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

token ring? that's just AI company financing

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Just a couple days left to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards if you're eligible and you've not already done so. Vote for the work you loved in 2025! For those of you who need a refresher on what I have that's eligible (two novels, two TV episodes, and a novelette), here's the whole list.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/02/what-i-have-available-for-award-consideration-2026-edition/

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

anyway today i am implementing something which appears to require 16 XMM registers for maximum performance. that is to say the compiler could probably use fewer, but you'd lose at least a few cycles doing so.

with avvx2, you are upgraded to 32 XMM registers, which means we can actually do the second half of the algorithm on twice as much data at once and benefit from submit latency being lower than result latency. alas that isn't the most expensive half, but oh well.

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

have i mentioned i'm not astonishingly fond of the way intel have just bolted shit on the side of x86 over the years without regard to how difficult it makes the lives of performance-conscious programmers?

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

The most disgusting part of writing cryptography and security blogs is you inevitably get some truly heinous websites in your referrer logs :\

Mastodon wrote:

There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.

These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.

Mastodon wrote:

Profile editing is now a unified experience, with everything in a single view. You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos.

Mastodon wrote:

We've reworked featured hashtags, pinned posts, and custom fields to make the most important details more easily discoverable, and make better use of vertical space.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robin-Yann Storm") wrote:

Me when someone is playtesting and they let out an exasperated sigh.

Attachments:

• video: 5c3c2957e3bbc95a.mp4

Mastodon wrote:

A new Activity tab has a dropdown menu for filtering different views of information (posts, boosts, replies) so you can find the information you're interested in.

Attachments:

• gifv: A video demonstrating the new dropdown to filter different kinds of activity (posts, boots, replies) on the Mastodon web interface.

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

a bad day to use python

days ending in 'y'?

Mastodon wrote:

Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. Our latest blog post explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/

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

why light never moves

yeah no.

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muhkayoh ("Matt Jordan") wrote:

@javi Firefox has become the John Fetterman of browsers.

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

I can guess what duties Melania would actually like to have a humanoid robot take over. Unfortunately, I think that might trigger a robot revolution.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/imagine-having-a-robot-to-teach-your-kids-greek-and-latin/

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

can you feel the acceleration?

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.94.1 has been released.

This point release fixes a few regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.94.0: an internal compiler error in Clippy, a small security issue in Cargo, and two issues in the standard library.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/26/1.94.1-release/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

@ai6yr @cwebber Along the same line. I often got the question, what major should I study. I tell them, pick the hardest you can handle (if not a bit more). You will never have as much time to deal with this stuff as during college.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

@ai6yr @cwebber When mentoring students I often get the question - how do you figure things out so quickly.

Then I tell them that I've been messing with hardware and software since I was in my early teens - and I made tons of (innocent) mistakes.

When you get to be an adult you then know how to approach complex systems where you might not have this much margin.

Much of it is heuristics. Offloading heuristics (despite biases) is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
falsemirror@masto.nyc ("Rory Mir") wrote:

EFF is hiring an Assistant Director of EU Policy. Fully remote, EU only.

https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/portal/28620672D234BF368306CEB4A2746667/jobs/394456

#jobs #FediHire #TechLaw @eff

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

diffie's mayonnaise

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

Curious, who has been on #TV ?

Do boost for coverage as always. 🙂

I cannot add a "never on TV" it seems, sorry. Mastoshit.

I tick all the boxes, and a few more.

Do reply post the amusing exceptions to the list, gotcha. I also have many.

And this is all when TV was way more of a real thing than now... How times have moved on.

And for other TV history, I knew the real Guy Kewney... Met him for drinks in London on Thursdays. Sad he is gone. I recall him telling that anecdote fondly.

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

Is your enterprise AI app actually secure?

No.

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

Dershowitz v. Youssef would be the most fun in a courtroom I'd ever see. Make it so, Alan, just be prepared to pay the price.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/bassem-youssef-knows-how-to-use-a-needle/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7h9r0t0mI

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Before I chuck it at eBay, who would be interested in buying my Philips Videopac 7000 and a couple of dozen games? It's in the Netherlands. Sensible offers only, please.

The console is perhaps better known as the Magnavox Odyssey2, but this is the original PAL variant.

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

this is my favourite picture in all of cryptography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%5Fcipher%5Fmode%5Fof%5Foperation#Electronic%5Fcodebook%5F%28ECB%29

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

ECB and CTR cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators

i uh... ECB??? cryptographically secure????

ECB?!?!

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

I bestow my atheist blessings on Pope Leo XIV.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/26/oh-no-i-have-to-agree-with-a-catholic/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
edri@eupolicy.social ("EDRi") wrote:

3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat!

Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽

This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!

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

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪