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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

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• gifv: ortho view cones trick looping animation

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
elrohir@mastodon.gal ("Cogito ergo mecagoendios") wrote:

@cwebber US healthcare system

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

Providence ➡️ NYC on a new Alstom Avelia trainset.

The seats are not as bad as the foamers online would have you believe! Are they great? No. They are simply okay. Better than coach seating on an airplane that's for sure!

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

When I played the pokemans, I didn't give my pokemen any "medicine". they didn't need "medicine" when they were hurt. I just fed them a nonstop stream of canned lemonade until they got type-2 diabetes

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

if u don't like them u can detach them from corporeal form into a stream of bits, throw them on some guy's computer, and just let them bitrot forever

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

it's ok u can beat them up and then throw them in a hamster ball and then they have no choice but to be friend

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

u bump into someone and wonder, is this person friend, and then they make a synthesized scream and the pokemon gen1 battle music starts playing

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

bizarrely opinionated tooling aside, it looks like zig might have just enough rope to do a HOT vaguely properly. for amd64, anyway.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Stellar@mk.absturztau.be ("S T E L L A R :bun:") wrote:

everything reminds me of her... ​:neocat_pleading:​

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

At one point @haskal said "it's cool that you have one purely ADHD cat and one purely autistic cat" and this is true, that is the best way to describe them

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

I love how every cat I have ever gotten to know has such an absolutely distinct personality

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I don't know why people are always so quick to dismiss animal intelligence as "they're just doing it for food." Like so WHAT so are YOU if you want to be that reductive about it. Why is it hard to acknowledge that an animal that we know can learn to associate speech sounds with meaning and can smell orders of magnitude better than we can would be able to tell different train lines apart and recognize stations from their smell? Plenty of people just get on the train without a destination because there are other people on there who might give them things. Who cares why they go around on the train, its enough that they do.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Everyone is just cheering on this dog who is on its own and taking the train like everyone else. It got off one train, went up the stairs, and got on another. It knows what its doing. You could not interfere with this process, it would be villainous

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

Please stop integrating ai in every bleeding app and website, I don't want it. ..and in the case I do, I want it to be my decision to enable it

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

you can put this at the top of every file and just format it by hand.

// zig fmt: off

but this sort of thing is very offputting.

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

You cannot change the way zig fmt formats the code.

urge to run away screaming increasing 😬

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

oh good, zig-mode autoformats on save with different preferences to emacs. and i told it not to and it still does 😬

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
josch@floss.social wrote:

Yet another really well written critical text regarding #LLM and #GenAI was just submitted as a GDC to the #Guix project. This is something we should be keeping an eye on in #Debian as well. https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-05/msg00164.html @civodul

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

okay, well i don't really want to go download or build a prerelease compiler to do my first zig code, so i'll go back to familiar territory - height optimized tries.

trust me when i say this is a trial by fire of a language.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
LunarAkai@tech.lgbt ("Yuki 🐰") wrote:

these two states can be true at the same time:

1. i love my puter
2. computers were a mistake, we should have never invented them. I want my goose farm.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@aud
It's a big red flag for me when people reduce animal emotions to material needs, more indicative of the grim worldview of the person and how they see others than anything. Anyone who has had a pet should be able to know there is at least something beyond a transactional material relationship.

I do wonder if there are pets or pet species that have a bond driven by hate or malice rather than love tho lol. Like "I stick around because I like to keep my enemies close." That is sort of how some of my friends who have snakes seem to think of their pets motivations.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The amount of dogs that can ride the train on their own is awesome

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I can’t think of another time when software devs had to be •forced• en masse to use a new technology that was supposed to help them. Usually we’re kind of stupid for the shiny new things: jamming them in when they solve nothing, doing unnecessary rewrites just to use the new hotness because it’s so cool and fun. Usually we’re the one trying to shove it down mgmt’s throat (or sneak it by them) rather than the reverse.

But not this time.

7/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mitchellh@hachyderm.io ("Mitchell Hashimoto") wrote:

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

after reading That rust PR, I can see what they were *trying* to say, but if you lead your big controversial post with “comments raising ethical or legal concerns will be moderated, technical concerns only” then absolutely the only thing anyone is going to talk about is the alarming ethical and legal concern they now have

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

so, looking at zig, there are a few problems for what i want it for that stick out, mostly in terms of things not (yet) supported.

IFUNC support will happen. sometime.

PEXT/PDEP might happen, but are trivially worked around with inline assembly. or, like... my c library for pext and pdep. but that comes with overhead you don't always want to pay for - it's to make it easy where a better solution isn't plausible.

async i/o support seems to be coming in 0.17. the big community alternative is written by a loud slop machine advocate, so i'm not going there and honestly if i'm going to have to write this shit myself i'm just going to use c because it's easier than trying to learn a language and build a bridge at the same time.

this brings us on to libraries, because literally the first community library i looked at had clod as a contributor. zig itself has an anti-slop stance, but some of the community are big fans. this means libraries are going to be even thinner on the ground than they first appear (which is fairly thin on the ground actually). i know, i can just use c libraries, but i want things like performance data structures i don't have to rewrite for every type i want to store.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ashur@front-end.social ("Ashur Cabrera 🌺") wrote:

bun team like

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
nikclayton ("Nik") wrote:

@mitchellh does this mean you're going to remove the "maintainers are exempt" language from https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI%5FPOLICY.md ?

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote: