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

the first shoe designed for surfing the internet

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

"Why Abstinence-Only Sex Education is a Bad Metaphor for Generative AI Refusal"

https://refusal.blog/2026/04/07/why-abstinence-only-sex-education-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-generative-ai-refusal/

> While people often misconstrue generative AI refusal as an ignorant, avoidant, fear-driven position, generative AI refusal builds on accurate research about the various ethical harms associated with generative AI, as well as disciplinary principles in writing studies.

Boosted by jwz:
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"This public push for the 25th Amendment comes with real downsides.

First, it raises expectations for something that absolutely will not happen. I think it’s cheap to push an idea we know won’t lead to the desired outcome. It’s a gimmick for engagement and fundraising.

Second, J.D. Vance and Trump’s cabinet will face their judgment in the history books — and the afterlife — for the ways they’ve sold their souls to Trump. But they are not accountable to voters. We need voters to understand that Trump is only able to act like this because Republicans in Congress let him."

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-25th-amendment-isnt-coming-to

#USPol

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Whenever electricity prices go negative (because legacy thermal generation which isn’t designed to be load following pays to stay on because it’s cheaper than curtailing) people wonder what could be done with that electricity to take load off the grid…

How about make ammonia?

World’s first dynamic green ammonia plant starts operations in Denmark

https://www.topsoe.com/news/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-starts-operations-in-denmark

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

@NfNitLoop

• this is the most obvious example of a category of "ugh, we have to fit this shape" bugs. see also for example a smart pointer where you want to deallocate, but you don't want to embed the pointer to the allocator into the smart pointer lest you double the size.
• must_use is of course for a warning not an error

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

#SmolFedi 1.0.7 manages user defined Lists of profiles. A new entry in the menu for each list. And possibility to add/remove a profile in lists.

(at the moment, you can only use existing lists, nothing to create or delete one)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?

The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.

Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.

I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?

The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.

Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.

I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.

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

the ones in my head don't have names. they are basically given a meaningless unique identifier which i'm not actually aware of but nonetheless can compare for equality

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MtKanjon@meow.social ("Mt Kanjon") wrote:

ok, you can have a little macro kanjon, as a treat
https://youtube.com/shorts/iPoJgxTygXU

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

you know the metasyntactic variables?

no? well i mean you do, but they're the ones called 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' etc. yes it's a silly name, i didn't make it up.

how many of those do you have in your head for solving problems where you don't have names of all of the constituents?

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

What a really great idea

RE: https://www.threads.com/@blockclubchi/post/DW4GlVtEVXP

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

“In support of the 24-hour work stoppage, the union is asking readers and audiences to not visit ProPublica, click on stories, or otherwise engage with ProPublica content on other platforms and partner organizations.” — https://www.theverge.com/news/908401/propublica-union-strike-negotiations-ai-layoffs

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

other answers i would have accepted included "try whistleblowers"

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

(Also, they will never apologise for lying to you. You’ll still be waiting for an apology at the heat death of the universe.)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

augghhh why won't they just take my money https://keeb.io/products/sinc-lm-kit

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

how boeing strategically killed the A380?

the A380 was just a really bad idea, you want to talk about boeing killing, try the 737 MAX

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

Some of y’all are middle-aged. You should remember hearing outright falsehoods from an authority figure about a financial bubble at least once in your life before. This bubble’s bigger than the others which means a lot more people will fool themselves into thinking that this time it’ll be different

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

The one iron rule of late-stage financial bubbles is that with massive amounts of money at stake, a lot of people will be lying a lot of the time and many of the lying liars will be people you’d trust in normal times because the first person they fool is themselves

Be extra sceptical.

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

Ice-cooled PCs have one major challenge

yes, heat.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Rairii@labyrinth.zone ("Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: ") wrote:

a second osx port has hit the nintendo wii

(the first one is still unfinished)

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html

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

legendary czech car brand skoda is back.

with a bike bell. obviously

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

is simplified chinese actually simpler?

oh god. i am prepared for it not to be simple, but simpler, is that not a thing it achieves?

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

no, no, i said "get clawed"

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

polonium: russia's favourite element

you don't need to finish that sentence actually

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.) ⚠️