Thomas Johansen 🦀🛰️🍉

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Never forget the fact that the very first iteration of FB, as The Face Book, created by him was for rating the hotness of girls on his campus. Arguably this is the ethical foundation of all his work.

In my first week of my first job I deleted an important customer's entire website by accident. The next week I was in charge of implementing a backup feature in our bespoke CMS to ensure it never happened again.

Let's hope he stays an incel, and that his genes die with him.

he’s a self-identified incel who says he’s never been with a woman and buddy it shows

That's the end of Remedy then. Why does bad stuff like this keep happening. *sigh*

Absolutely curse the day GitHub sold up to Microsoft. Ridiculous society that this sort of thing keeps happening

I keep hearing this deranged nonsense everywhere and it's pissing me off. I'm expecting the rest of my life to be utter shit because of vibe coded UX.

All the people out there thinking they can vibe code great user experiences are completely delusional, deranged, and wrong. Creating great UX requires tremendous empathy and respect. One of the last things you do is create the human interface "device", and even that needs testing and iteration.

Anyone know exactly what I need to do to be able to ignore users and posts on users.rust-lang.org? I've been a regular reader for years, but never really posted anything and I suspect that might be why I can only mute 🤷

I think it might be time for me to move to @zed.dev full-time. I still miss Atom (and helping maintain it).

VS Code has never really felt right. I love Neovim and Helix, but I'm always going to prefer a graphical editor even though I practically live in terminals.

Any tricks I need to know?

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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old

Probably, here's a markdown file for AI agents in the project repo: seed.pipapo.org/nodes/seed.p...

ty as the default language server for Python? · zed-industries zed · Discussion #45239 Astral just launched ty in Beta: https://astral.sh/blog/ty. We've been following their work and have been waiting patiently for ty 🔥 You can enable ty as a language server in Zed as of 0.217.2. { "...

Pythonistas 🐍—are you using `ty` as your default language server in Zed?

We are, and it’s been very solid for us so far.

We think `ty` will eventually ship as Zed’s default language server, but we’d love to hear your opinions:

github.com/zed-industri...

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

Segment of "Memory Safety for Skeptics," written by me and published in the ACM Queue. It reads as follows: "Get good" is not a strategy There is a common reply in conversations about memory safety, coming from the most hardcore skeptics: Programmers should just write better code. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, that programmers who benefit from the guardrails of memory safety are bad programmers, and that real programmers are sufficiently skilled that they do not need a machine double-checking their work. Let's be clear: This is anti-intellectual nonsense—macho self-aggrandizement masquerading as a serious technical argument. You should not take it seriously and should consider someone advancing this argument as fundamentally unserious and to be ignored. There is no step function in quality of work in the history of human achievement that happened because people one day woke up and decided to be better at their jobs. Improvements in productivity or quality or reductions in error and harm happen because of the invention of new techniques, processes, and tools.

I wrote this about memory safety, but it applies here too.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple

its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates

it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world

this is not a difficult call to make

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between

"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"

and

"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

the people opposed to this are like a who’s who of who shouldn’t have the majority of the world’s wealth

Two quotes worth reading together.

The most un-American, anti-Constitutional, pro-authoritarian president in US history.

Same! Currently trying to grind more cash to get to +3. I had planned on +5 but I haven't got enough time (or skill) to grind that hard 😅

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.

Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.

Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for making those interviews. I'll be listening to both tonight. Dr. Jane Goodall was a remarkable person.

Remembering Jane Goodall's life and legacy Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.

Always remember Jane. www.nationalgeograph...

Here are my interviews with her on my podcast, Remarkable People:
1) guykawasaki.com/jane...
2) guykawasaki.com/dr-j...

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

The insane AI hype is making everything shit. We are all guilty for allowing the insanity to unfold. Things will only get worse as they keep consuming more and more resources, from rare earth minerals to electricity and whatnot.