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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Exception handling requires runtime code"

- C++ requires a runtime (sometimes: if you're writing kernel code or some other no-runtime context you might have to write C++ in a dialect that is missing runtime-requiring language features)
- Python obviously in its own runtime
- Rust… has no runtime

So: rust has no exceptions.

Rust has result types.

#NBPy

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

What I hate when I need to install #Linux on a machine

Attachments:

• video: Players frantically clicking the buttons on slot machines

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"[errno] hopefully tells you why something failed"

load-bearing "hopefully" there

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(slide full of C code)

"Who knows the undefined behavior"

(pause for less than 30 seconds)

sometimes rhetoric is still very effective even if you know exactly how the trick works

#NBPy

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Stomata@procial.tchncs.de wrote:

A lightweight, JavaScript free web client for fediverse by @adele@social.pollux.casa
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
matusguy@treehouse.systems ("Marty") wrote:

@adele i have been using Smither (https://codeberg.org/nuclearfog/Smither) for Android. it is a pretty complete & lightweight client for mobile.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Whew. After a short (and much needed) "emotional whiplash break" inserted into the schedule by @chrisjrn, we have @benno with "State of Exception(s)", a talk about error handling. And then as befits a lighter-hearted and more technical talk, we open with a brief reference to the historical figure of Carl Schmitt and commentary from "reactionary twit" Brian Lunduke.

Oops.

Ahem. And now, some examples of idiomatic error handling in C…

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Oppose *systems*
Support *people*"

#NBPy

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Remember that once-beloved children's fantasy by an author from South West England, about a pre-teen orphan boy who is inducted into a hidden magical society?

It was adapted for the big screen and even spawned a stage musical. The work attempted to address progressive social issues, but today it has lost significant favor due to the author's increasingly hard-to-ignore racism, antisemitism, and other prejudices.

I am speaking, of course, of Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (1863).

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"*Why* are users turning to chatbots as a way of dealing with loneliness? What are the gaps in existing technology?"

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

An even wider-ranging indictment of the basic tools of statistics, data science, machine learning, and the concept of "intelligence" than I'm familiar with. Even the concept of a linear regression evokes an implicit normative judgement, that human difference is all quantifiable and sameness is desirable — when those things are demonstrably untrue. But more to the point these fields were *initally developed* by eugenicists.

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Always glad to see Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, William MacAskill, Effective Altruism, etc etc get read for filth. These guys *still* get way too much credit for the bailey of their ideas and are not often scrutinized for the motte of overt eugenics, racism, misogyny that they are building upon.

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Good morning! Up now: "An Economy of Empathy" by @pythonbynight . We are starting off … extremely dark … with some descriptions of the grisly reality of content-moderation work in the global south at a company called "Sama" (on behalf of Meta, née Facebook) and moving directly to eugenics, including from the founder of "AI", and creator of Lisp, John McCarthy. Oooooooof.

"Are these biases still present in the tech industry?"

Not exactly a surprise, but, again: oof. #NBPy

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Oh gosh, I'm so clumsy, I forgot to include a license. Fixed now.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga") wrote:

My video from the 16th Munich Suitwalk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaESfTRS-CY

#Fursuit

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

Fascist republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever

Citizens, we need to speak up about the pollution and destruction of our lands and waters.

If climate change isn't real, then why protect big oil from climate change lawsuits?

https://heated.world/p/republicans-introduce-extreme-bill

#congress #news #usa #science #pollution #registertovote #climate

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fsinn@mas.to ("Francisca Sinn") wrote:

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@robpumphrey/116464053406935299

I see we blew past “the robots are more important than people” and we’re already at “the robots [are entitled to] have more rights than pedestrians” and “we need them to break laws so we can make more money”.

Super.

#Humans #Cyclists #Robots

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CheetahFluff@nyan.network ("Cheetah Fluff") wrote:

Wolf Link! Because I've been playing modded Tears of the Kingdom and the game is actually 10x better when Link is a wolf boy.

I'm calling this done and moving on even though I'm not satisfied. The important thing was painting the boyo and a bit of environment in firelight, and I did that, and learned things. Composition is for when I know what I'm doing. I managed to avoid using any multiply layers again though!

#Furry #FurryArt

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
marud@social.marud.fr ("Marud :mastodont_v2:") wrote:

piqué sur le réseau 100% décentralisé à base d'AT proto

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
javi@goblin.band wrote:

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox.

In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.

This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.

We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.

Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!

In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).

This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!

To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors

"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!

Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing data

The SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

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

Some of the comments on the previous two photos yesterday mentioned that the bird in the second one had a clearer silhouette. So I had the idea to dodge the background around the bird a bit to bring out the silhouette.

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syphist@zoner.work ("Syphist :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

meow meow meow

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

I'm getting to the point where I believe nothing and everything at the same time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/26/suspicious/

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

incredible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

ID LOVE NOT TO FIND OUT

Area: Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Type: Boeing 737-900
A: #a8adab2b4da
F: #ff44fadac63

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116468230309788020

Original article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23042026/corpus-christi-water-emergency-explainer/

“No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year.”

But more than half of the water consumption in Corpus Christi goes to petrochemical industrial plants. Let’s see if people are willing to throttle down the water supply to machines before they do to humans.

#climate #weather #climateChange

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adambecker.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Becker") wrote:

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

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

The question is not how fast someone can create software. The question is how long after creating the software will someone support it.

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wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote: