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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
ErikaSumner@mstdn.social ("Erika Sumner") wrote:

#BREAKING #News: The #UnitedNations General Assembly has voted to recognize the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice. Note: #UN GA resolutions are not legally binding, though they carry the weight of global opinion.

#BlackMastodon #BLM

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052o

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

I say this not as someone who is pro-local AI but someone who is against the cloud. And against this sort of mass power grab enacted by the hyperscalers over the past five years.

It appears like they're failing. And short of passing legislation to codify a monopoly of some sort, their vision of our digital lives are not coming to fruition.

Boosted by jwz:
stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Jimmy con Carnage.

Boosted by jwz:
javi@goblin.band wrote:

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
livingshredder@furry.engineer ("Vertex 🔞") wrote:

GitHub is apparently going to start using your data for model training unless you intentionally opt out of it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

It looks like this is mostly just limited to interactions with Copilot itself, but I'd turn it off anyway just to be safe...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.cthos.dev/@cthos/116291799262669611

Wow, the cynicism in this thread is off the charts. Google's aggressive accelleration of its internal PQC deadline has gotten the attention of a bunch of very smart people working in the field. You may think it's propaganda, but lots of us are wondering what Google knows is coming down the pike that the rest of us don't. It'd be an error to let this development go unreported.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@mattround tell the Apple people that you remember when they focused on delightful user experiences rather than control, that ought to prove you're old enough

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

Attachments:

• 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.