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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Considering making this into a blog post with a real bombastic headline like
"Can The MacBook Pro Save The World?"
Lolol. I mean, really lean into the inevitable accusation that I'm making Apple into a moral actor, instead of just pointing out that Apple's business strategy just so happens to be preventing a pretty terrible cloud-centric, centralized compute future.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
And, and, and. We know what the PC market looks like when there isn't a competitive force to keep computational power on-device.
The gaming PC market.
Companies are pushing gaming to the cloud at breakneck speed. They've dumped billions into R&D to improve latency.
Now, you can *rent* a "gaming" thin-client for $20/month.
If Nvidia and the like can pusher *gamers* to the cloud, normies will be a breeze. The only thing stopping them is, imo, Apple (for now).
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun ParmaksΔ±z πΎ") wrote:
New Redis TUI in town! π₯
π **tredis** β Explore & manage Redis from the terminal
π― Browse keys, inspect data types, monitor commands in real-time
π Multi-server + TLS support (Upstash, Redis Cloud, etc.)
π¦ Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
β GitHub: https://github.com/huseyinbabal/tredis
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #redis #tls #terminal #commandline #opensource
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers π·") wrote:
What a weird thing to find in a genetics textbook. Noah was an albino?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/noah-or-snow-white/
Mastodon FeedFolks, please be nice to BlueSky.
You don't want to be labelled as a critic, and kindly remember they are really decentralized and only took $100+ million in venture capital to improve the social web.
Last but not least, don't pay attention to the CEO responding to criticism by responding with "Are you paying us? Where?" followed up with "You could try a posters strike. I hear that works".
They are great. ATProto is the future. They aren't like other girls.
They care β€οΈ
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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.
A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.
These two things are not the same at all.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
life can be so very difficult for a housecat
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quarknova@wikis.world ("chaotic enby") wrote:
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing%5Farticles%5Fwith%5Flarge%5Flanguage%5Fmodels/RfC
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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk
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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:
I will figure out a path to my own sharing of work, but it is sad to me to feel there is this intellectual community you need to have a FAANG credit card to be part of. That's just not how it should work and we will see the consequences of these structures quickly in who gets to be on stage. This isn't a call out of any single organization, I'm always really honored to be thought of, but it's hard for me to understand how you can sell $1000 tickets on our content and not support creators
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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:
I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
That feeling when you keep seeing "AI" fans talk about being systems-thinkers despite literally only thinking about all their problems from the perspective of a single individual: themselves.
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β") wrote:
Latest #Freebooters podcast with @uoou is up at https://freebooters.uk
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ZackPolanski@mastox.eu ("Zack Polanski") wrote:
RT: @NEF "We've got to stop equating the government's finances with a household."
Zack Polanski speaking about government finances, austerity, and the problems with the UK's fiscal framework at our event this week
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Keep Compute Local. Decentralized Compute is Digital Sovereignty. Not down with OPP (Other People's Power). We taught rocks to think and all I got was this egress bill? My Other Computer Has a GPU. Honk if your computer works without WiFi.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
looks like guile lets you do better https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html%5Fnode/Bytevector-Slices.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm starting The Centre For Decentralized Compute, or the CDC if you will. I am accepting donations.
No but for real, I think there should be some sort of organized opposition to centralizing computational power.
Also, maybe there should be more marketing around the idea of decentralized compute. All the elements for a great marketing campaign are there. You have a cause people would care about. An enemy. Urgency. Someone get Framework on the horn.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
well, this depends on how you define 'better'. i can make them more user friendly, but i can't do cool stuff like reading and writing to/from specific offsets in existing buffers without creating wrapper versions of 2/3 of bittricks.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
so i have incredibly pointy and sharp bindings for chez that technically do the thing. i cannot make them better because chez seems to lack the support.
well i could write more c, but then i'm writing a special c library to work around the limitations of the language.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Super Micro Plunges 25% After Co-Founder Charged In AI Chip Smuggling Scheme:
"Prosecutors allege Liaw, Chang and Sun sold banned Nvidia-powered AI chips through a Southeast Asia companyβidentified as βCompany-1ββand then forwarded those chips to China through third-party brokers, violating U.S. export controls."
Nvidia, of course, knew nothing about ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/20/super-micro-plunges-after-cofounder.html
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i see SRFI4 support went well https://docs.scheme.org/guide/arrays/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Why do I feel alone in my love for the Planet of the Apes franchise? It's so good. Like, it's not just the CGI that I love, but each movie has something interesting to say.
Even this last one was great. But no one ever talks about it unless they're asking who these movies are for lol.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Oh fucking Christ. There's a AI Doomer documentary in IMAX staring cult-leader in waiting Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Super can't wait for liberals to watch it uncritically, then help Congress codify an AI monopoly π« .
Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. Maybe people will flex that media literacy muscle I keep hearing about.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers π·") wrote:
This is a war for the rich, no one else.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/just-dont-call-it-war/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
programming is a craft and i am a crafter. that is all.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
hmmm, i could write chez bindings to bittricks and use it from idris.
i have no idea what for, but fuck it?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
The M-series breathed new life into the non-gaming, high-end laptop market. That's important beyond just nice to have. The M series is single-handedly holding back a thin-client renaissance.
In 2026, in a sans-M Series world, centralized compute by way of premium-material ChromeBooks, looks like the future of computing.
None of this to say we should all go out and buy an M5 MBP tonight to support decentralized compute. Go buy a Framework PC, same idea. Just that this is a fragile future.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
yes, there is a native way to do it
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
(Still ranting π ) Rewind 6 years. Apple never releases the M Series chip. Macs and MacBooks sort of just limp along, taking whatever dogshit gains Intel throws at them.
Four years later, 2 years after ChatGPT went viral, DeepSeek is released. But this time, the markets aren't so freaked out. Yeah, you can run it locally, but it's not just 3 $600 Mac minis. It's [insert PC build here so I don't upset my DIY friends]. Which is fine, but local models are just that much less compelling.