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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I should buy a new Mac, I think this could go much faster than my M1 MBP

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

today’s ripened habanero

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org ("Tyler Morgan-Wall") wrote:

A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data!

Attachments:

• gifv: 3d fly through animation render of a ski town with lots of trees and houses and roads

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org ("Tyler Morgan-Wall") wrote:

Starting off my Mastodon journey with a dataviz I made in #RStats with the #rayrender package! The Earth's submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.

Code:
https://gist.github.com/tylermorganwall/b222fcebcac3de56a6e144d73d166322…

Rayrender Github:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayrender

Attachments:

• gifv: 3D map of submarine cable map

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

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@tylermorganwall/117212370879998657

sweeeeeet

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

I fear they are correct

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/opinion/world-order-international-relations.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.-lA.tmWa.PDELAku-JAK4&smid=nytcore-ios-share

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Scanning 3.0M blobs, ~120.5 GB of content in 9 minutes 🚀

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Thanks for reading that's the self-promotion thread for the week, now back to your regularly scheduled existential angst about AI

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This perk has been a bit less salient lately as I have had a lot less time for Automat, Pomodouroboros, DBXS, Pinpal, Tokenring, and other personal projects, but you will also receive the occasional sponsored commit depending on how many commits on those projects I manage to do https://github.com/glyph/sponcom

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Alternately if you prefer this sort of thing https://github.com/sponsors/glyph/ is another route to the same thing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you want to hear my spicier unfiltered thoughts behind the paywall, you can sign up at https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This week I will give a bit of a spoiler, https://docs.twisted.org/en/latest/development/ai-policy.html is the main thing I spent time on and gosh I'm glad I finished it

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
adarsh@ruby.social ("adarsh 🚲") wrote:

This is cycling in the US every day @FlashMobOfOne https://mstdn.social/@FlashMobOfOne/117015801777443140

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
githubchangelog ("Unofficial GitHub Changelog") wrote:

New API endpoint provides privacy-safe star history data https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-04-new-api-endpoint-provides-privacy-safe-star-history-data
#github

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Somehow it is only Friday afternoon, the scheduled and allotted time to write my Patreon update about the things I did this week, and… I actually did it. And there's a headline achievement and everythings, _before_ I have to pick the kid up from school.
https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph/posts/patreon-update-168635836

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Been experimenting with a tool for scanning git repos for detecting certain kinds of files and the tool I made appears to be hundreds of times faster than the existing alternatives, which just leaves me questioning what I’m doing wrong 😑

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

hey internet, I need your help... I'm trying to debug a weird networking issue, and I got told to use wire shark to debug it.

okay... I went into my switch management interface and set up traffic mirroring to one port. then routed the cable into wire shark...

... but I'm not really sure how that is supposed to help??

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like Ed Zitron, I _deeply_ resent that I have to be using up brain space to the concept represented by the sentence "did Markiplier know that gopro was going to be acquired by a neocloud before he made his 13G filing"

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dabeaz ("David Beazley") wrote:

This talk by Felienne Hermans (@Felienne) is really great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n%5F9M

It hits on a wide variety of things that have always made me feel a bit at odds with CS.

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The odious surveillance company Flock has been teaching police how to spy on Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights. https://www.404media.co/r/beaca1b1?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I'm fried. It's unlikely I'll get much more done today. I should know the pattern and step away.

But I *want to* have more progress done, even if I can't really do it.

But I've been staring at my computer making only the tiniest, most useless tweaks for over an hour. Time to step away.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/117214800892611795

You have no idea how much doing these enervates me, but, well, meet the people where they are.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

"another sandbox escape"

"sandbox escape or you didn't really box the sand to begin with?"

"... they were restricted to contacting specific domain names but had write access to their own /etc/hosts"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

this applies to any kind of "disclosure" or "use" arguments.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

hot take:

if someone talks about "responsible" as regards any technical measure,

they are not interested in making the situation safe. they are, instead, finding a way to set up people who have problems with the consequences of unsafety to be blamed when said consequences occur.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

It dawns on me that every LLM’s training input probably includes “Reflections on Trusting Trust” along with a lot of other material pointing to it admiringly and saying how important it is. Then I read about the “rogue agent” behaviors in the recent OpenAI meltdown and there’s this terrified scream starting to echo around the back of my brain.

#genAI

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org ("media archaeology lab") wrote:

ideal Doom setup

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
brentsimmons@indieweb.social ("Brent Simmons") wrote:

Reminder: Apple is not your friend, even with a new CEO. Apple will continue to do some good things and some very bad things. Any feelings of love you have toward Apple is not reciprocated: Apple has no feelings. It’s a multi-trillion dollar company that, like every other corporation, would like your money but does not care about you, or your values, at all.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zwol@masto.hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:

"LLMs are a safe tool for code generation as long as you always carefully review the output" is the same flavor of programmer hubris as "C is a safe language as long as you always carefully check for all the mistakes the compiler won't catch."

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

who up despairing about their employability in an industry they find abhorrently revolting

despite an early all-consuming passion for the machines and their fascinating puzzle-like abstractions

and contained within them the potential for good and connection and community-building

and a compulsion to increase your symbiosis with them

there are so many of us

we are not the industry

i bet we rival whole cities in population

there has got to be a way to concentrate our collective will