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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

curious what #developers are using for display on #Linux? I made the transition to #wayland from #x11 several years ago but the #remote access is still freaking frustrating. I've used #Gnome #RDP, #RustDesk, and others. #question #help

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Good things can happen; all it takes is years of sustained effort by a community of stubborn enthusiasts." - @danabra.mov (overreacted.io/open-social/) In my experience, good things almost always take much longer than we anticipate. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

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Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Does anyone know when #spotify's "Create app" functionality for developers will be coming back? Currently it's disabled and says "New integrations are currently on hold..." Not sure how long it's been that way...but I've seen that become a semi-permanent state. :-/ #question #api #dev

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

For a moment in time we are immortal

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for withdrawing its proposal for grant funding from the Nation Sciences Foundation due to onerous anti-DEI requirements: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... #dei #nsf #psf #python

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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

thought experiment: AI hits a major roadblock and becomes impractical for the majority of use cases. - How does industry pivot? - How do companies differentiate themselves from the competition? I know this seems far out but (see comments)... #AI #FutureOfWork #Innovation #BusinessStrategy

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Found this article quite interesting: news.ucsc.edu/2025…

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

At an upcoming conference I'll be giving a lightning talk to entrepreneurial ecosystem builders on how leadership in companies can work effectively with their technical team. 1/3 #conference #question #communication #collaboration #tech

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

1/6: I've been using #ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other #productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons. It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁 #tasks

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

1/3 @discord.com the new defaulting to limited time for status is super annoying. I usually want to default as offline and defaulting to a limited time period is driving me crazy. The UI experience assumes one wants a limited time and unless one checks carefully one often #discord

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The projects functionality in #chatgpt shows promise but lacks some basic functionality - e.g. sorting, reordering, nesting. Is anyone aware of code out there to manage / override the projects UI? I've some basic #vibecoding but haven't had great success. #ai #llm #question #code #projects

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(1/6) when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic. I think the best I've read are: - David D. Burns' Feeling Good ( #CBT generally including #anxiety, #depression)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So over two weeks ago #OpenAI was ordered to retain all conversation logs from all users - including API users. 🤯 This is mind-blowing - I can't imagine most corporations are able to use OpenAI at all until this order is rescinded?!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/05/2025

New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...

simonwillison.net

How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card—which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to …

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

1/4 "In Boston, between 1709 and 1713, townspeople protested vigorously and then took extralegal action when Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, refused to stop exporting grain during a bread shortage in the city...he chose to export grain to the Caribbean, at a handsome profit, rather #history

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854. #books #quotes

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

1/3 I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/05/2025

This also destroy the research and innovation engine that powers our economy, health, national security, national competitiveness, well-being, and overall future. A dangerous and shameful act.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"We got hit with the new #tariffs for the first time this week. After importing $167k of inventory, we paid an additional $255k tariff. Yikes! That's literally more than our CEO got paid last year..." - Wyze Email (4/30/25)

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I participated in a Stacks #crypto test a few years back and was granted a small amount of #STX for my participation. It's not much, but I was keeping it at #Okcoin. Recently I received an email informing me that Okcoin was rebranding as #Okx and what is odd is that I have to withdraw

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129 #serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I find it slightly annoying that the #Discord version on Linux is 0.0.xx and has been for-ev-er. 😆 You aren't following any of the versioning schemes I know! 😂

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Under pressure from DOGE, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month. The resignations will effectively shut down the decade-old program after the end of April.

politico.com

Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse

Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

is it just me or did #ChatGPT get significantly slower after I upgraded to a paid account? 😂

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/04/2025

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

NEW: I confirmed w/ CBP that the email @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social receive telling her to self-deport is real, not a scam. It's also is very weird and likely causing fear and chaos. I spoke w/ Micheroni—a US citizen and immigration attorney—about her experience. www.wired.com/story/homela...

wired.com

Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to 'Immediately' Self-Deport

An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is ...

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · 10/04/2025

We just shipped .NET Aspire 9.2! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... Lots of cool features in this release and a step towards deploying to a lot more places! We're also shipping a new aspire command line tool! #dotnet #aspire

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What's new in .NET Aspire 9.2 - .NET Aspire

Learn what's new in the official general availability release of .NET Aspire 9.2.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Again, arbitrary & capricious.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Did you know if you are outside your home country and purchase something using #PayPal in a foreign currency and then download your transactions in a CSV from PayPal you get the transactions in the foreign currency?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/04/2025

"By prioritizing open-source development and collaboration, 18F also helped to make government IT more affordable. Making project code transparent meant that agencies could reuse the code and reduce the cost of duplicate development efforts." www.techdirt.com/2025/04/04/h...

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How 18F Transformed Government Technology − And Why Its Elimination Matters

Healthcare.gov, the government health insurance marketplace website, launched in October 2013 only to buckle under the weight of just 2,000 simultaneous users. As millions of Americans st…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social
"One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber.' I believed him. *** He "began to whimper," as his head was roughly shaved, "folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell." He
"asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again."

Photo of Andry featured on MSNBC. Chyron reads:
IMMIGRATION ATTY. SAYS ASYLUM-SEEKING CLIENT WAS DEPORTED BECAUSE OF MISREADING OF TATTOOS

A photo of Andry’s wrists showing his “mom” and “dad” tattoos. Each has a crown above them, which ICE thought made him a gang member.

A photo of Andry having his head shaved in El Salvador, his hands clasped together in prayer.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

There is this tight band, somewhat sensitive to pressure, 1-2" below my wrist (on the top side). Applying pressure to it for 15-30s seems to cause it to move. So, there's that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Simultaneously an attack on free speech, higher education, and the international students who subsidize American students

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

A screenshot of a text conversation discussing chaotic and troubling conditions at NOAA, expressing concerns about the administration's lack of care and the need for legislative attention.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124 #love #detachment #courage

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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business. These are going to be huge losses to the research and public health community.

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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs

In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

“We’re talking about doing something extraordinary here for the government to sentence people to what’s essentially slave labor, torture, prison in El Salvador based on nothing, based on having a flower tattoo...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

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Joe Rogan, Voices on the Right Raise Alarm Over Trump’s Immigration Moves

The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Go Tigers

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at a local #meetup on retro #coding using #qb64.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

@cursor.com.web.brid.gy is great at a lot of things, I use it + love it. It seems to really struggle with Windows #PowerShell (and wanting to always revert to using a Linux shell) and with #ETL. It may be the connection between the chair and the keyboard. #AI

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I had GPT 4o make a meme for what it and other models do to me constantly:

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'd like 10 acres of largely wooded land, a tiny house I can use as an office and a walking path so I can get out into nature and exercise easily.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

When the #AI #coding assistant you are using keeps writing poor code: "Please pay attention to what we've already discussed and don't reimplement the bad ideas you've tried previously." And when it insists on saying stupid crap: "I don't believe this, try searching the web." 🥴

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