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

“When Mr. Trump returned to the White House last year, a region exhausted by war was eager for negotiations and fresh starts. Instead, the president ended promising nuclear talks with Iran and pressed ahead with an ill-articulated and economically perilous war — a conflict that seems almost designed to destabilize the region.”

NYTimes

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

The next few years are going to be interesting.

Let's say Apple releases an M6 MacBook Ultra that targets AI power users.

Now, forget for a moment your distain for the term "AI power user," lol, and perhaps for Apple, and speculate with me.

Because we have a big war of competing interests. Microsoft/OpenAI, Anthropic are pushing for centralized compute and proprietary cloud-based AI. Meta for cloud, too, but "open source" AI. Out of the giants, only Apple, really, are pushing for on-device AI

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

So, this is where it gets sticky, right? Let's say I'm even half correct. That Apple comes out with hardware optimized for local AI models.

That potentially could be a significant blow to the cloud-tethered business model virtually every other giant is chasing.

If it were up to Google, we'd all be on chromebooks. Everyone is hyping AI, none of them are attempting to be the defacto AI hardware.

Because the money is in the residuals baby! Gotta collect those rents!

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

blogged: 404 Deno CEO not found

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/

— time for my annual check-in with Deno, how's it going over there?

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

blogged: 404 Deno CEO not found

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/

— time for my annual check-in with Deno, how's it going over there?

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

Helium! Our friend and ally in industry!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/fascinating-things-i-learned-today/

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
Framasoft@framapiaf.org wrote:

Faire ses propres logiciels ? Les faire faire ? Ou les acheter "sur étagère" ?

Aujourd'hui, on vous propose sur le Framablog une critique des critiques de La Suite Numérique de l'État, en l'inscrivant dans une dynamique historique du « Make or Buy » de la France depuis… De Gaulle.

C'est forcément partiel, partial et subjectif (comme souvent lorsqu'on tente une analyse historique), alors les commentaires du blog vous sont ouverts.

➡️ https://framablog.org/2026/03/19/la-suite-numerique-de-letat-critique-des-critiques/

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

i really hope you didn't want to use python on an architecture that traps on misaligned access.

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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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

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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/

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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.