Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

When the real world usage metrics on Google+ eventually came to light, we learned that the average user session was .... about five seconds long. The overwhelmingly dominant "user story" of that entire effort was "User wants to click the back button."

If the rumors I'm hearing from inside the big G are anywhere close to representative, when the real information from Gemini comes out, if it ever does, it's going to be absolutely hilarious.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens | Kevin Patel

｢ “It’s a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern web apps,” said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string ｣

https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/

#npm #satire #cybersecurity

we're strange and we like it

• 2006: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems
• 2016: AWS, GitHub
• 2026: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems

ShePlusPlus is here!!

#Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt #CodeGals

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

i am so tired of "ethical concerns aside" being a phrase i see every single time someone tries to defend the use of LLMs. fuck that! ethical concerns front and fucking center! it is very revealing that tech is currently in such a state that the quiet part can be said out loud without any pushback.

I've had this in my head for ages, so here you go.

"uefi", pronounced "yiffy"