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

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/

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

"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/

This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

me

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i think it's incredibly funny that i'm regressing in game tech as time goes on. literally writing my latest game in C with software 2D that uses blit functions i wrote myself

i wanna blame the absolute state of things in tech for this and that may be part of it but i think i'm also just *like this*

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

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

yeah they do that sort of thing

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

This post was written entirely by a human. No words were made up by the machine.

But, but... it's about huggingface models!

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

"it's impossible to avoid introducing hilarious bugs into code" say users of only tools that seem to be unable to avoid introducing hilarious bugs into code.

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

It's generally a good idea to live one's life so that one is not worried if one's partner picks up one's phone, but this does mean one must plan surprise parties on a burner phone

RE: https://www.threads.com/@24.kai/post/DYTj9OQjV5y

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

i see the bun clod rewrite is going well https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719

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

As it is, I feel uncomfortable with it, because it feels like we are letting a handful of loud voices dictate the direction we are going

oh fuck off nico, the ai haters aren't the loud ones.

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glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

2026 Book 20: Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows; edited by Diana Wright

Meadows starts with simple examples and slowly expands them to define and put into context what systems thinking is, and isn't, and what its limitations are. Enlightening and timeless, although I think she'd be very disappointed to see where things ended up in 2026.

#bookstodon

https://bookshop.org/a/100022/9781603580557

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper):

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

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Roundtrip@federate.social ("Greg Lloyd") wrote:

@dysfun 🧵#Dijkstra #quote

So great — thank you! I had to dig up the source:

Dijkstra, E.W. “Introducing a Course on Calculi.” EWD1213, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 30 Aug 1995.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1213.html

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

Dijkstra also appreciated my current predicament in advance:

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.

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

I was looking up dijkstra quotes and i found a good one i don't remember seeing before:

My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/116557949437387954

UPDATE: it's oh so much worse than we even could have imagined. 😂

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719

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

i'm never going to contribute to rust now, i'm pretty done.

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

meanwhile, in rust:

Using LLMs while working on rust-lang/rust is conditionally allowed

fuck every single one of you that did this.

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

dear category theory/ML friends, there's a new working draft of a textbook i saw on the orange place doing category theory-based ML. i probably lack the CT knowledge to evaluate this, but some of you may be interested.

particularly @julesh

https://hghalebi.github.io/category%5Ftheory%5Ftransformer%5Frs/

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

oops, i was popular overnight

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JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Temperature check for some on-prem #selfhosting training.

Please nerdboost.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adhd%5Fcoffee/116577388544265699

Thus, with my system, I can focus my limited time on perfecting this system, thus resulting in unlimited productivity!

...what do you mean it doesn't work this way?

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revjss@sfba.social ("Jeff Spencer") wrote:

California’s new grid-connected batteries, installed over the last 36 months or so, are the equivalent of a dozen new nuclear power plants. If California had installed a dozen nukes in a couple of years, you’d know about it because people would be protesting and counter protesting. And the fact that we in California are now powering the grid with what is essentially stored solar energy during the peak demand (which is typically around 7:00PM), producing as much as 40 percent of the peak capacity requirements, hasn’t made a ripple. Does the fact that batteries are essentially metal boxes that don’t pose a threat make it non-newsworthy?
https://zolairenergy.com/californias-battery-array-is-as-powerful-as-12-nuclear-power-plants-heres-whats-on-the-horizon/

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

What an embarrassing existence. How did we allow these cringe losers to amass a single dollar or second of attention

jwz wrote:

Someone gave me a classic CRT oscilloscope. So in the immortal words of Ice Cube, today was a good day.

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jonah@neat.computer ("Jonah Aragon :MN:") wrote:

Fucking-AI-ass posts from Cloudflare and GitLab 🤮

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elthenerd@fosstodon.org ("Elaine Wong :python:") wrote:

hey folks,

we're super short on volunteers tomorrow (May 15) at #PyConUS. We're seeing 50% empty shifts for green room volunteers, session runners and chairs.

If you have a talk session to wish to see tomorrow, why not double up and help out by being a session chair for that time?

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

#Freexian collaborators worked on detecting undeclared file conflicts, mini-sprint improving contributors.debian.org, security-tracker performance, fixing dput-ng data loss bug, MiniDebConf Campinas and many more contributions to #Debian in April 2026.

Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-04-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#dput-ng #linux #openssh

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

"It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick"
https://ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/

😔

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

for those who want "receipts" just look up Sumner's connection to Peter Thiel and Guillermo Rauch

https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/116576976360153039