Mom I am on the news

They explicitly stated we need a senior on their job application. I sent resume.
I have explicitly mentioned I'm a junior developer. They invited to interview.

Let's see where this goes...

You didn't ask for my opinion, but I am going to voice it anyway.

Close your eyes. Imagine a big field, consisting of beautiful green grass.

Now picture twenty two players - eleven on both ends. A ball is kicked onto the field.

Then, twenty of those players (one lazy player on each end) are running towards the ball like utter mad dogs, kicking it as far away as they can...

Only to run towards it and kick it in the opposite reaction. This completely deluded scenario is being repeated for no less than ninety minutes. Sometimes even longer.

Now, that is how I think of football and especially watching this so-called "sport".

#football #soccer #sport

I am officially announcing that Pride Month has now been extended to August 31st due to rising backlash by the right wing and other similar political views.

Enjoy the Pride Months!

(Yes, I am taking this seriously.)

Open Source Low Tech

Link: https://opensourcelowtech.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683098

All "privacy oriented" commercial VPNs are honeypots.

You can't change my mind on that.

Mullvad VPN has heavy marketing in Washington DC (their ads are plastered all across the metro stops frequented by government workers and foreign diplomats) for example.

The whole "you need to hide something? here we'll hide it for you! Everyone that wants to hide something should put is all in this one consolidated place!"

But they totally won't look at it.

They swear.

No logs, bro. I promise. I can look, but I won't. I could log, but I won't.

So while Mullvad the company is showing their ass, asking what other VPN to hop to begs the question: Why are you using a commercial VPN?

If it's to change your IP address to bypass porn restrictions in fundamentalist theocratic states, then cool. That's a solid use case.

If it's for a nebulous reason like "for privacy" or "for security". Then you might want to see if that tool actually meets your specific threat modeling.

#VPN #mullvad #mullvadVPN

P.S. misery here means anxiety and feeling unsecure

please select your language

So I'm wondering if it's something just for me or Tusky doesn't enable you to quote?

Edit: quotes are displayed properly

#tusky

Hey everyone who has ever joked "I wouldn't mind a little global warning — it's too cold here"... fuck you.

Mewo

مکان دکمهٔ ترجمه در تاسکی.
اگر فارسی زبان هستید و علاقه‌ای ندارید محیط براتون فارسی باشه، زبان پیش‌گزیده خودتون رو در تنظیمات ماستودون فارسی کنید، که فرسته‌ها به‌ زبان خودتون ترجمه بشه.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Stewori/116720397755564355

It's really good to know that Javadoc finally catches up. Of course there will be full support for the new Rich Note tags on our site. Having a standard for this, will make handling admonitions much easier and less error-prone!

#java #javadoc #apidia

APIdia boosted

Stefan Richthofer » 🌐 2026-06-09 / 2026-06-09
@Stewori@mastodon.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@APIdia/115644204111693537

There is a JEP pending to bring admonitions to Javadoc!
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8363700
(They call it "notes" though, but it's effectively the admonition concept as known from tools like Sphinx or AsciiDoc.)
APIdia found its own solution for admonitions in Javadoc some years earlier:

#java #javadoc #apidia #jvm

APIdia » 🌐 2025-12-01
@APIdia@mastodon.social

Did you know that #APIdia supports admonitions like known from AsciiDoc or Sphinx?
Since #Javadoc lacks admonition tags, a couple of typical HTML patterns is recognized and rendered as proper admonition boxes. See the screenshot for an example (https://apidia.net/java/OpenJDK/?pck=javax.swing&cls=.JComponent).

The most common pattern is
<strong>Warning:</strong>text until next<p>
as is shown in the example. Instead of <strong>, also <em>, <b> and <i> are recognized, colon is optional, so
<i>Note</i>text<p>
is also fine.

#java

7:30pm

Me 8yrs old: IT'S TOO EARLY TO GO TO BED 😭

Me now: Oh God, can I go to bed yet? 🥱

I guess since no one* will do the dishes for me on my birthday that will have to be my last gift to myself, *I'll* do the dishes so I can relax.

*I live alone

Hello everyone,

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Thank you very much Inbox.lv 😐

This is a good piece from @emilymbender on how to use language to push back on “AI” (or “probabilistic automation” as she suggests) and stop anthropomorphising the synthetic text extruders.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

https://youtu.be/8jrKl4teAjY?si=KpaL3oamE9LXN9Vo

Putin saying Russia has no budget crisis is as convincing as Trump saying the pond looks great.

remember fellow cs practitioners: the value of composition over curling into a ball and crying

I saw a ton of tourists in Helsinki today. It was rainy and 16°C, but people didn’t seem to mind.

the poll

After reviewing a chunk of PRs where others used GenAI to various degrees, my perspective so far is that:

- There's a difference between an actual productivity improvement and someone offloading work onto someone else
- Friction serves an important function. If removed in the wrong place it causes more harm than good
- I miss being able to learn about people's taste. PRs created with GenAI are a pain in the ass to review.

Gave me the final nudge to not accept such PRs in the repo's I own.

The irony of spending years and years on designing solutions that focus on fully decentralised identity ownership as the basis for an ecosystem that respects your privacy (working title: TCP/ID, because TCP/IP delivers for machines what humans should also have :) and seeing how these fundamental theories get perverted to using „protect the children“ for an authoritarian nightmare of centralised identity ownership and control.

Edit: dudes*

The language of human care and affection isn't so complicated. Usually it's obvious if someone values you, but brains, being so complex themselves, are sick of such simple clues and introduce additional, peripheral, complexity ruining the whole idea of being close to someone.

So yeah, some people just don't get it, me included