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Militant vegan, cat dad. Professionally I am a build engineer and an expert in Extremely Large (Gradle) Builds. Personally I'm an unrepentant AI Hater and trying […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@autonomousapps, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
blonde people worldwide should rise up against this confirmation of anti-blonde bias CW: yet another "pretty" blonde idiot representing the entire US govt as press secretary
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
really weird to have worked for one organization as it migrated off GitHub Actions for all the obvious reasons, then to observe another migrate *to* GHA despite knowing those same reasons
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rickf - a cynical professor @rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Interesting how the media keeps referring to the AI companies as "labs" as in "a model escaped the lab.." or "research at the labs shows that..." 'Lab' implies a place where experimentation and 'accidents' understandably might happen. Y'know, like Ebola or Covid. A 'company', on the other hand […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
current status: watching paint dry (learning how to pain ttrpg minis)
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
it's true, app maker, if you animate the buttons in with just the right timing, I may tap on the subscribe button. good job
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
there's always a reason. sometimes the reason is dumb as shit, but there's always a reason (for computers)
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
the world is responding to Arctic sea ice collapse by routing oil shipments through there. the gap between what we should be doing and what we are doing is the size of a collapsing global society
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
we are a fallen people. Yes I know most consumer grade software doesn't require such safety protocols, but I think we'd all be better off if programmers wanted to emulate this level of discipline instead of *waves hands* all this bullshit instead fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1174022742149…
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Margaret Hamilton obit at the NY Times. Mentions the incident during the Apollo 11 landing when Buzz Aldrin flipped a switch, that caused a CPU overload. The software survived because Hamilton had anticipated and simulated such a scenario and had added logic to prioritize essential tasks over others. Paul Curto, who nominated Hamilton for a NASA Space Act Award, called Hamilton's work "the foundation for ultra-reliable software design." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituaries/margaret-hamilton-dead.html https://archive.ph/kD3F4 4/n
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
why has the latest version of firefox just DECIDED I need all my stuff grouped in tabs with the date as the label. Which imbecile decided to change the workflows of every person (all 2 of us?) who use Firefox daily in our work. it collapsed multiple windows into a single window and put […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
oh huh, the first Terminator starts in 2029
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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
OH "It's already beyond human comprehension, what's happening in production"
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
yak shaving is a soothing activity, it must be said
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I'll be honest, I enjoy reminding EMs that software development, like anything else, is a social activity
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
cursed to see systems in a world system built to only ever optimize the immediate at any cost is this the absurd?
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Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#thePoint #mastodon #degrowth #burnTheRich
there is this meme of a person rejecting on the upper box.
and down acknowledging.
on the top says:
"banning teenagers from using social media"
on the bottom one says
"banning billionaires from owning social media"
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
touch grass youtu.be/Fx7eZItF8u0?is=zmCPPifBABO…
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
engineering requires ethics, and doing whatever your boss tells you is not an ethical framework. Programmers are not engineers
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 04/10/2026
​:brdCrow:​ + ❄️ =
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
anywhoo, if the seattle times is looking for a headline writer i am available
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
my partner developed a chronic disability practically overnight about a year and a half ago. She spent most of that time getting poor treatment from doctors and other medical practitioners. Diagnosed with anxiety when there were physiological problems, told she'd be better "soon" when she may […]
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
READ: Time to end the REAL war in our cities! “The road lobby’s war on walking, cycling, and transit have continued profitably for more than a century. The time has come for peace.” A NEW article on the #WarOnWalking by @grantennis.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social, and @tomflood.bsky.social
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A time for peace: End the war on walking, cycling, and trans
The war on the motorist and 15-minute conspiracy theories are fiction. The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hou
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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I'm re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008), and hit this fairly prescient passage. "Crap" (well-written but subtly false information) deliberately inserted by into the "reticulum" (Internet), with the goal of then being able to sell services to filter […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Screenshot of a few paragraphs of Anathem, where the characters discuss disinformation campaigns on the internet powered by "Artificial Inanity" programs.
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
not me, once again having to review claude extruded gradle bullshit and still try to explain kindly to a colleague why it's awful and only sets us up for disaster god the crimes in this PR are too many to number
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
A new poll from The 19th News shows faltering Republican support for gender-affirming care bans for trans youth. It also shows that anti-trans ads might be backfiring, with respondents increasingly saying Republicans are talking about trans people too much. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we can enshrine 12-foot fire lanes in the fire code and Streets Illustrated, it will be a boon for safe streets.
503.2 Specifications. Fire apparatus access roads shall be installed and arranged in accordance with Sections 503.2.1
through 503.2.8. Fire apparatus access roads shall not traverse underneath buildings unless approved.
[S] 503.2.1 Dimensions. Fire apparatus access roads shall have an unobstructed width of not less than 20 feet (6096 mm),
exclusive of shoulders, except for approved security gates in accordance with Section 503.6, and an unobstructed vertical
clearance of not less than ((13 feet 6 inches (4115 mm))) 14 feet (4267 mm).
Exceptions:
1. Access roads serving not more than two one-family dwellings or a single two-family dwelling shall have an
unobstructed width of not less than 12 feet (3658 mm).
2. Public streets shall be in accordance with Streets Illustrated, the Seattle Right-of-Way Improvements Manual.
503.2.2 Authority. The fire code official shall have the authority to require or permit modifications to the required access
widths where they are inadequate for fire or rescue operations or where necessary to meet the public safety objectives of the
jurisdiction.
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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Recently saw someone talk about their prestigious AI specialisation to a group of veterinarians, who then walked out thinking that the guy was an expert in Artificial Insemination and asked me "So what's ChatGPT?"
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
had to convince my keyboard that "autumnal" is a word. Computers are why we're all getting dumber. yes of course, I meant "autumn all", the well-known saying
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
A people with no history are not "a people" they are labor, customers, automata subject to the whims of the markets and the people who drive those markets. It's obvious that burning the library, burning the books is wrong. We understand that words written by people we can never meet, people who […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
"perhaps in the US where worker's rights don't exist?" is a pretty sick burn. Thanks to my European friend who shall remain anonymous
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The decline of Starbucks is a boon for small local businesses.
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
never forget most people really will sell anything up to and including their very soul for the sake of inconsequential convenience
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
How to lose a friend On anti-systems approaches to software development autonomousapps.com/blog/how-to-lose…
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How to lose a friend
On anti-systems approaches to software development
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I don't exactly know the answer to this question, but somehow I find myself following a lot of software developer accounts that have literally nothing to do with my domain. Lots of js, python, rust - no java, jotlin, android, gradle. It's weird that one of the world's most popular language […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
for the love of god, stop trying to save my credit card information in your by-definition less-secure-than-my-fucking-wallet website
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
AI will not replace you because you are irreplaceable
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
all this crap lately with LLMs is a perfect example of whatever the opposite of systems thinking is
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
go to new cities, experience exciting new traffic jams
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
there are some Very Serious Java Engineers in the world who simply do not comprehend the extent to which Android teams are flying by the seat of their pants (by comparison)
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
one of the weirdest things about working for Square (from my perspective), was that the Gradle repos were always more ergonomic and faster than the Bazel repos (despite the constant complaints), yet there was always pressure to migrate to Bazel. No idea how the Bazel folks got such amazing […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
hahahaha the SEC is considering rolling back post-Enron audit rules I learn this in an aside next to a front page story about yet another kind of creative financing from the AI industry, about $300b in debt the companies are "somehow" keeping off their balance sheets the whole time I'm […]
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
a fucking pox on people who use gas powered leaf blowers. wtf is wrong with you. use a goddamn rake or broom
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
just saw a new term of art, "humanize," as in, "just humanized a doc [extruded by an LLM]"
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I once asked a software developer why he was carrying water for massive corporations who were stealing our collective labor and someone else told me not to be rude
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
when I worked at the Brandywine Conservancy, some homeowner in an HOA complained about the trees we were planting by saying he wouldn't be able to keep an eye on his neighbor
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
it's almost impossible for me to contain my dissatisfaction with the coding community writ large lately
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
ai: when you need your fraud and mass murder to be done *at scale*
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why did Seattle's former City Traffic Engineer sigh with exasperation in this tweet from 2019? 🧵
Dongho Chang: "Sometimes we agree to disagree, the best we could do here (sigh)"
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
don't worry, ai is just a tool (whose?) arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-w…
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tony 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻 @autonomousapps.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
I put on Supergirl on HBO and if anything the reports of how bad the music is have undersold the problem
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