@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him. These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial.info [β¦] π bridged from β https://cosocial.ca/@timbray, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Android has excellent notification management. Long-press and make others like this buzz or be silent or just be disallowed. Somehow Facebook has worked around this and now always buzzes. I keep FB around to keep in touch with less technical branches of the family but this is intolerable.
Shame on Inter Miami for sucking up to that guy in the White House. Especially given that most of them are brown-skinned foreigners, as in leading candidates for arrest, incarceration, and deportation by ICE if they weren't elite athletes. Feaugh.
The US Womenβs national hockey team, on the [β¦]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116177954803428148
Yes! Having said that, npm has terrified me for years.
People who love cameras & #photography tend to be even more obsessive about lenses. This is particularly true in the #fujifilm ecosystem where I live. If you are a bit lens-focused (π) you will really enjoy this video, where a couple of Fuji lens insiders talk about lenses they might [β¦]
Knuth on Claude:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
Tl;dr: LLMs are shit at citations.
AI Translations Are Adding βHallucinationsβ to Wikipedia Articles
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
From @nelson
GitHub status
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly
The big Ticketmaster anti-monopoly trial is spinning up: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-ticketmaster-monopoly-trial-starts
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116165450134645099
That includes me.
Intelligent Life of Earth - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644
@stonedonkey Thanks, nice client!
@stonedonkey Looks good. Is there a light mode? The dark-grey-on-black bits (e.g. post stats) are way too low-contrast for my old eyes.
In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/27/Kansas-and-GenAI
(Tl;dr: In 1991, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It didnβt go well.)
#genAI
You know, if I believed that Trump & Bibi gave a single solitary feeble little fuck about the people of Iran, I might⦠well, why bother completing that sentence.
#USPol #war
Really good video from UK Greens leader. Stop running: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q80HKccRoqY
[Disclosure: Member of BC Green Party.]
Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardrails and [β¦]
Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: https://substack.com/home/post/p-189132130
#USpol
In which Iβm reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
In The Information newsletter, on Block layoffs. Quote:
The best way to destroy public support for AI is for companies to use it primarily to slash jobs. Dorsey says thatβs coming: βWithin the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar [β¦]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116132712269085120
Update: They opened!
Slender not-fully-open crocus blossoms rising out of moss and leaf mould.
Got spring crocuses if you want βem: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/24/Crocuses-of-2026
#Photography #bloomscrolling
Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=11524&post_id=189053872&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wabr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116126973234897750
Gotta say, some of the comments on this one had me snorting out loud.
IBM crashes because weβre gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uhβ¦
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/
What Anil said.
This. The issue feels more important to me than the next 5 issues put together. Permanent widespread financial stress + continued 1% enrichment, an explosion waiting to happen. Not just in the US, but the US is unique in its insane health-care economics. I think a political program that [β¦]
Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Creek-South/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=230226
#Vancouver #FalseCreek
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116115276691858677
And with that, @codinghorror blocked me.
Life is weird sometimes.
San Francisco as described in this piece is as exhausting as it sounds
But
Iβm also glad that I donβt have to live in that version of it
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
#SanFrancisco
RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/116110218041250391
I'm unable to find any confirmation of that supposed $120M investment in Bluesky. There was a story in Business Insider in January 2025 saying they were seeking investment on a $700M valuation. Does anyone have a link to solid evidence?