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

i should(n't) make a just-in-time compiler called lejit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Also, and I want to say more on this soon, but if you think that the big AI players are hoping for *anything but* them being able to put a legislative moat around themselves where output *is* copyrighted and training materials *are* restricted but they're the *only ones* able to play, you're being a fool.

Their key goal is to capture rent on all intellectual pursuits.

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

BIG PEXT https://codeberg.org/jjl/bittricks/issues/7

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what%5Fwe%5Fheard%5Fabout%5Frusts%5Fchallenges%5Fand%5Fhow%5Fwe/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

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

and like it's a simd thing using sve. it clearly took me a while. one doesn't just knock one of these off idly

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

i just found some code on my machine. it looks like mine. i don't remember writing it or anything that might need it.

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

i have had some ideas for c libraries. they need features that haven't even finished being written yet, let alone implemented.

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

“Something I Can Never Have”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/something-i-can-never-have/

> The delusions and mania are much more widespread, but most of these are tolerated, even encouraged, as long as people continue to perform “productively” at their jobs.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zekjur@mas.to ("Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺") wrote:

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026

venture capital discovers there’s no exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMhJd3XMhQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260320-openai-anthropic-spacex-to-trash-stock-market-ipos - podcast

time: 6 min 41 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/20/openai-anthropic-spacex-to-trash-stock-market-ipos-for-2026/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

lol and - furthermore - lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

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

one thing that annoys me is many people assume if you don't like systemd, your entire personality must be arranged around hatred of it.

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jwz wrote:

@attoparsec Be the mulch you want to see in the world

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wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

I want everyone who says "this is the law, distros need to comply" I want you to explain a plausible set of circumstances to lead to the following:

* That the AG of California will sue a random Linux distro which has effectively no money
* Prove who the OS distributor actually is (is it the committers? Committers of what part? Their bank account with $12 in it?)
* Prove by preponderance of the evidence how many children used the OS in order to set the fines
* get a judge and jury to think this isn't a massive waste of their time
* That it isn't just a violation of the law but is a "negligent" or "intentional" violation
* all the while, the OS maker and everyone else having effectively zero knowledge of who uses it since there's no continuing relationship with users.

How does all of this happen?

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("the kamala harris of going to bed at a reasonable time") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

thinking abt the timeline where the linux baddies got tshirts made that say ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA and MUST BE 18 TO READ THIS SHIRT like where is the fuck you make me attitude here

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("the kamala harris of going to bed at a reasonable time") wrote:

how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

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bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

@Joshsharp "Putting aside the moral and ethical implications, don't you think I'd look hot wearing these conflict diamonds?"

jwz wrote:

BREAKING, I hav learned that a large number of my readers have "lost time" at a Waffle House. [ "Red Right Hand" plays ]

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"):
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope") wrote:

How many bolds could a kobold ko
If a kobold could kobolds

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116262296329273733

From an organiser who runs a conference that sells tickets that barely cover the costs of the event and still manages to fund a decent proportion of travel expenses for speakers who need it:

conference organisers need to do better.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

This has a genuinely sinister elegance to it. You want to know if models can “reason” instead of merely repeat? Point them an esoteric language and see what happens.

https://types.pl/@edwinb/116263613083616062

Boosted by jwz:
Joshsharp@aus.social ("josh's harp") wrote:

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

read this and try to tell me cloud wasnt a mistake

https://labs.watchtowr.com/8-million-requests-later-we-made-the-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-look-amateur/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

RE: https://wikis.world/@quarknova/116262006249339183

I celebrate the people who made this happen! Keep up the good work.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

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tammy@social.lol ("Tammy Lee") wrote:

Trying out a different process for drawing goldfish. This is a work in progress. It feels good to stretch my brain and do something different!

jwz wrote:

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116264352643279335

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wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge%5Frequests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

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ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:

All together now: fuck systemd

First to tongue the boot when it comes to this age verification shit I see.