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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ifin@infosec.exchange ("IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence Network") wrote:

The wave appears to have subsided for now. The response of the AUR maintainers was praiseworthy indeed, although without some process/policy changes, this could happen again at any time.

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

You know in my day, police did the work themselves, carried a drop gun, lied on the stand, planted little baggies of coke, etc. This is just sheer laziness.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gucovesskg6yxs5mvnm6jz65/post/3mo3ngzs4ek2j

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

incidentally, alternatives to this approach:

• constantly repacking when you create gaps (fast with masked simd that supports compression, but requires said simd to have the best performance)
• don't repack ever (but then we have to allocate more often)
• use a bitmap (to do what? what i'm actually doing but with a need for ctz?)

now, the first option is interesting, it's what we'd do if this were a regular chunked sequence instead of a weird incredibly niche data structure that only has to track refcounts. it would probably even be very fast with the right simd. i don't want to assume that right now, but if i did eagerly repack, it would make it easier to do inter-chunk rearrangement and further stave of allocations.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

@aredridel EU released a very clear and unambiguous statement about this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eh%5FcI7BvZpQ

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

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

i would like to see some actual figures at some point though. i came up with a new amortisation technique and i have no idea how well it will work out in practice (i'm fairly sure it's good enough, but i want to know if it's really good)

amortisation: refcounts are stored in 32-way chunks. for each chunk, min and max indexes are stored. when either the first or last item is removed (refcount = 0), we adjust the range by skipping over any zero-refcounted items, so it's creeping up at the low end and down at the high end. i don't think i've ever seen this particular one before, but it's quite simple and seems obvious enough to me so it may exist in the literature somewhere.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Brave people inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, reported guards withholding food and water unless they sign documents in English that they don’t understand.

They also said the water they do get is putrid, and medicine has been taken away or delivered late.

As of this week, around 150 people are still being kept inside cages at Alligator Alcatraz, including people with serious medical conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

remember when viruses used to do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4Jb%5FgMwZk

those were the days

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

garbage collection would make a lot of this less easy to fuck up, it must be said. but it would also eliminate a lot of what makes it really fast. or probably makes it really fast i should say, since i've not gotten to grips with benchmarking in zig yet.

still, i'm relatively confident i've learned enough about performance engineering by now...

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

Summer #photos #nature #iceland

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

it's completely wild to me that the data structure i built to take the load off the "scary" concurrency stuff that doesn't have to deal with any of that can be so much more complicated than the concurrency stuff.

the concurrency stuff is just subtle, not complicated per se.

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

i do sometimes wonder why anybody thinks we can produce bug free software as a species.

i have been doing this for rather a long time now and today, as i finish up my new data structure, i am noticing just how many ways there are to fuck it up as i carefully track everything.

and this is what i would consider a relatively simple data structure. it's single threaded, for a start!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Mornin'
Week-end is nigh

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

currencies where going shopping could lead to integer overflow

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Current problem: I want my car to visit multiple flags in order. The flags are identical except for their position and place in the ordering. How can I pass this information around such that the code for any individual flag is exactly the same?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

As soon as I try to do anything with multiples of a thing in Godot my brain starts spinning

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

Just watched a gambling commercial with Matthew Broderick. It's so gross how many celebrities are taking these predatory apps' sponsorship money.

I hope someone organizes a boycott against celebrities who endorse gambling apps. Make them lose all that sponsorship money plus more.

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

Update: headaches are reducing in frequency. I had one at 1:30AM and another at 930AM so far. I'm still a bit sleep deprived but I feel a lot better. I'm taking it easy as best I can, hoping the worst is behind me.

The good news is, after this, I should be in good running shape lol.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
0x00string@infosec.exchange ("Nullstring 🏴‍☠️") wrote:

im pleased to see a handful of people out there who recognize the fragility of the mountain of progress we are teetering on right now.

the rest of you... do you even fucking understand how much human progress was required to have screws that are the same as one another?!

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

Tomorrow! In Toronto! Come see @dthompson and I talk at Open World Map (part of the Toronto Games Week) about how @spritely uses game development and game jams to advance network freedom! https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

And a whole bunch of other awesome speakers as well! It's no cost to attend so register and come hang out with us!

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

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cnn/politics-17jf08kfz/-/a-KFqxdXHwSzG7PR9aSjBNhA%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

good

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Ah, I see your problem right here. It has code.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style ("Brochastic Guyolence") wrote:

today is the 10 yr. anniversary of Milkshake Duck.

happy birthday lil' fella.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Racletture Redux: raclette maximalism revisited.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/06/12/racletture-redux/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

wow the adhd is hitting me bad today

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heptapp@mathstodon.xyz ("Heptapp") wrote:

Donella Meadows got it right.
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

#DonellaMeadows

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

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

Angry Unloved Fascist Still Empty Inside After Meaningless Financial Goal Achieved

"SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire"

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-ipo-makes-elon-musk-worlds-first-trillionaire-2026-06-11/

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

RE: https://floss.social/@danslerush/116731516805245122

excellent