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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

ICYMI https://pypi.org/project/MOPUp/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It's that time again

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

today i am looking at packing data structure nodes into pages while maintaining copy on write.

my unit of copy on write is the disk page. to make copy on write work you have to enforce a single incoming parent. we can do this, but we want to stuff multiple nodes into a page, meaning that if we move a node that's pointed to, we have to update the parent node to point to the new location.

there are a good number of indirections we could use to make things cheaper, i'm currently evaluating them

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Heads up #ArchLinux users!

The "Atomic Arch" supply chain attack (June 9-12) compromised 400-1,500+ AUR packages with an infostealer & eBPF rootkit targeting credentials, browser data, and CI/CD secrets.

Attackers quietly adopted orphaned AUR packages and slipped in malicious PKGBUILDs. The community is actively cleaning up, but now's the time to act.

See also: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love how the colors turned out on this one. Tuscany.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A charming old silo.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #concrete #decay #windows #door

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

Don't know this dog's name but it seemed to be having a good day #dog

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

So, this is Gríma. She lives next to the spot of grass that serves double duty as the town official football field and the overflow for the local campsite on busy days in the summer. #cat #caturday

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

Finally closing my account at Rackspace

Attachments:

• gifv: Nicolas Cage in CON AIR, standing in the open and smiling broadly as the breeze blows his long hair.

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

“our workplace LLM mass delusion – ava's blog”

https://blog.avas.space/llm-circus/

> How are we all collectively supposed to forget and move past experiencing the respectable elders in an institution having completely and totally embarrassed themselves in the name of "progress"?

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

So, when an authoritarian government acts against a company that in the past showed minor hints of defiance odds are it’s going to have more to do with power and control than beliefs or facts

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tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Just Tom... 🐁") wrote:

On a day like today it's worth remembering Dorothy Parker :

"I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it. At the moment, however, I like to think of Maurice Baring’s remark: “If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.” I realize that’s not much help when the wolf comes scratching at the door, but it’s a comfort."

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

“How to use AI doom marketing to dupe the media and rake in billions in 10 easy steps”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-use-ai-doom-marketing-to-dupe

> The Mythos campaign is nothing less than the ne plus ultra of AI ‘doom marketing’

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StacieBee ("S t a c i e") wrote:

One of my colleagues told me that I helped him + I was curious what he meant. He said that he cannot remember exactly what I said but that it made him get help to heal. I then recalled a conversation we had a little over a year ago. I had made a comment about how negatively he was talking about himself. I mentioned that I was working on that myself.

He thanked me + told me how strong + brave I am for making it through all the stuff I’ve had to deal with.

💟🌟💟

#GratefulBee #Healing #SelfLove

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ashleyyrain ("Ashley Rain") wrote:

mental health treatment should not be synonymous with therapy alone. we should have a workforce that also reflects that. when our public discourse and workforce strategies ignore this, the consequences can lead to gaps in care for individuals without complex care needs, and persistent workforce shortages, despite having trained, regulated professionals ready to provide care.

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archlinux@fosstodon.org ("Arch Linux :archlinux:") wrote:

Active AUR malicious packages incident

https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

#ArchLinux #Linux

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Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

The source of a piece of information is just as important as the info itself. Who wrote it, why, when and what methodology was used are all important questions that can alter how you interpret the information significantly.

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

also an aside: as it's not a human, i didn't feel bad about gaslighting it. in fact, gaslighting it seems to be a useful strategy to make it reconsider things.

i do wonder if some people will do this and then think it's perfectly okay to do it to humans too.

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

notice that rubber ducking in this manner:

a) requires a highly skilled operator to verify the output isn't bollocks
b) requires a lot of back and forth getting it to appear to be actually doing what what you wanted.
c) still requires you to go write the code yourself to make sure you didn't inadvertently let an error slip into your thinking process. because like it's a slot machine and it fucks with your cognitive biases.

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Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

If you get rejected for a job, they should have to explain to you why they think you deserve to starve.

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SeaFury@aus.social ("SeaFury 🦜🍃") wrote:

Did some art. Love these colours :success: #watercolor #art

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crk5@aus.social ("Cupid Stunt") wrote:

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

what was it good at? rubber ducking. and with the huge caveat that you have to know the material well enough to know when it's bullshitting you. if you don't you're fucked.

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

incidentally if you missed it, i did in fact give it a real honest go for a month, trying to make it do something useful. it utterly failed. like catastrophically badly. and it made me miserable (although it did make me laugh sometimes with how bad it was)

the only way they are scaling the model to better results is by increasing parameters, which means more gpu resources. and size is increasing faster as time goes on, while gpu prices are going up faster as time goes on

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wisegreyowl@mastodonapp.uk ("WiseGreyOwl 🌍 🦉") wrote:

It would take about 2,738 years to spend £1 trillion at a rate of £1 million every day ... to put this into context.

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nafiri@sk.petalgarden.link wrote:

we should allow folks to be endogenic because i don't think anyone needs a justification for managing their identity a certain way, as long as it's harmless to others (which it is)

i could add to that by saying "it would have been a lot harder to realize i was traumagenic if i hadn't allowed myself to be endogenic first" or whatever, and i think that's still true. but i don't think it needs to be true because it should be enough to just accept people for who they are

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

I was just reading this fun report by an ai company about how bad AI is in practice.

and as it transpires, all the smart people i know who think AI produces a crap product are not wrong. it comes out in the figures, which you can't dodge forever.

because let us remember that this is an attempt to pretend the sky is green and we only have to look up to see that's not the case.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: AI Economics for Dummies

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

I'll think of this every time someone tells me I'm being "left behind". Enjoy shovelling mule shit :)

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

i have gotta stop going to sleep early, i wake up early when i do that.

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ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

@jonny I realize I'm probably going to be saying this until I die, but their first mistake was thinking of that freely available software as their "supply chain".