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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
vitex@f.cz ("Vitex") wrote:

@adele

#Ubuntu #Debian #packages ready to download and install

https://repo.vitexsoftware.com/pool/main/s/smolfedi/

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

my migration from this instance to @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech seems to have frozen, and my followers have stopped migrating. Anyone know how to get this unstuck? The latter is a GTS instance.

Boosts welcome!

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

The era of proof abundance

oh god, it is absolutely cringe hearing supposed legends talk this way about bullshit generators

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

And while you're waiting for the book, here's my newsletter: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

And was just reminded to post this, lol, here's my book!!! The Psychology of Software Teams, it's coming out in July, you can already pre-order it at some online retailers, and it has a WHOLE CHAPTER on "The Performance Paradox" to help you become a *resilient* high performer :)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389

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

I have been fortunate that even before I was a full-time novelist I was making a good living doing freelance and consulting for companies on writing/editing matters. My whole professional life has been as a writer. What helped (and still does) was that I was not precious about what I would write. As long as it did not run against my personal ethics, and you would pay me my rate, I would write it for you. That was basically my first 20 years as a writer.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@spirit.horse.tarot/post/DXo28L%5FFDMQ

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

"Could we please take a moment to remember that the largest, bloodiest, violent attack on any Washington institution in modern memory was actually led by…Trump. On January 6, 2021, he incited an assault on the Capitol that resulted in multiple deaths, scores of injuries and even a call for assassination of Trump’s own Vice President."

~ David Rothkopf

#WHCD #Trump #media #violence #Jan6 #insurrection
/5

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/five-uncomfortable-truths-about-the

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I have said and will continue to say most people have zero idea what it's like for scientists in the US right now.

We sat at an outdoor table the other day with a brilliant older queer scientist friend and ran into several scientist friends including one who worked at govt agencies on science funding. It is like having conversations after an apocalypse. So many people lost, labs folded, international postdocs gone, lines of work canned. DEI work going undercover, forbidden words erased

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Male fragrance sections at shops are always so sad. Would you like to smell like you just downed a bottle of gin, like a leather couch, or like you were sitting on the wrong side of a campfire? Women get all the nice fruits and flowers. This stuff shouldn’t be gendered anyway like most things.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
partim@social.tchncs.de ("Martin Hoffmann") wrote:

And another court found Germany’s border checks to be unlawlful.

A law professor was checked when returning home from the conference “40 years Schengen Treaty” and, presumably overwhelmed by the irony of it all, sued.

This is important since this is the first case after the reform of the Schengen border codex in 2024 – and the court still found the reasons for reintroducing border checks insufficient.

This was a decision by a lower court, will likely be appealed, and is expected to eventually wind up at the European Court of Justice.

Until then, the federal government sees no reason to stop its unlawful behaviour.

German news report (thanks, @mikey179): https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/urteil-grenzkontrollen-zwischen-deutschland-und-luxemburg-rechtswidrig-100.html, full decision: https://vgko.justiz.rlp.de/fileadmin/justiz/Gerichte/Fachgerichte/Verwaltungsgerichte/Koblenz/Entscheidungen/Nr%5F10-2026%5FVOE%5F3%5FK%5F650-25%5FKO%5FUrteil%5Fvom%5F27.04.2026.pdf

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

The new American university model of education.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/27/a-stifling-ignorance/

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

i am re-reviewing graphing libraries in javascript and so far i've got

• huge
• crap
• by a company advertising ai bullshit

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

Web Serial stuff experimental in Firefox 🤯

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SerialPort/writable

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

i did also get fairly far with making avx-512 insert routines for the HOT when i last touched it. i think it might even be possible to do the core of the insert and delete procedures in constant time for each node layout. the original insert procedure from the HOT paper is a branchy, loopy mess (and lo and behold, it advertises itself for read-mostly workloads!), but fortunately it seems largely amenable to simdification if you've got avx512 (and thus predication) available.

if everyone had avx-512, the code required to implement the HOT in C would probably be quite small. you might not even hate to maintain it. but already you're going to need a portable branchy loopy mess, so that's two versions. throw in support for a few more cpus, each with harshly increasing restrictions on what you can do and it becomes a mess quite quickly.

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

I know that quarters on cruise ships are cramped, but this is ridiculous.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/27/spiders-in-spaaaaaaaace/

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

what am i doing? oh remember that silly idea to generate code that does an optimal node lookup for each node in a data structure? well as it turns out one of my friends has done that already and it's not completely impractical.

anyway i was looking at how we could shave reading a HOT node down to fewer versions of the code that would need to be generated. maybe we could get the entropy small enough that we could reasonably just generate all of them in advance?

well, if you compress the entropy enough, we can do it with our current setup and not need the code generation at all! i've now managed to do that in full for avx512 even with arbitrary string keys, i only need 4 versions for 4 node types! this is of course only possible because AMD had fixed their slow pext/pdep by zen 3, before they supported avx-512 at all, otherwise i would have a real mess on my hands

avx2 is harder owing to the lack of predication and the smaller register size, but if i manage to figure it out, it's only 5 versions. SSE is a fairly abysmal 9 versions - incredibly tedious to write but maybe workable. i say maybe, because this doesn't account for the mess induced by the vast number of ways you can implement pext/pdep. even if i only go back as far as zen 2 (which i'm currently using, so i will go back at least that far...) i'll have to provide twice as many implementations.

next year will be the 10 year anniversary of zen, maybe i can talk myself into believing that this is old enough that noone would give a shit about older hardware. i wouldn't be talking about no support, just it would fall back to a portable algorithm and be probably quite slow. it would certainly save implementing SSE versions...

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

The Nightlife EP immediately takes me back to 2011. One of my all-time favorite albums by one of my all-time favorite bands., Phantogram.

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

I'm worried that I might start liking birds, even birds that might eat spiders. Do I have to pick a side?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/27/learning-about-birds/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnfICVvRYM

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt ("Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱") wrote:

Gender segregation in public toilets and changing rooms is a weak and cisheteronormative substitute for well-designed stalls with actual privacy.

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

i've had a look in agner fog's spreadsheet and frankly i'm none the wiser - zen 5 doesn't exactly look like a speed demon either and he doesn't list his methodology for masks (and then frankly it'd be useful to see at least 2 figures - mask on and mask off (and probably at least mask half full as well)).

meanwhile, i have calculated the worst case for doing it on the cpu and it looks like it may or may not be better, depending on how masks are processed, provided we know the size in advance. there are some means by which i can know the size in advance, of course (the simplest being padding to the worst case size with inert data).

overall i wouldn't say it's looking promising for avx512 gather intrinsics, but again i'd have to write a benchmark.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

A picture is worth a thousand words they say:

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ZackPolanski@mastox.eu ("Zack Polanski") wrote:

RT: @implausibleblog Zack Polanski talks about the need to make buses more affordable and accessible, and talks about addressing wealth inequality

"It's important our cities and rural areas have cheaper public transport"

"Sometimes when I visit rural areas and say you have buses every few hours,

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• video: f14544cd9cc5a10e.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
recursive@hachyderm.io ("recursive 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

It annoys me that we are culturally prone to talking about impressive technology we (personally) don't understand as "magic"

I think this does a disservice to those who may be hear us (especially children) and thus think, "I could never do something like that!"

It's a lot of hard work and cooperation that got us the things that exist today. And you could be someone who makes the next amazing thing exist

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

fascist billionaires HATE this 1 weird trick to lower your claude code bill

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

I'm worrying that this is starting to matter a lot as it looks like expertise is an important qualifier limiting the harm that comes from using LLMs for coding. If this is a general observation and not just a reflection of my poor career choices then it seems likely that the client-side web specifically will be hit harder by the code "slop-apocalypse" than other software.

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

Basically, I know a lot of web devs with 10+ years of experience whose knowledge about any given topic in their field is at about the level of a recent graduate. Most of what they know is hearsay and superstition and most of what they do is play around with trends

And, again this is in my experience and I may just have been quite unlucky, this is more common in web dev than other parts of the software industry.

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

One issue I rarely see mentioned are the sharp differences between expertise progression in general web dev, online web dev subcommunities, and the rest of the software dev community.

Namely, in my experience, it's very common in general web dev for people not to have the expertise you'd expect based on their seniority that you see in the people who have the dedication and interest to participate in discussions on specialities within their field.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
phoronix@masto.ai ("Phoronix") wrote:

Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jmaris@eupolicy.social ("Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO") wrote:

The west irreversibly diminished its own military industry for cost savings. Now it is doing the same to its software Industry.

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote: