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

would you like to know what i think is interesting to know about openbsd?

• it was started because the glorious leader was ejected from netbsd for being a dickhead.
• it didn't believe even in threads for the longest time.
• it still doesn't believe in async i/o. yep, today, 2026.
• nor can you have zfs. oh yeah, UFS baby. i managed to lose data on UFS in a fucking virtual machine last month.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Companies: "Coding is dead. AI writes all the code now."

Applicants: "Great! So this means we don't have to do code challenge interviews anymore?"

Companies: "You might hear back from us if you can rebuild the entire NYT games section, complete with unit tests, in 30 minutes all by yourself on the first try. Please save your questions until then."

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

has anyone else seen a MASSIVE uptick in "i'm an american and moved to europe and now i can't go back" videos?

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

what every IT person needs to know about openbsd

not much tbh

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ediz@social.lol ("Ediz :prami_pride:") wrote:

omgram coming soon... 👀
@adam

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

I think the Nothing over ear headphones look cool as fuck. I wish more tech took bigger swings with design.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jfslowik@infosec.exchange ("Joe Słowik") wrote:

Reminder

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

The AI Great Leap Forward

Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.

[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

#ai #aihype #theaicon #n8n

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II astronauts will be travelling at more than 11 km/s (40,000 km/h) when it reaches Earth’s atmosphere. This is 40 times faster than a passenger jet travels."

Wishing the Artemis II crew a safe return home!

https://theconversation.com/artemis-ii-crew-will-endure-3-000-c-on-re-entry-a-hypersonics-expert-explains-how-they-will-survive-280042

#news #science #space #ArtemisII

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

aha, i was right, freebsd does this more conveniently than linux.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

*tap tap*

Ladies and gentlemen. Due to unexpected demand for 60-panel comics about hyper-dimensional sphere packing, our server is currently experiencing difficulty. The site should load if you are patient. Thank you.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kurtextrem ("Jacob 'kurtextrem' Groß") wrote:

@slightlyoff @lemire Daniel has a follow up blog post (https://lemire.me/blog/2024/07/20/scan-html-even-faster-with-simd-instructions-c-and-c/). I asked whether Anton Bikineev (who implemented the original approach from Daniel in Chromium) tried that follow up in Chromium and it has no further improvements: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7246251. Nevertheless all very interesting.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

#AI

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

Yeah! #SmolFedi v1.0.9 has new features !

• Add a prefs page
• Add font size preference
• Manage multiple formats for posts (plain, markdown...) according to the instance capabilities
• Possibility to pin/unpin tag to the menu
• Manage Content warning and Sensitive media
• Correct hashtag link detection/rewrite
• Video max width
• Delete post button in red

Source code Demo instance

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

My "reality tv" is YouTube product reviews for gadgets I have no interest in buying.

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
chuck_wendig@threads.net ("Chuck Wendig") wrote:

THE CALAMITIES — two ways! Left is the US cover (with its under-the-covers second-cover) and on the right is the UK cover. Out August 2026…

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

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@remmy/116374719571014295

okay at least one of you rust nerds has got to know about stack measurement

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beecycling@wandering.shop ("BeeCycling") wrote:

Society: Have a full time job and do lots of overtime to get ahead. Get lots of sleep. Exercise regularly. Cook from scratch with fresh ingredients. Spend time with your kids. Maintain an active social circle. Stay connected with your extended family. Read books. Stay informed on issues & up to date with current affairs to be a responsible voter. Be active in your local community. Volunteer to do stuff for your kid's school. Pursue lifelong learning. Have hobbies.

Why are you crying?

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116370347475754359

Am I going to have to repost this thread every day now? Please be a little bit more sceptical about claims along the lines of “the secret thingy I’m trying to turn into a billion dollar payday is super powerful and almost magical, be afraid, but also give me money”

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Robotistry@fediscience.org wrote:

@j_bertolotti @tempusfelix @syntaxxor @pluralistic This is one of the things grade school should be *for* - ensuring adults have basic process knowledge across a range of disciplines. Cooking, woodworking, sewing and mending, visual art, dance, cleaning, music, sculpture, managing one's finances, gardening, household repair and maintenance, metalworking....

(I'm still salty that as a girl, I had to take cooking and sewing and wasn't allowed to take woodworking and metalworking. I eventually learned woodworking, but metalworking seems so *cool*!)

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
Attac@mamot.fr ("Attac France") wrote:

L'extrême-droite est aux portes du pouvoir en France.

Et que font les grands patrons pour lutter contre cette menace ?

Ils dînent avec Marine Le Pen pour s'assurer que le RN agirait en faveur du patronat.

#ExtremeDroite #Patronat #LVMH #TotalEnergies #BernardArnault

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

God help me, I bought a month of Peacock so I could watch the Ted TV show. I hate that it's kind of funny

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you

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

@jenniferplusplus Literally seconds ago I wrote elsewhere: "first rule of LLMs: If someone from an LLM company says their model can do x, it can't do x, but it includes some thoughts and prayers to please do x."

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

Worth your time:

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/116368015104267206

This. It's worth asking deeply what lets it happen, given that people _have_ been beaten down and aren't used to using their creativity and ambition to do things.

There is so damn much untapped human potential.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
thibaultamartin@mamot.fr ("Thib") wrote:

“What people face too often is being ground down by systems, institutions, and unjust leaders who insist on creating roles where people are forced to do dehumanizing, isolated, meaningless work, while not being given the agency to make smart and empowered decisions about how the work gets done”

“All you have to do is provide a worthy mission and get the fuck out of the way.”

@anildash hits the nail on the head, again.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

My blob generator is ready to give you border-only blob shapes.

https://css-generators.com/blob/

Update your Chrome and give it a try!

#CSS #HTML

Attachments:

• gifv: A screen record of my blob shape generator

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

using dnschecker.org to see DNS has propagated around the entire world, except my computer - now playing hunt the cache

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116374937786561286

I see this with my college students too: while some use it to cheat and a few are fully AI-pilled, at least as many treat it with utter contempt. It’s dividing the up-and-coming generation just like it’s dividing software developers.