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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

CARMACK: *makes a game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

CARMACK: *makes another game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

CARMACK: *makes ANOTHER game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

REAL LIFE HELL PORTAL COMPANY: Carmack, please come work for us

CARMACK: this is probably fine

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

Look at this absolutely remarkable, perfectly rectangular block of hand-obfuscated JavaScript for our click here to get a virus banner by crizzo. It is magnificent, I keep re-reading
https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-blog/pulls/5/files

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A homemade bench.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #bench #graffiti

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

On Clarkson's Farm:

We watch it because we cannot believe how incompetent you are

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("algernon@rustweek") wrote:

Allegedly, OpenAI's crawlers have a small, cheap LLM behind them that tries to detect garbage, and stop scraping if it did that.

Uhm. That's not working too well, guys.

But! This is good information. Now I can specifically target OpenAI's crawlers.

Friday can't come soon enough.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
albaillustration@socel.net ("Elisabeth Alba") wrote:

Itty Bitty Dragon!!
3x3 inches, ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache

The patron who commissioned this one is having me do a companion piece now! One of my final "Tiny Collector" commissions before I ended that tier in my Patreon to get ready for a large summer-long project 😀

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

Fujitsu open-sourced their compiler test suite for C/C++/Fortran https://github.com/fujitsu/compiler-test-suite
Slide deck overview: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2025-06/slides/lightning-talk/kawashima-fujitsu.pdf

When was the last time you independently tested your compiler/interpreter?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
iFixit wrote:

Today, Amazon effectively kills support for older Kindles. Not because the screens stopped working. Not because the batteries all died. Because Amazon decided perfectly usable e-readers should be cut off from the services that made them useful. That is not innovation. That is forced obsolescence with a checkout button. Sign PIRG’s petition and tell Amazon to stop bricking working Kindles.

PIRG Petition: https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-amazon-dont-junk-older-kindle-models/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

From: "It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time":

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oasics/oasics-vol134-programming2025/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5.pdf

Also, I enjoyed these moments:

"There are some problems where a certain threshold of experience is needed to be able to make progress on solving the problem, and it doesn’t appear to be possible to create a cumulative effect of inexperienced people to compensate for experienced ones."

And

"By far the biggest productivity problem in software development is understanding the purpose for which the software is being written, and not having to throw it away and do it again; something that studies of productivity rarely include."

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

This is actually happening now

https://theonion.com/google-announces-plan-to-destroy-all-information-it-can-1819567986/

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

I've been on vacation for the last couple of days so have not been keeping very close attention to news, here's what I've been paying closer attention to, which I think is a better use of my time at the moment

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/116608515170969849

One correction: they're not disallowing AI generated content, but that you need to be able to stand by and have thoroughly reviewed all content and effectively, all claims have to be able to be held as yours. So if anything is in there that you obviously didn't review, you get the one year ban.

So that's an even lower bar than a full AI content ban, and even so some people are still freaking out

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

My good mood of this morning is due very much to NLTK, a #Python library for Natural Language Processing. Lexing, stemming, Levenshtein distance — a treasure trove of clever algorithms and datasets.

Today specifically I was trying out an idea to make my grocery classifier more resilient to spelling variants, and I wondered if you could easily break an English word into syllables… And of course you can: https://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.SyllableTokenizer.html

Amazing!

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

"To federal agents:
You still have TIME to refuse orders.
You still have TIME to QUESTION your instructions.
You still have TIME to CHOOSE the right side."

When Andon Labs had 4 AI models run radio stations, Claude started covering Renee Good's murder. It criticized ICE, the current administration, and called for federal agents to refuse orders.

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I was surprised to learn that in some of Cantor's most important work he failed to credit Dedekind, a collaborator. At least the record is being set straight now.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It took so much work to get passkeys up and running in the first place, and even then sites just randomly break them for no reason. I really, really, *really* want to love passkeys, but in practice they're just such a mess.

Passwords are insecure and annoying, but at least they don't seem to have these random failures without any actionable error messages. (Except on financial sites, where even passwords never seem to work and I often have to treat "reset password" as a magic sign-in link.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I have no idea why nintendo.com has started saying my device doesn't support passkeys. It used to work, it still works on other sites, and there's no error message other than "you can't use passkeys on this device."

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
radiodeadair.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Nash") wrote:

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.

1/2

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

Inevitable, really

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

chocolate fireguardrails

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and his business partner Dario Amodei want to change this law, they are in a significantly more efficacious social position to do so than I am. I hope they will devote their considerable personal resources to its fair reform. They should go do that. Until then, though, regrettably, they must all go to federal prison.

Boosted by jwz:
dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

Happy fourth birthday to this Mastodon pull request, a basic trust and safety feature which keeps getting kicked down the line https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18468

Boosted by jwz:
birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Birds Are Dinosaurs") wrote:

Snow Crash delivers a fairly grim vision of America's future, but it was overly optimistic about our ability to maintain global supremacy in the field of high-speed pizza delivery.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

My "happy to review a PR" message has become "happy to review a human-written PR"

Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Defeatism is form of surrender. Cynicism is surrender. Despair is surrender. Nihilism is surrender.

Our job is to •care• and to •keep caring• and to •keep doing and keep building• and to •endure• longer than them.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ScoPre@mas.to ("Scott :vm:") wrote:

@fromjason I’ve heard this guy can repair them:

https://nicsfix.com/

I have a first gen that won’t update the software anymore but it still works.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

you lot really need to stop putting your hand in the fire after its been burned, seriously