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

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

Salespeople are confused, saying that all compute happens locally on the glasses. Which, if you don't know enough to know that's currently impossible for the size, you probably don't know the concept of local/cloud compute. So them saying it happens locally sort of implies that someone told them that.

It scares me how much Meta wants this to become a thing.

https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?t=59m50s

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

Damn they are going *in* on Meta. Going as far to say the entire reason Meta sells these glasses is for data collection. That may not sound radical around these parts, but to the centrist tech cartel it is.

Again, Marques isn't contributing much but he's not shutting it down. I think that matters when it comes to access. MKBHD might not get to review the next unreleased bit of tech from Meta if they keep speaking like this.

Time stamped:
https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?t=59m03s

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

According to Waveform, Meta Ray-Bans doesn't turn on its indicator light when it uses the camera to process AI queries. Asking it a question that would require the use of the camera i.e. "what's the color of this person's shirt?" doesn't trigger the light but answers the question

El, oh, fucking el man.

Time stamped:
https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?T=56m15s

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.

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

This idea fascinates me. How long can people ignore something before breaking that 4th wall, as it were?

Because no matter how strong your "no politics" rule is for your YouTube channel, you break that rule at some threshold.

You get what I mean? Ahhh, I feel like I'm not articulating this in a way that's compelling as much as it is in my head lol.

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

I'm not big on calling out influencers for not speaking up on things. But also, things are getting so conspicuously horrific, that not speaking out is starting to look silly.

But, of course, there is a line. Every podcaster in the world, big or small, has a threshold that if crossed they'd finally speak up. Even if that line is literal zombies breaking into their studio and eating them.

So, what's the line? Could a podcast go on during, say, an entire genocide at home and never speak on it?

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

seriously though, you can learn loads from benchmark outputs. you'd be amazed how often i've found bugs in code this way. or inferred the behaviour of processors i haven't even touched.

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

The Wave Form podcast (MKBHD) is going through an interesting phase where the co-hosts are starting to get a little political. You'll get anti-surveillance, anti-big tech comments and even sustained conversations amongst themselves.

Marques doesn't seem outwardly interested, but he isn't shutting it down either.

Which leads me to my ongoing question, can podcasters podcast through a genocide? Meaning, how long can you keep your hand on the stove before acknowledging it's hot?

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

don''t mind me, just doing numerology on benchmark figures

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

RE: https://social.afront.org/@stylus/116235651886344794

apparently SVE2 is on phones. and the bitperm impl is less than twice the time of the loop overhead.

and look at the difference in the third impl (there are four sets of three results, each followed by an impl number). the pdep (which is like a nanosecond slower on x86-64) is a full 4 nanoseconds slower. most of which seems to be because it does a less good job of compensating for the loop carried dependency than x86-64. most interesting!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjo0iLssbI8

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

This is super neato, I love an ingroup/outgroup intervention lever, people overestimate the negative backlash they'll get from their political group for changing their minds on something and if you work through an intervention to remind yourself that you've cared for a group loyally, you have less of that disproportionate fear

Fits in self-affirmation findings, where self-affirmation helps us 'shore up the self' to take riskier actions

https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2024/wp-24-25.pdf

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

If the computer is a prosthetic (and it is) then this means we legitimately have to be careful about what software we run, because we are deciding what to make part of our selves, part of our minds

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

i had to explain that cats are not humans and thus are not subject to data protection. i can't believe this argument worked.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

My first article from Wellington: it's about some weird things I've noticed about tech people and their weird phobia of observation and empirical thinking.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech%5Fempiricism%5Fproblem

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

so few people write about it that i wrote about it, even though i haven't had a blog in years.

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

anyway, cross platform portability without sacrificing performance is very tedious. nobody writes about it, i don't think all that many projects take it seriously, probably because they've tried and the compilers and computers fought them.

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

The Ides of Mac.

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

(context: it seemed hilariously unpossible and hadn't been encountered in my own testing and i was at the "reading the code through and guessing" stage until the issue author noticed something odd (as it ever is with these things))

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

this is actually a pretty hilarious bug if you're as much of a nerd as me.

totally my oops, i was using hardcoded flags to fiddle about for testing in qemu locally.

https://codeberg.org/jjl/bittricks/issues/4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lety@doesstuff.social ("Lety Does Stuff") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annamam/116235222464114496

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

I love Florida Thunderstorm season.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
norootcause@hachyderm.io ("Lorin Hochstein :verified:") wrote:

The three skills with a lot less overlap than you’d expect:

1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.

Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series

https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know

"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."

The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.

#IAimToMisbehave #Firefly #Serenity #AwesomeCon #nathanfillion #animation #animatedseries #entertainment #entertainmentnews #hollywood #SciFi #nostalgia #actors #spacemovies #ScienceFiction

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://frogs.lgbt/@alyx/116232623564098477

Anyone in #BelieveInFilm interested?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sig@furries.club ("💫「mongrel mind」🛰️") wrote:

In case you didn’t know how big I am…

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure

#Solar

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

Dead-eyed fucking losers 😭

Just absolutely rancid auras coming from this photo. Imagine being Elon's little data dog fuckboys. Couldn't be me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
june@social.nouveau.community ("June") wrote:

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.