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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

The questions on screen at #LMF2026 today:

"What if journalism didn't just show us what's broken, but what's working too?"

"What if the problem isn't that people don't care, but that journalism isn't giving them a way to care?"

Meenal Thakur, solutions journalism trainer at Prague-based Transitions, on the question underneath:

"What led to the circumstances that people started believing in one story or theory over the other?"

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

An alternate transfer of the video that seems a little clearer to my eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpVkXZvp28I

(Or maybe I just prefer the analog artifacts of video tape.)

Some recorded thoughts from Rebecca Allen regarding animating the human form with computers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOiSrV0AfSo

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

Re LB:[1] I was reading the SIGGRAPH press release about the 1981 pixel art show[2] and following up on the names of the artists. One of the participants, Rebecca Allen, also developed the visuals for Kraftwerk's "Musique Non Stop" music video:

https://www.rebeccaallen.com/projects/musique-non-stop

Which is pretty great if you ask me. Imagine being such an early pioneer in computer graphics. It must've been heady times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lIlROWro8

[1] https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/116578073196710938

[2] https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1981%5Finfo%5FpressRelease.jpg

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

honestly can't face the vibe cod today, need a break. might write some code, that way at least some useful code will get written this week.

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

Are there any plans to implement encryption for private messages using a public key attached to the Fediverse account?

I understand that the metadata would not be encrypted, but that would be more than sufficient for many use cases. The decentralised nature of the Fediverse is a major advantage in the fight against censorship.

#Fediverse #Encryption #Privacy #E2EE

ping @evan

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

nobody asked for my 2c either, but what the heck, let's do this.

ignoring the part where autovec has gotten a lot better, portable simd inherently sacrifices some performance for the portability.

if you want to get anywhere near the maximum performance, for many problems you have no choice but to do multiple versions for different platforms anyway because different platforms have different capabilities and are better/worse at different things.

oh and yeah, autovec did get a lot better. and in std::simd's case, it seems like it often outperforms std::simd. this is probably because std::simd only supports 128-bit vectors.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The first pixel art exhibition, which showcased images displayed by a PDP-11 with frame buffers and monitors, was made possible at SIGGRAPH 1981 by the involvement of the Computer Graphics Lab at NASA's JPL. This is the story.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-historic-pixel-art-exhibition

#DigitalArt #retrocomputing #nasa

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

I suspect this one will play better to the Mastodon crowd than to the Bluesky or newsletter folks.

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.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
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?