But will it fuck up my formatting when I add an image?

Ctrl+Shift+F+U+F

Wow. Sometimes data breaches come from the companies we most expect them from.

If I told myself five years ago about this, I bet they would nod slightly in total lack of surprise.

And maybe they figure EU leaders aren’t smart enough to ask for reproducible builds.

…or if any part of the data processing happens on US soil…

I wonder if the price increase will be spent on making a chart that tells me which XBox is which?

I don’t know exactly when I got old, but I feel angry every time Xbox reminds me that I’m too old to know which is which.

It got worse after a closer look - realizing this is Sunshine, and not something earlier…

I don’t get it, what does “a temporarily embarrassed founder” mean?

It’s a combination of “temporarily embarrassed future billionaire” with the (mostly mythical) “garage software business founder”.

Many software programmers (including me) spent the first decade of our careers sure we would produce a world-shaking program in our garage, and then found a company to scale it to the world.

“Are we the baddies?!”

“I fight for the user” has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that “I don’t need a union, I’m a temporarily embarrassed founder.”

Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.

Are least it’s evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.

Silver lining…?

HTTP works pretty well, if you don’t mind various governments spying on the traffic.

I wanted to fact check this, but I guess Meta doesn’t have a tool for that, anymore. I’ll have to accept it at face value.

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

As a developer, we use AI “extensively” because it’s currently practically free and we rarely say no to free stuff.

It is, indeed, slightly better than last year’s autocomplete.

AI is also amazing at letting non-developers accomplish routine stuff that isn’t particularly interesting.

If someone is trying to avoid paying for one afternoon of my time, an AI subscription and months of trial and error are a new option for them. So I guess that’s pretty neat.

I’m not settled on which distro

I distro hop a lot, myself, but I always hear nice things about Linux Mint. (And last time I used Mint, I had no complaints.)

Edit: Folks here also swear by Bazzite for gaming.

Every technology shift creates winners and losers.

There’s already documented harm from algorithms making callous biased decisions that ruin people’s lives - an example is automated insurance claim rejections.

We know that AI is going to bring algorithmic decisions into many new places where it can do harm. AI adoption is currently on track to get to those places well before the most important harm reduction solutions are mature.

We should take care that we do not gaslight people who will be harmed by this trend, by telling them they are better off.

I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.

And to every other bidder, too, of course.