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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It looks like Omarchy is as much about Linux as GamerGate was about journalism.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

…Shotspotter mics are going to detect “shots” wherever you put them. Which means…

…whenever you see a map like this one, you’re not really just seeing a map of where people fired guns; you’re seeing a map of where they put Shotspotter mics. Which means…

…a police dept or city gets to •choose• what the “shots fired” maps look like by choosing where to place the mics. They decide where the gunshots should be first, then gather the data to match.

3/

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

INT. QA LABS — DAY

A 10X DEVELOPER sits at a chair, examining a variety of special purpose libraries, languages, algorithms, and other tools created over the past fifty years. An EXPERIMENTER hands him a new task, shaped exactly like one of the tools spread out across the table.

EXPERIMENTER
Which hole does this one go in?

EXPERIMENTER (con'd)
That's right, the AI hole!

From behind the one-way mirror, we hear the faint echo of a defeated scream.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo.

Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

If you're invested in there being a Linux distribution that works better with laptops then I will happily make that happen for a mere $1 million a year and you will not be associating your brand with white supremacy in the process please enquire for references and my credentials

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Example 1:
SF had Chess Boudin, who drove crime down in the same way as Mamdani. They recalled him.🤦🏿‍♂️

Because SF voters that think they are too smart for Fox News, believed all the same easily debunkable lies about Black people.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109532598142714144

Example 2:
SF is too cruel to take care of its homeless population as well as NYC does. NYC has more homeless people than SF, both in absolute numbers and per capita. But the difference in the cruelty is visible.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111363645802219678

Example 3:
SF doesn't celebrate politicians that just relentlessly make quality of life improvements like Mamdani. When Matt Haney noticeably reduced the number of human turds on the street, it wasn't heralded as a major win.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109956455505195549

Example 4:
SF people with degrees in Applied Math from places like MIT and CalTech, and job titles like Data Scientist, still believed the laughably impossible math that Black people could shoplift Fortune 500 companies out of business during the Covid lockdowns.🤦🏿‍♂️

NYC people with the same degrees in Applied Math from MIT and CalTech and job titles like Quant, or Trader, did not believe those laughably bad lies. Because they can read a P&L and an earnings report.

So SF was more primed for government cruelty against starving Black people than NYC was.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109643307529579166

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@ekuber @vi_mi Clippy does warn about this case, via https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.98.0/index.html#declare%5Finterior%5Fmutable%5Fconst but unfortunately I didn't have clippy enabled in this workspace yet. 😢

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

The agents are trying to join Mastodon.

lol.

no.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117268872282373081

https://social.lol/@mattwebbdev@veganism.social/117270159927018004

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
micefearboggis@fediscience.org ("John Kennedy") wrote:

Pulpito!

It continues to amaze me that it's possible to crochet using a single embroidery thread and a 0.5mm hook. It amazes me less that this took four hours to crochet.

https://microamigurumi.com/free%5Foctopus%5Fpattern

#crochet #amigurumi #microamigurumi

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

notural numbers

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Don’t know what this is all about but I guess I’m not going into town today?

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

@cwebber It's interesting because on the IPO thing it's a win-win. A company that wants to IPO sounds powerful and important. A company that *doesn't* want to IPO, such as OpenAI whose IPO would probably underperform expectations if it happened tomorrow, can point to the "alignment" "safety" concerns as an excuse to put the IPO off ( https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mve53u5jb22i )

This demonstrates how much more powerful lies are than truth. Presumably a truth wouldn't usually prove *both* a thing and its opposite

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

It's pretty simple. You're hearing "We're so scared of the AIs, we need to reign them in" from the very US companies building and selling them for two reasons:

- They're about to IPO, and it's amazing marketing for them
- They want a regulatory moat, since they're deeply worried about the open weight LLMs. They want everyone dependent on this tech and to be *the only ones legally permitted to dispense it*.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Isn't it odd how no AI CEOs called for pacing the frontier when the internet flooded with deep fakes and revenge porn? Nor did they call for it when people got hurt or killed because an AI chatbot gave them misinformation, encouraged selfharm, or induced delusional behavior — isn't that odd?? And isn't it odd that militaries using AI to select civilian targets wasn't the cue to pace the frontier??? But the CEOs have IPOs coming up, and suddenly they all agree that now's the time to pace the frontier! ISN'T THAT ODD????

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MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

You know the whole #Coxon #Anthropic "We're all gonna die" thing? It's kinda looking like paid astroturfing. Marketing psyop to coincide with #Nvidia declaring that microchips are "long term investible assets". We are being played, y'all.

Jacob had almost zero footprint, wiped his X before the post, and had only been at Anthropic for a few months. Within a few minutes of the WSJ dropping the story, he does his announcement post on the twitters, and is instantly boosted by some of the biggest names in the AI field, which is not how organic engagement works for an account with no followers. His follower count goes up by hundreds of thousands, he gets media attention everywhere, and suddenly everyone is talking about LLM like it's a mind, and not a computer with an OFF switch.

At the same time, Nvidia hard launches the term "AI Factory" to rebrand datacenters and try and raise 500 billion dollars from your retirement fund.

I dunno gang, I think I'm calling shenanigans on this.

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cholling@bytes.programming.dev wrote:

@jenniferplusplus AI is good at generating code... for a few very basic use cases where multiple human-written examples are likely to appear in the training set. So, they're good at copying code. Anything that requires actual thinking? Awful.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
eramdam@erambert.me ("damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣") wrote:

welp https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

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

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117270434278526330

hi, there's a $policy at work that I find to be utterly anaethemic and I really need a new job before my brain strangles itself in a fit of apoplectic rage.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

“You’re not going to be able to stop this mass surveillance technology by moving to another vendor,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @verge. “The only thing that is going to solve this whole problem is not relying on this technology.” https://www.theverge.com/policy/994414/cities-ditching-flock-cameras-controversy

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chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117269357701498157

Last year I gave a talk about how Open Source has always been terrible at creating consequences for not following social contracts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw); and also how moneyed interests are great at creating their own.

So, here we are again.

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

having breakfast in a gorgeous morning in Point Reyes

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Dan Lyke") wrote:

Another Monday, another reminder that I don't wanna be reduced to building stories about tying "AI" into a product that has the possibility of being super useful, if we'd just focus on actual use cases rather than chasing investor glitz.

So, yeah, programmer who likes *thinking* about processes and algorithms, and who's worked on projects from 3d rendering to real-time motion control to social media and networking issues, interested in a cool new direction.

#FediHire

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LIGO@scicomm.xyz wrote:

Happy birthday #GW150914!

#OTD 11 years ago, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy

A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations!

#Astrodon🎂

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@vi_mi ah yes:

> To put it simply, constants are inlined wherever they’re used, making using them identical to simply replacing the name of the const with its value. Static variables, on the other hand, point to a single location in memory, which all accesses share.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/keyword.const.html

#Rust #TIL

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:") wrote:

OK so the reason this is cool is because now the color sliders are not being rendered pixel by pixel, doing manual interpolation and converting each pixel into RGB before painting it. It is now rendering it as a gradient in the target color space and using the renderer's support for color spaces to convert the final thing into RGB for the widget.

This means that gradient interpolation in other color spaces works. And that rainbow bar is possible with just two color stops.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@vi_mi You got it! `const` -> `static` was the fix.

I guess `const` just causes the variable to be inlined at every call site. Where `static` creates a single instance that can be referenced.

I'd missed learning/internalizing that nuance since, when I reach for const, it's usually for things that are `Copy` anyway, like a `u64` or `&str`.

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

Our lab putting out a wireless power, wireless data miniature microscope for longterm 1P calcium imaging without cables - no more open topped boxes! This is real life magic to me. Takuya and Marcel show imaging in a vaguely translucent tunnel system, but the sensors can be put anywhere for more elaborate setups. I just helped with the software part, they did all the heavy lifting.

https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.05.745822

bsky post has a video from Takuya which rocks: https://bsky.app/profile/takuyasasatani.bsky.social/post/3mvih3qkb2s22

#Neuro #Neuroscience #CalciumImaging #Preprint

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gulfie@mastodonapp.uk ("Phil Haigh") wrote:

Just been to see the new (for 2026) fox at the Lost Gardens of Heligan and wow it’s a beauty.

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scanlime@misc.name ("lime with barcode") wrote:

feels like going back in time to warn people of the current circumstances would add exactly nothing to the conversation. people have been warning us about every single piece of this.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

here is a miniature tabletop wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, which I've made. It's named "Perhaps Now is the Time."

It contains a number of artifacts, precious in a non-monetary sense:
curios and oddities that I have collected in daily life and my travels.

They are united by one common spirit: “Cool! But... why?”

#MastoArt