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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

it's nice to be with my cats again, how I have missed them

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

blogged: Surveys will continue until diversity improves

https://dbushell.com/2026/05/15/surveys-will-continue-until-diversity-improves/

— blah idk i got no answers only observations 🫠

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
angrystaffer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Angry") wrote:

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

The Lisp Game Jam has begun! happy hacking!

https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2026

#lispGameJam #lisp #scheme

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

Perhaps the start of a new project to collate various sysadmin resources into one thing with zero slop.

For now I'm running it on my local machine and dumping the information I know

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk ("Police State UK") wrote:

"The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass #immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know". But it is not clear whether the creator knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka."

#UKPol #Propaganda

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o

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

okay so i looked up what firecracker is using to drive kvm and it seems it's this collection of crates https://github.com/rust-vmm/community

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Sgt McKinzie had brass balls

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

"But in fact, much of what’s prevented the widespread automation of cars and trucks and the elimination of driving jobs is the technology itself: it simply cannot do what these engineers promised it could."

Watters doing what so few journalists do these days, putting things in context by remembering what happened previously.

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-self-driving-school/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@adele yes!

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/

It uses MLS to implement encrypted messaging over ActivityPub. Bonfire and Emissary have working implementations, and Mastodon will implement it later this year.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SaraSoueidan@front-end.social ("Sara Soueidan") wrote:

This morning I sent an email newsletter out 📬 announcing a soft-launch of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD promotion:

For the next two weeks, the Practical Accessibility course is going on sale!

25% off ($299 instead of $399) 🎁
Sale ends on June 1st ⏳

https://practical-accessibility.today

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

@aredridel I think of them as two stroke mopeds… there are externalities to using them.

I look forward to locally run models that were trained ethically.

Then I’ll buy the e-bike analogy.

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

the only way to build high quality software is to understand it. this means planning, this means thinking through the design, this means thinking as you write every line of code.

if you think the vibe cod is doing that for you, i have a bridge to sell you.

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

@brib Yeah, that's it exactly.

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

furthermore, i've spent more than a week going out of my way trying to get the silly thing to do the silly thing and i'm not remotely impressed, probably because i have standards.

there are fundamental issues that won't magically go away because you throw in a better model.

more to the point, have you noticed uptimes since slop coding became a widespread thing? or the hilarious security bugs it introduces? if the proof is in the pudding, there is plenty of pudding to conclude that it's terrible

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

@baldur

Sitting in on a talk on autism diagnoses, one of a series of scientific talks, watching an animation they used as a diagnostic aid, hearing everybody around me laugh as if the shapes on the screen made sense, only then truly understanding myself, and feeling more alone than I have ever felt before or since.

As an aside, I love this sentence; it really captures the feeling of being autistic (which, I assume, is the implication of this 😁 )

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

i think some of you are lacking a little perspective.

consider firstly that people advocating pushback against slop machines haven't gone and ruined FLOSS the way slop advocates have. you know, with the power of hypercapitalism with them, as opposed to the people who will be left to clean up the mess with their.*checks notes*labour.

and it's not just FLOSS is it? it's news sites, it's search engines, it's the fucking web. ruining all the things that were *ours*in pursuit of the long con.

so if you were thinking of bothsidesing me about this, i'd suggest:

a) keeping your mouth shut, actually.
b) opening your eyes.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

you've heard of truth tables, now get ready for lie algebra

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GeePawHill wrote:

T is one of the greatest mentors of my entire life. I could never repay him. The first time I called him, out of the blue after 20 years, he burst into tears. "You've come back to me!"

For thirty years *I* have maintained an open house where adolescents were welcome, 24/7/365.

T taught me how to do that, and why.

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