This session from #PSConfEU is, by far, my favorite one ever done... Learnt a lot, laughed a lot, and... Got a full 5.0 score on the feedback form. I may have peaked now 😁

Ryan (Unsure of the Future)@blog.kilasuit.org · last wk.

"You can spend half a year, of dumb ideas, just to rick roll a conference" Rick rolling aside, this was another great session by @bjompen.com especially for going into thread-safe injection techniques www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEah... Code from this session available > github.com/psconfeu/202...

"Mike's Hard Lemonade." "Mike's Hot Honey." keep Mike away from food. he's an absolute menace

Nothing sounds great

The Verge@theverge.com · 2w ago

It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th. www.theverge.com/tech/975516/...

my reaction to fully three-quarters of "new AI features" is "jesus christ, why?" sometimes that's "why" as in "this is dumb who would want this" and some times it's "why" as in "this is dumb and will lead to bad things" and sometimes it's both:

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

ADHD is when every input is a process interrupt

How I feel about these online age verification laws

who knew the guy who invented rails would have other bad ideas

the singularity they're talking about is the point at which all the money can no longer escape the pull of the financial gravitational well

Good grief, this hits home.

We should be worried that this doofus can still raise funding

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3w ago

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

Remember the visual file system navigator from Jurassic Park? I've encountered fsn clones in at least a handful of network management products over the course of my career, and it always feels like I'm back in 1994 (not a compliment)

Adam P Knave@adampknave.com · 3w ago

See also: Those transparent screens in movies you have to use BIG GESTURES to swipe shit around to use. Terrible terrible shit in actual use case, but looks so much better than tippy tapping on a small screen the audience can't see.

i would rather die than talk to computer out loud

9to5Mac@9to5mac.com · 4w ago

Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with more powerful models

You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4w ago

I guess Russian transfers stopped?

StackOverflow took up ~10-15% of my time awake for the better part of a decade. Now I spend a lot more time playing video games. That's not a bad thing in and of itself, but it's had a detrimental effect on my ability to _write_, and I'm struggling to find another outlet for that 😒

Hacker News Top Stories@hackernewsbot.bsky.social · last mo.

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph | Discussion

I know some people are working really hard to take humans out of the software development loop, but I hope that day never comes.

When trans folks point out the cowardice of institutions complying with anti-trans bigotry, we're often hit with "but what do you expect them to do?" Well, this. Say "no." Refuse. Defy. Grow a goddamn spine.

Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 4w ago

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

[waits for the in-flight infotainment release]

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last mo.

Homer’s dying words were, “Keep my epic poems off IMAX, or I’ll send the wrath of Ares upon your next 10 generations.”

I'm writing a gay romance about rival bakeries It's called wheated rivalry

Dr. Tessa Fisher@tessafisher.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm writing a gay romance about rival shepherds It's called Bleated Rivalry

Yesterday, in the wake of Sam Neill passing, I obviously ended the day watching Jurassic Park. Today I'll soften the blow by watching Jurassic Park III.

Die Another Day (2002)

Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP@cancercommunicator.com · last mo.

"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

a thousand monster / dinosaur / megafauna movies since Jurassic Park have tried and failed to replicate its magic, but the thing Jurassic Park understood is that we aren’t just hooked by the Big Toothy Creature, we’re hooked by the moment a crotchety old grump rediscovers his sense of wonder

Cezary Jan Strusiewicz@ostrichson.bsky.social · last mo.

I remember the first time I saw "Jurassic Park" and how weird it felt when Neill's character got all emotional at real dinosaurs. Earlier he was threatening to slit a kid's throat with a raptor claw. He was the Main Guy Hero. Those don't show emotions! But he did, and it got me Thinking (C). RIP.

well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last mo.

I take it back, give me the pictures of crosswalks and motorcycles. the captchas are evolving and I can't solve this one.

Hill I'll take a nap on: Racine Kringle is not a true kringle

Mathias R. Jessen@iisresetme.bsky.social · last mo.

The Wisconsin version is a fun lost-in-translation remake - "kringle" quite literally means "pretzel-knotted" in Danish so my brain has to do a double take when I see the torus shape

Listen, man, you didn’t weird me out you weirded me in. Tell me more obscure facts immediately.

Who are "we" and why do you need to discuss other people's genitals so regularly that this even registers as a problem? Get a fucking hobby

Natasha Devon@natashadevon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Breaking - Michael Deacon of the telegraph issues ‘everyone stop saying ‘her penis’’ challenge …

yeah, you could say I’m an ally

Brianna ghey has become the face of a social media ban for young people Despite the fact that her killers knew her in real life, at school, and she was socialising with them outside when they killed her And the reason they killed her was the traditional print media moral panic Truly sickening