Utter insanity. Complete disregard for anything or anyone else on the planet or in the sky.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satellite-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.mLor.YQZzOBNKM3YW&smid=url-share

I'm a software professional and I have spent the last 40 years writing code almost daily. To me, the advent of LLM coding tools means that the job that I have been doing so far is gone. I am no longer going to write code for a living. Instead, my job as a software professional will be to guide LLMs to write the code for me.

I did not ask for this, and I have not decided whether I enjoy my new activity more than I enjoyed my previous duties. But is that relevant? In a certain sense, I am a 1/

A powerful statement on AI by the pope

60th World Communications Day 2026
http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:

• The linked article was not written by me. It came to me on a different channel (Discord). I only wrote the post on Mastodon.
• The top image in the article looks AI generated. It is no a good image, but in my view less irritating than an advertisement (which is far more common).
• Some people suggest the article itself is AI generated. I don't think this is the case. I wouldn't rule out he author wrote the text in a different language and used AI for translation assistance.
• The claims in the article are not fully backed by the linked repo, but the general statement is correct and IMHO important.

I got frustrated with how GitHub Actions lets workflows with read-only permissions poison the cache of read/write workflows (!!??!?), so yesterday night I put together an Action that runs commands in a gVisor sandbox.

I am using it to test our Go modules against the latest versions of their dependencies (with "go get -u") on a schedule, to be notified early of compatibility issues, but without the supply chain attack risk or the Dependabot churn.

https://github.com/geomys/sandboxed-step

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu
- Your location
- Your opening hours

Don't Guess My Language

https://programming.dev/post/30504674