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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:

This isn't just a technique for Lua, though -- it works for any C interpreter compilable with LLVM! More about how and why in this new post 'Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters' looking at our new 'yk' system. https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting%5Fjit%5Fcompilers%5Finto%5Fc%5Finterpreters.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

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

CodeMirror is now also off GitHub! https://code.haverbeke.berlin/codemirror/

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

ProseMirror's code no longer lives on GitHub. Next up (soon): CodeMirror.
https://code.haverbeke.berlin/prosemirror/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Travel day

Hotel airport shuttle -> Blue line -> Amtrak -> Car -> Home

#TransOnTrains

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

American universities are whistling past the graveyard right now.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/how-is-your-alma-mater-holding-up/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:

C interpreters underlie many of our most widely used language implementations -- but they're slow. Wouldn't it be great if we could turn them into JIT compiling VMs? This video shows what happens when we do just that to the normal Lua VM (first) and "yklua" (Lua w/JIT, second).

Attachments:

• gifv: cbb50734acf885be.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

The idea of AI goes against everything I’ve worked on for the last decade. Art doesn’t require perfection; it requires honesty and intention.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

my dogs if i may drop public informational tone for a moment i think it is fucking awful for a society of living creatures to be sold a future wherein everything is fucking broken and inexplicable and at the mercy of a black box run for the profit of four corporations. I think it is fucking awful to have an industry that claims to sell the notion of of "intelligence" as utility, like water, as a cover for a trojan horse high that makes the wielder feel like a god by corroding everything they touch, like acid.

we used to have "intelligence" run like a wild stream through these parts, a byproduct of people "living their brilliant little lives," but these days it's all on the meter and belches brown from the faucet as a firehose of microplastics and lead leached straight to the dome

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

The WalkMe survey also found that, though 81 percent of executives think their AI deployments have “significantly improved productivity,” their workers are actually wasting eight hours per week cleaning up after AI’s messes, which is the equivalent of 51 work days a year.

LOL, LMAO

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

Zig v0.16 adds "Juicy Main"
https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html#Juicy-Main

so juicy! less boilerplate for small projects is good

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

the russian doll

wow they sure are inventive at naming spies

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

what will the next footprints on the moon be like?

feet?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kore@chaos.social ("Kore Nordmann") wrote:

Ten years ago I started writing a book about software design. Then I co-founded a company, scaled to 70 engineers, got acquired, and the manuscript sat untouched for years.

Last year I picked it back up. The decade in between proved the ideas worked.

"Nothing Shared, Everything Gained", minimal side effects, strict dependency direction, code that stays changeable. PHP examples, universal principles.

Pay what you want, starting at €0: https://codethatships.com

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

It’s a new paradigm! Don’t be left behind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRL0Nc2ZsVU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260414-neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc - podcast

time: 6 min 28 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

This may not look too bad, but if your invoices are inconsistent with the calculated totals, you're gonna be off by very large amounts over time.

One of my customers' "various customers" account started owing about a thousand euros to the company.

This comes on top of WooCommerce using built-in PHP floating point calculations to handle financial amounts but not something like BigDecimal which is not a good thing to do.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

Here's a fun bug:

#WooCommerce has functions, settings and constants for mathematical precision beyond the number of decimals your currency has.

However, item subtotals for orders (before tax) get rounded down to the number of decimals, but not the tax amount. This means that if you have two items that are 1.3333 EUR each, the line total is rounded up 2.67, losing one cent of accuracy.

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

“Why the AI backlash has turned violent - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent?publication%5Fid=1744395

> To the handwringing AI industry insiders blaming doomers and poor messaging, ordinary people are saying: Wake up. We have good reason to hate AI and the people who profit from it.

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

blogged: Warning: containment breach in cascade layer!

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/15/containment-breach-in-cascade-layer/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.

Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#incus #gsoc #debusine #debianci

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

I imagine that rando stumbling upon a dictionary at the public library going "HOW MANY WORDS?!??!?! WELL THIS'LL TAKE FOREVER"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

someone: *recommends super interesting long-form video essay*

rando: Oh GREAT! now I have to watch AN HOUR AND HALF's worth of content. Do you know how busy I am? You post about this fucking video, without summarizing it all in 3 bullet points, how am I supposed to know if it's any good?? But now I have to watch it. Because you posted it. You f*n asshole, wastin'm y f*n time.

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

days without trying to copy an email address and accidentally opening the useless Mail.app: 0

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
roblen@social.microblog.at ("Robert Lender social") wrote:

Jetzt noch ein Versuch mittels #SmolFedi ein Foto über #GoToSocial zu posten.

Und das ganze noch mittels Markdown formatiert.

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/why-smolweb-is-good-for-the-internet.md

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com ("Joshua A.C. Newman") wrote:

The world will lose something deeply special when #hampshirecollege closes at the end of this year.

Without it, I’d have never found my way.

I taught there, too, founding its game design program curriculum, helping my fellow weirdos find their ways.

You probably know about Lupita Nyong’o, Liev Schreiber, maybe Ken Burns or Lee Smolin.

As a student, I worked on computer interfaces that Apple & Samsung/LG integrated into the interface you’re using now. I had to testify about it, actually.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

alright here we go https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

(linked post)

edit: join us @ #keepasschi on libera.chat!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5742595/virginia-popular-vote-compact

> With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

All of this without putting my work in a closed ecosystem that explicitly platforms and amplifies literal, self proclaimed nazis

I use https://ghost.org but there’s a bunch of options. Ghost is excellent tho.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

Gonna tag in on the “stop using substack” train as I am oft to do

Stuff Keeps Happening is available as a free newsletter (paid support options available) and is not on substack. I own and operate it and don’t have a cut taken from the support plans. Also supports RSS and activitypub

https://www.skh.news

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

When I was younger, I used to hang out with these Body Builders For Christ. They all said they were preparing their bodies for their future wives, but I'm pretty sure most of them were gay.