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

reading: The Old Internet is Still Here
https://tylergaw.com/blog/the-old-internet-is-still-here/

👍

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

big enbyan and little enbyan

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
matthiasott ("Matthias Ott") wrote:

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction

I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

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

some good news on the RAM front.

prices are apparently stabilising and small, unheard of RAM makers 'samsung' and 'sk hynix' are expecting demand for memory to shrink soon, so are putting expansion plans on hold.

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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
datenwolf@chaos.social wrote:

@cwebber

And once again the Zig language project shows, that there's a better way: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AAronL1968@shakedown.social ("AAron Leckinger") wrote:

It is a crime to offer a federal job in exchange for a political favor.
Trump is reshaping a Colorado Republican primary by offering one of the candidates a role in his administration and returning his endorsement to the incumbent, whom he called a “RINO” just last month.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/politics/trump-reshapes-a-key-us-house-race-by-offering-a-candidate-and-her-husband-roles-in-his-administration

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

I can't even drive anymore I'm so rich #MAGA

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

I mean, who hasn't teleported to Waffle House at least once? :neocat_woozy:

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

I will never understand why the Dems are not screaming about this issue. we could have been started on our way out of this dependency upon oil by now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/business/energy-environment/gas-prices-electric-vehicles-iran.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.U1A.l53f.Im68LY-80-M7&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Joshsharp@aus.social ("josh's harp") wrote:

My dude, if there are obvious moral and ethical implications, how are you able to "put them aside" so easily? I just don't get it

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

Tim Burton didn't get dragged enough for the Soul Train scene in the last Beetlejuice. What a fucking goofball

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

Arty redpoll

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

For a slight change of pace, redpolls. #iceland #bird #birds

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

i have a set of apis and two obvious ways to use them to achieve a thing. which will be better? i have nfc.

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