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

Oooooo I'm gonna try to use my candle today! Been avoiding scented stuff. I think I'm good? Ahhh I miss my candles.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
solar_chase@mastodon.green ("Jenny Chase") wrote:

This is Germany - solar supply of 47GW at 2pm on that Tuesday, of grid load of 57GW. Solar was still supplying 18.8GW at 5pm. Can you imagine the situation 20 years ago when that solar contribution would have been negligible?

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

on x86-64 support, i decided to require x86-64-v3, but cover the amd bug where an important part of that was slow before zen 3 with some polyfills (which while they certainly won't be as fast as the 3 cycles you'll get in a proper implementation, are much, much quicker than the hardware - i know this because i am typing on affected hardware).

so there are two implementations just of PEXT. then we have avx512 as an optional feature. so just the read path has 2 choices each of 2 features.

i say just the read path, because the write path can take advantage of yet more avx512 that you're not guaranteed to have, so we have to polyfill that if you have avx512 without the extra features.

the original HOT never bothered with AVX-512 (it wasn't very widely deployed at the time), and i can say it has definitely been a lot of work adapting it to use avx-512 in places, but the rewards are hopefully worth it. i wouldn't actually know because i don't have AVX-512 support locally so i'm going to have to wait a long time to see if my theory pans out on that...

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

yesterday i started some work on the insert path of the database. now that it's just a k/v store and i've reduced the x86-64 support to just over a decade, it's gotten a lot more tractable and at least the memory side of things is verging on paint by numbers at this point. i just have to cobble together all the bits i've already written, make some tweaks and fill in the holes.

buffy the buffer slayer still has many question marks at this point. i have to sit down and come up with a design that doesn't involve readers writing to memory much. reads are cheap, writes are not, so readers should preferably only read (i.e. no refcounting).

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

Domain Driven Development (DDD) - buying a domain name to attempt to force yourself to write the software it's for.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
janamarie@mystical.garden ("Jana") wrote:

more IR shots. I just love the luscious pink leaves and blue skies..

(writeup on how I take these: https://blog.janamarie.dev/irphotography.html)

#photography #infrared

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

#SDWX

0640 AM CDT Mon Jun 29 2026

SUMMARY...A corridor of extreme tornado-like wind damage may persist for an hour or two into northeast South Dakota.

DISCUSSION...A storm complex continues to travel quickly northeastward out of central SD. This complex has supercell characteristics, but is extremely large. Measured winds up to 131
mph have occurred, with multiple 100+ mph gusts also measured.

Though presumably straight-line winds, these speeds are firmly within the EF2 range.

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

I enjoyed this interview with Andrew Kelley, the guy behind the programming language Zig, much more than I expected. He comes across as more thoughtful and, honestly, kinder than you commonly see in tech or open source

(That's an admittedly very very low bar.)

Ironically, it also reminds me I need to cancel my JetBrains/Webstorm subscription since I'm not using it any more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tens-of-thousands-march-in-the-first-budapest-pride-since-viktor-orban-was-voted-out

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

A cruelty of all this is that it rewards the people who are already the most privileged, the most likely to believe in their own ability / worth regardless of external cues, perhaps the most likely to overestimate themselves.

When a job says “5 years of FancyFramework experience,” I guarantee you that there is a lopsided distribution of identity traits (male, white, etc) to those people who are applying anyway despite only using FancyFramework for 2-3 years. And I guarantee you some of those people who don’t meet the “requirements” will be under real consideration for the hire.

It’s a self-selection process that amplifies any inequality a person can internalize.

8/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

- The only ways through / around all this that I’m aware of involve

(1) making real connections with real human beings whenever possible, not just job listings,

(2) continuing to try and try and try (ugh), and

(3) believing, deeply believing, that the hiring process is 95% not about you — which is a cruel truth, but also a good reminder not to internalize the way businesses treat you.

7/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

- But there •are• real requirements

- usually unstated

- that often even the interviewers doing the hiring aren’t aware they’re applying

- and they’re frequently social / shibboleth / ingroup / identity requirements

- specifically sexist, agist, and racist

- but also internal company churn / fomo / turf war stuff

- all of which has nothing to do with your worth as a human being

6/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK anti smart glasses petition

one to publicise

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
blackpixeldust@mastodon.art ("Blackpixeldust (Comms OPEN.)") wrote:

Also. Can we come to a consensus and stand up against bullshit?

📢 Businesses that cater to artists and other creatives should have NOTHING to do with Generative AI. Imagine selling sketchbooks with AI art in them.
Imagine selling using AI images of yarn. Organizations asking for artists while using AI art.

The shit ain't rocket science! But companies think theyre fucking slick. Its insulting to the intelligence. 🥱

We gonna let them treat us like fools or...?

#mastoart #knitting #digitalart

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
farah@beige.party ("Farah 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼") wrote:

I guess we’re doing a poll on e-commerce platforms and online marketplaces, because reasons.

If you’re a maker/artist and have an online shop/small business, which of the following platforms do you use?

Feel free to boost and/or comment. Thank you, Fedi!

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

Wow, the histologist/neurobiologist/historian of science market must be huge and lucrative.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/29/tickled-by-a-reference/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

alternatively the slopmongers will unify with the *actual* audiophile space, and we will be introduced to vibe-vibing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116832498326455933

can’t wait until we can get gold-core phase-matched pure-signal chakra-aligned AI ethernet cables

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alineblankertz@indieweb.social ("Aline Blankertz") wrote:

"AI" automates inequality: https://www.structural-integrity.eu/ai-is-automated-inequality/

While we are busy debunking the claim of tech CEOs, there is very little analysis of how "AI" distributes from the bottom to the top:
- at the community level: more data centres in poorer areas
- at the firm level: less bargaining power for workers
- at the international level: financial profits for investors, externalised costs for everyone else.

If we care about equality, we ought to push back against "AI".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

The biggest datasets from outfits who are in a position to collect hard data from real dev teams, like Faros and CircleCI, show beyond any reasonable doubt that the *average* team that uses AI for code generation is outperformed in software delivery by the average team that doesn't.

True story.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

It was nice to speak to China's The Paper about the climate consequences of fossil-fuel hungry software systems

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail%5Fforward%5F33451501

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

https://www.dotfurry.org :3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
techokami@woof.tech ("Techokami") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116684771406334186

Holy moly only two grand to go! Chip in if you can!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@%5Felena/116832021297021883

"Bluesky PBC is rate limiting this server so you can't post or like anything" is definitely one of the decentralized social networking protocols of all time.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
climatenewsnow ("Climate News Now") wrote:

Data center that vowed to avoid Colorado River water is now suing for 260 million gallons per year.

Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has gone to court to secure 260 million gallons of water per year — about 750,000 gallons a day. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/data-center-vowed-avoid-colorado-143900694.html

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

browsing the shit web is one of two outcomes:

1. inert page because ublock hid the dialog

2. "we and our 9000 partners care about your privacy..."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny yeah I could imagine some interesting stuff where the request itself could require some authorization metadata that affirmatively indicates consent for a particular operation has been verified, which might allow for graceful degradation? I would have to dive way deeper into AP to know how this could actually be possible though

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Examples:

- certificate renewal that is automated, but requires a user-presence-verification secret
- deployments that are mostly automated but *could* interrupt service and might require a manual rollback, and thus require supervision
- user-acceptance-testing for backup restoration, where the actual backup and restore can be done by a script, but a human needs to do spot checks to make sure the relevant system still works after the restore
- making sure rarely-used credentials haven't expired

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Open thread: do you have any *partially*-automated tasks, either for work sysadmin stuff or for personal administrative stuff, that you do on a regular cadence? Things that you have scripts for, but that require manual interaction?

Boosted by jwz:
gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs.

And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-valley-genocide/