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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Bandcamp Day" on May Day is ... certainly a choice.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Looking at this and wondering… should I *always* be setting `follow_imports = skip` for my dependencies? What exactly do we lose with this type-checking option? https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6837#issuecomment-4356631501

Boosted by jwz:
deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

In order to give massive tax breaks to their friends and donors, these geniuses are trying to cut taxes on high end real estate sales that will deprive the city at least $390m intended for affordable housing and drive up the deficit.

No serious policy basis for their proposal. Just pure class war.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/plan-to-halve-sf-transfer-taxes-on-big-deals-awaits-details/article%5Febd1015c-0e4d-4bfa-9d54-f11f1b8042a3.html

Boosted by jwz:
TheEntity@treehouse.systems ("Entitas") wrote:

@davidgerard

I'm genuinely astonished how many defenses of LLM contributions are a flat "you can't enforce this and you can't actually stop us". Just completely steamrolling past consent and comfort and forcing themselves on people who don't want them. Feels like some serious masks-off kind of shit.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scottwilson@infosec.exchange ("Scott Wilson") wrote:

It's almost the weekend, and that means it's time to start thinking seriously about pushing to prod...

#push2prod #friday #shitpost #memes

FT: @Viss @jerry @cR0w @neurovagrant @da_667 @FritzAdalis @catsalad @ajn142 @chillybot @darfplatypus @h2onolan @Sempf @winterknight1337 @danielcornell @alice

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

Today is May Day, and lots of us are withholding labor and capital from the system. But do you know why we celebrate #MayDay?

May Day, or International Workers’ Day, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago. During a rally in Haymarket Square supporting workers striking for an eight-hour workday, an unknown person threw a bomb at police, killing one. Police opened fire, killing four civilians and injuring dozens.

Eight anarchist labor leaders were arrested despite no evidence linking them to the bomb. Seven were sentenced to death; four were hanged in 1887, one committed suicide in jail, and three were pardoned in 1893 by Governor Altgeld, who called the trial a miscarriage of justice.

The Haymarket Affair fueled anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. while galvanizing the international labor movement.

In 1889, the Second International designated May 1 as International Workers’ Day to commemorate the event, linking it to May Day protests worldwide.

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

So @phae found this spamalot AI SEO play building a "profile" for me and @jaffathecake , and I'm *deeply* interested to know how they think this is going to go...

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@dysfun i got a set of very thin USB-C cleaning brushes off Ali for £1, they're just the thing

you probably want some contact cleaning spray for deeper cleaning than mere dusting can achieve

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

since it came up - how do you clean a USB-C connector?

extra thin toothpicks are available from the dentistry section of chemists/drugstores, at least here. yeah, it needs to be the extra thin ones, the thin are not thin enough.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
zip@wandering.shop wrote:

The EU and the UK: we must build our own digital sovereignty, with businesses and services run within our borders

Also the EU and the UK: it's now illegal to run a website

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Also as it's follow Friday, follow my (and @uoou's) #Owncast @fblive

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alicemcalicepants@ohai.social ("Dr Alice Violett") wrote:

I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

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

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/116500001880041188

there aren't enough guillotines in this world

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Follow @freebooters.uk for the audio #Freebooters podcast on Fedi.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Drew's terrible movie takes (the stream that never started)

freebooters.uk/media/20260501-freebooters-live.mp3

As we set up for a game that never happened, Chris, Drew, and later Nado, talk a little about tech, but then descend into Chris taking a look at Drew's ...interesting... movie and TV opinions. Drew's terrible movie takes https://friendo.monster/rat.html …

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Y'know what I've seen a lot less of recently?

Work people have done that they're proud of.

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

The Times is advertising it hired so many Over Reactors that nobody in the building knows how to write CSS or access MDN any more. Cringing inside out with second-hand embarrassment.

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

my boss played a pretty funny joke on me after that actually. i had a hell of a time trying to figure out where the problem was. then i finally fixed it and we went off for lunch. when i came back, there was a pool of oil underneath it.

my boss came over and said "oh dear, i don't think you've cracked it after all" or something like that. then he had a look at the hydraulic section for a moment and said "oh i think i know where it's come from". me: "oh? where's that then?" him: "here" (holds up an oil carton)

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

when i was a teenager i did work experience at a hydraulics company. not only have i made a number of hydraulic hoses, i've even troubleshooted and repaired one of the machines for making them.

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

the process of producing a hydraulic cable is quite cool actually. you cut some off the reel (they're quite large reels - 1.5-2 metres, because as i said, some of this is quite difficult to bend). then you put it in this cool machine with the fitting you're crimping it around inside.

it's the round bit you're looking for. those 8 individual bar things are simultaneously pushed in, compressing the hose evenly around the fitting.

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

hydraulic cables are pressure vessels. they are build to withstand oil under pressure. they typically have a rubber outer and inside there's quite a lot of metal to cope with all that pressure.

the two common grades are called T3 and Trapper. Trapper is the seriously heavy duty stuff - what you find in diggers and stuff. it's quite difficult to bend. is that enough shielding for you guys?

we could do a 'budget' version using T3. you might even be able to bend that round a corner. it would be barely centimetres thicker than regular audio cable.

incidentally, audio cable itself has shielding, it's just only designed to shield against EM, because you don't typically put speaker cables under pressure.

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

I bought a shower speaker.

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

this reminds me of one of my sillier ideas - to sell audio cables with hydraulic tubing as insulation to audiophiles.

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

okay so you might need to master creating 10cm walled diamond tubes to insulate the cables. it might not have all the convenience of 5V USB. they certainly bend better than diamond.

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

this is about 1000x the voltage 'high voltage DC' goes at btw.

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

USB 234.5r6

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

USB high voltage (200MV)

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

One of those traps is reducing everything to ingroup and outgroup conflict, resisting any articulation of the superordinate goals we might share as a coalition instead, and using intelligence & technical skill as a weapon to take away people's belonging