Notices by Svavar the Neurospicy (svavar@masto.svavar.com)

@skinnylatte

What about 67?

People dealing with systemic poverty and discrimination, a fascist media landscape, and AI billionaires destroying their hopes for a better future, on top of a war brewing in Europe, need to accept life as it is and stop asking for help with their mental health.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pvxdn9v4o

@ryanc

This and also regex.

@thomasfuchs

This is not limited to Mastodon. WhatsApp is glitching as well.

@vagina_museum

This is a diagram from the 1994 film Junior, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson.

@thomasfuchs

The application stays the same but everything around it changes until it becomes prohibitively expensive to maintain.

There are lots of examples of computers with specialist software to control industrial machines that still run MS DOS and work fine.

Anything that has to connect to the Internet and get security patches is eventually going to go end of life.

Imagine having to maintain an application written in ASP 3.0 backed by an Access database and you'll know what I mean.

@thomasfuchs

I reckon we've been in that time for at least the past 15-20 years.

I've seen shocking code quality in critical systems in the financial industry and if you need to integrate with the likes of Visa and Mastercard you have no choice but to do a lot of your testing in production.

It's a wonder the world runs as smoothly as it does and no surprise that outages and security breaches happen regularly in organisations that should know better.

The phrase Low-background Steel has had a resurgence thanks to AI Slop polluting the Internet and poisoning all Internet content along with it.

https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/

@SecurityWriter