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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

what a clusterf*ck all around... this is not a f*cking game, ppl.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/texas-terrorism-trial

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA @Karma_J

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brenttoderian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. No matter what happens in the Paris election in 4 days, the world’s cities owe @annehidalgo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy a huge debt of gratitude. The boldest, most inspiring mayor I’ve seen.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A c...

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy Birthday tyo LISP, released on this day in 1960

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I suspect that as I find myself traveling with the MacBook Pro more, my iPad “needs” might be better served by moving back to the mini. Hmm.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

An old M28 series locomotive, first produced in 1955 by the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. Mostly they serviced industrial railways, moving loads and freight.

This one worked at a now abandoned thermal power plant in Hungary. Now it sits silent and forgotten inside an old rail shed.

#Hungary #Railway #Locomotive #Photography #Abandoned #LostPlace #Train #AbandonedPlaces

An old M28 series locomotive, first produced in 1955 by the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. Mostly they serviced industrial railways, moving loads and freight.  This one worked at a now abandoned thermal power plant in Hungary. Now it sits silent and forgotten inside an old rail shed.
Inside train drivers cabin
Rear view of train
Side view of train drivers cabin, from open door

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

one avx-512 vbmi2 left pack (limited to what i need for my HOT), done. it's of the order of 20 cycles. could be a goer.

unfortunately that isn't all avx512 kit (or even everything except xeon phi), so i'm going to have to do something else for those. and then the avx2 version as well. and maybe SSE. though i'm leaning toward fuck SSE because it's already too many versions and of the amount of extra hardware we'd support, probably very little of it is still in use.

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

I don't want a taboo on my back that prevents me from doing so

you know, i think that ship sailed.

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

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!

It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.

"You see? They have one of those."

A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...

Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

#ai #webdev #smolweb #experience

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

It's your tenth duoversary ❤️ but my heart is ripped in half

Don’t throw away 10 years together

It’s been 2744 days since your last lesson

wow, i see duolingo have jumped to emotional blackmail.

i didn't even remember i still had an account.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
redsakana@infosec.exchange wrote:

@davidgerard "Laying off 10% due to huge AI productivity boost" *looks inside* years of mismanagement, wishful EBITDA fakery, and/or PE grift from ZIRP era catching up

every time

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex / catileptic") wrote:

after more than a decade as an intruder in the software development industry, i feel like i've finally seen enough of technology & politics to retroactively contextualize all my pain

the way my body looks and my insistence on coherent affect really did not make me a "good programmer" from the point-of-view of my former colleagues and superiors

now i can "see like a government". i can also see like the profit-driven industry that is allergic to affect as such

related: https://ashwinsundar.com/posts/legibility-and-programming/

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

This time of year, when the ravens congregate in town before scattering into the countryside for the summer, I tend to stalk their regular hangout spots. #raven #ravens #iceland #nature

A bunch of ravens hanging out on steps over a fence. The fence is long gone, but the gate and the steps are still there.
Two ravens in a tree, glowering at the photographer
A raven on a fence post and another flying behind it
Five ravens all lined up in a row on a hill.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Khrys@mamot.fr wrote:

RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

LLM code is the lead pipe of our generation of software engineers. They’re going to be replacing it for decades and wondering how we were so foolish

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

Whoops dropped it.

If you aren't familiar with the horror that is the Icelandic cuisine known as "svið" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svi%C3%B0

A raven inspecting the surroundings to see if it's safe to swoop down and pick up the jawbone it just dropped

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

This raven is picking the meat off a sheep's jaw. I'm guessing somebody threw their "svið" leftovers out for the ravens to enjoy. #birds #iceland #raven

A raven with a sheep's jaw in its claws, as seen in black and white through some branches.
The raven now has the jaw in its beak, trying to reposition it.
And now some more repositioning of the jawbone
The raven, on the tree branch, looks like it's having fun picking at the jaw.

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

So, for this #caturday, the reason why I'm thankful my neighbour has placed his bird feeders well out of the reach of the cats.

Grása, a very fluffy grey and white cat, sits by a timber fence. Unseen is the bird feeder that hangs well above her reach.
These two ginger cat siblings arrived in the neighbourhood a year ago. They live across the street from the house with the bird feeder.
Another photo of the cat Grása who is relaxing in the sun.
This black cat also lives in this same street and is also coming out for a longing gaze at the birds feeding.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
alt_in_uk ("Alternatives in UK") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212

This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.

#palantir #goodLaw

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Oh my god. The Vegan Teacher is back. 😅

This lady was causing all sorts of drama on tiktok back in the day. She wrote a song that made an acrostic for the n word, trying to make it into a positive thing. Just absolute rancid, narcissistic stuff.

I can't believe she's active again. We really have lost the ability to shame people.

Shout out to all my vegan friends who cringe at her existence. We know almost no one is actually like this is real life.

Older lady with short gray hair and red glasses. Wearing a gray shirt. Has a card around her neck with an illustration of a dog that says "Animals are not food"

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Out with the old, in with the new, I suppose.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn

An old run-down barn and some old run-down garages with a new building in between them.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

While history slowly crumbles, new buildings rise in the background. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn

A large barn and cowshed with a rusty roof and large tower cranes in the background.

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

“"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-layoffs-like-block-s-are-a-race-to-the-bottom-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-productivity

> But after those layoffs come waves of rehiring

The only thing I'd add to this excellent post is that rehiring will only happen if the economy is otherwise in good shape, which is by no means certain at this point. (Oil crisis. Disasters. Trade wars. Etc. Etc.)

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

Since all hardware that supports AVX2 also supports BMI2, there's probably no point providing a version for AVX2 without BMI2.

coughs in zen 2 owner

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

currently reading about undocumented performance pitfalls on x86-64

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

it's uh... 5 on zen 5.

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

agner doesn't have timings for sapphire rapids, but looking at ice lake, it's actually 2. that's pretty good considering what it's doing, i would probably actually list that, so this is clearly just being useless rather than shame at how bad it is.

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

latency and throughput table for an anonymous intrinsic in the intel intrinsics guide. it has a whole architecture listed - sapphire rapids. throughput is 2 cycles before you can submit another and latency just has '-' listed

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Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Building Wayland layer-shell apps with a TUI 🤯

🐁 **raclettui** — Ratatui backend for Wayland layer-shell windows

⚡ Create menus, bars, and overlays with terminal-style widgets

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ishrut/raclettui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #wayland #linux #terminal #gui #opensource

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

reading: SVG favicons that respect theme preference
https://pawelgrzybek.com/svg-favicons-that-respect-theme-preference/

— related: I recently found media queries inside SVG had mixed browser support 😔 we can't have nice things!