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

i have the nagging feeling i missed exactly the trick i'm about to use elsewhere, but i can't remember if that code had the right primitives available.

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

Elevatorgator spotted in the wild! They aren't extinct yet, unfortunately.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/14/a-random-elevatorgator-appears-roll-for-initiative/

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

for my next trick, i will make some code branchless and then get annoyed at how horrific the replacement is

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

An amazing thing happened this week: a whopping bipartisan Senate majority (89:10!) passed Elizabeth Warren's housing bill, which severely limits private equity companies' ability to buy single-family homes to turn into rental properties:

https://prospect.org/2026/03/13/elizabeth-warrens-amazingly-progressive-housing-bill/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/14/ill-have-what-xis-having/#binge-and-purge

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

life is uncertain, eat your dessert first.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

I’m bored. Enjoy this random cat picture.

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

“It would be great if with standoff exquisite airstrikes we can fundamentally transform the politics of other countries,” said Justin Logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, which advocates military restraint. “But we can’t. There’s a certain American stubbornness on this point, and we keep learning these lessons over and over again.”

since the mid-1940s, US Presidents have become caught up in this illusion over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/us/politics/rubio-trump-iran-war.html

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

chronological disorder

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

what a clusterf*ck all around... this is not a f*cking game, ppl.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/texas-terrorism-trial

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA @Karma_J

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brenttoderian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. No matter what happens in the Paris election in 4 days, the world’s cities owe @annehidalgo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy a huge debt of gratitude. The boldest, most inspiring mayor I’ve seen.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A c...

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

Happy Birthday tyo LISP, released on this day in 1960

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

I suspect that as I find myself traveling with the MacBook Pro more, my iPad “needs” might be better served by moving back to the mini. Hmm.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

An old M28 series locomotive, first produced in 1955 by the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. Mostly they serviced industrial railways, moving loads and freight.

This one worked at a now abandoned thermal power plant in Hungary. Now it sits silent and forgotten inside an old rail shed.

#Hungary #Railway #Locomotive #Photography #Abandoned #LostPlace #Train #AbandonedPlaces

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

one avx-512 vbmi2 left pack (limited to what i need for my HOT), done. it's of the order of 20 cycles. could be a goer.

unfortunately that isn't all avx512 kit (or even everything except xeon phi), so i'm going to have to do something else for those. and then the avx2 version as well. and maybe SSE. though i'm leaning toward fuck SSE because it's already too many versions and of the amount of extra hardware we'd support, probably very little of it is still in use.

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

I don't want a taboo on my back that prevents me from doing so

you know, i think that ship sailed.

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

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!

It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.

"You see? They have one of those."

A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...

Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

#ai #webdev #smolweb #experience

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

It's your tenth duoversary ❤️ but my heart is ripped in half

Don’t throw away 10 years together

It’s been 2744 days since your last lesson

wow, i see duolingo have jumped to emotional blackmail.

i didn't even remember i still had an account.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
redsakana@infosec.exchange wrote:

@davidgerard "Laying off 10% due to huge AI productivity boost" *looks inside* years of mismanagement, wishful EBITDA fakery, and/or PE grift from ZIRP era catching up

every time

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex / catileptic") wrote:

after more than a decade as an intruder in the software development industry, i feel like i've finally seen enough of technology & politics to retroactively contextualize all my pain

the way my body looks and my insistence on coherent affect really did not make me a "good programmer" from the point-of-view of my former colleagues and superiors

now i can "see like a government". i can also see like the profit-driven industry that is allergic to affect as such

related: https://ashwinsundar.com/posts/legibility-and-programming/

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

This time of year, when the ravens congregate in town before scattering into the countryside for the summer, I tend to stalk their regular hangout spots. #raven #ravens #iceland #nature

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Khrys@mamot.fr wrote:

RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

LLM code is the lead pipe of our generation of software engineers. They’re going to be replacing it for decades and wondering how we were so foolish

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

Whoops dropped it.

If you aren't familiar with the horror that is the Icelandic cuisine known as "svið" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svi%C3%B0

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

This raven is picking the meat off a sheep's jaw. I'm guessing somebody threw their "svið" leftovers out for the ravens to enjoy. #birds #iceland #raven

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

So, for this #caturday, the reason why I'm thankful my neighbour has placed his bird feeders well out of the reach of the cats.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
alt_in_uk ("Alternatives in UK") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212

This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.

#palantir #goodLaw

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

Oh my god. The Vegan Teacher is back. 😅

This lady was causing all sorts of drama on tiktok back in the day. She wrote a song that made an acrostic for the n word, trying to make it into a positive thing. Just absolute rancid, narcissistic stuff.

I can't believe she's active again. We really have lost the ability to shame people.

Shout out to all my vegan friends who cringe at her existence. We know almost no one is actually like this is real life.

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

Out with the old, in with the new, I suppose.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn

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

While history slowly crumbles, new buildings rise in the background. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn