Notices by SaraMG, irmã do sepulcro sáfico 🇵🇹 (saramg@fosstodon.org)

People: Sara, why did you retire from Software Eng in your 40s?

Me: Gestures at this absolutely perfect encapsulation...

@thomasfuchs Shit. Good call. I hadn't read the text. (Goes searching further.)

This photo doesn't do it justice, will try to upload a better one later, but HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

THAT WAS PROFOUNDLY UNREAL. Like something out of a SciFi movie. There was this bright red light on the left edge. Possibly lensing through a lunar crater, but not sure.

#solarEclipse

The unrelenting attack by the lunatics continues.

DOWN IN FRONT!!! #solarEclipse

Disclaimer: This is NOT my photo, this is NASA's photo posted at https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-august-northern-hemisphere-total-solar-eclipse/

It shows the flare we spotted, plus another dimmer one.

Bucket list: See a SOLAR FLARE WITH MY NAKED EYES. ✅

Lovely localization bug discovered in Apple iOS Shortcuts just now by @goatsarah

Note that numbers are localized with commas for decimal, and periods for thousands here. This is important.

x = 23816 / 10937 // 2,17756240
Display arctan(x) // 1,5707963

This is not correct.
arctan(2.17756240) == 1.1402940

What's up? Well, if you store your results as JSON strings truncated to 3 decimal places and localized {"x": "1,775"} and your JSON parser isn't locale aware... well, what is arctan(1775)? 🤦♀️

Meta uses keystroke logger on employee laptops to train AI. AI exposes keystroke data to end users. An outcome nobody could have possibly seen coming.

As a former ex-Meta employee, I have no official comment on this event, however my unofficial comments are as follows:

* Oh.
* My.
* God.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

(Apologies if I'm late to the party, I've been at sea.)

https://ground.news/article/meta-exposed-data-internally-from-its-controversial-employee-tracking-program

Q: We all know Lesbians drive Subarus, but what do Enbies drive?

A: They don't care, so long as it gets them/their.

(I am so... so sorry. You deserve better jokes from me.)

Sometimes I look at someone else's linkedin or whatever, and I'll see them spend the mid 90s in college. and I'll get a little angry, and kinda sad. Anger-sadness? Sounds confusing...

I'm saying I regret that I missed out on that. I don't regret my life, but I regret that missing piece,

Me: Hello, bank. I would like to update my address. Here is my address in Portugal. I am so glad you have a drop-down prompt explicitly asking for country. You have clearly planned for this.

Bank: Fuck off with your non-ASCII.

Me: Um... okay. I'll transliterate those values, I guess.

Bank: Fuck off with the commas too.

Me: But, those are common in US addresses too. Fine.

Bank: Great. I've updated your address for country code PO.

Me: That's... not the code for Portugal. That's Poland.

God damn.
There just aren't any programmers left anymore, are there?
iOS is just a worthless steaming dookie.
Who knew the year of linux on the desktop would come, not from Linux getting polished, but from Microsoft and Apple both dragging themselves down into the shit.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116242235317496042

If you want to investigate something, might I offer the Epstein Files?

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116227366176852440

This is who we are.

TIL the word for a "vibe-coded commit" is a "vomit", and... I just... yes. Well done, internet. Good jorb.

Well done, Chicago. Solid
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-announces-6-winners-snowplow-naming-contest-including-abolish-ice-pope-frio-xiv/18639307/

Looking around for old photos of me (because my life is the sort of place where strangers have been known to take photos of me and post them online), and discovered a few things:

1/ I used to smile more.
2/ I used to be skinnier just like... as a normal thing, not a surprise diet.
3/ I used to give a shit about my appearance in general.

Hard to be sure if the "Sara going down hill" event was turning 30, or if it was moving from the public sector to the private sector, but I don't like it.

Fuck. Realized why I'm on edge today.
It's Jan 19, 2026.

30 years ago today my world ended in my second dissociative break. The first was after the assault. This one was... related, but it was worse, and it ended with being a homeless, insulin-dependent diabetic queer teenage girl with no health insurance living from couch to car for months and burning out on simultaneous minimum wage jobs.

This anniversary is the first one since dad's suicide, and I'm just still here. "Fuck you. Make me."

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI."

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/

Tech CEOs: Workers MUST be present in the office. The job simply can not be done remotely.

Also Tech CEOs: Most workers can be replaced by AI. Hosted remotely.