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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:

New paper: Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier. There are lots of GCs for Rust: we tried pushing as far as we could in a new direction, particularly looking at what can be done about the headache that is finalizers.

Good news -- not only can a nice design be found, but some of Rust's properties mean we can solve classical GC finalization problems! https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes%5Ftratt%5F%5Fgarbage%5Fcollection%5Ffor%5Frust%5Fthe%5Ffinalizer%5Ffrontier/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Coast of Rydal water.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria #Mosstodon

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

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

O! What wonders AI will bring to the classroom!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/15/teaching-with-ai/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

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

Make it official, this is our time: the age of the dumbass.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/15/what-time-is-it-2/

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

What daft asshole at Google thought enabling "AI" autodubbing by default was a good idea? Half the time I encounter it, the dubbing is trying to translate music lyrics and the rest of the time it just sounds incredibly bad while at the same time being completely inaccurate

Though, to be honest, most of the time I hear about it, it's when a channel is apologising for "autodubbing" being enabled by default on one of their videos and ruining the experience for most of their viewers.

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

failed today's Connections because I'm not a car pervert

Connections
Puzzle #857
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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Medley Interlisp is a living fossil more than the mataphor implies.

The build process doesn't compile the Lisp sources but mostly combines existing compiled files generated up to a few decades ago. Almost a third of the Medley sources haven't been compiled since Jan 25, 1998, and many of the sources dated from years before. It's as if your current Linux distro was built from .o files compiled 27 years ago.

How's that for maturity and stability?

More on the build process:
https://github.com/orgs/Interlisp/discussions/2316#discussioncomment-14678446

#interlisp #lisp

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

No, wait. Some of the windows work normally (still lost all of the tabs) but others only half work (feel interactive but nothing you do actually does anything).

I know Firefox has been going downhill but this is a new low

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

Oh, great. A Firefox update just nuked all of my open tabs and the windows are unresponsive on launch. (Search box active, typing in it works, but nothing else is responsive and pressing enter does nothing.) Fucking wonderful.

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

“It's Giving Enron - by Dave Karpf”

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving-enron

> the AI bubble isn’t predominantly giving off Pets.com or Global Crossing vibes anymore. It’s giving Enron vibes

Been saying this for a while. They're gonna Enron this shit until it explodes all over us

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

it's only Wednesday but I have transcended `console.log("here!")` debugging into the realms of `alert("??")` 💀

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

https://codepen.io/dbushell/full/xbZLVPG

my submission to https://badux.lol

kinda buggy but whatever I've spent waaayyy too much time on this :sweat_blob:

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
vanillaweb@intuitivefuture.com ("That HTML Blog") wrote:

This is fantastic news! 🎉

Lit remains the gold standard in “I want to author #WebComponents but I must have DX I'm already familiar with”. It's truly an incredible project. It powers the best UI framework (imo) in the biz, @webawesome. It was used to build Adobe Photoshop for the web. It was used in Reddit's latest redesign.

Wonderful to see it's been gifted to the community and is no longer a “Google” project. Here's to many more years of being Lit! 🔥

https://lit.dev/blog/2025-10-14-openjs/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

‘Without precedent’: Virtually all news outlets reject restrictive Pentagon press policy
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-14/hegseth-pentagon-press-policy-1st-amendment?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-thenewsdesk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Monkey_Nation@pixelfed.social ("Jared") wrote:

Nina Simone 🥜

Credit: Unknown

#NinaSimone
#Music #Peanuts
#Schroeder #autumn
#Halloween

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Instagram Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post https://twp.ai/E6CabX

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

How does it feel to have given $60 of your money to bail out Argentina?

What, you did not know that $60 was pulled out of your pocket (and the pocket of every man, women, and child in the US) to be gifted unto Argentina?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-meets-with-argentinas-milei-as-u-s-prepares-20-billion-bailout

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StefanEJones@dice.camp ("Stefan Edward Jones") wrote:

Listen:

We are not trapped in a historical analogy.

Quit filling out your Autocracy Bingo Card and mournfully quoting Hannah Arendt. Find some friends, stand up, get out there, speak out.

Flood our public spaces with citizens who love democracy and diversity, and thus smother out the hate & fear.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

J.P. Morgan’s David Kelly warned this week that while America is “going broke” it’s doing so slowly enough that markets aren’t panicking yet. With U.S. national debt now topping $37.8 trillion and interest payments exceeding $1.2 trillion, Kelly said the debt-to-GDP ratio—already at 99.9%—will likely keep rising even under moderate growth. Despite tariff revenues and temporary deficit relief, he cautioned that political choices or a slowdown could quickly worsen the fiscal picture, urging investors to diversify away from U.S. assets before “going broke slowly” turns fast.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/america-going-broke-jpmorgan-david-kelly-debt-tariffs/

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

Hmm. As cool as Flutter is, it is definitely not designed with the idea of creating document-based apps. I'm becoming half-tempted to learn Lisp and write this as an Emacs package. (Kidding.) (Mostly.)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

What a fascinating machine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKm9eM2BuM0

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

It doesn't look very safe.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #windows #balcony #concrete #rust

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

“estimates that the A.I. wealth effect is boosting current real gross domestic product growth by about 0.4 percentage points (just under $100 billion), comparable to the peak of the dot-com bubble, when the wealth effect was 0.6 percentage points.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/opinion/ai-bubble-stock-market-tech-stocks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jwz:
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

Now that Marc Benioff, owner of Slack and Salesforce, has confirmed he sides with authoritarianism, it's more incumbent on us than ever to move off central platforms, which can dump communications we presumed were private or cut us off for any reason or no reason at all.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/10/marc-benioff-national-guard-sf/

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

Is it a good idea to setup a mail server for smol mailboxes and to open registration for free with invitation links for example?
The goal would be to reduce volume of emails, as #smolweb reduces the size of websites.

Something smol like:

• one common domain name (something in .casa TLD)
• in a French datacenter
• 128 Mb of storage
• 10 Mb max per email (sent or received)
• 10 recipient addresses per email (can't be used for mailing)
• limited sent per hour (no spam)
• IMAP / POP3 / SMTP (over TLS)
• Webmail (for desktop and mobile)
• autodeleted if full for several months (to free space for newcomers)

Are you interested by such a #mailbox ?

Please share this toot to have a good idea of the interest.

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

Stupid Young Republicans get exposed, because they are both racist and stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/young-republicans-same-as-the-old-republicans/

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

Gosh, what a surprise, the ranks of the young GOP are filled with racist antisemitic homophobes who glorify rape, golly, who could they possibly be emulating

Also every single one of them has the sparkling charisma of an infected thumb in an ill-fitting suit

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

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

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