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https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116402682761183769

even pilots are fed up of javascript

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hypothetically, where would one start if one wanted to add a new index type to postgres?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i kinda feel like i should learn enough verilog to design an actually good SIMD ISA

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Baa@mk.absturztau.be ("Baa 🐑") wrote:

@mica

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

(There are some additional nuances to this, but not as much as you’d think. The “AI” vendors are astoundingly bad at a lot of basic stuff, so as the use of a specific tool grows they have a strong tendency to shit the bed on scaling. But anybody who has been paying attention to LLM user discourse on social media and Reddit has seen the above cycle happen a number of times now, with all of the major vendors.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nerdpr0f/116398784891083900

We had bullshit coverage of this on RÚV here in Iceland, our national broadcasting service that was mostly just end to end bullshit and hype

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jcoglan wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116401934993867994

it's fun how genAI has people going "well now architecture and code review are even more important" and you look at the vendors' own code and it shows no evidence of either

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

dirty talk like llms

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The seven step “OMG! My AI tool is suddenly degrading” cycle:

1. An LLM tool is released. The company claims it’s a miracle that will change everything

2. Early adopters try it on straightforward tasks, find it seems to work, though they don’t really check it. “OMG! It’s a miracle that will change everything!”

3. Adopters apply it to an increasing variety of tasks. Some work; some don’t because the tool is still fundamentally random

4. Novelty wears off and error reports start

1/2

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

5. Company announces that they are working on the next gen “this time we really mean it” tool

6. “OMG! They must be intentionally degrading their old tool to sell the new one!” (No, what you have is a stochastic piece of shit that sometimes works out of luck and you suffer from a mind whose only mode of thinking is a whatever confirms your existing biases.)

7. The co releases the next gen and the cycle starts again

2/2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

If you want to know whether your AI system is accurate, I recommend this question: "When did Elon Musk heil in public?"

Source criticism and information verification must be a prioritised school subject in every democratic country.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

if LLMs are just AI tools that are safe in the hands of experts, then a ban only ensures you’ll get the quality you claim exists

if they’re just tools then banning LLMs is like banning emacs: if you don’t spew config noise across the repo (and you really shouldn’t for most projects) and your output isn’t fucked up in some identifiable way, then nobody will know what you’re using

if on the other hand I’m right, then banning LLMs is the only sane choice if you’d like to keep doing FOSS at all

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

Dillo 3.3.0-rc1 released 🥳

Let us know if you encounter any issues to fix them before the 3.3.0 release!

https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0-rc1/

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the V in Unix System V stands for vvorkstation

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eldersea@expressional.social ("the elder sea") wrote:

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announcements@sfba.social ("SFBA Announcements") wrote:

Hi #SFBA folks,

We’ve temporarily limited mastodon.cloud due to a wave of phishing spam. If you’re getting tagged repeatedly, consider a domain block on mastodon.cloud if you are not following any accounts on that server.
Unfortunately you will lose your follow relationships if you do a domain block and are following accounts on there.

Because so many people on SFBA follow legitimate accounts on mastodon.cloud, we don't want to take such the drastic step of suspending it globally at this time.

Please keep reporting the problematic accounts as you see them. The @moderators are trying to keep an eye on the problem on the back end as well.

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Step 1:
Take normal, legal, everyday things that Black people do, and make them illegal! Just invent new crimes! Like "jaywalking!" Or "putting in cornrows without a license." that's a real crime now!
🤡

Step 2:
Take illegal things that white people do, like this, and make them not crimes anymore!
🤡

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0186

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Every consensus position paper I read from software research about AI right now:

- AI should provide assistance
- but also make sure people don't use assistance
- should be a command center
- but not make people "managers"
- should synthesize data based on patterns
- but never reify patterns and ignore outliers
- "critical thinking"*

*which is what exactly

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

Carry yourself with the confidence of a person who charges $500 to read a single paragraph.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

China’s internet is shaped by censorship and strict regulations – insulated from the rest of the world, but not completely isolated.

This is the second of three posts I’m publishing this week about China, censorship, and technology: https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web

#China #Censorship #InternetFreedom

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've been putting this off for several years both because it's good to not buy unnecessary stuff but also because everything seems to have some huge bizarre inexplicable downside, or be mind-bogglingly expensive and depreciate at a rate of ten dollars a second. And why don't these things all have photovoltaics on their roofs yet?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I found gas for less than $6 today and felt a little thrill, which tells me that maybe it's time to get an EV. I am—obviously—not getting a Tesla, and I'd just like a reliable, regular EV that can fit a kid and a few friends. But the offerings in the US seem confusing and gimmicky. I don't want a big truck or an experimental mess full of panel gaps and slow charging. I don't want my feet nailed to the floor of some proprietary subscription HUD; I want to use CarPlay like a normal person

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116398465167508670

This argument is an abusive manipulation tactic. If you see it being made, the person making it is an abuser stoking fear to control others. Period.

They probably *also* fancy themselves the overclass, but don't concern yourself with that as much as the openly abusive behavior.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A retiree delivering DoorDash to the White House to pay for their spouses cancer would be a national embarrassment in a sane world instead of an opportunity to celebrate “no taxes on tips”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Not even really fully out of the woods yet but the fact that I managed to get this written at all today is a good sign.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A somewhat dispiriting update for the last couple of weeks, as I have taken what amounts to some involuntary personal leave from coding, writing, and basically everything else too. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-155475515