Mastodawn

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers.": https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.

Steven Op de beeck 12h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116273928106755979

Because Google is an ad-business and they develop the only browser that is in a position to do something about it.

Steven Op de beeck 3d ago

Uwe Trenkner 3d ago

From the article: "This breach is one of several recent high-profile incidents caused by the increasing use of AI agents within US tech companies. Last month, a report from the Financial Times said Amazon experienced at least two outages related to the deployment of its internal AI tools."

Amazon employees later said, that AI integration have led to "glaring errors, sloppy code and reduced productivity".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally

The Guardian

Steven Op de beeck 5d ago

Martin De Wulf 6d ago

TIL that Madagascar is NOT "a little island in the Pacific".

In reality Madagascar is 20 times bigger than Belgium and has 3 times the population: https://www.woatlas.com/compare/madagascar/belgium/

Madagascar vs Belgium - Country Comparison

Compare key statistics between Madagascar and Belgium.

Steven Op de beeck Mar 16

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/116238811765687898

MacBook Neo

Introducing the new MacBook Neo. Stunning colors, durable aluminum design, 13” Liquid Retina display, all-day battery life, AI and Apple Intelligence.

Apple

Steven Op de beeck Mar 15

Project Hail Mary

Steven Op de beeck Mar 15

@matt_birchler how do I share this on mastodon, am I missing something g something obvious?

Steven Op de beeck Mar 14

“Why do I have to learn about physics and chemistry in school? I won’t need it in life”.

Because when you end up making a movie where the premise is fixing problems using science, you don’t make an absolute mockery of the science.

The Project Hail Mary movie was good fun, but it’s got nothing on the awesomeness of the book.

Steven Op de beeck Mar 12

AkaSci 🛰️Mar 10

RIP Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, pioneering computer scientist.

His seminal contributions include -
Quicksort
Quickselect
Hoare logic
Null reference
Communicating sequential processes
Structured programming
ALGOL

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hoare_4622167.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
1/n

Steven Op de beeck Mar 9

Tiago Peixoto Mar 8

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.