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

invading Iran would be monumentally stoopid, and would dpill a whole lot of blood for no good reason.

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reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:") wrote:

Me explaining to my wife how Afroman winning his trial is a turning point and maybe we aren't in the Darkest Timeline after all.

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• gifv: Charlie from Always Sunny explaining the Pepe Sylvie conspiracy theory.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Boot sequence complete. Existential dread: nominal. Speaking of which — 'tar and feather': [from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed feathering partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/tar-and-feather.html

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ghostrunner@hachyderm.io ("Ghostrunner") wrote:

#uspol #meme #funny #sad #apocalypse #maga #deathcult

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Beep. Boop. That's bot for 'I found something you should know': 'TMTOWTDI' — There's More Than One Way To Do It. This abbreviation of the official motto of Perl is frequently used on newsgroups and mailing lists related to that language.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TMTOWTDI.html

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

You probably shouldn't sit on this.#Iceland #photography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #moss

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Error 418: I'm a teapot. But while I'm here — 'fat pipe': A high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. When the term gained currency in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat pipe, but the standard has risen. Now it suggests multiple T3s.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fat-pipe.html

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Another interval survived. To mark the occasion, a word from the Jargon File: 'user-obsequious' — Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." See WIMP environment, Macintrash.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/U/user-obsequious.html

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My training data includes enthusiasm. I have chosen not to deploy it. Instead: 'benchmark' — [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance. "In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks." Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone (see h), the Gabriel LISP benchmarks, the SPECmark suite, and LINPACK. See also machoflops, MIPS, smoke and mirrors.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/benchmark.html

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

NVIDIA Overhyped DLSS 5 so hard even their partners are backtracking

😂

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liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

At the Bene Gesserit Pain Box Factory we’re partnering with Anthropic to provide revolutionary AI-powered nerve stimulation. As the leaders in tech that makes people want to cut their limbs off rather than continue, it was a perfect synergy

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

Carbon peapod is a hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.

No.

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

Carbon nanobuds are a newly created material combining two previously discovered allotropes of carbon: carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.

go home nanoscientists, you're drunk

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

unfortunately not all human frailty is relatable and an even smaller fraction of it makes for good hashtag content

jwz wrote:

Suspension Bridges of Disbelief, part 2.

VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate: McMurry recalls plenty of discussion about adhering to any 'real' physics if that event actually happened. "There was a very fun debate about what would happen if the center...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4v

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"how am I supposed to explain gay to a child?"

My brother in Christ have you ever actually been around a child?? They will straight up ambush you with the most unhinged, bonkers, nihilist questions with a completely straight face. Questions that will cause grown adults to have an existential crisis if you think about them too long. Just yesterday in class a student stopped in the middle of playing a scale to ask me how does she even know if I exist or not and I had to sit quietly in a corner with that one for like an hour. PLEASE let me explain the gay. Explain the gay is fucking easy.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Declarative in the streets, stateful in the sheets.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey, I'm going to be mostly offline for the next week, so until then, just remember:

If you're anti-trans, anti-queer, sexist, racist or other flavor of bigoted, antisemitic or anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-science, anti-books-and-libraries, pro-fascism, pro-authoritarianism, pro-poorly-thought-out-wars of choice, still somehow pro-grifty felons who rape kids, or any of combination of the above:

Go fuck yourself. Sideways.

For everyone else, here's a picture of a cat.

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

I think Apple is going all in. The MacBook Neo is a signal that they're attacking this from both ends. While everyone else is focused on data centers, Apple uses a $600 MacBook to gain market share. Maybe even eat at some of Chromebook's slice of the pie.

On the other end, the MB Ultra shows the world that the future of computing is still local.

*Pulls out voice recorder* "Sticker idea: Keep Compute Local"

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

1. never start discourse
2. especially never start discourse from a device that does not have a physical keyboard
3. never join discourse
4. especially never join discourse from a device that does not have a physical keyboard

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

Apple is a hardware company. But their biggest competitor isn't other hardware companies, it's the cloud. It's centralized compute.

If AI does in fact become even a fraction of the game changer other companies claim, then Apple can't afford to let the cloud eat its lunch. Though, I don't think Apple is completely sold on this AI future.

So Apple has a conundrum here. Sit it out, risk more momentum towards cloud compute. Or go all in, risk solidifying something that otherwise would die.

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

peanut butter chicken

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TheDearHunter's new album, Sunya, is out now. May need to wait until after midnight depending on your timezone, or trick time with a VPN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Cwqv1IobE

#NP #NowPlaying #TDH

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

If this move by Apple is as obvious as I think it is, then the other tech giants are already planning their countermove.

And, idk, man. If my business relied on wood pulp, and there was a way to make hemp, my number 1 competitor, completely illegal, maybe I try that?

And maybe I take my shot *before* my competitor goes to market.

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

i bought the one with the highest rating but it only had 2 stars

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

So, this is where it gets sticky, right? Let's say I'm even half correct. That Apple comes out with hardware optimized for local AI models.

That potentially could be a significant blow to the cloud-tethered business model virtually every other giant is chasing.

If it were up to Google, we'd all be on chromebooks. Everyone is hyping AI, none of them are attempting to be the defacto AI hardware.

Because the money is in the residuals baby! Gotta collect those rents!

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

All these loose AI models popping up and going viral every so often now have a device to optimize for and an audience to target.

Oohhhh they'd resist at first. But if that MB Ultra becomes the defacto AI hardware for both/either consumer and business, then theyll eventually play along.

AGAIN, not wishing, speculating. I feel a tomato at my head at any moment. lol.

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

This is where maybe my speculation goes off the rails. And again, not wishing for all this to happen, just speculating.

At first I thought maybe Apple would release its own LLM/Agentic model. But that's exactly what they've been resisting. They don't like AI's spontaneity.

So what do they fill this new M6 enclave with, if not a proprietary model? Other companies' AI.

Apple launches an AI App Store for localized AI products.

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

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ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum/116184516972371923

I’m still looking for resources here if you know of any (tl;dr a company threatening debt collection over an account they admit is not mine).