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

our aim is to not only beat llvm in compilation time but in codegen quality

well, uh... i hope you have a lot of time...

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

This isn't even to say all the parts about rare earth materials! About the environmental cost of building hardware that's going to wear out in just a few years (yes this DOES happen, datacenter machine rollouts are not a one-time-compute-deployment thing)

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

Whenever people raise worry about the environmental impacts of AIgen megadatacenter rollout and then that Kind of Guy says well you don't know, actually it's probably very little, don't worry about it

- When they are publicly announcing the size of datacenters they want to roll out
- When they are building new gas power plants to supplement them
- When water is disappearing around the globe and it's disappearing in datacenter deployed areas even faster
- When we know that we are RUNNING OUT OF TIME on our climate clock already and should be prioritizing ABOVE ALL ELSE extending our clock
- When AI CEOs are saying they are going to build datacenters IN SPACE, the worst place for them you can think of
- When they are pushing for nuclear power with YOLO safety deregulation

It feels like gaslighting. Because it IS gaslighting.

We are running out of time on this planet. There is new space for hope with massive developments in renewables.

We don't have time for this. Don't bullshit us.

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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/116580126323021614

Now see what you’ve done. Axel’s decade+ work on explaining the intricacies of web development and ECMAScript in particular had to be taken down because of AI. This royally sucks and anyone who thinks AI is nifty for coding should be ashamed if themselves.

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

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/116580126323021614

Alex’s books are EXCELLENT and well worth buying if you do any kind of work with JS/TS.

And his experience matches what I’ve been seeing elsewhere. The web dev education and training sector has basically been wiped out

https://payhip.com/rauschma

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timorl@social.wuatek.is wrote:

CDDA changed my life, it’s literally the reason why I even sew. I’ve been wondering if it also worked the same way on any other people, but so far I haven’t met any, so maybe I’m just weird.

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TeflonTrout@beige.party ("TeflonTrout :bc: he/him") wrote:

@cwebber

Worm Girl on yt does an amazing playthrough, which includes a one woman zombie killing spree on roller skates in a skate park

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clarfonthey@toot.cat ("clar fon") wrote:

🟧 anyway I'm fucking exhausted but to re-summarise for people who might want to share again:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3959

our policy now fully bans LLMs from having any "creative control" over the project. it carves out a "trivial usage" exception for things like accessibility and to not litigate shit like copilot autocomplete, even though we personally think it's a shit technology that should not be used

disclosure now exists as a means to openly invite LLM users to tell on themselves, effectively. more diplomatically, it exists to justify and hold accountable people who might have used an LLM to collect data or some shit to make sure they only did it for that shit and didn't let it write any code or prose. if people don't disclose anything and an LLM was obviously involved, the result is to assume that it was involved too much and close the PR.

there's plenty to be criticised about this praxis, but it feels like the best way to ensure that people don't get exhausted trying to litigate whether LLMs were used and instead just ask people to be honest. hopefully absolutely canning most of the usage of LLMs will mean people just stop using them except for real accessibility concerns when there's no alternative.

was extremely frustrated with jyn, the only other serious policy proposer, for effectively throwing us under the bus and citing a fucked-up fashy quote we vented about in an entire blog post: https://txt.ltdk.xyz/testing-the-limits-of-kindness/

(to be clear, jyn has since apologised and was just tired and trying to deal with the situation. everyone involved has just been exhausted trying to do stuff and it means everyone's at each other's throats.)

TC, the other technical policy proposer, should not be taken seriously. he knows what he's doing and I hate him for it, and his policy is not a serious one. it's why I'm excluding him from the discussion here.

I just want people to understand just how absolutely one-sided this argument is despite it draining all of our energy. basically the entire project minus a handful of people agrees that LLMs are trash and should be banned entirely, but that handful of people are some of the ones with the most influence and so things are substantially more difficult. it means that despite all the private remarks that thank us for our policy work most of the private discussions feel like incredibly one-sided dogpiles on us being rude for even daring to call one guy's opinion slightly fascist by accident.

if you wanna help with the discussion, I encourage you to comment on our RFC or show support directly. just don't just show up and make a mess, please, because all you're doing is playing into the handful of hands that are making work hard for the rest of us.

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ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

Anyone in the market for an (abandoned) Volvo? Ran perfectly when parked. Slight patina to the paintwork. Needs a minor service and a bit of a clean!

No time wasters. Open to sensible offers! 💸😂

#Photography #AbandonedCar #ClassicCars #Volvo #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCar

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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://grrl.me/@soph/116586772000163018

I’ve had a similar awakening a few months when realising that GitHub shows you thr cost of free-for-open-source Actions usage. On of my decidedly low-traffic but big test suite (173 checks) would cost thousands of dollars per month.

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that they’ve played us all for fools. We all have infinitely fast dev machines, but we need to rent a dev machine’s worth of servers every month to run an open source project?

Absolutely not.

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jcoglan wrote:

other random thing about llm driven rewrites is people are going to find out that a passing test suite is a much looser constraint on program behaviour than they think it is

people feel like test suites have high specification power because they break their tests easily. but this is because the tests check for deviations from the original implementation. they don't contain nearly enough information to faithfully generate the program from scratch

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OohOkayKay@beige.party ("🇨🇦 Little-k") wrote:

How Mastodon are you? (#2)
Pick all that apply to you!

Please boost so more people see it.
#food #biking #autism #lgbtq

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bel@terberlo.dog ("Bel Polaris") wrote:

:3

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

I love Forgejo but because I *speak* Esperanto I cannot read its name "correctly" due to the missing accent mark over the "g"

"Forĝejo" (for-JAY-o) means "place of forging"

"Forgejo" (for-GAY-o) means "distant gay"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ragman@jawns.club wrote:

@ansuz @mark @burnitdown @srtcd424 @evacide

I'm running into this problem in real life, and I'm not sure what to do about it.

For example, I've met people trying to vibecode health data apps (in one case being paid by a local healthcare org to do so). And it's coming from a genuine place of care and an eagerness to help people, to make an impact.

But then they don't know what HIPAA is, and don't understand why you're getting heated about it.

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

“Pivot to AI needs your support — sign up to the Patreon today! – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/16/pivot-to-ai-needs-your-support-sign-up-to-the-patreon-today/

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

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116586212110657570

good question: “Can digital sovereignty exist on American silicon?”

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

I also haven't put any disclosure about it in the repo itself, but, to be clear, LLMs were not used in the making of these libraries.

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

it's still very much wip but if you are curious the Zig library is here https://codeberg.org/vivicat/zig-syrup and the libsyrup library is here
https://codeberg.org/vivicat/libsyrup

it's been a fun week :)

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

my syrup library is 12 times faster than guile's syrup encoder and uses very little memory. it also is a fully streamed library.

i have found that it's 2x faster than the similar zig json library that is in zig std.

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

I have been working on a C-api library, written in Zig, which can be used to serialize OCapN Syrup format. It's been very fun so far.

The Zig library it wraps is pretty functional already, but libsyrup needs work still :)

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

@timorl Okay I'll tell my CDDA story that got me hooked

I boot up CDDA, sneak into a house. There's a heart-shaped pill on the floor. I don't know what it is, so I just eat it to see what happens.

Then I go to sleep. There's a monster in the room! I wake up and fight it. I smash it to bits!

But then there are more monsters. I freak out. I start attacking them! I got them! They didn't put up too much of a fight thankfully.

Then my character wakes up and I realize oh shit I'm hallucinating and THE WHOLE ROOM IS MONSTERS, the floor and ceiling are monsters, everything is monsters, and I lie in bed unable to sleep as I hallucinate monsters everywhere

I wake up in the morning: I totally smashed up the room in my hallucinations.

Okay. Yep this game is pretty awesome.

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

@kevingranade @zzt The thing about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is it appears to be a zombie fighting game from the surface, but then you realize it's actually a deadly version of Stardew Valley for simulationists

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timorl@social.wuatek.is wrote:

Also there’s that time I’ve been quite far in exploring a city and some much stronger zombie noticed me and started chasing. I shot it a couple times with my bow, but it clearly would get to me, so I started running. It caught up to me. After a short melee where I damaged it, but was still far from defeating it, it got to pummeling me almost without resistance because of the pain. My irl heart is racing, is this it? But I remembered the one handgun I had carried for precisely such a situation, take it out, and spray, aiming was out of the question, would take too long. Literally the last bullet in the clip finally kills it. Exhilarating, but I’m not completely out of danger yet. Hoping that I was far enough from the still zombie populated parts of the town that they didn’t hear that, I start crawling towards my base, periodically blacking out. Only when I got to bed I calmed down IRL.

Organic

fucking

storytelling.

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

So, the nationalist parties won a substantial victory in the municipal elections here in Iceland yesterday, which is honestly a bit discouraging.

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ShadSterling wrote:

@Athena I am suddenly less interested in their policy on LLMs and more interested in their policy on ethics. Excluding ethical concerns as a basis for policy is what you do when you know your preferred policies are unethical. Any project which accepts such an exclusion should be treated as a threat.

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kakape@mas.to ("Kai Kupferschmidt") wrote:

WHO has declared the #Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
First time this has been done without consulting an emergency committee.
Extraordinary move that speaks to how concerning the facts on the ground look right now.

https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

chat. hey chat. i have an incredible personal development to share

after decades of not finding them useful i have finally started using todo lists.

i am using them to work less. i put the items in the list so that when i tick all of them off i know i can stop even though i'm aware there's more work to be done this cycle

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

i have been sent this fragment. 10/10 no notes

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

this is the way
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/