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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Inkjet.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

This video from Belle Sisoski kicks butt. "The Revival":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUOaozNHa78

(I'm not sure I agree with some of the spoken samples she used, but that's just me bein' in a mood.)

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

pixel effects and retro space vibes

Attachments:

• gifv: 0a511f283be1dc5f.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

My website turned 20 today! https://blakewatson.com/journal/blakewatson-com-turns-twenty/

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

A contact just told me that my old "LLMs generate nonsense code" blog post from 2 years ago is now very outdated with GPT5 because it's so awesome and so helpful. So I asked him to give it a test for me, and asked it my favorite test question based on a use-case I had myself recently:

Without adding third-party dependencies, how can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?

and here is the answer from ChatGPT 5: https://chatgpt.com/share/68968506-1834-8004-8390-d27f4a00f480

Very confident, very bold, even claims "Works on iOS 16+".

Problem with that: Just like any other LLM I've tested that provided similar responses, it is - excuse my language but I need to use it - absolute horseshit. No version of any Apple SDK ever supported or supports ZSTD (see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/compression/compression%5Falgorithm for a real piece of knowledge). It was never there. Not even in private code. Not even as a mention of "things we might do in the future" on some developer event. It fundamentally does not exist. It's completely made up nonsense.

This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do. If a tool is able to actively mislead me this easy, which potentially results in me wasting significant amounts of time in trying to make something work that is guaranteed to never work, it's a useless tool. I don't like collaborating with chronic liars who aren't able to openly point out knowledge gaps, so I'm also not interested in burning resources for a LLM that does the same.

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

“Only I can save you from this problem I am creating!”

Washington, DC, facing $20 million security funding cut despite Trump complaints of crime - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/dc-facing-20-million-security-funding-cut-despite-trump-complaints-us-capital-2025-08-08/

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

ya think?

“Many civil rights experts, faculty and White House critics believe the Trump administration's targeting of schools is a pretext to assert federal control and threaten academic freedom and free speech.”

Exclusive: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/harvard-patents-targeted-by-trump-administration-2025-08-08/

jwz wrote:

Also holodeck episodes are always terrible. The only thing worse than a holodeck episode is a Data episode.

jwz wrote:

This season of Strange New Worlds sucks.

Also everyone's hair is bad now.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

For somebody who I'm pretty sure wasn't there, he's managed to capture something of the time. "Interview with 80s Computer Nerd":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5QNUNd0sx8

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
poutsma ("Arjen Poutsma") wrote:

I wrote an email to Tim Cook, current CEO of Apple. If you use Apple products, perhaps you can do the same.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Plushtodon

Attachments:

• video: A stuffed Mastodon toy revealed to be in a compression cube.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I love the Cwtch instant messenger, I wish it was more widely used.

https://docs.cwtch.im

#FOSS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
terrytangyuan.xyz@bsky.brid.gy ("Yuan Tang") wrote:

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 a few full-time software engineer positions at various levels with experience in: Golang, C++, Python, GPU kernels, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, PyTorch, vLLM, and Kubernetes. Please EMAIL me your resume if you are interested!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dusepo@toot.dusepo.co.uk ("Jo Dusepo :oud: جوهانا دوسپو") wrote:

A matching pair of charango and ronroco completed yesterday.

Jo Dusepo luthier www.dusepo.co.uk #lute #oud
#luthier #lutherie #laute #laúd #medievallute #liuto
#luteria #lutheria #laudarabe #ud #worldmusic
#earlymusic #renaissancelute #lutemaker #woodworking #woodwork
#musicalinstrument #عود #oud_maker #charango #chillador #ronroco

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coprolite9000@pixelfed.hylobatidae.org ("Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed") wrote:

Another dragonfly - a migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta? Obligingly perched on the twig of a rose bush just as I was walking past...

#Derbyshire #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

We are live from DEF CON in Las Vegas with Merin MC with kampf, rusty and djdead coming up later in the day. Tune in at https://somafm.com/player24/station/live or the SomaFM Live channel in your app

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helenclayton@mas.to ("Helen Clayton") wrote:

A big pop of colour in the veg patch random flower bed.

#BloomScrolling

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
quillmatiq ("Anuj Ahooja") wrote:

I know a lot of folks here have their qualms about Bluesky, but I hope folks are paying attention to what Rudy Fraser and Blacksky Algorithms are doing to decentralize their community from Bluesky PBC infra.

Decentralization at every level of the stack is happening on ATProto. It started *within* the Bluesky infra, slowly drifting away one step at a time, and it's inspiring to watch it all happen.

You can learn more here: https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

"we were like 2-3 years away from finishing landmark cures that would change the medical field forever, but the leader wanted to put another coat of gold paint on his ballroom so instead he canceled the funding" is something you might read in a gilded age novel

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled tool, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices.

Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

jwz wrote:

As of yesterday, yt-dlp with cookies can only download SD videos but the instructions for extracting PO tokens from Youtube Music don't work for me: it's not in the JSON body. Anyone get this working?

(If I don't use cookies at all, I always get "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot.")
https://jwz.org/b/yksu

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Should I do a run of the stickers? And should it say “AI Training Data” or just “Training Data”? Vote either way I guess. Dunno how to do the options right here really

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

"yes officer, for my models"

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
skippy@dungeoncrawler.world wrote:

I did what I said I was going to do! https://skippy.net/freetrm

https://dungeoncrawler.world/@skippy/statuses/01K1R9DP5DC3GB1P5JCGKHWYVX

Paging @adam

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

Steatoda borealis spiderlings!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/08/many-fat-happy-babies/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

I really wish you all weren't so cocksure about letting shit like HTTP/1.1 die.

Gonna miss the last vestige of the web that doesn't require wireshark to fuckin' parse it.

I kinda hate that HTTP/2 is straight binary and requires wireshark to make any sense of it, and that http/3 is basically just quic, which is google's love child of weird shit.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

This will finally destroy all US research leadership for the next 50 years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-500-risk-arrest-protest-against-palestine-action-ban-saturday

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/08/documents-reveal-police-using-all-our-passport-photos-to-spy-on-us-via-unlawful-facial-recognition/