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

Fruit flies use a modified version of Bloom filters to detect novelty of odors, with additional features including similarity of novel odor to that of previously experienced examples, and time elapsed since previous experience of the same odor.

fruit flies use bloom filters.

fruit flies use bloom filters 🤯

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theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Accept reality for what it is.

#Billionaires #IncomeInequality

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siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

So there I was, putting together a grocery order on my phone, using the speech to text transcription function, to explain to the nice text box on the form that I would like in the eventuality of my choice of ice cream not being available, for them to substitute Häagen-Dazs brand coffee ice cream. Which is the only reason it was spelled correctly. I could never.

The form promptly threw an error message I have never seen before:

"We cannot guarantee that our store associates will understand foreign languages. Please use English."

It would not let me enter the contents of that field so long as the umlaut was there.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A portentous reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I normally only post full makeup photos here, but sometimes I clean up ok without it. Getting more comfortable running out to the store or socializing bare faced.

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

There's a truism that any game developer sooner or later ends up writing their own memory allocator.

I wonder if the same is true for #nlp programming and writing your own domain specific stemmer. Because that's what I'm looking at now!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

So google didn't manage to finish off RSS, but LLMs and cloudflare might.

Because I'm like this, I can probably figure out a way to hook a browser up and automate fetching the RSS feed through cloudflare, but... It's probably better to just let it go...

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jonafato ("Jon Banafato") wrote:

If you participated in PyCon US, please fill out the survey. It helps a lot. Remind your friends.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I just realized an RSS feed I have hasn't updated since April. I went to double check the URL in case they moved it as people often do, but no, that was fine. And then I realized they've put their entire site behind some sort of cloudflare protection, probably because of all the aggressive LLM scraping (and they are a bunch of artists to boot), and this "protection" just so happens to also return a 403 to my feed reader. 😩

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minego@pdx.social ("Flesh & bone by the telephone") wrote:

Do you have a strong opinion about eating cold pizza? I don't care what that opinion is, just how strong it is.

I am curious if neurodivergent people differ from neurotypical people.

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

Well, bummer…

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isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz ("Isaac Freeman") wrote:

Magnificent is the new company that @lightweight and I have founded, which I may have alluded to mysteriously from time to time. We will be providing libre web applications like Nextcloud, OnlyOffice, and BigBlueButton to organisations that don't have the time or resources to self-host.

#MagnificentNZ

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isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz ("Isaac Freeman") wrote:

Oh hey…

https://magnificent.nz

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

Settling to watch the final day of the #sumo championship that's ended yesterday. Not the most star-studded basho, but I know who I'm rooting for.

(Don't spoil if you know the results!)

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

It’s 6:55 on any weekday in 1983, Doctor Who just finished, news soon, but first: https://youtu.be/QgbgUrp1a70?si=abc-tv-via-timewarp

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darwinwoodka ("Darwin Woodka") wrote:

@fromjason still not drag queens

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

Just another day in Orange County Florida

https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/05/21/former-gay-cure-ministry-leader-accused-sending-explicit-snapchat-messages-boy-trying-meet-up-with-him/

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

basically graphics cards only make sense if the numbers don't actually matter. obviously graphics was a good example, but now we have machine learning as well.

but what they are not good at is numbers that fucking matter.

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

while i remember: graphics cards are really bad at 64 bit floating point.

like 50-100x worse. when they even bother to give the correct result.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I'm gonna take advantage of the long weekend to soft launch my business doing portrait, cosplay, and gaming photography.

https://eschate-blue.studio/

If you're in the #Seattle area, and want photos for speaker profiles, of your gaming group, or a bunch of stuff in between, hit me up.

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What do I mean by "soft launch"? I know the website is incomplete and still kinda sucks, I have limited availability for now until I get through my surgery next month, and my portfolio is still a bit thin.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I have 99% recovered from my ongoing mystery illness that took up most of May, just in time for the house’s central A/C to break overnight on Saturday during an unseasonably warm late spring.

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davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd

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

I walked outside, all by myself, unaided. Maybe I'm getting better!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/25/i-went-outside-today/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I mean this is me complaining that LinkedIn, the website which models all human interaction as either performing employment or seeking it out, has a data model that fails to accurately model things that are not employment. so I don't know what I expected I guess

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I originally had it as an "experience" because there doesn't appear to be a way to time-bound an "honor". if you're inducted or elected to an honorary role with actual — if minor — obligations and perquisites, it doesn't seem like there's a way to say that that has ended? Like right now I'm an active PSF fellow but I could request a transition to emeritus status and then I wouldn't be any more.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

finally fixed my LinkedIn profile to switch "PSF Fellow" from an "experience" to an "honor" so it stops telling me and everyone who asks that I work at the PSF

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

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

i can't believe rust is stabilising allocators. if they just stabilise another 10 or 20 features i won't even need nightly to compile hello world