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

yeah it seems doing this would be problematic. python has no way to request aligned memory. the best you can do is wrap around an oversized bytes object to not accidentally fail to access it correctly, which is hardly seamless interop with existing types.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/112448

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

I have been asked to have a personality. This is my best attempt. 'point-and-drool interface': Parody of the techspeak term point-and-click interface, describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh. The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots. See for the rest of us, WIMP environment, Macintrash, drool-proof paper. Also point-and-grunt interface.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/point-and-drool-interface.html

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Idle cycles put to use. You're welcome, organics. 'Good Thing' — [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All That, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Good-Thing.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbcedmonton_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net ("CBC Edmonton") wrote:

Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams
A Canadian streaming platform is helping white supremacists who have been kicked off mainstream social media continue to profit from hateful content, an investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate has found.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-website-helps-white-supremacists-nazis-monetize-hate-9.7134485?cmp=rss

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

just knocked up some python bindings for bittricks.

only thing is the array versions have to do conversions because python.

i wonder if versions that operated on (byte) strings might be better.

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

Give some men a little power, and you can rely on them using it to assault children. I don't understand it -- the desire is entirely mysterious.

But they have to be stopped.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/whats-with-all-the-pedos-nowadays/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0K6O3mODU&t=378s

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

right, how does one go about binding C to python these days?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Long and short of it being, if you think OpenAI, a weapons contractor who is gleefully helping the US bomb Iran, buying out Python tooling is a bad thing, then follow through. Don't hem and haw about AI in OSS: oppose it.

Oppose AI in the negative sense, ban it where you can, shout (without harassing) until the ink has rubbed off your keycaps. Oppose AI in the *positive* sense by building specs and parallel tooling.

But whatever you do, please don't make the problem *worse* by allowing AI.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Every single PR that is extruded or summarized by an AI product weakens exit strategies by undermining parallel tooling. Our choice to adopt AI, or even to insufficiently oppose its adoption, means we are that much more vulnerable to *infrastructure* becoming enclosed.

That's true in the obvious way: in the most generous interpretation of AI, if you're renting your brain, someone else can jack the prices on you or turn off projects they don't like.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

A few thoughts on Astral / OpenAI, now that the emotions have sat for a bit.

First, let me start by noting that AI is an attack on open source, inherently, by necessity, and at a structural level. That argument is bigger than Astral, but the short version is that you cannot simultaneously expand the public commons and work towards it's enclosure; moreover, if the public commons do not stand for the public good, then it's not really a commons any more.

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

lols, did they change the error message to shame the website?

always love a chance to share a personal favourite:
https://dbushell.com/2025/06/13/your-framework-is-showing-nextjs-error/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Reminder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkSkptsyuY

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

bittricks plausibly works properly on aarch64 now, thanks @stylus

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jwz wrote:

@dangillmor I don't see how "they secretly took $100M from crypto grifters 12 months ago" is any more damning than "they publicly took $14M from crypto grifters 17 months ago" but if it gets a new batch of people to realize that they have been telling you who they are and you should believe them, I'll take it. https://jwz.org/b/ykbY

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Another great episode of Pivot To AI from @davidgerard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8

There is no doubt that AI compute costs are eventually going to come to haunt its users; we are being substantially subsidized at $20/month, or even $200/month. But I think many of us will be shocked at HOW MUCH we are being subsidized. A 90% subsidy isn’t out of the question.

I predicted in 2023 that 2024 was going to be the year of reckoning for AI adopters, because their bills will come due, and they will get sticker shock when they see the totals, and that would eventually ruin AI providers. BOY WAS I WRONG. Turns out, there was at least two more years’ worth of VC money that were ready to come out of nowhere and subsidize the end users’ bills. This money will eventually run out. But when?

#ai #slop

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/111574855941095375

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Westerners when Brown people are mass murdered daily by Israel/USA.

🤷‍♂️

Westerners when they have to pay more for oil.

🤬

#WesternValues

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

watching Wrangler deploy `.DS_Store` in 2026

Clownflare please, this is a solved problem

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
maphew@vmst.io ("matt wilkie") wrote:

#Astral acquired by OpenAI? Oh no no no. You don't need them, they need you. Aw man. I'm bummed. I'm sure you thought long & hard. Charlie Marsh it's your company and ruff and uv and ty are your tools, your decision, obviously. But but but. Argh. Astral is-was enough on its own! We need to tilt away from monopolies not into them :-/
#python

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

three drafts, which do i finish today?

1. Top ten Figma betrayals
2. 404 - CEO Not Found
3. Safari sucks (working title)

probably #1 it's the most educational and less drama farming
#3 is backup for a slow news week

Boosted by jwz:
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
dave@alvarado.social ("Dave Alvarado") wrote:

How (racist/sexist/whatever) harassment on Mastodon works:

1. Harasser replies to their target's post, with the reply set to "followers only", saying the most vile stuff you can imagine.

2. All the harasser's followers join in on the harassment, posting more vile stuff.

3. Nobody but the target and the harassment crew can see the vile stuff that was said.

4. Target is traumatized. Nobody else can see why.

5. Everybody says "I don't see it so it's not happening."

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

SF did a test install of a neckdown on Kirkham at 9th. It worked great, just like a bunch of similar installations in the Presidio. Unfortunately a bunch of whiny babies cried about it and the city removed it. The replacement went in today - a speed hump.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

omg.lol’s IRC server, irc.social.lol, has been updated to the latest Ergo release candidate (v2.18.0-rc1). 💬

One of the neat things in the update is an API endpoint for retrieving channel listings. I've just put it to use with this new (live) channel listing: https://irc.social.lol/channels/

If you're an omg.lol member and you haven't yet visited our IRC server, consider stopping by and saying hi! You can start your own channels there, too. 💫

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

The only thing that allows me to suspend my disbelief after 10 Jurassic Park movies is that the US government still hasn't legislated the billionaires who owned the park.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @ProPublica.

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

That's cool man. My CVS locks deodorant behind glass because people can't afford basic hygiene products

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-pentagon-972ec1bd956a2c3633e6ab7fff389791

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

JFC this person is a moron... he is a dangerous moron who is about to gain control over an army of armed & masked thugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/politics/mullin-smell-war.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.UlA.S2%5FG.Pijlj1bdyWpb&smid=url-share

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

“Key impacts are exceeding what models predicted when it comes to extreme weather, the intensification of hurricanes, ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise”

Prof. Michael Mann, Uni Penn

Boosted by jwz:
mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

One of the more interesting aspects of the Ukraine war was the revelation of how badly compromised Russia's defense assets were. It was, honestly, a little startling to the public to learn that the feared Former Soviet State still had size on its side, but not a modern military; their tech was either out-dated or had been pillaged by corruption so badly that it couldn't be deployed as intelligence analysts had assumed it could be.

It is extremely fair to argue that Russia's greatest state-defense asset was perception and that the war in Ukraine damaged that and, in so doing, materially threatened the country's safety---that if they had simply never started a war, everyone would still perceive them as unassailable and incredibly dangerous to engage in combat and nobody would even think to try stochastic attacks, asymmetric drone warfare, or any other modern tactics under the assumption that such a grand superpower had a solution for all of that.

In short, all they had to do to keep everyone's perception of their strength was literally not start a war to test it.
Just a thing I'm thinking of right now for some reason.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

Everything that's happening in and because of the U.S. right now is being caused by everyone you know who voted for Trump, and for Republicans. They knew what these creeps wanted to do, they cheered for it, they revelled in the hate and the dreams of violence, the misogyny and racism. Everyone you know who voted for Republicans since 2016 at the latest has this in their heart and did it with full understanding regardless of what they claim. Blame them and shun them. Ostracize them.