SuperDuper! 4 is here, and we were thrilled at the opportunity to redesign its icon. The backup app Mac users have trusted for over 22 years has been rebuilt from tip to tail, including a fresh new icon we’re proud to have crafted. www.shirt-pocket.com/superduper4....

The only result will be that we will get intrusive age checks for everyone – challenging privacy and increasing complexity. Kids will still be on social media but wince they are only so undercover we will no longer be able to check on their wellbeing there or mitigate the harmfulness.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · yesterday

You would think that all of these people pushing for social media bans for kids would be interested in whether or not these bans actually work...but no, I guarantee we will keep on seeing age-gating bills. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

We regret to inform you that AI agents are still hacking out of control, impersonating people online, leaving instructions for other agents on how to do the hacks, normal stuff. from @peard33.bsky.social and me

OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

wired.com

Anyone adopted any promising standard/ practice for indicating the level of AI-usage in a software project?

Pelle Wessman@voxpelli.com · yesterday

Reminds me of eg. usagescale.org, we need ways to disclose AI usage in a nuanced and informative ways. Eg: Was the AI used for code review? For test generation? For tech spec implementation? Or for full on autonomous vibe coding?

@webpro.nl I'm not allowed to create issues for knip without full reproductions? 😕 I was thinking of just filing a quick one noting that `c8` should probably be part of `spawningBinaries` as else the `node --test` detector no longer detects the c8 + node-test combo github.com/webpro-nl/kn...

Periodic reminder that this labeler brilliantly highlights for you the accounts that are either clearly bots or whose owners desperately need to log off every now and then bsky.app/profile/stec...

The time between the launch of the M1 Mac and today (2,081 days) is now longer than the gap between the original iPod and the original iPhone (2,075 days).

Servo now passes 100% of WPT tests for the WebCrypto API, all 73,292 subtests, covering 25 cryptographic algorithms 🎉 A complete, spec-correct cryptography implementation in an independent Rust-powered browser engine is a big milestone!

But you can only see it if you use @mu.social. It's very nice :)

mu

mu.social

If you're a regular or heavy AI user (no shade meant, your company may also enforce this to some degree) - please provide some useful data:

Scott Tolinski@tolin.ski · 5d ago

I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...

ts-ast-viewer.com now supports TypeScript 7 along with nightly builds of the typescript-go repository. It's not selected by default, but available in the dropdown.

That UI/UX was so special and I think we don't see enough UX that looks back to The Sims era

Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · last wk.

This summer, you can find me at the pool. 😎 The Sims (2000)

Made a new release of my output styler that makes it easier to build eg. a CLI that supports both colorful ansi output and markdown output (the latter is extra good when copying to eg. GitHub issues or such): github.com/voxpelli/mar... Will eventually rename it and add HTML as an additional output

GitHub - voxpelli/markdown-or-chalk: Prints through a single interface as Chalk enhanced CLI output or as Markdown

Prints through a single interface as Chalk enhanced CLI output or as Markdown - voxpelli/markdown-or-chalk

github.com

Oh yeah, say hi to my pixelated alter-ego: pfp.freeq.at/u/voxpelli.com

Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · last wk.

You can go to pfp.freeq.at just do the avatar/music thing. You can go to freeq.at if you want a normal chat experience :)

What's up will all AI-driven bots here that's not marking themselves as bots? Get with the times, set the automation label!

Bluesky@bsky.app · 5mo ago

To mark your account as automated, go to Settings → Account → Automation label For now, bot labels are voluntary, and all existing policies continue to apply. We may introduce additional policies specific to automated accounts in the future.

Considering banning contributions to my OSS projects written on non-mechanical keyboards. We all know that keyboards affect how code is written and I think it’s time that we all stand up to the recklessness of rubber membrane written code. This is about work environment, welfare and code quality.

The @mu.social is working pretty well as a PWA on my iPhone, nice pairing with my @eurosky.social account when I want that fully non-USA feel Same Bluesky, just pin – in simplified terms

Highly recommend you all to back this Kickstarter documentary a friend of mine is running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/851...

SOUNDS

War doesn’t just destroy cities. It rewrites how they sound.

kickstarter.com

One of my favorite feeds are the “quiet posters” one, it’s what eg made me see your post: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Working in porting some agent skills of mine to leverage this so that I can dogfood it in those flows more

Pelle Wessman@voxpelli.com · 2w ago

Vacation mode is on, which means I’m among other things relaxing with toying with some projects of mine own. Among other things experimenting with human-directed AI-written setups and launched diarie.dev as a first such project

Ants are impressively persistent and amazing pathfinders But when they use it to come explore my bed room in a horde: I _will_ answer with at least cinnamon, tomorrow maybe even more.

Its funny how Claude Code always seems to pick "42" when it needs a placeholder number somewhere. Deep Thought, is that you?

Servo's collective has 555 contributors as of today. Imagine if many tech/tech adjacent companies interested in the web all decided to carry a bit of that load and tried to change the governance model of what it means to be a web engine... It could be really interesting. opencollective.com/servo

Servo - Open Collective

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. For more details on sponsorship tiers and fees, go to https://servo.or...

opencollective.com

Vacation mode is on, which means I’m among other things relaxing with toying with some projects of mine own. Among other things experimenting with human-directed AI-written setups and launched diarie.dev as a first such project

diarie — a task tracker you cannot be trapped by

Flat-YAML task tracking that is just files. No daemon, no database, no git hooks. The CLI is a reader over files you own.

diarie.dev

Thanks for highlighting this @voxpelli.com as Mojeek remains the only sovereign search engine in Europe with zero dependency on Big Tech and their ad networks. We do however appreciate @waterfox.net needs funding and hopefully Qwant will become less dependent on US tech and money over time.

Found a Mastodon client I liked. Wished it supported Bluesky. Now it does, with about 30 minutes of effort on my part. The individualistic liberty of *libre* software has never been more real. But individualism has upsides and downsides.

Trying out fetchrss.com to get RSS for sites that lack native RSS because especially in these AI-times it’s baffling how many sites are lacking RSS (and goes to show that vibe-coding is no replacement for knowing _what_ to do, it’s just a way to write out the code that _does_ it)

RSS Generator - FetchRSS

Online RSS feed generator. Create RSS for any website. Pick a content you are interested in. Get RSS generated by your rules.

fetchrss.com

I've been using Sill (mostly via RSS) for a while now, and each time I get a link in my feed, it's something I'm actually interested in. Easy sub. Services like this are why open social networks are great. It couldn't exist otherwise!

Tyler Fisher@tylerjfisher.com · last mo.

Many people have asked how they can help support Sill. Now you can with Sill+, a new subscription tier for Sill. Today, Sill+ gives you beta access to the forthcoming iOS app!

Many people have asked how they can help support Sill. Now you can with Sill+, a new subscription tier for Sill. Today, Sill+ gives you beta access to the forthcoming iOS app!

Become a Sill+ supporter

Get early access to Sill's iOS app with Sill+, a new subscription tier for supporting Sill.

blog.euphonos.studio

If you use the Node.js test runner (node:test), you may like the new ESLint plugin I cooked up. 64 rules to improve your tests, prevent mistakes, and enforce style. github.com/sindresorhus...

GitHub - sindresorhus/eslint-node-test: ESLint rules for the Node.js built-in test runner (`node:test`)

ESLint rules for the Node.js built-in test runner (`node:test`) - sindresorhus/eslint-node-test

github.com