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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I just bought the dvd set for Succession for $30 new. Shout out physical media.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
how kind of you @CARROT
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:
I sometimes find it ironic that I, as someone long interested in computers and information technology, often find myself the least enthusiastic and most cautious in a group of people when it comes to deploying computers and software "solutions".
Mastodon FeedTo within a rounding error everybody who thinks that Fable is a complete game changer also thought that Opus was and also that GPT-4o was and so they have all already thought I am a fool for years
Mastodon FeedMaybe one day an actually good LLM will come out and make me look like a fool for doubting that the newest model still generates garbage that needs to be checked just as thoroughly as all the previous ones did and a slight improvement to plausibility doesn’t actually make it suitable for any real-world tasks yet. But in the meanwhile I have saved a TON of time by refusing to personally investigate each new nothingburger.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:
Interesting developments in Norway.
"Pupils from first through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, should as a general rule not be using AI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to 16, can cautiously adopt tools under teachers' supervision, the government said.
In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
I look forward to a slowly increasing age range where generative AI should not be used. (Of course, since curriculum for higher grades are often positioned as "meeting needs of employers" and less about education, this could be an uphill battle, but we'll see.)
Also good news for them:
"But in a related statement on Friday the government also said it will propose legislation to fund the use of more books in classrooms, reversing the trend towards computer tablets."
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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:
I'm currently doing experiments using a Fairphone 5, with a Qualcomm QCM6490 system-on-chip, running PostmarketOS, an Alpine-based Linux distro, with a mainline (or at least close to mainline) kernel. This chip has four Cortex-A78 performance cores and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores. So the CPU microarchitecture is a few generations old, but it still offers respectable computing power. For instance, it can do a release build of a fairly substantial Rust project in 8 minutes. 2/?
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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:
I dream of developing an open, general-purpose pocket computer designed for and by blind people. Not the note-taker form factor exactly. I'm thinking of a talking book player form factor, but with an open software platform, and the ability to connect a keyboard or Braille display via USB C. The closest historical precedent is the LevelStar Icon, but USB C is much better than that device's proprietary cable. I've posted about this before, but my target hardware has changed. 1/?
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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:
Question: What's the best neural text-to-speech that I can run on an ARM64 Linux machine? Piper, Sonata, or something else?
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Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Taffer 🇨🇦:godot::linux:") wrote:
Not sure if this is useful to anyone other than me, but I made a TODO item linter that complains if the TODO items in your code don't have an owner and a reference to an issue so someone has a chance of addressing them in the future:
https://worktree.ca/taffer/todo-linter
Works with pre-commit: https://pre-commit.com
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
fun little problem i just came across: packing up to 64 34-bit integers for efficient random access. random constraint is that the datastructure is copy on write, so you have to copy the entire thing to make an edit.
there are two solutions that occur to me:
- use unaligned loads and shifts. kinda sucks to perform writes.
- have conceptually 4 sublists of 32 bit elements for each of the 4 possible 2-bit prefixes. lengths can be stored for each and it flattened into an array. a little faffy in managing the lists, but there seems some promise for being able to work on it with simd
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
Hangin out with Drew, playing some Divinity 2
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EdvdElsken@mastodon.ozioso.online ("Ed van der Elsken") wrote:
Ed van der Elsken, Tokyo, 1981 | Tokyo photos, Old photography ...
#EdvanderElsken #Tokyo #fotografie #photography #EdVanDerElsken #EdvanderElsken
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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
The UK is developing new long-range missile prototypes for Ukraine that remove US components from the supply chain.
The shift under Project Brakestop aims to speed up production and reduce reliance on American systems in future deliveries.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/21/uk-cuts-us-parts-from-missile-production-chain-for-ukraine/
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fullyabstract@fosstodon.org ("Alley Stoughton") wrote:
Paul Krugman today:
"There are a growing number of studies suggesting that AI allows workers to carry out many more tasks than they would have been able to do without it — but that many of these extra tasks, such as producing more lines of code, are of dubious value. John Burn-Murdoch has a devastating chart showing that the advent of AI has led to a huge rise in the number of new apps being offered for Apple devices, but no increase at all in the number of new apps people actually want to use"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well worth a read
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DrALJONES wrote:
Interview: How Israel hijacked Trump & lost the Middle East
"We're seeing here the decline, the fall & collapse of the American Empire."
"This idea that they're a superpower that can act at will is clearly wrong. This is an absolute strategic disaster for the US".
"The penetration of the pro-Israel lobby across all aspects of decision-making in Washington, the media space, the political space is so deep."
~Andeas Kreig
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116785946324642097
yup, that’s the idea
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paka@mastodon.scot ("Mark") wrote:
Polanski slams #right-wing MPs after Edinburgh anti-Muslim attack
A video appeared to show a topless man on ground shouting that he is “protecting the country” as he is held by an officer
Following the incident, #Polanski, leader of the #GreenParty of #England and #Wales, said: "Let’s be very clear that vicious #anti-Muslim #hatred by# politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon #Musk create the conditions for this kind of #vile attack.
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DrALJONES wrote:
"Only a man with an unparalleled ignorance of history such as Donald Trump would have signed America’s peace treaty with Iran at Versailles, the byword for national humiliation."
"And only a man with an impish sense of humour such as Emmanuel Macron would have suggested it."
"It is easy to cast Trump in the role of the humiliated & hurt German count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-peace-deal-us-trump
#USPol #EUPol #Macron #Versailles #USIranMoU #news #palestine .
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Geri@veganism.social ("Totts") wrote:
Spain tears down barriers at the Gibraltar border
Checkpoints removed for first time in centuries to create frictionless boundary under post-Brexit deal
The new #Brexit deal erases the land border between the British overseas territory and Spain, enabling the free flow of some 15,000 workers a day, and moves it to Gibraltar’s airport
The dismantling of the border comes more than three centuries after Anglo-Dutch forces seized the fort of Gibraltar during a war against the Spanish.
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joinloops ("Loops") wrote:
Built by the community, for the community
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cbarbermd ("CBarberMD") wrote:
A tenured professor doesn't leave a prestigious chair lightly.
Texas A&M (@tamu ) just lost a prominent scholar who says university bureaucrats—not faculty—are dictating what can be taught.
"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas."
That's a devastating indictment of a university.
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
QRV at GB-4364! Beautiful day for an activation! de M5SWL
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explaintrade.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Dmitry Grozoubinski") wrote:
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
When I was a teen I loved making little simulations on my home computer. After reading the book "Chaos: The Making of a New Science" I tried to make a Malkus waterwheel. But, I simplified it too much and one bucket would end up with all the water. The wheel would stop moving.
The model is already abstract, even when done correctly, but I'd broken it.
An implicit goal of such a model is interesting motion: the wheel always changing direction.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@hrheingold thought you might find this interesting https://det.social/@HxxxKxxx/114541179642949719
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HxxxKxxx@det.social ("Harald Klinke") wrote:
„We posit that persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own.”
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
Is income seeking a place to be parked for passive growth a positive force in an economy?
If too much wealth is concentrated then fewer decisions will be made about how it is allocated because fewer people have the chance to make those decisions.
If there is "market magic" in a consumer choosing to buy product A rather than product B ... wealth concentration decreases that discrimination. And if the wealthy person makes a mistake it's magnified.
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Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
tesco learns the hard way that if you make your business dependent on bastards, they will eventually screw you