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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stuck Here Again performed live in 1994. #L7 https://youtu.be/LtgiuGkoQJM?is=6CZmR2wh9-6wX2N0

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Oh man, RIP Jennifer Finch. https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/jennifer-finch-l7-bassist-dies-1236297297/

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

so essentially, a good actor runtime (by which, let's be honest i mean erlang, as of today) needs timeouts. you can't make things reliable without timeouts.

but at the same time, doing timeouts properly requires yielding to the kernel. and if you have thousands of them, that's thousands of system calls you're going to be doing. fewer with something like io-uring, but still, definitely non-negligible.

and so you have to cheapen it up somehow, which typically means timing wheels, timing heaps or similarly named structures. all of which are a pain in the arse to implement.

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

the revolving door of downing street

shit, have you forgotten how many tory PMs we had over brexit already?

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Many of these guys are mostly concerned with the standards, protocols, and technical implementations of the social web.

I'm far more interested in building an equitable, inclusive, and safe social web. One where kindness is demonstrated in actions and through interactions, and not merely putted back and forth by techbros whose main idea of kindness is closer to sycophancy than anything else.

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

hello? is it me who's kicking balls?

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

my headcanon is that argentina is led by lionel richie

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Kindness is helping someone in need, especially when you can.

Kindness is advocating for someone who may not be able to advocate for themselves.

Kindness is recognizing harm and actively calling it out.

Kindness is standing up to bullies and holding them accountable for their harm.

These are genuine acts of kindness. But when they’re performed in the presence of the social web majority, they’re often characterized as unkind.

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

there need to be consequences

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/ice-immigration-maga?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I always find it interesting when the subject of kindness comes up in the context of the social web, because it usually highlights very specific perspectives associated with the term.

A privileged white cishet man often has a different notion of kindness when compared to a black trans woman working a minimum wage job.

But because the privileged white guy makes up the majority of “the social web”, he asserts his own standard of kindness and pushes it on everyone else.

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

The goalkeeper is basically the only player on the Argentinian team

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Saw the bells at Gloucester Cathedral today.

Attachments:

• video: Bella being rung at Gloucester Cathedral

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

gnt: only thing left to design is timeouts. they're a bit of a bugger actually.

have to decide what i want. then it's just finishing building the damn thing.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

There's also a kind of related point I want to make here. This idea that everything must be available and at peak performance 100% of the time comes from the same place as the idea of infinite economic growth. It disregards sustainability or the impact on the environment of chasing those goals.

Folks on Fedi talk about "degrowth", and usually they are talking about materialistic production. But this is just as much a part of that - when taking back infrastructure into communal hands, we're all also going to have to rethink our expectations. What 'performance' is actually reasonable to expect from our fellow creatures?

We can't do degrowth without rethinking our assumptions about how the world works, and who are doing its labour under what circumstances. And it may be less obvious, but that applies to communal infrastructure too. It is simply not sustainable to expect the same kind of uptime as from a tech company with infinite budget. You can certainly volunteer and *strive* for that sort of uptime, but that's because then you are the one doing the labour.

So, more bluntly: the tech folks among us are going to have to learn to live without that technical and aesthetic perfection of 100% uptime. It was never sustainable, the only reason it looked like it for a bit were huge bags of money, and it never *will* be sustainable. You'll have to figure out how to do your thing in such a way that the occasional downtime isn't a problem. The same way folks did only 20 years ago.

#degrowth #codeberg

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Taking it at face value, I find this part, regarding what they did when potential clients demonstrated a clear lack of judgement when shown a chatbot demonstration, to be a refreshing response.

"This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately.... We were so mortified by the inexplicable shift in energy that we (wisely) declined to take the money and ended the sales process, and soon thereafter removed Cortex from our list of demonstrations. It would have been too irresponsible to exploit this gap in their reasoning, and frankly, it was already irresponsible to have even run the demonstration – doctors don’t walk around showing off cool pills that they’d never prescribe."

Imagine running a business with ethics and morals that prevent you from taking advantage of people. In this economy?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm reading this, and the whole thing paints a damning picture of... all of it:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Not just everything around "AI", but the entire way we structure companies (and therefore our economies) so that an edict can come down from the top with no ability to push back from the bottom. The people all at the top are busy worrying about their status among their peers and the investors and can get captured by the latest fads.

None of this seems built to be resilient. Any resiliency is an accident dependent on the people who actually do the work to manage to keep things going despite numerous suboptimal decisions.

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

it's only the whirled cup if they spin it around

jwz wrote:

The Eye of Pizza is No Longer Upon You.

Yet another casualty of last week's PG&E antics: the projector in the pizza eyeball no longer lights up. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did: it's been on 24/7 for nine years. Sadly, the Gakken...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9l

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

when was the last time you ripped a door off a refrigerator

average person rips 1 door off refrigerator statistic in error. average person rips 0 doors off refrigerators. refrigerators georg, who rips a door off his refrigerator every morning before breakfast is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

You probably want to double-check what your LLM chatbot produces before sending off an email regarding, you know, the legality of what you're doing.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it's even weirder than I'm making it sound. if there were *no* land cards, I would think, ah, I must have put the lands in a different container. this is the artifact of some organizational system I've forgotten. but no; there are like … 15 lands, out of maybe 1000 cards I've gone through so far. I am sure that at some point I will hit some part of the collection where there's a big glut of them (at least I hope I will) but _dang_ this is weird

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(if you do not play M:tG yourself, land cards are the basic currency with which all other cards are played, they should be like 20-30% of your deck. you can play without sorceries, without enchantments, or without creatures if you want to get freaky, but you _cannot_ play without lands)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is _my_ collection of magic cards. I remember playing with decks made from some of these. I feel like I am in some kind of immersive sim listening to old audio logs. this is environmental storytelling. what _happened_ here. where are the lands!?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

going through a pretty sizeable collection of old Magic cards to try to set up a couple of test decks to play with my kid, and … there are no land cards

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I think that I have finally cracked Twisted's biggest build reliability / test flake issue. https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12711

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lethalbit@chaos.social ("aki-nyan") wrote:

Question for FPGA/ASIC friends, anynyan know of a good huge collection of RTL files?

I need to build a massive corpus for profiling a language frontend, I'm thinking about seeing what I can slurp from OpenCores, but if there are pre-built corpora out there I am interested.

I'm also working on putting together an HDL standard verification suite for Verilog/SystemVerilog/Verilog-AMS/VHDL/VHDL-AMS, so eventually forming corpora for all of those would be nice.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

me: "it's bad to code with an LLM because it's gambling, you're just sitting there pulling the lever over and over again and waiting for it to give you good results rather than applying any real problem solving techniques"

also me:

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5ha99y@neuromatch.social ("Cagatay Özcan Jagiello Gutt") wrote:

Hello Fediverse! 👋 Time for my #introduction.

I transitioned from a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology to an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at Ruhr University Bochum. This path has given me a multi-scale perspective on biology and computation.

My Master's thesis focuses on neural-autonomic synchrony, classifying emotions in an embodied context using #EEG, #fNIRS, #EDA and #ECG. Long-term, I want to transition deeper into actual #BCI, #HMI, physiological computing, and #consciousnessresearch. 🧠💻

I value open science and ethical, decentralized systems. This philosophy drives my work with Volt Europa (evidence-based policy/open infrastructure) and my support for the Chaos Computer Club (#CCC). I chose neuromatch.social over corporate platforms like LinkedIn to connect with people who care about genuine scientific exchange, not algorithms and self-promotion.

Let's connect!

CV, projects, and philosophy: cgutt-hub.github.io/5ha99y

#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #OpenScience #Decentralization #Fediverse

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s so quiet and peaceful.

#Plushtodon

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

ooooh