropriate.

Depending on which version of Firefox you have you may not have all these configuration options.

Check your smartphone browsers too!

#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web #NoAI #AICruft #antifeatures

#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web

#dev #tech #web #resilience #DarkPatterns #DownDetector #cloudflare #CloudflareOutage #EverythingIsBroken

Screenshot reads:

downdetector.com
Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #DownDetector #cloudflare #CloudflareOutage #EverythingIsBroken

#Google #Gmail #Gfail #GoogleIsSpam #tech #dev

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Screenshot of a Google Mail inbox showing a recent Google-generated verification email sitting in the spam folder. I did not put it there, nor do I recall ever telling Google to mark Google emails as spam.

#tech #dev #web #captcha #cybersecurity #infosec #SecurityTheater #DarkPatterns

Security theater. In fact I think "security" is really about control, and nowadays when I encounter a security challenge I think of it in terms of who is trying to control my behavior and to what ends. I think it's clear by now that many internet "security" controls, at least those deployed by large tech companies, are not good faith efforts to protect users; that's a secondary concern.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Copilot #Gemini #tech #dev #web #internet #SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #security

#tech #dev #web #internet #SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #security

Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.

#dev #tech #web #bot #DarkPattern #security #infosec #cybersecurity #checkpoint

The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AISlop #web #tech #dev #Google #Chrome

When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Claude #Copilot #Gemini #GPT #ChatGPT #tech #dev #science #research #writing

Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

From https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Claude #Copilot #Gemini #GPT #ChatGPT #tech #dev #science #research #writing

Like other addictive technologies, I have a love/hate relationship with ____________, and the more I despise it, the more I use it, and the more I use it, the more disgusted I am at how addicted I’ve gotten, and the more addicted I get, the more I wish it had never been invented.

Here's an except from a post on Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter, which is very good on the subject of antitrust:

The last meaningful reference point for an antitrust remedy is the Microsoft case. In that one, the break-up was overturned, and a weak interoperability mandate was imposed. But the real penalty to Microsoft was embarrassment and fear within the executive suite; no longer would the company crush its rivals, from then on, lawyers would cautiously oversee product design. That’s not ideal, Microsoft should have just been broken up and set free to compete. But a chastened leadership did have the effect of not killing the next generation of companies, who ended up creating Web 2.0. That’s deterrence, which is one goal of antitrust remedies.

This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory. They will have no compunction continuing to engage in unlawful behavior. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? Would a rival or the government really go before a weak judge who doesn’t want conflict, and convince him to act? I don’t think so. In other words, this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays.

Stoller recently wrote a post titled "Why Is Google Still in One Piece? The Terminating a Monopoly Problem" with the subtitle: "Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s."

The problems with the tech sector go all the way to the tippy top.

#Google #monopoly #IllegalMonopoly #antitrust #dev #tech #Gemini #android #Chrome

#captcha #SecurityTheater #infosec #CyberSecurity #security #tech #dev #internet #web

https://fosstodon.org/users/scala_lang/statuses/115056704676502452

#dev #tech #coding #conference #scala #ScalaDays #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #MaskUp #accessibility

If you take the stance that writing is thinking--that writing is among other things a process by which we order our thoughts--then understanding code generator output will require substantial rewriting of the code by whomever is tasked with converting it from technical debt to technical asset.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #CodeAssistant #AgenticAI #tech #dev #coding #TechnicalDebt

#captcha #bot #human #CloudFlare #web #tech #dev

I am very twitchy about what's happening with AI polluting every corner of Microsoft Windows and am worried the same will happen to at least some Linux distributions. I think the worry is warranted, but in this case I misfired--sorry about that.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Assistant-1.0

#tech #dev #FOSS #OpenSource #linux #software #GNOME #NoAI #AI

#2025 #dystopia #Cloudflare #AI #human #web #tech #dev

Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.

#dev #tech #AI #energy #power #DataCenters

#tech #dev #code #CodeLiteracy

Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.

I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.

While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.

This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.

Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.

#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics

Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.
...
Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.

A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.

A while back I wrote in a post here:

under Taylorism the workers who actually do the work and know it best no longer have a say (opinion) in how that work gets done. Pseudo-scientific principles (scientific management, the astrology of MBAs) dictates all. Computers, from the very first, were intended and designed for this purpose.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #tech #dev #computation #ComputerScience #labor #organizing