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

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

but what if i am inconveniencing the pizza place by asking them to make a fresh pizza for me because they were out of slices, and other incredible vv thoughts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be ("CalvinBall") wrote:

read this: https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/

Lucid, pointed commentary on how LLMs are removing the outer layer of Vogl's inner rings model describing community participation. Removing this friction means people don't realise they're benefiting from a thing being cared for by a community, and that means fewer people become part of that community.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I sometimes wonder if "Recognized As A Leader By The Magic Quadrant" is MBA speak for "The First Who Will Be Subject To The Lament Configuration."

We have such sights to show you, that ladder up to our quarterlies.

https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116727687031727025

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny truly it is the Tucker Carlson of technology products

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

These two photos of a male and female common crossbill are very much not sharp. Kinda out of focus. This is because I took the photo through the very dirty balcony door on a rainy day. #photo #photos #bird #iceland

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put all the liability on the consumer. I hope to see aggressive change here.

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

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

Horse doing horsie things. #photo #iceland #horse #nature

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

With the new #ebike regs in CA, I now have to pedal my ebike at least when I see cops. I love to bike, I love my roadie, but my ebike is halfway to emoto with a fat seat and pedaling is awkward as hell. The biggest problem is that the gearing is ridiculous, like I can get maybe 2 turns of the crank in when starting, but anything above 15 and I am just flapping my legs around pointlessly like a Looney toons character.

I think I need to swap out my chainring and just get a humongous one, I know those are in style anyways, but there's no other way than that to get more mechanical advantage so that when I'm going 30 I'm actually able to contribute some power, right?

#bikes #ebikes #BikeTooter

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

holy shit, in italy when a plane crashes, the police get to have a go at it before the crash investigators.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cato@chaosfurs.social ("Cato, registered LynxⓁ") wrote:

My new fursuit is finally here! After all this time, I finally am the big silly kitty I always wanted to be :neofox_aww:

Expect a lot more fursuit content and better pictures in the future :3

#furry #fursuit

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

But sure, 'ChatGPT is just like 10 seconds of watching Netflix' 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2026

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

I'm tired of losing my rights because some parents refuse to have hard conversations with their ugly-ass kids.

Parental controls are a good thing. But we're turning into a corporate police state because Craydon looked up boobs on his iPad.

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

I like the texture.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #concrete #decay #window #door

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

The trap with making video content is the algorithm. I can spend a week or a month just taking notes on what performs well and try to emulate that, but what I'll end up with is algo slop.

I don't want that.

The alternative is to do my best to make quality content that may not be "discovered" for a long time, or ever, even, but I'll feel better making it.

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

And in translation!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kate%5Fmckean/post/DZaaRwbkUkF

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
landley@mstdn.jp ("Rob Landley") wrote:

Every period of exponential growth turns out to be an S-curve. You can't sell 2x as many phones each year on a planet of 8 billion people forever, eventually everyone already has one.

Moore's Law's S-curve bent down in 2010, and we've had maybe 3 of the expected 10 doublings since then, putting us ~100x behind the old trend line.

That's why they announce data centers twice the size of downtown Minneapolis using water cooled chips powered by a dryer outlet each: Moore's Zombie.

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116727992069230712

i have learned recently that pilots really do not like to say "piss". "bladder fluid" is quite a roundabout way of putting it though.

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

When I was at Viv Labs, they gave Bixby this ability, but as far as I know nobody was willing to implement it in a capsule (Bixby’s equivalent of a skill, but they were pretty full-featured). Except South Korean Starbucks because they were pretty YOLO about everything.

https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-uYrEOrfjTQKXL-BgVSzIHQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

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

Wait, some dude tried to come for romantasy? Here? On Threads? That's... an interesting choice to make.

MY SCREAMING HOT TAKE ON ROMANTASY: It's cool, I'm glad people have reading material they enjoy and are passionate about, and I love that it's bringing readers and buyers into book stores, to the benefit of everyone who has a book on the shelves that might get picked up during browsing. Thanks, romantasy writers and readers!

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

YAAAAAAY

RE: https://www.threads.com/@torbooks/post/DZa2fLdEVNR

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
toastedlynx@meow.social ("Toasted Lynx") wrote:

I caught some otter paws :3

Paws belong to squeakyboy on another website
Photo by @KalTheDingo

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

wow, my encyclopaedic knowledge of bill hicks has finally paid off

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Jes@labyrinth.zone ("Jes - Hedgehog Edition ") wrote:

why do so many games like to shovel the save file in documents
think it's because it's a holdover when XP put everything in the documents, but still wtfff

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

#Healthcare #Taxation #Socialism #Capitalism #USPolitics #HigerEducation #PaidFamilyLeave #Pregnancy

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

i am not an expert, but i don't think this game scene where part of a metal ventilation tunnel is electrified but not the rest is entirely physically realistic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
ratfactor@mastodon.art wrote:

I'm feeling extremely meh about this, but I haven't drawn much of anything in about 40 days, and I expect to be a little rusty starting back up.
This is a catch-up for the #ArtABCs in which "I" is for... Indigo Iguana!

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

Ridley Scott should have won Best Director long ago: Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise and The Martian among so many others. Few directors have his cinematic eye. The incredibly versatile Close has likewise been due for so long now. Delighted they are getting their statuettes.

https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/glenn-close-ridley-scott-governors-awards-honorary-oscars-1236771529/

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

when you write this down, much of the design falls out quite naturally. adding or incrementing only happens at the end of the list. the rest must be searched. we are chunking, we can search just the first element of each chunk to just locate the chunk we need to look at, then there are only 32 elements to search.

then there's the question of how to handle individual chunks. of course we start by filling them out in order. we can keep a pair of integers marking out the used range of a block's entries. this allows for the lowest or highest key to be removed easily and that space quickly reused (although this mostly benefits the last block).

and what do we do when we introduce a gap by reducing the refcount to 0? do we remove it or leave it in place? similarly, do we attempt to merge multiple partially-filled blocks (blocks become partially full when we delete entries)? if you can find space by moving elements, you can avoid extra allocation. but what heuristic gives the best payoff?

i'm still deciding.