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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

And it’s not like people are unjustified - it’s kind of what you’re paying your registration for - but it is funny to see literal FOMO in action

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

Sorry but the con site going down because so many people are trying to crowd in at once to get tickets because they’re afraid they’ll miss the moonlight festival is very very funny

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

The F in FWA stands for FOMO

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

OTOH, even if you picked stronger showings on the British side you'd probably end up with a very middle class/upper middle class selection, whereas the Icelandic snacks are quite a bit more working class coded.

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

They asked an Icelander to pick which was better, an Icelandic hot dog with everything or a Gregg's sausage roll?

Even without the patriotism (you gotta pick the Icelandic ones if you want any peace at your next family gathering) the Icelandic ones win this handily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUc7z%5FDB%5Fw

And Appelsín is genuinely unbeatable.

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

No more data centers until we have reasonable regulation…and recognize who profits from them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/its-going-to-get-ugly-on-the-ai-front/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186

I wonder when we will have to start to show ID (and let the store keep a copy of it) for everything we buy in brick-and-mortar stores as well.

I guess this is "freedom" or something.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this New Jersey Democrat is insane:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

"H.R.8250 - To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes."

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

"Critics also describe how Orbán routinely created 'imaginary enemies' to distract voters, another Hitlerian maneuver perfected by Trump. From falsely depicting immigrants as violent criminals, to accusing DEI programs of ‘white bashing,’ Trump constantly stokes social division by creating then perpetuating imaginary enemies."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/6

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/if-hungary-can-do-it-so-can-we

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevbob@xoxo.zone ("caoimhín o'cuilleain") wrote:

Owl without wings

#CatsOfMastodon

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

So that's what that scan was for.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/medical-mystery-explained/

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/