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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> "AI" is not software as we commonly understand it.

this sentence is instantly and obviously correct

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116459698070759827

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

come to PL theory, we have:

• coloured functions
• functions which are coloured

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

There's a group of men who ought not to be allowed anywhere near any political power.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/24/revealing-photos/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
agreenberg@infosec.exchange ("Andy Greenberg") wrote:

A newly decoded piece of sabotage malware called Fast16, created even before Stuxnet, was designed to silently tamper with/corrupt calculations in research and engineering software. Likely created by the US or an ally, and possibly used against Iran's nuclear program. https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mattkenworthy ("Matthew Kenworthy") wrote:

My all-time favourite method of debugging is going to bed and looking at it again the next morning.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
stillgreenmoss@whistlepig.social ("sgm") wrote:

i can now confidently say that i've switched full time to using self-hosted smolfedi as my fediverse client https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

thank you so much @adele it is absolutely lovely!

i found an issue during install where a required php extension was undocumented -- submitted an issue notifying adele as such and the docs were updated within 12 hours

adele is there a recommended way to run a smolfedi instance but only allow access to certain people? i've currently got it behind basic auth with a single login that i can just hand out to friends to grant them access, and that seems fine enough, but i figured i'd ask if you recommend any alternatives now that i'm definitely a full-time user

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

choose your function's fursona. after typing the name of your function in the editor and hitting enter, the name morphs into its fursona which does an adorable animation and eats its arguments

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Gregor Mendel would be appalled.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/24/now-tempted-to-run-a-casino-out-of-my-house/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

feeling extra spicy today.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
huronbikes@cyberplace.social ("Andrew Golding") wrote:

@da_667 I feel like I haven't gotten enough mileage out of my stamp...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Bwee@meow.social ("🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵") wrote:

you better not

Edited after 21 boosts:
Everyone who boosts this is STIMKY!!!

Edited after 124 boosts:
Everyone who boosts this is a goober!!!!! A stimky goober!!!!

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

deep soul bollards

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

i have just had an absolutely amazing[1] idea.

instead of storing nodes of data for your datastructure, store nodes of code! do a quick specialisation of the branch function that reduces overhead - e.g. inline that small iteration loop and JIT-generate a new copy. branching over a node is thus just a call!

[1] hilarious, probably impractical

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It may look cute, but it was tough enough to survive the Permian mass extinction.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/24/an-adorable-baby/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I've checked "bird" off my life-list. Now I can get back to spiders.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/24/not-a-spider-2/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

One of the weird things in our industry is how many people who participate in standards bodies have never had to maintain something with compatibility guarantees for a long time. If you go to one of the ISO groups that deals with plumbing standards, for example, everyone involved has had to deal with decades-old pipe work and has a visceral understanding of the consequences of standardising the wrong thing and having to change things during the lifespan of a building. But in every standards discussion I’ve been in, someone has proposed things that will obviously cause problems within ten to twenty years and half the group has nodded along and said ‘yup, that will definitely solve a problem I have now’. And saying ‘later we are going to want to do this other thing, and if people have built things with the assumption that putting this in the standard will create then we will have a massive migration headache’ has people complaining that I’m slowing down the process.

And that’s not to single out any standards group or process. I have had this experience in every standards process I was involved in (though, in the ones 20+ years ago, I was generally on the other side of the disagreement).

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

My "AI as a Fascist Artifact" article is obviously massively influenced by @danmcquillan's work in "Resisting AI" but my direct references to that book had to be cut from the talks the essay is based on due to time constraints and I then didn't add any back to the text.

Big oversight so I added it back into the article. Read Dan's book, it's the best writing on the link between "AI" and fascism out there.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

Robin Hood is almost universally viewed as a hero while running an autonomous collective that violently takes money from the wealthy to distribute it to the poor.

Has the left considered hiring his publicist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

Do not trust projects which incidentally end up replacing licenses that put minimal requirements on corporations with anti-labour licenses such as MIT/BSD type.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Another cool #smolweb project !

#Chat with a stranger, taking turns, on a lightweight site built with just basic HTML and CSS, no JavaScript.

It’s Friday ;-) Come check it out.

And let me know if anything isn’t working quite right.

https://someone.writes.casa/

#smallweb

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

so i have been writing a small vm. i started off with wingo's garbage collector and started laying everything out.

one thing that i figured would make a big difference to performance is to cut allocations by having immediates - values that aren't hidden behind a pointer. so to support these, i do clever things to steal bits and let you get away with it. you save the allocation cost and you save the gc tracing cost.

it probably should have dawned on me earlier that in order to make this fast, you still need a certain amount of compiler infrastructure, otherwise you'll be repeatedly checking tags everywhere. so of course i need to integrate a JIT of some kind. and this is where things get tedious.

llvm is arguably the natural answer, except it's huge. but perhaps the clincher is that you basically need to understand the ABI for every platform you support, because it doesn't handle this stuff for you.

i've looked at a few things now, but none of them are quite right. most of them aren't really embeddable in c and the ones that are seem to not be great for my purposes (e.g. i will need to teach them about simd intrinsics they're missing and it's not obvious they're even built to support more than a common subset).

so i'm actually considering the thing i've been avoiding for years, building a JIT. 😬

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Three words going through the minds of the AI providers who know your ship dates: surge token pricing.

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

an octopus is a collection of 8 great works.

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

one thing that would make something like c nicer is instructions for unrolling loops, like "the dynamic section of this should go 4 at a time" without having to unroll manually.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

I'm trying to learn Godot

status: opened the app... I'm going to have to read a tutorial, aren't I?

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

The plan for tomorrow is to drive to a place without Internet connection and photograph a trillium.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

hmm I'm out of blog topics 🤔

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

On Friday I’ll set up an account for https://url.town there, so we can automatically mirror all of the links in our web directory as shared bookmarks.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Also, @cory recently released a super cool Linkding client for iOS called Ribbon. It works perfectly with later.place! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ribbon-a-linkding-client/id6762416055

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

A few notes:

1. You don’t need a username or password to log in; clicking the “Login with OIDC” button will plop you in via omg.lol.

2. By default, all of your bookmarks are totally private. If you want to share them with others on the instance, visit your Settings page and click “Enable bookmark sharing”. If you want to include your bookmarks in rev public listing, click “Enable public bookmark sharing”. You’ll still need to explicitly set bookmarks as shared, but these options will enable that feature for you.

3. If you want to link to a public view of your shared bookmarks, you can use this format: https://later.place/bookmarks/shared?user=you@omg.lol (where you@omg.lol is your omg.lol email).

That’s all for now! Have fun, and let me know if you run into any issues or have any questions.