Every time #Signal says that they will pull out of a country if some law is passed, they remind everyone that they are a single point of failure. How many times have you ever heard that email will pull out of a country if some surveillance law is passed?

EDIT: Yes, of course this has the usual flurry of people saying 'Don't like Signal? Use {thing that is worse than Signal and no one who cares about security takes seriously}'. Please just stop. I am using Signal because I have evaluated alternatives and Signal is the least bad. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop criticising it and it doesn't mean I'm going to use something worse.

I declare "ethics" to be out of scope for my habit of feeding people I don't like to big cats.

No reply on the Fediverse may mention the following topics:

• Long-term social or economic impact of feeding people to big cats.
• The environmental impact of feeding people to big cats.
• Anything to do with the legal status of feeding people to big cats.
• Moral judgements about people who feed people to big cats.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it...

I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me.

Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar.

#FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome

Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).

Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.

Another amazing visual essay by @tg. This section stood out for me:

"These aren’t acts of nostalgia. I don’t want to teleport to 1999 with a beige computer and pretend everything was better when getting online made a noise.

I am trying to build on the part of the internet that still has the properties I want software to have: durable, legible, user-shaped, hostile to enclosure, and quiet enough that a single person can still understand the whole thing."

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

#IndieWeb #RSS

Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew.

In their AI Engineering Report, Faros detail what they call an “acceleration whiplash” effect caused by AI code gen.

It's the same “downstream chaos” that DORA and CircleCI saw in their data.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/slow-the-fk-down/

“THIAGO ÁVILA AND SAIF ABUKESHEK ARE FREE” (FIDH, 2026-05-10)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYJlHNUCCni/
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>> While they are now free, #Adalah and #FIDH condemn the entire process as a flagrant violation of international law.

>> From their abduction in international waters to their unlawful detention in total isolation and the ill-treatment they were subjected to, the Israeli authorities’ actions were a punitive attack on a purely civilian mission.

>> Whilst human rights violations continue to be committed on a daily basis by the Israeli authorities in Gaza, FIDH and Adalah will continue to work and fight to put an end to this impunity.

📸BURAK AKBULUT / ANADOLU via AFP

#BreakTheSiege #Gaza #palestine #accountability
@[email protected] @palestine