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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mookie@weredreaming.com ("steve mookie kong") wrote:

Overheard: “I feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

#ai #llm #drugs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is a screenshot of https://pypi.org/project/MOPUp/ which can help you easily stay up-to-date on security patches, if you are a macOS python user, using the official macOS builds from python.org (which you should be)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
benno@eigenmagic.net ("Benno") wrote:

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

Hack & Craft! From 2-4 ET (18:00-20:00 UTC)! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

I'll be doing artwork in Blender while @mlemweb makes a sewing table (check it out, it's badass) https://social.coop/@mlemweb/116584647261869377

Bring a coding project, bring a crafting project, talk with FOSS'y friends! Cya there!

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

I'll also say that part of the impetus for this project is that I had spare wood lying around left over from other projects. So far, all that I've spent on this project is $20 worth of nails, bits, etc. (pockethole screws are expensive y'all) and eventually I'll probably buy some stain and maybe castors. So overall, I'll end up with a custom table for well under $100.

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

If you're interested, the way I made this is:

- Take two pieces of high quality 1/2" pine plywood

- Cut a hole in the top piece using a 3/4//" drill bit for pilot holes and a jigsaw (My sewing machine came with a quilting extension table, so I was able to cut the hole to that size, giving me more wiggle room for the machine itself).

- Use 2x4s to build a structure around the hole, overlapping by 1/2" (so that I can put the piece I cut out back over the hole if I ever need a flat surface, the 3/4" holes leave enough space to easily get the cover on and off). *Make sure that you leave an opening in the structure where your sewing machine's cords can easily come out.

- Secure the structure to the table top using pockethole joinery so that the table surface remains smooth

- align bottom of table to the top and secure to the framework with regular screws ( I used a countersink drill bit so that the screws wouldn't stick out

I might write up a full blog post tutorial at some point.

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

Hi All! We've got a Hack & Craft today from 2-4 ET (18:00-20:00 UTC). I hope you'll join us! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

I've been working on a custom sewing table with a sunken recess so that the workspace sits flush with my sewing machine. At today's H&C I will either be working on this table (sanding and assembling the legs) or I'll get enough done before H&C that I'll be able to take it for a test drive!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This Rob Carter guy has no shame.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/16/just-another-smug-ignorant-creationist/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSj0eex5eY

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao 🍊") wrote:

Imagine praying to a slopinator to "fix the bug, make no mistakes, pretty please", dropping the incorrect turd unannounced on the complacent contributors who decided to run appeasement for the fascist support provided by your prompting addiction, then having the au-da-ci-ty to stride into a fork's comments to start shit about attribution.

Fuck all the way off. I'm more likely to humour someone asking me to acknowledge The Lord Thy God in my commits. "The common culture in the scientific process" is upheld only to the extent everyone involved is working in good faith; you are, demonstrably, not. You should be happy my commit pointed out exactly how your slop was incorrect bullshit, since it puts a bound on the time during which someone glancing at the Agda source would conclude that Andreas Abel has no idea what substitutions or the signature are.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
zachweinersmith.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Overwhelmingly modal choice is A2, both here and on mastodon! I'll be curious to do this again in a year or so and see if anything's changed. Somewhat surprised at the consistency.

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

still getting my head around things, but so far i seem to have managed to steal some bits off some pointers, a thing that nobody seems to have written about in zig. or at least not that i can find.

there isn't strictly polymorphism, instead what you have are functions with comptime parameters that return type and duck typing structs that it returns.

i'm... kinda okay with this in principle, though it remains to be seen what i can do with it in practice.

one thing i consider a bit of a problem for my purposes is lack of simd intrinsics. i could write it all in assembly, but i'm not going to, which i suppose leaves writing those bits in C and hoping LTO will pick up the slack?

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

remember the movie “Glory”?

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

Social Justice Corsair, chasing down ships that have already sailed, armed to the teeth.

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

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116584783523036568

I'd love to know how people's expectation of financial privacy lines up with reality.

I'd never connect this but it's more to do with not having or wanting a relationship with most of these companies, and it's not an open access standard.

There's huge risks, but I suspect that the ones people most fret over are on ships that have already sailed.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
User47@vmst.io ("JL Johnson :veri_mast:") wrote:

I saw recently someone say that folks turning to AI for mental health advice is analogous to starving folks eating tree bark. Powerful stuff, and a rebuke of our healthcare system as well as AI.

By the way, did you know Talkspace has trained an AI model off of the private interactions of patients and clinicians using their platform? It's true. Worse yet, now all of that is under subpoena.

https://myprivacy.blog/talkspace-therapy-transcripts-court-ai-training/

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

this animation is... something https://gencmurat.com/zig-arrays-slices-detailed.svg

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

@farfalk Datacenters are concentrations of power. Anytime a datacenter is involved, it's a sign of power centralization. The rise of datacenters corresponds with the death of p2p and other visions of a more decentralized internet.

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

Working in that environment, seeing as Google rolled out the idea of "cloud computing" meaning "you have no involvement or agency in your computing because we do it for you" radicalized me for much of the work of my career.

It was one thing to run a datacenter to index the world's public web information. I understood that, it made sense.

But watching as Google and Apple co-developed the idea that computers, which I cared about, got abstracted into toys and jewelry that had all your key computing done in a way you had no agency over... where I saw firsthand the kinds of churn of resources necessary to keep these things going, it made me want to fight for a different computing future.

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

My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.

And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:

Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
livelakeontario ("Lake Ontario! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Kingston, ON:

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livelakeontario ("Lake Ontario! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Kingston, ON:

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livelakeontario ("Lake Ontario! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Kingston, ON:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
livelakeontario ("Lake Ontario! Live!") wrote:

Current* conditions near Kingston, ON:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.

They started showing a popup about who sent the link and offering a (maybe new) DM feature, potentially revealing your personal account name to anyone who opens the link.

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

Who's that pokemans???!?!?!?!!

It's an a piece of chewed gum!!!!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@cwebber back in the day a nintendo of america contractor implied my gen1 team composition was trite and garbage because it was 1 level 75 charizard and 5 other level 2 pokemon that might have been dead before the battle started

he not only refused to give me mew, he dunked on me as I left

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

I cannot conceive of the courage it took for a Black person to take the Oath, put on Army blue, shoulder a musket, and march South.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ratfactor@mastodon.art wrote:

"I’m not kidding, I really do enjoy computing like this."

http://ratfactor.com/ascetic-computing

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

The cafe menu is good. I had a falafel salad with green goddess dressing that was quite tasty and I tried some of Andrea's croissant which was also quite nice.

I am jealous that the NE Regional trains just got buttercakes on their cafe menu but it's not available on Acela. I've wanted to try one of those!

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

uwu wario edition