@david_chisnall
ISTR that the original Mac developers guide said that there should be an "undo" available for every action... when did that disappear?
@don

(“I don’t know who needs to hear this,” etc., and at that I strongly suspect the people who most do will struggle to take the thought on board. Selah.)

In entirely unrelated news, seems like I have to do another midnight Gatwick Airport run again tonight. Good job last time wasn't one of the most traumatic experiences of my entire life.

@davidgerard I bought one of the cheap wrist-mounted blood pressure meters from Lidl a year or so ago. It worked a few times, then I put it aside, and when I tried again, it started failing with an error code. I ended up picking up a proper cuff-based one (a Beurer, about €40).

@FdC
"Plutôt Hitler que le Front Populaire".
C'est fou qu'ils n'aient absolument rien retenu de l'Histoire.

@Anders @tshirtman @davidsnug J'ai lu ce thread avec attention entre les anti IA farouches et les devs "pragmatiques". Pourquoi une telle opposition de principe aux LLMs ? Ils sont largement utilisés dans le monde du dev et je ne vois pas d'arguments à part "les IA c'est le mal"

Entre 100% vibe coding buggué et 0% IA il y'a tout un univers rejeté de fait même pour 10% de code généré par IA? J'ai du mal à comprendre

Meine Frau sucht ab dem nächsten Jahr eine Stelle in die Richtung #Kulturvermittlung. Vielleicht kennt hier ja jemand wen, der eine kompetente, kreative und teamfähige Mitarbeiterin sucht, gerne auch Remote. Jobinhalte wie Vermittlungskonzepte und alle anderen kreativen Formen von Wissensvermittlung an alle Bedarfe. Am besten im Raum #Hamburg. #fedihire #Museum #Wissenschaftskommunikation #wissensvermittlung

Having a family is basically just explicitly telling people the thing you're most frightened of in the world then them making you do it because they can't be arsed to get a 13 minute train. 👍

@zackwhittaker
"Toby or not Toby, that is the cat question!"

Thanks for sharing his glorious expression!

@internetarchive It’s so simple to scrape websites without abusing them, slowly and using the solution they provide for this operation.
As an example, ListenBrainz provides a file with all the website content for it to be downloaded and stored, but AI scrapers skip past that and keep scraping the website page-per-page, which slows the website down like a DDOS attack (as it happens periodically) and is part of the cause for ListenBrainz’s recent issues.

I hesitate to say this bluntly, because I know a whole lot of folks on here are actively involved in technical development of one sort or another, and derive both pleasure and a significant part of their identity from that fact. There’s something I think we all need to get clear on, though, and it’s something I myself had to learn the hard way: no tool will liberate us. The achievement of justice cannot be automated, or otherwise outsourced to a technical apparatus of any sort.

You work on tools because that’s what you’re good at, because that’s the way your brain works, because that’s what you enjoy or can get compensated for doing. That’s all as may be. But please, please do not make the mistake of thinking that the tool – any tool, of any sort whatever – will produce “progress.” There is and can be no technical fix for the social-psychological, existential or ontological predicaments that confront us. In the end there is only us, staring back at us from whatever mirror we’ve built.

Oh look, a new prime minister who promised devolution is actually delivering centralisation.

As expected.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8m0gxexl4o

@davidgerard Not *quite* so dramatic, per my cardiology prof at the time I only had a 50/50 chance of a fatal heart attack or stroke within 6 months. Instead I got the drugs. Then more drugs with fewer side-effects. Then more drugs to deal with the side-effects. Then …

Well, I'm stable around 130/70 these days, but my repeat prescriptions come in a shopping bag and the prescription form runs to three pages. (Which, as an ex-pharmacist, is an irony I appreciate.)