You know what the most likely next career step in tech is for a woman my age?

Leaving.

It just really sits with me. When my friends leave. Which a lot of them have this year. Learning scientists like me study pathways. All opportunity is preconditioned by access. Trajectory comparisons are not full comparisons unless they include leaving.

When we fixate on "getting in" and not fixing what's within, this happens. But every day, the future changes. I'm here for that.

The kernel patch series removing IPV6=m is out! I am quite happy about it and I hope I did not mess up :)

A lot of people were CC'ed, sorry about the noise ^^

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260309022013.5199-1-fmancera@suse.de/

Wrote a new blog post: "Against Vibes: When is a Generative Model Useful" https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/

“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”

https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html

OpenWrt 25.12.0 - Stable Release https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25-12-0-stable-release/247228 #openwrt

We could have had these cool EV innovations developed in Europe before if German carmakers hadn't been so bloody stubborn about petrol and diesel engines.
I will never not be cross about their delaying the green transition.

https://mastodon.social/@clim8_solutions/116191427518755095

Is empathy political?

An article on autistic empathy.

#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #Empathy #DoubleEmpathy

https://www.neurofabulous.org.uk/autistic-empathy.html

RE: https://lifeiswoohoo.net/@mookie/115982440586817820

Peak LinkedIn

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.

LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.

The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.

It's my birthday today! Woohoo!!! I'm 42 now but mentally still in 2006, hah!

This celebratory image is 4 of Wands from the Everyday Witch Tarot, illustrated by me, written by Deborah Blake, and published by Llewellyn Worldwide.

I'd be so grateful if you shared my art today!

My portfolio and original art shop is at http://www.albaillustration.com.

I also have signed decks, art prints, stickers, and more at http://albaillustration.etsy.com!

every time I see this graph

it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds

telling us things can never change

what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE

our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

This is, in fact, exactly how I computing today.

And that's how I ended up on mastodon

Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:

In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".

When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".

Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".

In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".

#offtopic

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.

Even Charles Darwin had bad days. Also I'll put good money that he'd have used Tumblr were he around today.

Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060953/ #LWN #Linux #kernel