All these trillions of dollars and the streaming apps get worse over time. And I'm not talking content.
Every month they change the layout.
Still suggest that you watch stuff you just watched.
Still insisting you can't remove for the "continue" something you are not interested in anymore.
i'm probably going to be told tomorrow that i'm being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i've got a resume to send you.
i don't like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their internal linux distribution (an customized Ubuntu downstream) for their custom server platforms, porting forward and cleaning up patchsets to newer versions of the distribution, fixing issues in toolchains and libraries, etc.
i've also done embedded software work for a large variety of devices including medical, cellular technology, and industrial control equipment, in addition to some consumer products. i've done board bringup and BSP development with Yocto/Openembedded, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, etc, on most major SoC and microcontroller families. when doing business logic, I am most comfortable in C and Lua, but fine working with C++ codebases, and can learn to work with other languages if a project needs it.
boosts appreciated.
I still think about you
Mostly it’s ways to murder but still
Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, is hurt by our hate of AI.
You can't make this shit up.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-be…
" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
This is the toughest time to work at a charity. When a charity posts its fundraiser, the total ask has been vetted 100 times: it's the amount that the org needs to keep going for the coming year.
Unlike your local PBS/NPR station, #SFC doesn't have a service we can interrupt to
pitch appeals for donations (& we probably wouldn't even if we did).
#SFC is short $48k with just days to go.
If you want me & my colleagues to work for #SoftwareFreedom in 2026, please give.
Software freedom is critical to many of today’s most pressing social issues, but it’s only effective when FOSS is for everyone. Support Conservancy today to help make that happen!Software Freedom Conservancy
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A fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.enafore.social
One of several drummers on the station, HKC Radio would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Sonic Synergy's own Christina Campbell! Sadly, we can't have Warren Haynes jumping out of a cake for you, we do hope that your birthday has all the rhythm you could want and does not contain tumor milk.
Catch her and Kevin Sunday at 6 PM EST!
Hey lovelies 🩷
We think we've possibly got a few followers and mutuals who are blind and use some kinds of iOS mobile devices, right?
Enquiring because of a random encounter with another plural trans+ being on Reddit, who advised that they're legally blind and had not found any suitably accessible way to access the fediverse.
Can anybody advise whether there are any such ways, so we can give them some way or ways to join the friendlier fediverse community?
If not, they're stuck largely with Reddit and Bluesky 😅😔
The topic only came up after we advised that we'd found fedi to be much more plural friendly and accepting that most other such places... especially Reddit.
For clarity, we have zero experience of iOS and are not blind (at least presently at least), so we'd appreciate any firsthand experiences very much 🫶🏻
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Thought this was going to tell me to stop using MariaDB and use something else, but it's actually telling you to switch to MariaDB already...
Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source https://lobste.rs/s/u1ypx5 #databases https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/Lobsters (Mastodon)
but MariaDB was sold to private investors lol
Monty sold MySQL twice
mariadb.com/newsroom/press-rel…
Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth.MariaDB
Ui, the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… … OK, today 10 updated and 1 added apps – where the latter is rather a returning one:
* Amethyst: a Nostr Client for Android 🛡️
(was here until 2023, moved to F-Droid, was archived there, and now is back with us)
RB status: 798 apps (62%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
@BorrisInABox Good to know. I'll remember this for the future.
For about a month I would start it up and it would do the following.
*Power on noise*.
68. Trashed. *beep*.
Oh no. Can you please think of the poor corporation and its CEO? The negativity you talk about regarding AI is hurting them badly. Now Jensen Huang is begging you to stop being so negative about AI: "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. This is the same thing the Microsoft CEO said a couple of weeks back. It would be a shame if you boosted and spread this negative news. Lmao.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-be…
" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-…
#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports
Tens of thousands of fans cancelled their tickets to the 2026 World Cup over the weekend amid safety fears in the U.S.Olivia Perreault (TicketNews)
Attached: 1 image Current* conditions near Glen Arbor, MI:Lake Michigan! Live! (Mastodon)
Well done @MapComplete for resolving a bug in less than a day! ⚡ thanks from Italians 🍕
P.S. Forgejo is so nice! Lovely integration with OpenStreetMap OAuth. Really simpler than GitHub and GitLab! 👏
source.mapcomplete.org/MapComp…
#OpenStreetMap #MapComplete #Forgejo
I noticed that, when an Italian street is called "Viale XYZ" (example: "Viale Marebello"), then the prefix "**Viale**" is not omitted correctly. The "le" part remains by mistake.Forgejo
fellas, if your savior:
that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms
reshared this
RE: chaos.social/@cjk/115892556039…
Keep it up folks. Culture is winning this one.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, is hurt by our hate of AI. You can't make this shit up. https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-so-negative-about-ai-2000709335chaos.social
My 3yo demanded apples with ketchup this morning. Horrible but, fine, if that’s what you want, you got it. Then he asked if I wanted to taste it. I obviously did not. This mofo turned these tables on my so quick with a “you don’t have to eat the whole thing but at least try it”
Let me tell you. That combo is so much worse than I could have imagined. 🤢🤢🤢
a girl in my class (2nd grade?) used to put ketchup in her applesauce. So there has to be something to this...
She moved away after that school year. Amanda, are you still out there eating that?
RE: social.tchncs.de/@gborn/115887…
#Threema hat sich dann somit auch für mich erledigt. Reden wir einfach mehr über #DeltaChat.
Threema von Comitis Capital GmbH übernommen https://borncity.com/blog/2026/01/13/comitis-capital-uebernimmt-threema/Günter Born (Mastodon)
Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities
thebeaverton.com/2026/01/legau…
Always on point
QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.John Hansen (The Beaverton)
Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.
dragonscave.space/@miki/115895…
Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.
The most painful lesson I learned, and have yet to fully recover from, after losing the community I spent years cultivating when Twitter was sold, it’s this: the “revolution” and change so many of you say you want will never be built in public, on platforms owned by people who not only do not share your values but who see them as threats.
At any moment, the communities, businesses, networks, and even friendships you’ve built there can be taken from you because they were never truly yours.
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