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

a tomato is very similar to us, it contains a lot of the same genetic code

this explains a lot about some people

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

When I hear Apple pundits talk about how Siri “needs” to move to LLMs, I cringe. I don’t need Siri to do web searches, but I need “turn on the bedroom lamp” and “set the thermostat to 74” to be 100% deterministic.

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487

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

nowadays if a scientist discovered a new element they'd be very excited, but here in the 18th century they're just like "what a bother, there are already too many"

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

⚠️ An active phishing attack is targeting crate owners by asking them to "confirm that your email address is still active". These messages are not from crates.io, and should be ignored. (We will never ask you to confirm that your e-mail address is still active.) ⚠️

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

america's most racist man

wow that's gotta be a tough fought competition

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

this cat is as spicy as cinnamon sugar

i have at least two questions

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mediopocillo@boriken.social ("medio pocillo ☕:borified:") wrote:

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
partim@social.tchncs.de ("Martin Hoffmann") wrote:

A new version of #Impromptu, an iterative online journey planner that lets you create a public transport trip step by step, has been deployed at https://impromptu.partim.org/

This release shows more nearby stops in the “Walk” tab, allows you to switch between different types of services in the ”Departures” tab so you don’t have to wade through all the trams to find a train any more, and lists important intermediary stops on the departure board, giving you a better idea where a train is headed.

Full release notes here: https://codeberg.org/partim/impromptu/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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

i think it's really time to update the name to system E by now, it's already grown to consist of more daemons than there are on github.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Trump has surrounded himself with a constellation of evangelical advisers who not only support his policies but also frame them as divinely sanctioned. Their specific strand of evangelical theology interprets global conflict, especially in the Middle East, as a precursor to the end times."

~ Alain Stephens

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #genocide #morality #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/04/paula-white-iran-war-christian-evangelicals/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

The story could have just as well been written like this.

In 21 years of policing, RCMP Sgt. Serge Landry says he'd never seen anything like the theft of an entire truck of Ketchup flavored potato chips. The RCMP confirms the truck was recovered in the state of Massachusetts minus the chips that were on board. The investigation continues...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amplifyukraine.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦") wrote:

Romanian intelligence takes part in US-led thwarting of 'sustained' Russian cyberattack against West #Ukraine

Romanian intelligence takes pa...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens/116369940245011129

A better world is possible, and voters want it

#UKPol #UKPolitics #ScotPol #ScottishGreens #Greens

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

If you know someone in Poland who wants to work a remote Operations job following break/fix runbooks on thousands of Linux hosts, I'm hiring...

https://jobs.akamai.com/en/sites/CX%5F1/job/2625?keyword=2625&mode=location

(We're working to offload the trivial stuff to another team, as we mature into a "specialist" team. So it has some future potential.)

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

what sort of things should a type system for a systems language realistically be tracking? well how about whether some memory is initialised or not? in rust you might use MaybeUninit and some dynamic checks, but in a proper type system it would either be Uninit or something else.

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

of course such a thing could never realistically work within c++ itself - as soon as you chuck in stuff like exceptions you're onto a loser

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

the alternative to this is to simply make people clean up by having a type system that allows you to require that. sure you can have autodrop if it makes things easier, but there is a whole world of alternatives that you can't realistically explore in an RAII environment.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Sydney Opera House has some interesting performances just sitting there for the world to see. Neat!

https://www.youtube.com/@SydneyOperaHouse/videos

I'm currently listening to some Beth Gibbons:

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

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

RAII is alright, i guess? but understand what you're really asking for is automated drop call insertion and for people to make apis where that is the norm.

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

rust has fallen into the same trap as C++ of thinking RAII is good actually.

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

i realised today that my will to write rust when not being paid to do so has more or less evaporated

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Très belle journée

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116300859215261350

For reasons, I'm reminded of this thread from a couple of weeks ago that I wrote in an attempt to remind people to be extra-sceptical of bubble-inflating news coming from those who benefit from a financial bubble, even if it looks plausible

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:

What makes one decide to make a parody movie trailer for, of all things, the GNU Image Manipulation Program? I asked the puppeteer behind Pork Johnson, the star of the semi-viral GIMP clip.

https://tedium.co/2026/04/07/pork-johnson-gimp-parody-interview/

new @tedium

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

PLA (Programming Language A) was so good we turned it into 3d printing feedstock.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"But X is useful" is not the good defense you think it is.

Who is it useful to, for what purposes and who bears the costs/harms?

Child labor is useful (to people wanting to squeeze out some money from desperate people). We still think that it should not exist.

(X in this case is a variable not a fascist social network site)

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

I don't find the idea that the building blocks of life fell out of the sky at all credible, when we've got these oceans that provide a better source material.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/08/life-from-space-i-have-questions/

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

WordPress people - is there a good "related posts" plugin that factors in taxonomies and a few other dials to tweak?

something a little beyond a meta query

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
feed@404media.co ("404 Media") wrote:

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

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

As I read, tried to imagine the Guardian speaking as clearly about the left in the UK and just...couldn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/why-do-elite-democrats-fear-hasan-piker