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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
littlefoxone@tech.lgbt ("wolf **rika :verifieddemigirl: :therian: :wlfBlep:") wrote:

New nemesis dropped
renovate :neofox_floof_explode:

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115651773214269698

Since May is halfway over, I think my timeline projection was wrong, but the AI companies are certainly playing with fire.

They're currently doing what might be called "enshittification" if they were any other SaaS: lower usage limits, pricing restructuring to capture more value for themselves, etc.

This isn't the sort of thing that will kill off the use of LLM technology or even generative AI as a whole. So-called "local models" will likely persist the AI bubble pop.

But what won't survive is the service model where AI users' data is funneled into a third-party service provider and processed by an LLM.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

NO NOT MY PRIVATE JET

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/new-york-private-jet-tax-mamdani-teterboro-port-authority-elevate-aviation/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

We're entering the last day of #HumbleBundle's book bundle of Mercedes Lackey's #Valdemar Novels. 37 Novels for $18 DRM free.

The Last Herlad-Mage Trilogy in there, is worth the price of admission by itself; and is an early pioneer of #lgbtq representation in fantasy literature, and is Lambda Award winning. #ebooks #fantasy

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/mercedes-lackey-valdemar-and-beyond-daw-books-books

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

Rather a lot of pieces of computer technology in my life have exploded at once. It's gonna be one of those weeks.

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

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

*pronk*

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

like sure let me just depend on an async interface written by clod, what could possibly go wrong?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

RE: https://freethought.online/@pzmyers/116595903323062670

There's a saying in my language which could be roughly rephrased into English like this:
"The willing look for ways forward. The unwilling look for excuses to stand in the same spot."

Mayor Mamdani has so far demonstrated he's very much the former. Is he perfect? No. Is he actually doing something so more can be done later? Yes, and that's the important part.

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

having a lot of "a user you've blocked" on repos written in zig :/

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

RE: https://toot.cat/@dthompson/116595799284331237

Come see @dthompson and I talk about how at @spritely we use game jams to advance decentralized network programming, how the FOSS world and the game development world have much to learn and benefit from each other, and a positive outlook for the future! https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116594126281479002

(There's no vague drama, I was just being silly)

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

Remember when you could just read things published to the web without creating an account?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
adhd_coffee ("Coffeedate with ADHD") wrote:

MYTH: ADHD is overdiagnosed.

REALITY: For every person diagnosed,
there are ten more sitting somewhere right now thinking they're just broken.

#adhd

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

This week in news that sucks:

Peter G Neumann died yesterday.

Peter was, of course, most well known for the definitive essay on the use of the word 'only' in English. The photo is of a sign that made me think of him when I saw it. Peter valued clear communication a lot. I suspect he'd be better known if he didn't: Often, after you'd read Peter's explanation of something he'd thought of, it would be so obvious that you wouldn't think of it as something that needed someone to invent it. He edited almost all of the CHERI publications. He also wrote a lot on the distinction between 'trusted' (if it's broken, everything is broken) and 'trustworthy' (it is unlikely to be broken) in systems design.

Peter was PI on the first grants that funded the CHERI work. DARPA directly funds only US institutions. Cambridge was operating on those grants as a subcontractor.

I first met Peter at one of the PI meetings for the DARPA CRASH programme, where we were presenting early CHERI work. He had a knack of falling asleep in talks (second picture), then asking a question about something that he'd extrapolated that the talk would cover, but which was definitely presented while he was asleep. Often of the form 'In the 1970s, when we were looking at this approach, we got stuck on this problem, how did you solve it?' A sad number of presenters had to admit that they hadn't actually got to that bit of the problem yet, but the good one either had a solution or had reframed the problem to avoid that obstacle.

The third picture is taken just after the second and Peter's willingness to pose for it shows his sense of good fun. He was always quick with a (terrible) pun, except when it came to names. Peter never made puns of people's names, because people didn't get to choose their names and so humour derived from them would be unkind, and I never saw him being unkind.

Indeed, he was always supportive to the folks around him. He somehow managed to give the impression that he felt privileged to work with you, when the reality was that the privilege was entirely in the other direction. He gave great career advice on a couple of key occasions for me (as well as writing a reference that made me blush). I'm far from the only person in the CHERI project whose career benefitted from gentle nudges and unwavering support from Peter.

I learned a huge amount from working with him. You can see his fingerprints all over CHERIoT. A lot of the system was either inspired by conversations with him or shamelessly stolen from his earlier work. I can't imagine our having built any of it without his influence.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
kpl@social.lol ("Kevin Lawver") wrote:

How much do I love my omg.lol account? It doesn't expire for TWELVE more years. I think I added more time during a big sale a couple of years, but, it's great. I'm not even SUPER involved in everything (not on Discord, for example) but everything I am involved in is great, and everyone I've met, up to and including @neatnik, has been lovely.

If you want to join a lovely little corner of the internet, not sure you'll find a better one than https://omg.lol.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Makes having all these stickers on it infinitely funnier

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also just realized it's the 32gb ram model. Was I drunk when I bought this? Why didn't I know any of this? I lucked out buying this computer before the RAM shortage.

This really made my day for some reason lmao.

Oooooo maybe I start gaming on this bad boy.

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

"Mayor Mamdani is proof that if your political representatives don’t fix stuff, strengthen your community and make people’s lives better it is simply and only because
THEY DO NOT WANT TO"

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/18/what-politics-can-do-other-than-enriching-the-rich/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Just realized that the M1 MacBook Pro I bought back in August has an M1 PRO chip.

Made a comment on YouTube how I went from the 16in intel to the 16in base M1 and someone replied that configuration doesn't exist. I checked the setting and BAM it is an M1 Pro. They were right.

My configuration costs 3k at launch and I got it for $800 with a year of Apple Care still left on it.

Amazing. It's Christmas. What a time to be alive.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

biblically accurate cmake invocation

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Has anyone done a proper study of how much productivity is *lost*, globally, due to ridiculous jankyness of "enterprise" software?

Billions of people dealing everyday with having to re-type long poorly implemented forms, decade-old bugs. random crashes, cloud outages.

Surely this is an interesting thing to measure?

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

On the bright side, I'll only need one pair of crutches to get around.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/18/today-is-dreadday-tomorrow-is-knifeday/

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

@cwebber and I will be speaking on behalf of @spritely at Open World Map: Digital Sovereignty for Game Creators in Toronto on June 13th!

Event info here:

https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

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

90s baddd boiiiiiiii

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

blarp simpin: bleep my sharks

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

One of the “half glass near full” optimism takes is that “all this” will create more demand for software, so dev related jobs will still be there…

While “glass already broken” thinkers are thinking … the climate can’t afford another “industrial revolution” … and crisis care and other disaster related jobs … will be the big growth areas

aieeeee

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

Genai opens up possibilities for end-user programming way beyond Excel (and we know how pervasive and useful that has been). As with generated visuals, this makes new things possible, but comes with various costs. One being… folk feeling like they have superpowers. But also… accepting extruded janky kludges…

And the resulting pain is being expressed where there is social safety in numbers — boos at graduation ceremonies. Folk graduating with big loans and poor job prospects are in a hard place!

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

windows-native performance

😂

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

Context Lake

stop it, stop it right now.