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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
"You get more conservative when you get older" only really worked for the generations that got RICHER as they got older.
The real truth was always just "You get more selfish the more money you have".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
For Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ( #GAMM ), the old cloud sync-and-share business model wasn’t working anymore.
So what did they do?
They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. That's the future they've made for us.
#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #ActivityPub
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Is there a psychological term for self-bias?
Like how we rate our own suffering as greater than that of others.
Or how we think it's probably fine if we fudge a little, but judge others for it.
Or, how we think we'd be doing better if we were in other people's situations, but rarely the opposite.
Or how most of us have a much higher tolerance for inconveniencing an unknown stranger than for the inverse.
Does this have a name? (Or am I just looking for a fancy term for self-centeredness?)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Then again, I quite honestly don't have any idea how many levels of tech nonsense it took, that I happened to have rolling around in my noggin, for me to pull that off in my spare time between when I thought of the idea to when I gave the talk.
Anyway, yeah, that's my favorite web app that I created. And I threw it all out after the talk. Ha!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
For the talk (at the library), I ran it off of a dedicated laptop, and brought in a WRT54G router that I had people connect to. So we had our own little LAN.
Like the thing was not "web scale" by any stretch of the imagination. But it worked, and people seemed to enjoy being able to try out all the things I had just talked about. In that moment, I felt a little power of the web stack allowing me to cobble together a thing to meet a need.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead I crafted an appropriate IPython Notebook environment on an LVM volume (Linux). I then used bottle (Python) to create a simple web page where there was a single button that said something like "Launch IPython Notebook". When you clicked it, behind the scenes it would create an LVM snapshot from the IPython Environment I had setup, launch a container with LXC, and redirect the user to the fresh containerized IPython Notebook instance. Each person got their own personal IPython Notebook.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Speaking of web development, my favorite "web app" that I've developed was my first one. I was giving a talk about IPython Notebook to a local group of nerds like one does. I had come up with some "fun" demos showing off some things, but I also wanted people to be able to try it for themselves.
I wasn't going to try to walk people through installing it on their computers. That just seemed like a recipe for pain and sadness.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
legal beagle lined up to review incorp paperwork
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(Don't worry, I'm not signing up for Facebook.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
At all moments of the day I am torn between two thoughts:
1. Social media is an unnatural abomination that keeps us in psychotically toxic relationships with people who used to mean something in our lives for far longer than we'd ever tolerate under any other circumstances; and
2. I should really do a better job of keeping in touch with people. Maybe I should get a Facebook account again.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grumpy@grumpys.online ("Michael Wolf") wrote:
I _almost_ stepped on this friend today #frogs
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Shout out to Lyft for making me
1.) sign in;
2.) provide a 2FA code;
3.) confirm my account name; and
4.) verify my email addressjust to show me this screen:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):
mo8it@fosstodon.org ("Mo :ferris: :tux:") wrote:
#RustLang lint idea and performance tip 🚀
Warn about a repeated call of `Path::join` ⚠️
This allocates a new `PathBuf` each time. Then `Path::join` is called on the new `PathBuf` because of the `Deref` implementation.
Instead, you should use extend like in the screenshot (preferably with a capacity hint).
You can also use `.collect::()` on an iterator instead:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/struct.PathBuf.html#impl-FromIterator%3CP%3E-for-PathBuf
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Republican candidate is visibly sick!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
nathans@infosec.exchange ("nathans :ms_weed: :donor:") wrote:
Enshittification at work folks
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
A large contingent of webdevs seem to think that fast means “best-case fast.”
“Our web sites are fast on expensive hardware and from reliable fiber networks.”
Worst-case fast is a much more meaningful, impressive, and inclusive claim to make! Fast on low-end hardware. Fast on slow networks.
Fast on the World Wide Web—not just from a WeWork in Silicon Valley.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This is one of those decision why, a couple of years back I changed my opinion from "Musk is net good for #Tesla" to "Musk is a liability".
He was a trailblazer at the start, and the push through the M3 ramp-up hell was one of his biggest contributions (albeit terribly flawed). But recently, it's just dumb decisions one after another. Prioritizing humanoid robots, vanity trucks and FSD over what people actually need from Tesla: efficient cars with good software.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Oh damn. @owa is bringing receipts to the EU's "that's not compliance, actually" party:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/eu-opens-dma-investigations/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
After reading this, I feel even more strongly about staying away from Meta et al. as much as possible:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:
Lots of folks on the fedi, especially instance admins, are working through how to approach Threads.
The single best discussion I know of is https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads by @kissane.
I strongly advise giving it a read as you decide.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
A thesis.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
I'm #ActuallyAutistic and I know food preparation is difficult for many folks in the community.
But learning to feed yourself is a skill that has cascading effects (I get severely depressed if I don't feed myself food I like). Not to mention, not everyone has the $$ for takeout
I've been sending this 'sad bastards cookbook' to everyone https://archive.org/details/sad-bastards-last
It focuses on 'boil water and eat' and 'ingredients that don't go bad'
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Oh.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111232/european-commission-digital-markets-act-investigation
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is deep, and I feel the delta between the power of capital vs. markets in my bones; it warps everything in tech these days:
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/25/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capital/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:
"many feudal lords were not lazy, either: competing for power and dominance is hard work – yet, it is still different from the competition based on profit and market dynamics which constitutes the backbone of capitalism." #MiriamRonzoni https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/25/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capital/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I fear the quality of the text went downhill from the titillating title page onwards. They're selling moralizing in the guise of prurience.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/wow-now-i-really-want-to-read-this-book/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paul@status.kinlan.me ("Paul Kinlan") wrote:
WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) enters origin trial
Exciting times for WebAssembly! The JSPI API now allows synchronous WebAssembly code to access asynchronous JavaScript APIs like promises. This opens up more possibilities for performance-critical code to leverage asynchronous capabilities on the web. As this enters origin trial, I'm keen to see what developers build with this new integration. Could enable some very responsive applications!
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webassembly-jspi-origin-trial?hl=en
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
From a @zachleat thread, the market for lemons seems largely unreformed.
It's gonna take more than INP to fix what hubris and selfishness broke.
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/vercel.com?formFactor=phone&latestMode=false
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My brain is so coked up on snow and work, that I've lost all capacity for anything but reflexive action.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/you-know-what/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
In the conversation @ahl and I had with @simon in January, he mentioned work on adversarial attacks on LLMs that proved surprisingly universal. On today's Oxide and Friends, we will be joined by Nicholas Carlini, one of the authors of "Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models" to talk not only about this specific work, but about adversarial machine learning in general -- and how it guides thinking on LLMs. Join us, 5p Pacific!
![```rust let mut sysroot_src = PathBuf::with_capacity(256); sysroot_src.extend([toolchain, "lib", "rustlib", "src", "rust", "library"]); ```](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/154/132/442/725/267/original/ee02396e9779ae2e.png){kind=link}
