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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5KxBa9zgpMj44HyvvMcJvg

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

I will figure out a path to my own sharing of work, but it is sad to me to feel there is this intellectual community you need to have a FAANG credit card to be part of. That's just not how it should work and we will see the consequences of these structures quickly in who gets to be on stage. This isn't a call out of any single organization, I'm always really honored to be thought of, but it's hard for me to understand how you can sell $1000 tickets on our content and not support creators

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

I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction

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

That feeling when you keep seeing "AI" fans talk about being systems-thinkers despite literally only thinking about all their problems from the perspective of a single individual: themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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