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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest #Freebooters podcast with @uoou is up at https://freebooters.uk

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260320-freebooters.mp3

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ZackPolanski@mastox.eu ("Zack Polanski") wrote:

RT: @NEF "We've got to stop equating the government's finances with a household."

Zack Polanski speaking about government finances, austerity, and the problems with the UK's fiscal framework at our event this week

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• video: 5b009d5752f4dea9.mp4

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

Keep Compute Local. Decentralized Compute is Digital Sovereignty. Not down with OPP (Other People's Power). We taught rocks to think and all I got was this egress bill? My Other Computer Has a GPU. Honk if your computer works without WiFi.

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

looks like guile lets you do better https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html%5Fnode/Bytevector-Slices.html

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

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm starting The Centre For Decentralized Compute, or the CDC if you will. I am accepting donations.

No but for real, I think there should be some sort of organized opposition to centralizing computational power.

Also, maybe there should be more marketing around the idea of decentralized compute. All the elements for a great marketing campaign are there. You have a cause people would care about. An enemy. Urgency. Someone get Framework on the horn.

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

well, this depends on how you define 'better'. i can make them more user friendly, but i can't do cool stuff like reading and writing to/from specific offsets in existing buffers without creating wrapper versions of 2/3 of bittricks.

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

so i have incredibly pointy and sharp bindings for chez that technically do the thing. i cannot make them better because chez seems to lack the support.

well i could write more c, but then i'm writing a special c library to work around the limitations of the language.

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

Super Micro Plunges 25% After Co-Founder Charged In AI Chip Smuggling Scheme:

"Prosecutors allege Liaw, Chang and Sun sold banned Nvidia-powered AI chips through a Southeast Asia company—identified as “Company-1”—and then forwarded those chips to China through third-party brokers, violating U.S. export controls."

Nvidia, of course, knew nothing about ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/20/super-micro-plunges-after-cofounder.html

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

i see SRFI4 support went well https://docs.scheme.org/guide/arrays/

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

Why do I feel alone in my love for the Planet of the Apes franchise? It's so good. Like, it's not just the CGI that I love, but each movie has something interesting to say.

Even this last one was great. But no one ever talks about it unless they're asking who these movies are for lol.

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

Oh fucking Christ. There's a AI Doomer documentary in IMAX staring cult-leader in waiting Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Super can't wait for liberals to watch it uncritically, then help Congress codify an AI monopoly 🫠.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. Maybe people will flex that media literacy muscle I keep hearing about.

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

This is a war for the rich, no one else.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/just-dont-call-it-war/

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

programming is a craft and i am a crafter. that is all.

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

hmmm, i could write chez bindings to bittricks and use it from idris.

i have no idea what for, but fuck it?

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

The M-series breathed new life into the non-gaming, high-end laptop market. That's important beyond just nice to have. The M series is single-handedly holding back a thin-client renaissance.

In 2026, in a sans-M Series world, centralized compute by way of premium-material ChromeBooks, looks like the future of computing.

None of this to say we should all go out and buy an M5 MBP tonight to support decentralized compute. Go buy a Framework PC, same idea. Just that this is a fragile future.

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

yes, there is a native way to do it

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

(Still ranting 😅) Rewind 6 years. Apple never releases the M Series chip. Macs and MacBooks sort of just limp along, taking whatever dogshit gains Intel throws at them.

Four years later, 2 years after ChatGPT went viral, DeepSeek is released. But this time, the markets aren't so freaked out. Yeah, you can run it locally, but it's not just 3 $600 Mac minis. It's [insert PC build here so I don't upset my DIY friends]. Which is fine, but local models are just that much less compelling.

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

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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