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

it's kinda wild that i just did the simplest file copy implementation possible and it can do a gig in less than half a second.

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

And I haven't even outlined any of the actual worst case scenarios – nuclear escalation in the middle east, a new global pandemic, a heatwave with sustained high (35°C) wet-bulb temps – because there's no real point in scaring yourself with shit you can't do anything about

(Forgot to put a content warning when I first posted this. Apologies.)

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

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- The Ukraine war is still a thing. If Ukraine wins, that means Russia has collapsed or is about to and a bunch of nukes come into play. If Russia wins, they're emboldened to continue.

All of that is just off the top of my head. If even half of these things come to a head over the next year or so, we're in for an extraordinary bad time

Like, worst in decades. So bad that we pretty much have to hope that we simply get lucky and things dissipate safely somehow.

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

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- US munitions depletion leading to all sorts of actors trying their luck.
- The deterioration of the reliability and security of the software holding the world together because the industry went all in on YOLO vibe coding.
- Ongoing tariff war (that's still a thing)
- Ongoing Cuba crisis
- A recurrence of the Greenland crisis
- Taiwan
- The entire middle east is a mess that's getting messier
...

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

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- Too Big to Fail institutions collapsing due to above crises
- Weather phenomena caused by the global climate crisis (heatwaves and hurricanes)
- Shortage of all sorts of important goods due to energy, gas, plastics, semiconductor, or food shortages
- Tungsten and rare earths shortage (China likes to cut exports of resources when other crises happen)
- Rise of authoritarianism pretty everywhere. Escalates because of other crises
...

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

Not a financial analyst or professional predictor of things but it strikes me that there are quite a few things lining up to potentially make up a Very Bad Time™ for all of us:

- Energy crisis
- Gas crisis
- Fertiliser crisis
- Semiconductor shortage (because of the energy and Helium shortages)
- Plastics shortage
- Food price inflation
- Drugs shortage
- Private debt crisis
- "AI" stock market bubble
- Housing bubble leading to crisis
...

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

Truth Social costs $700 million a year to run? That's unreal -- I suspect Trump is more comfortable with corruption and inefficiency than he lets on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/25/i-must-be-doing-something-right-2/

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

@cstross

Someone once said the Moore's law of software is that the number of CPU instructions it takes to add two numbers doubles every two years.

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

Graffiti conviction for Australian woman who stuck googly eyes on sculpture

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

mastodon for agents

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

“Opinion | I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse. - The New York Times”

https://archive.ph/m7jxQ

If anything, this downplays the risks as it seems to assume that there has to be something to "AI" to warrant calling it a "boom".

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

i feel like Zed editor is a ticking enshittybomb and i'm just waiting for the next editor to come along

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

The men who wouldn't document, lint and format their code so they themselves and their coworkers could maintain it 5 years ago, even to save their lives would totally do it nowadays to "help the AI".

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

TUIs for everything, even Deezer! 🔥

🎧 **deezer-tui** — Lightweight Deezer client for the terminal

💯 Stream music, browse albums, search & play

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Tatayoyoh/deezer-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #deezer #music #player #cli #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 5d16c2755ffdb790.mp4

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
plexus@toot.cat ("Arne Brasseur") wrote:

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

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Khrys@mamot.fr wrote:

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

It's one of the most popular Python libraries for interacting with large language models [...] It has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, and it's an important dependency in a lot of AI tooling. It's also been compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine.

Sorry but... 🍿

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
robertcarlson@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robert Carlson") wrote:

The sparse "looks nice to me" comments about DLSS 5 get at what's fundamentally insidious about AI-generated art. It's gotten good at passing at a glance to untrained eyes, while still falling apart upon closer inspection. Good art is the opposite: it rewards attention and consideration.

#gamedev #ai

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

Epic Games is "laying off 1000 people." 23% of its workforce.

That number is bonkers. I feel like we've grown so desensitized to layoffs at this scale after a few years, that we don't think about the scale of 1000.

That's a highschool in a dense city. Or a small town in Canada, or a high-rise or two. That's so many lives and people who are dependent on that income.

What a nightmare world where we hear about layoffs constantly at this scale.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

self portrait

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jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

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mcc wrote:

It is possible he interpreted the way I phrased my request as rude. I may have said something like "you are selling us as meat".

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mcc wrote:

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

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t54r4n1@mspsocial.net ("insurgency bureaucrat") wrote:

#fediblock alpaca.gold 's admin throws your posts into an llm for "summarization" so you can "catch up on doomscrolling". not my posts you don't

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the shills are less frustrating because the shills are all just cross-posting from LinkedIn using Buffer and spamming hashtags; they're never going to see my replies and so I can easily just block them after one or two posts. no real hope of useful engagement there anyway, that's not what they're here for.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd really like to reply directly and try to engage in discussions but *everyone* doing this is way too angry and dysregulated to respond to personal feedback, and half the time I will see six pages of Leftist Theory buzzwords thrown into a blender, click through to the bio to see where they're coming from, and see "20 y/o comp sci student" and like, I hate age verification too but I feel like we all might have been better off if we couldn't post until we could rent a car

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it is tooth-shatteringly frustrating to watch page after page of rant thread from dozens of different accounts scroll by (for my sins, I follow several hashtags around my interests, so it's not necessarily people I follow) where they have identified real problems but have zero understanding of how corporations or large open source projects are organized or make decisions, and invent fantastical conspiracies. it's 4chan shit. please stop

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

when commenting on companies like Apple or core open source technologies SystemD it seems I have two options, either get lumped in with the shills or the truthers. I really do not like either of these options

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

new, wonderfully simple, yet delightful game just dropped. much better than doomscrolling.

i dare y’all not to get hooked.

https://100jumps.org/

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

Godzilla Minus 1 was great and I might do a legitimate review later

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

SFPD’s complicity in ICE’s abuses violates San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance as well as SFPD’s own policies.

Please join the FREE SF Coalition for a rally this Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 pm in front of SFPD headquarters (1245 3rd Street, San Francisco) to:
Demand that SFPD stop standing guard for ICE while it rips families apart
Demand the truth about how deep SFPD’s collusion with ICE goes.

https://indivisiblesf.org/events/2026/3/25/protest-sfpd-standing-guard-while-ice-abducts-our-neighbors