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Boosted by jwz:
somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

So many crappy AI generated press releases about crappy AI generated music hitting our mailbox 😡

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

My co-workers will see a lot of my recommendations about how to build chat UIs that don't suck in this post. I tend to add "use web components for upgrades and delay loading" to the prescription, but the core of this approach is correct:

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/i-do-the-opposite

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Some good news, but still weak sauce. No PR, caps only on non-residents...*sigh*. Labour still seem not to understand what time it is, even with McSweeny gone:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/25/political-donations-cryptocurrency-blocked-reform-uk

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein our long SVOG audit nightmare is finally over
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/03/25.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

not a waste of sand

only the highest praise for the intel 270kp

jwz wrote:

Recent movies and TV.

Normally I try to keep my reviews focused toward "these were good and you should watch them" but I've watched a lot of garbage in the last couple of months so this one has more complaining than usual. You're welcome. The Bluff...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5A

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

Additionally, for file-backed, non-tmpfs memory, the file must not be open for write and the mapping must be executable.

that's...bizarre. why would an executable mapping make a difference in using hugepages?

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

Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud Issues and Wikis are being removed

Action needed: migrate them to Jira/Confluence

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

it's a bit of a doozy though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s1Z7cfGeVM

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

okay i just watched a video about some plane hijackers and i think i can say they were the worst hijackers of all time.

but particularly my favourite thing is forcing the captain to drink whisky while the plane is losing altitude.

sure, get the captain pissed, that'll help everything.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
darnell@one.darnell.one ("Darnell Clayton :verified:") wrote:

Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast 🔛 @darnell@flipboard.com 📰 https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-march-25-2026-be07c54139bcc70672bb33f0773ede6a?utm%5Fsource=flipboard&utm%5Fcontent=user/AssociatedPress

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

letting some NPCs running on an X86 machine fly around in my little Solar System sim project for a while today, to prove to myself that the code really *does* work fine w/o modification across platforms

Attachments:

• gifv: spaced out looking cat with wide eyes saying "Freakin space, man", while galaxies spin in the background

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
ariel@front-end.social ("Ariel Salminen") wrote:

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything.

Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: https://elenajs.com

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

You have to actively work to believe there is no "we"; to put on a Thatcherite cloak that defends priors from the insight that "bigger than me" is not "bigger than us", and that collective action is both a problem and an opportunity.

These same people often write OSS software for a living!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Living in SF, it's constantly surprising to see new generations of engineers choose economic mysticism to justify selfishness, even when the probability they'll benefit heavily has never been lower.

They call themselves "libertarian", but tend away from advocacy for civil liberties, and do great amounts of work to avoid the obvious point that markets are not *sui generis*, but instead are tools we make together through society.

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
robotwig@socel.net ("RobotWig :verified:") wrote:

I'm on extremely borrowed time now before I lose my home and have nowhere to go. Does anyone know of any publications or places who would be interested in showing my photography to a wider audience and potentially getting me in front of the right people for paid work? I've already exhausted most avenues and have had features on the BBC Amateur Photographer magazine, a few galleries but looking for something I may have missed

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

There's a shift happening. OpenAI is shutting down Sora, presumably to focus on enterprise offerings. Walmart and Disney are cutting ties with OpenAI. Sam's about to get sued by Microsoft.

Conversely,

Nvidia's NemoClaw seems like a legitimate effort towards on-device AI. Apple's M5 chips are decked out with new AI technology, hinting that they might do something in the local AI space.

I think cloud-based AI is cooked. It's too expensive. The market is shifting. Or I'm high on my own supply.

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

Add tiling window management to your Rust terminal app! 🦀🤯

🌀 **ratatui-hypertile** — Hyprland-style tiling engine for @ratatui_rs

💯 Split, move, resize panes & manage layouts dynamically at runtime

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/nikolic-milos/ratatui-hypertile

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ui #tiling #widget #terminal #devtools

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• gifv: 37aa9dc20d124ffe.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
bug_gwen@mastodon.online ("bug_gwen 🪲") wrote:

You might have heard Google was rewriting news headlines with AI on its search pages, but now it has a patent to scrape and rewrite your whole website, and serve their version to searchers https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/

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

i like the idea of documenting all the failure codes and their meanings. i do not like it when that documentation is incomplete and i experience 'impossible' things.

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

i tried. i get EINVAL, which according to the manpage is not possible considering literally all i changed was the hugepages flags.

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

I think the defining characteristic of this era in the USA is that the most incompetent and bigoted people rise to wealth and power. And they never face any consequences for their bad decisions!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/25/the-queen-of-incompetent-bigotry-is-winning-big-time/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble

they're so close

#PredictionMarkets #Coinbase

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
990000@mstdn.social ("@990000@mstdn.social") wrote:

Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer

Original: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article%5F3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html

Archive: https://archive.ph/ELrCI

#AI #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence

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

The big news in the Hicks-Juavinett household is that Ashley just started a newsletter 🥰 🥰 🥰

of note that choosing ghost was not a small choice, because every SINGLE popular science author in her network insisted she HAD to be on substack, so she is starting with a serious penalty in not benefitting from her large existing network all on substack who would have promoted this newsletter across their many science reader audiences. I hope we can get it to flourish 🫶

https://graymatter.ghost.io/the-limitations-of-neuroscience/

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

mmap with hugepages next i think.

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

LOL, i rewrote it to use mmap for the read path and it's 3x worse

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

Mean Girls is a cultural classic for sure, but it's not the only one of it's kind. Median Girls and Mode Girls are two other crucial tools for getting a clear and well-rounded picture of what your Girl Data is really saying