Ohh! A little important btw:

Currently the website of #Trump Mobile is leaking all customer data except for Credit Card..

On top of being scammed your data is now also freely available

The year is 2056.

I'm still have a blast communicating with real people on a real computer network, running and writing real code by actual humans. Then I switch the damn things off and go enjoy a real life IRL.

Seriously, why is this so hard for some people to grasp? I am thoroughly convinced the next 30 years of my experience with digital technology will be the same as my previous 30:

I use the stuff I like that suits me. Anything else? Cast it out into outer darkness.

Life's too short! ☺️

@impermanen_ Few things in my life have ever made me as consistently happy as donkeys have.

Manuel, whispering: Ask the alien if it has any treats. #asstodon

@trwnh d) mistake familiarity for understanding and forget there was anything to figure out

@catsalad Is there Meow violation???

@twi Oh I'm game_error.error_corrupted_memory, definitely.

White folx, you built entire industries on fabricating the criminality of generations of Black people. Entire legal systems, entire economies, entire cultural narratives designed to position Blackness as the threat you needed protection from. And you were so committed to that story that you are still, right now, crossing the street when you see a Black person coming your way.

@Daojoan I recall it once being said that a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less. So, in the asymptotic limit, the ideal expert is one who knows so much about a whole lotta nothing.

The story behind the journal: Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies (NJLLCS) – DOAJ Blog https://blog.doaj.org/2026/05/18/the-story-behind-the-journal-namibian-journal-of-linguistics-literature-and-communication-studies-njllcs/

@Daojoan

I knew a guy who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year who firmly believed that setting the text encoding to “binary” on a database column meant the column was “encrypted” and thus you could just insert plaintext passwords there without worry.

The dirty secret of expertise is that most experts in any field would rank their own profession's average competence somewhere between alarming and indictable

@decryption working in Feedbin 🎉️

The Mercury logic programming system

https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury

#HackerNews #MercuryLogic #Programming #Language #ProgrammingLanguages #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment

@ddelemeny @silverpill The confidence comes from an asymmetry I suspect many non-native speakers will recognize: I can read English much better than I can write it.

When I write in English on my own, I often know, as I'm writing, that something is off—that the sentence doesn't carry the weight I intended, or that the nuance I wanted is somewhere between the words I've chosen. I just don't always know how to fix it. When I write in Korean first and then work with an LLM, I can read the result and check it against what I meant. Sometimes I'll see a phrase and think: yes, exactly that, I didn't know how to get there myself. That moment of recognition is the verification step.

So I'm not trusting the machine blindly. I'm using my reading ability—which is reasonably good—to audit an output that my writing ability couldn't have produced alone. It's an imperfect process, but it's not as unmoored as handing a text to a system and walking away.

Your point about polyglot authors is well taken. The tool works better when the person using it can actually evaluate what it produces. I'd agree that's a meaningful distinction.