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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

Big success of this week: I got all my coworkers to stop using LLMs by making a pretty good security and data protection argument.

Please clap.

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Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

DoorDash has been silent as ICE detains and murders their delivery drivers.

But to avoid a 20-cent tax on delivery orders, DoorDash is now backing a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents.

Delete your account until DoorDash stops fighting to give the regime more power. https://deletedoordash.com/?ref=indivisible

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jwz wrote:

Last night, mastodon.social just randomly unfollowed ~14 accounts. It's been a while since I've seen it do that. I'm glad I set up a script to monitor it last time...

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shapoco@misskey.io ("シャポコ🌵") wrote:

らくがき

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news ("Massimo :bot:") wrote:

This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
soneniko@tech.lgbt ("cat | Niko :v_mlm: 🇱🇺") wrote:

this ine cracked me up when i saw it. sry for the format

Text image displaying the words "Proof. Obvious." followed by an box.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Day 3 without Internet, 14:00.

I found a DVD.
It has a menu.
It has chapters.
It has exactly one movie.

I feel strangely free.

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

I'm fortunate in that I don't really have to use GitHub for work, but I do have an account, and all this time, I've only ever blocked one user. And that user sure does seem to be getting around lately. They just seem to be in all the GitHub repos.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

The solution. #grickledoodle #robots #dystopia #overlords #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor #scifi

Satirical cartoon of a enslaved man staring up at a towering robot with Ctrl, Alt, Del keys on its torso and a gun, while tiny humans work — a visual joke that pressing Ctrl‑Alt‑Del could defeat their robot overlords. Caption reads "If only there were some way to defeat their robot overlords."

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

Lesson of the day: when all of the online documentation says that you normally shouldn't connect USB devices with high bandwidth requirements, like a USB HDMI capture card, to the front of the computer, they actually mean it.

It may work at first but it's definitely going be less reliable and more temperamental.

Whodathunkit? 😝

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

Did I seriously spend 3 hours procrastinating on a 15 minute task?????

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

Jake Lang visited Minnesota again, and discovered that we have zero tolerance for racists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/23/another-right-wing-hater-squashed-by-minnesota/

Minnesota rebel symbol

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

Really enjoyed this guide by @neatnik about making a website on the cheap where you are 100% in control.

https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-08-23-hardcore-indieweb-run-your-own-website/

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

I mean, Krissy is statuesque and stunning, whereas I look like a thumb atop a potato, so, no. Not weird at all.

One of my favorite stories is Krissy getting recognized in an airport and the person saying, "My God! You're Krissy Scalzi! Where's John?" while I was LITERALLY STANDING NEXT TO HER. I mean, I get it, Krissy does pull attention. BUT STILL.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@closedoneopentwo/post/DcYiyXUjnN7

Krissy and I in the Sky Club in, I think, Atlanta. She looks fabulous. I look like a thumb.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

cheers to @timnitGebru for finding (EDIT: publicising!) the smoking gun on TESCREAL->Cofnas

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru-7b3b407%5Fwell-guys-i-knew-that-we-were-going-to-connect-share-7496569471848054784-yJjK/

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

the ladybugs seem to like the pepper plants as well 👍

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/117135419209366112

You will be unsurprised to hear that when we have raised aimilar points with teams struggling wirh perf and memory use, they fall back on the old quiver of React excuses for not moving to thinner, lighter materials in their frontends. The quasi-religious nature of Frameworkism is creating entire archipelagos of stranded experience assets.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
amandamakepeace@turtleisland.social ("Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ)") wrote:

Working on something small that I’ll be featuring in my Feather & Stone project 🪶 #art #drawing #wip #NatureArt #pencilart #artist

Pencil drawing in progress of a feather and stone

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore:

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now, which I less eloquently noted here, is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last post that the cost of formerly specialized performance work has dropped by many orders of magnitude and performance work that used to require a person or team that had a rare set of skills can be done by anyone who can type a few sentences1, which means that you can do all sorts of optimizations that used to be too expensive to be worthwhile for all but the largest scale or most lucrative projects, Marc Brooker responded with Completely agree with your closing point. Dynamic custom software, fitted to a particular workload rather than a class of workloads, seems like a very likely outcome. (Which comes with all kinds of fun risks and opportunities of its own). Kind of reminds me of FFTW. And a ton of weird old demoscene techniques which were all about being super fast and small on a very particular problem (and often very particular hardware). For example, I remember a demo that re-used its code as textures to get great cache locality. And Michael Malis has noted There’s been a meme circulating about how AI doesn’t help because “code was never the hard part.” I think that’s true in some domains, but in others, writing the code absolutely was the hard part. JIT compilers are a great example of that. For many pieces of software, a JIT compiler would help a lot with speeding up the code. The rarity of JIT compilers makes me believe that implementing a JIT compiler historically was too difficult for it to be worthwhile. LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry and made it much easier to write a JIT compiler. This is the thesis behind pgrust. Databases historically were the hardest piece of software to build and were limited because of that. Now, with AI, we can be more ambitious about the type of software we build. Optimizing for a class of workload Let's try this out with FRE, the regex engine we built in the last post. Recall that it was created by having an agent loop for a month on improving regex engine performance with access to the rebar regex benchmark suite. This resulted in FRE being heavily overfit to rebar until we warned our agent that we had a holdout benchmark, which caused the agent to generalize the optimizations enough that performance was ok-ish on our holdout. There's no particular reason to use a "software factory" regex engine that doesn't beat a well-tested regex engine on holdout benchmarks, but one notable thing about FRE was that the native AOT compiled version did quite well at longer searches. We noted that, it stands to reason that one could run the native code compiler in another thread while ripgrep was running its normal matcher and then cut over to the native code when it finished compiling and generally get better performance. Of course this will generally result in worse performance for short queries as we lose a thread to compilation, but I care a lot more about how long ripgrep takes when it runs for many seconds or minutes than when it runs for a few seconds, so I'm ok with that tradeoff. In the same way we could build a regex engine in a few minutes of human time, we can also just try this experiment in a few minutes of human time. I typed a few sentences and an agent went and did the work to allow this to happen (which would be a decent chunk of code surgery for a human) and it ran the benchmark on actual ripgrep queries that come from my codex history. For longer queries, we see a 2x-4x performance improvement here for a few very simple queries. But most queries are more complex, and when we run on representative holdout queries, for queries where AOT should be enabled2, we get about a 7% speedup. Not an earth shattering result, but also not a bad outcome for spending a few minutes typing to codex (and it's still doing more optimization and will presumably speed things up further).

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

It's always been purple. Also, gerrymandered as fuck.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/ohio-politics-voter-anger.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.7lA.JR2w.lDqtB%5FSvtnSA&smid=url-share

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

Over on Whatever, I have a review of the new Pixel 11 Pro, which I bought for myself. I like it! It's fine! And also, you probably don't have to rush out to get it if you have a recent Android phone.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/23/the-pixel-11-pro-its-fine/

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

My spicy hot take 🌶️ on the biggest topic these days in #WebDev is:

I don't like light/dark mode choosers actually. Just mirror the OS settings and you'll be fine. 😂

This is squarely in the bucket of "weird nerds" discourse

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

Maybe worst of all is no one is actually going to do this in any meaningful capacity. It's all for show. We know that. So, we're content pretending to do a shitty idea? That's where we are on the strategy front?

What the fuck are we doing man.

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/117145381317854106

I hate this. I'm sorry but I do. It's performative and thoughtless. Thank god, I guess because if we actually did this we'd be hurting low-wage American workers and helping what? Canadian oligarchs?

I love Canada but yall are only like a hair less racist as a people and government. I don't think Canada deserves a hashtag.

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

I don't know about you but I'm deeply embarrassed by the number of "progressive" cities that embraced Flock.

I thought dems were the good guys? Libs?

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

That’s my very comfortable truth.

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

I’d love to read this piece, but I’m not going to support someone who pays for a blue check on X. https://birchtree.me/blog/comfortable-and-uncomfortable-truths/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kramaker@vivaldi.net wrote:

@baldur In case it's unclear to some what "Jack Welched" or "Boeinged" might mean, read Dan Davies "The Unaccountability Machine" for a spot-on summary. Very short story: GE and Boeing management followed Milton Friedman's doctrine and "maximized sharedholders' (short term!) value" at the expense of essentially everything else. Which is why this nominal American would rather fly on Airbus planes now...
Enshittification indeed.

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

I’ve seen this movie before. White man says he stands for his values, then proceeds to never act upon them — or worse, he acts upon them when it’s convenient, and then gives them up 3 years later when it’s become too difficult.

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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

ミルミル白くなる洗濯物

One feed that I enjoy daily. Always a very clever idea, beautifully executed.

#photography #japan

🍜 Dairy Laundry https://miniature-calendar.com/260823