#SoftwareCraft #Taiji #Aikido 🐧🐧🐧 "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a flame to be kindled" -- Plutarch #Reduce #Reuse #Refactor #DefundAI #ButlerianJihad […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqlv767p7mj2Make yourself expensive https://theramm.transparencycascade.org/p/make-yourself-expensive-a-field-guide #Resist #DataSovreignty14 Jul 2026 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqlv767p7mj2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mpl7k7tyln62RE: https://mstdn.social/@GreatOldBot/116843493586380217 This is a post about #AI [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpl7k7tyln62https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mpiomo72lfq2The USA Supreme Court overturning the independence of the Federal Trade Commission ends the "safe harbour" provision in GDPR and suddenly #DataSovreignty is looking large on the horizon, for both public and private sector organisations […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11683833333222522830 Jun 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpiomo72lfq2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mp4c2talpsh2OH: "I’ve had several conversations recently with people at big corporates who are assessed on how frequently they use AI tools in their working day – no one is monitoring their work for quality of outputs or uplifts in performance, just on frequency of AI use."25 Jun 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4c2talpsh2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mp42rbobh7y2Slack life: Rob: "Hey @Claude write me a compelling caption on our new workplace product, focusing on how we don't just build spaces, we bring them to life! Claude: "Bro, for the thousandth time, this is Claude from accounts, I'm not an AI."25 Jun 2026 08:57 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp42rbobh7y2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mop357ildht2"I pushed a change to a core library used by hundreds of Cash App services and waited to see what would break. Ten minutes later I was staring at a green build. I clicked merge, confident that our merge queue would protect against race conditions and keep main stable." PSA: you don't need a […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11678066739349663220 Jun 2026 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mop357ildht2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3momty47smiw2These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity: 1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. 2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11677565968748836719 Jun 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3momty47smiw2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mokpjt6pxuf2I've signed this petition for ministers to come up with a Digital Sovereignty Strategy: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty18 Jun 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokpjt6pxuf2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mohzrpmg3ef2PSA: Getting good at LLM coding so that you'll be better placed to clean up the mess afterwards is like deliberately being run-over so that you're "better at road-safety". You're welcome.17 Jun 2026 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohzrpmg3ef2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mo3hb3lfob62Ahahaha. https://youtu.be/Cckq19OeiMY?si=gxDKKRHyuy8pf4RI "You don't need to be a military contractor to build an EDC brand, you just need to understand modern male anxiety"12 Jun 2026 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3hb3lfob62https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mo3fyrnetdj2"The devious part about self-deception is that you are not only the deceiver but also the deceived. Since detecting a deception (especially from a 'reliable' source as yourself) is much more difficult than creating one, you can typically not detect self-deception." […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11673639568810702512 Jun 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3fyrnetdj2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnzg2kuouac2The company that promoted "move fast and break things" (including government regulation and HR laws) now referred to internally by employees as "Squid Game"? Surprise surprise surprise […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11673189604316266611 Jun 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzg2kuouac2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnxp54wqla32"It also reveals that the fragile but mostly working contract between OSS maintainers and OSS consumers has been cancelled: Just continuously upgrading to the latest releases of the gazillion dependencies, which you added without much consideration or due diligence, and hoping that things will […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11672803138234160710 Jun 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxp54wqla32https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnuf7ohh37f2Anyone with half a brain and even a modicum of systems knowledge will immediately see how this degenerates into IBM Bug Bounty territory and Dilbert's "I'm off to write me a new minivan". "Amazon had an employee-created leaderboard that tracked AI-token use, but shut it down in late May after […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11672057413606043409 Jun 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnuf7ohh37f2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnue6nuwdef2RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116716264864025576 I'm a firm believer in the Battlestar Galactica Doctrine here: you can have as many computerised widgets as you like, but you are forbidden to put them on any kind of network. https://mastodon.social/users/cmconseils/statuses/11671626486402557609 Jun 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnue6nuwdef2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnrk24smdsp2Was Saito Ueshiba's worst student? https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/3ad252f65de38be88a96484b482b0dcb #Aikido #ShuHaRi08 Jun 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrk24smdsp2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnmaytp4coq2Anyone who knows anything about the Toyota Production System will quickly realise that the idea of a "lights out factory" is a dead end. It is the equivalent of Big Design Up Front, and we saw how well that turned out in the software industry. And yet people in the car industry continue to push […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11670224385106545206 Jun 2026 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmaytp4coq2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnm7mszibqz2@Setok I've just heard Steve 'n Seagulls cover of Thunderstruck, and I would never have imagined that Finland had a hillbilly bluegrass scene.06 Jun 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnm7mszibqz2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmzkgszud332#TaiChi walking is not a sport. It is not a fitness regime. It will not get you ripped or lose you 35 pounds in only 6 weeks. Tai Chi walking is one tiny practice sometimes used in Tai Chi training to help students get used to a particular way of moving the feet and body when stepping forwards […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11666014670080109229 May 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzkgszud332https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmsyhveqonh2Johny Ive's new Ferrari design is marmite for sure, but I find the charging mechanism a departure from EV norms. This changes everything?27 May 2026 07:31 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmsyhveqonh2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmqz27r6p562"We have to lead this change and be the people clients turn to deliver this transformation. If we don’t embrace the change, we will become irrelevant." To which I say: "Wizard's First Rule - people are stupid, they will believe anything you want them to believe, provided either they want it to […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11664090771107685326 May 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqz27r6p562https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmqpbmnbibc2There are two hard problems in Computer Science: 1) convincing execs and managers that coding is not the bottleneck; 2) convincing execs and managers that the majority of (expensive) developers' time is spent doing stuff other than coding. The success of GenAI tools is predicated on both of […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11664022108481072926 May 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqpbmnbibc2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmqnj2fyq3h2"A briefing prepared for NHS England senior leaders in February said that Palantir’s NHS platform is eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use. A senior NHS source who uses Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) every day told us the runtime is much slower […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11664009668456088526 May 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqnj2fyq3h2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mlzujjf2te52RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116586547364220379 You missed one: #AISabatour https://mastodon.online/users/jchyip/statuses/11658654736422037917 May 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzujjf2te52https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mloq6yiujtc2So now I have to quit Gitlab too? Fukc. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/12 May 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloq6yiujtc2https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mlbjpmckgq52So SpaceX are not going to pay their CEO a bonus unless they put 1 million people on Mars. Behold, I present you... The Martian penal colony. We can name it "Cygnus Alpha" […] https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/11653399477959082407 May 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbjpmckgq52https://bsky.app/profile/sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy/post/3mkrxjwf7fxx2https://copy.fail/ producing the predictable flurry of work this week.01 May 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:2tppce3ulfomtk4jxn4a5rmn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrxjwf7fxx2