evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

We knew full well we were not "too good" to do the boring, tedious boilerplate that good code needs as its skeleton. We did it because that's how good code happens.

We used to handle code the way a furniture maker handled woodworking. Precision, planning, exacting execution.

We had knowledge, skill, and most importantly discipline. We didn't need hand-holding. We were the hand that people called to hold.

We built complex opaque types from structures and enumerations and unions, with clearly specified APIs to manage them. We structured our code for maintainability. We built to last.

We understood how to write good code in C. When we didn't feel like managing memory manually, we called up the Boehm garbage collector and punted, and that worked just fine.

What the fuck happened to us? We used to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. We didn't need an ocean of fresh water and an entire nuclear power plant to pretend to do our jobs, we just did them.

PSA.

An AI threat report accused a startup of Chinese espionage. Security vendors globally blocked them based on hallucinated findings. The startup is now suing. This is what happens when you treat machine-generated correlations as intelligence.

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/02/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/5266201

Onion ads are killing it rn

@sundogplanets have NZ folks already shared Brendan Larsen’s picture of Mt Taranaki with you?

Shared on FB. His website is here: https://www.blarsenphoto.com

Harry Update: I told him he was orange

#CatsOfMastodon

right so i got the PowerBook G4. problem is that the 4 key is extremely sensitive and was actually firing repeatedly. i took the 4 key off and it stopped. the slightest touch of the rubber dome thing makes it fire the 4 key. any ideas on how to fix it?

please boost this post, i don't want to use it without a proper 4 key!

#VintageTech #PowerBook #Apple #Tech #Technology

shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum

By Xinmei Liu

#Art #illustration

Mt Cook (Aoraki), Canterbury Region, New Zealand

More about me & prints
https://linktr.ee/steven.sandner

Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/400s
ISO: 100

#Mountain #Snow #Landscape