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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hynek/116476031032569096

this is what I mean when I say genAI has got people deciding to act stupid on purpose. things like "prompt injection" are just things we previously recognised as glaring categories errors, but suddenly we can't recognise very obviously terrible ideas because they're wrapped up in the bullshit machine

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

you can argue the evidence on deskilling effects at the individual level but I think it's beyond doubt that this is happening at an institutional level

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

Allah will help us land

That's... I don't think Allah would advise you to rely entirely on him when you could just... not go into terrible weather.

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

remember that Zen was AMD's comeback. it took them 5 gos to actually make a vaguely acceptable cpu. and it draws too much fucking power.

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

AMD before Zen2 only has 128-bit vector execution units anyway,

thanks AMD.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

When someone tells me we need to replace unpleasant American surveillance tech with the exact same thing but open source and hosted in a data centre in Brussels.

My heart swells with pride when we can get the drone murder decider running on a GPU in a Welsh AI growth zone with a picture of the Queen Mother on the side. It’s very important that human rights are undermined by your own government rather than a foreign corporation, after all. #SovereignTech

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alineblankertz@indieweb.social ("Aline Blankertz") wrote:

"AI" is a huge redistribution scheme from the bottom to the top. It pays off for the billionaires no matter how big the bubble is. All we can do is limit the damage.

Pointing out the lack of profitability of "AI" products is pretty much meaningless. Investors have been speaking about this for years WHILE making billions from their investments into "AI". It is profitable for them, and that is what they care about.

I wrote about this already some time ago:
https://www.structural-integrity.eu/crashing-hard-why-talking-about-bubbles-obscures-the-real-social-cost-of-overinvesting-into-artificial-intelligence/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
jneen@unstable.systems ("jneen collective") wrote:

half the point of programming-tool design is to reduce the need for hypervigilance on the user.

if we're designing tools that require you to be *more* hypervigilant, legitimately what use are they?

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

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/116475436932395582

“LMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

> Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals that current models degrade documents during delegation: even frontier models [...] corrupt an average of 25% of document content by the end of long workflows

The only use case that didn't show catastrophic degradation was coding, although bear in mind that this only attempts to benchmark degradation and doesn't assess design, reliability, or quality of the output.

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

aaaaanyway, i have come up with a wonderful trick which would work marvellously on zen 5 without a great deal of effort. but less marvellously on zen 4 and i have no fucking clue how well intel's doing with avx512 anymore.

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

these things are insidious because the way you're told to deal with ISA support is to ask is it supported with cpuid or something. and so you ask and it helpfully says "yes, i support that". it doesn't say anything about whether it's dogshit slow.

and how do you work that out? glad you asked:

1. know the bug exists at all, somehow
2. implement a fallback
3. sniff the processor model and switch between the two implementations.
4. have a few of these stack up, give up and choose which architectures to penalise.

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

Gather/Scatter slow on AMD's Zen4 implementation.

thanks AMD, another fucking performance bug to work around

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

my own hopeless cheeriness is starting to stretch a bit thin

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

solid advice: avoid GoDaddy https://vale.rocks/micros/20260427-0430

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

sure but humans need what, 2000 calories? AI is low energy only needs a teaspoon of unicorn farts

when you do the maths it makes practical sense to bludgeon the humans into unicorn feed

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
Pasteup seen in Nashville, Tennessee

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Hate Cops"
Seen in Vancouver, Canada

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
silvanomarioni@mastodon.uno ("Silvano Marioni") wrote:

Il National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) del Regno Unito raccomanda le passkey come standard di autenticazione, sostituendo le password tradizionali. Sono più sicure e semplici, eliminando l'obbligo di ricordare password complesse.
@sicurezza
https://buff.ly/VYTuS8N

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Trump telling O'Donnell "I'm not a rapist. I am not a pedophile" is the new "I am not a crook"
#uspol #60Minutes #Trump #WHCA

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

oh lord it's Monday

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

1973: “I am not a crook.”

2026: “I didn’t rape anybody.”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Ad usual, count on Will Bunch for the context you need but rarely get in Big Journalism. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-dinner-shooting-violent-america-20260426.html?id=aILEqJvkLG2qH&utm%5Fsource=social&utm%5Fcampaign=gift%5Flink&utm%5Fmedium=referral

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

Also I recognize I'm in an extreme minority among authors, almost all of whom have day jobs and/or side gigs and/or partners or families whose financial situations offer them support. This is the same for most creative professions. The arts of any sort are a tough gig.

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

2010 was the year I could live entirely off income from books, that income being advances and royalties. That was 10 years after my first book came out and 5 years after my first novel. Prior to that freelancing and corporate writing paid my bills (and my wife's income was our safety margin). It helps I'm a bestselling author and I release a novel a year, so the income is relatively steady.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ajabarber/post/DXm9DSJCHJp

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

So Ford holds the record for shortest interval between assassination attempts. But Trump and Reagan almost certainly hold the record for presidential assassination attempts in closest geographic proximity to one another.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
encthenet@flyovercountry.social ("John-Mark Gurney") wrote:

I'm seeing some weird behavior with FastAPI and async.

I have a function:
```
async def foo(r=[]):
if r: return r[0]
r.append(someobj())
return r[0]
```

Now I have that declared on a route via the usual:
```
@router.get('/somepage')
async def get_somepage(foo : Annotated[someobj, Depends(foo)]):
xxx
```

But in the foo function, I print the id of the r list, and each time somepage is fetched, the list is different.

I did finally just move r into the module name space, and that fixed things. But it's pretty clear that FastAPI is doing something wonky with function calls.

#FastAPI #Python

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Rob_T_Firefly@masto.hackers.town ("Rob Vincent 🎙️") wrote:

"A Tribute to Attribution" - Chainsawsuit by Kris Straub, November 23, 2011. (15 years later, even in the Fediverse, some folks out there are still like this.)

Source: https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20111123.shtml

#webcomic #ChainsawSuit #KrisStraub #Attribution #tumblr

Attachments:

• gifv: Six-panel comic strip. Panel 1: a smiling person looks at a comic on their computer, saying, "ha ha! this comic strip made me laugh, gotta share it." Panel 2: the person makes a mischievous face and says, "but first things first!" Panel 3: close-up on the computer desktop showing the comic. The title and artist's name is selected in an image editor, and the mouse cursor is about to click the "delete selection" function. Panel 4: the comic's web URL and copyright notice are now selected in the image editor, and the mouse is again about to click "delete selection." Panel 5: The artist's signature is now selected and the mouse is about to click "delete selection." Panel 6 shows only the text: "welcome to tumblr.," The credit line at the top of this comic reads "ChainSawSuit.com"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
NorthBayPython@social.northbaypython.org ("North Bay Python") wrote:

#NBPy 2026 ran at a loss this year. It's a public service and we'll be back in 2027, but we could use your help closing the budget gap.

Donate at https://nbpy.link/donate

Boosted by jwz:
piquant00@mastodon.online ("Ann K.") wrote:

This one takes the cake. 🍰
#USpol

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

You know what's infuriating? Cleaning spring thyme leaves off it's thin, fragile stems!!! #cooking