Mastodawn

Coding agents are going to give us lots of data about the correctness of Bram’s Law: “The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it is implemented in practice.”

Now lots more software is much easier to write.

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦16h ago

I wonder whether the Ray-Ban / Meta pervert glasses will manage to kill the Wayfarer style of sunglasses, so popular as to be effectively the default worldwide? If people start getting Wayfarers slapped off their faces, you can bet new sales of the style will crater! https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-the-ray-ban-meta-creep/

The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep

Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

WIRED

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦2d ago

I swear I am going to start naming and shaming all these upstart #AI companies that are in my inbox shilling wares that are in no way relevant to me — and without any unsubscribe link to make them stop. I need to go old-school and *plonk* them until Gmail blocks them from delivery entirely.

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦2d ago

Mark Reid 3d ago

OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦3d ago

What is "sovereign #AI", and is it even possible to achieve it in practice?

What is not possible is to buy it, or even achieve sovereignty quickly by throwing money at the problem. It is possible to achieve reasonable goals in this space, but doing so is going to require some careful architecture work.

https://findthethread.blog/How-Sovereign-Is-Your-Intelligence/

How Sovereign Is Your Intelligence?

Today brings an interesting juxtaposition of news items, each helping to illuminate the other.

Find The Thread

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦3d ago

Over on #Bluesky, I moved PDS to eurosky dot social, and the whole process was entirely painless. I wish moving servers in the #fediverse were that easy!

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦4d ago

Micro SF/F by O. Westin 5d ago

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riotnrrd/116272327601860590

Sounds like IDC agrees with me that the Amazon phone is not a product people want, especially right now: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/amazon_phone_worst_possible_time/

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦6d ago

Amazon is planning to make a phone that can “serve as a conduit to Amazon customers throughout the day”; very revealing turn of phrase, that! It gets even more explicit: “Amazon could gain a wealth of new data about users”. So, I understand why Amazon would want this —but why would anybody else? https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/exclusive-amazon-plans-smartphone-comeback-100051690.html

Exclusive-Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop

In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos...

Yahoo Finance

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Mar 20

Eid morning prayers are going on outside my window, and I’m pretty sure I can hear women’s voices joining in leading the chants. As someone ignorant of Islam, but who has travelled a little in Islamic countries, that is not something I have heard before. Is it indicative of anything at all? A particularly liberal local congregation, perhaps?

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