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

I ept but am still eepy :neocat_cry:​

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

look i am fairly thick skinned and i can take robust conversation, i'd just rather not lose my stomach contents to people defending david heil hitler's awful views.

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

lobsters mods are sleeping and it's turned into a shithole again.

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

'reckless' is the word that comes to mind

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

can you imagine graduating from that just in time for the bubble to pop and realising you have no fucking clue how anything works?

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

university is a place to learn, not to learn how to phone it in.

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

The University of Victoria’s computer science program has been redesigned so that first-year students who use AI will fail, but fourth-year students who don’t use it won’t pass.

The quality of work coming from agentic coding is similar to what newly graduated UVic computer science students have historically achieved, he said. “This is changing things at a fundamental level.”

it's amazing how easy it is to get a university to embarrass itself.

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Petition to amend the DSM-5 to include “Started but failed to complete online form to register for ADHD assessment, 3-5 times over 6 months” as a diagnostic criterion for ADHD.

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Going to bed soon, just need to do everything else possible first, and also space out for awhile

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

the thing i love is that this is a normal request for a feature: a contributors page. there is a sort of stereotyped design for them, which is why LLMs probably gravitate to this PR. the things that you need for them are a) a website that is b) easily and ideally c) automatically maintained. the way these LLMs generate these pages by just shitting out a ton of raw inlined strings that mimic the form of the well-sampled thing in a way that could never ever ever be maintained, except by a continual churn of an LLM doing something that would take the least efficient templating engine like one quadrillionth the compute cycles to do. that is the statistical center of LLM code.

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mike@chinwag.org ("Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]") wrote:

The takeaway for you all here is the reassurance of knowing my shitposts are thoroughly fact-checked prior to publication.

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pencilears@eternalaugust.com ("✨pencilears✨(KD7POW)") wrote:

This is what I mean when I say that I'm trying to sleep the sleep that sleeps:

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

some of you must have seen this and dispatched your agents manually because i didn't link to the repo, but we're back in business baby - a PR that pointlessly duplicates the same static html file with a thousand lines of shitty inline SVG that tries to embed a video that doesn't exist but is nonetheless listed in like a hundred "video URLs for your agents to test" spam blog posts and gists also generated by LLMs. and if it were to exist it would be an old TV advertisement for ChromeCast. this is the slop you want. this is the slop that makes you lose all hope. the kind where the oceans are being boiled so people can do this.

edit: by no means should you try and contribute to this repository by voluntarily enjoining a text robot to do so, even as a joke. that ruins that joke, is not what this is about, and also actually does the thing that it satirizes directly.

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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@krans you're entirely correct. the idea that technology is ever neutral is a self-serving lie, spread by those who wish to exonerate themselves.

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krans@mastodon.me.uk ("Peter Brett") wrote:

I'm often finding it hard to get people to agree that “good technology” and “bad technology” are meaningful and distinguishable things.

Even when given specific examples (e.g. washing machine, VX gas).

I get a lot of push back like, “Technology isn't good or bad, it's what people do with it that matters.” Asking whether they mean, “Guns don't kill people, people do?” makes them upset.

Is it too much to ask not to build systems that can easily be co-opted by bad actors? Am I an extremist?

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Fuck Ed Sheeran, fuck Pink, fuck Robert Kraft/Kraft Group – #BDS. Thank you, Macklemore, and Free Palestine!

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“Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don’t lose sight of that.
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Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words “Free Palestine” and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn’t get past his public facing, “I don’t take sides.”

And I get why people don’t. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I’ve lost all of those things. But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn’t leave you in the middle.

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I’m sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, “Free Palestine” becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that’s why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying “Free Palestine” gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn’t the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn’t disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there’s a phrase in Arabic:

لا شكر على واجب

“La shukra ala wajeb.” There is no thanks for a duty.

That stayed with me. Because that’s what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn’t, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.

I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say.

Free Palestine.

But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve ever been on.”

– Macklemore

#israel #EdSheeran #Pink #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Macklemore

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Well, it broke Emacs, which is pretty bad. Luckily noping back out to https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus to get a source build seems to have fixed it well enough.

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

The August 2026 contributions report, covering contributions to Debian by Freexian collaborators, is now available at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-08-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

The report covers work done to improve security-tracker git performance in detail. Also read about OpenSSH GSS-API split getting completed and landing in testing, Incus replacing lxc in Debian CI, DebConf videos getting published and more.

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#debian #freexian #incus #lxc #openssh #gssapi

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noxypaws@packmates.org ("Noxy 🐾🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@jonny "grocery scanner soundin ass" is probably my favorite descriptor I've heard from someone else

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

RE: https://packmates.org/@noxypaws/117273558633555680

I was an auditory neuroscientist for 7 years of my life and not once did anyone show me the wolf that coordinates hunts with pure tones

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

okay, right, so the problem is that right now the lexing of the byte sequence that introduces a magic comment is bound up with the execution or compilation of the magic-comment handler. we need to pull that apart into two words, so we can execute or compile the handler in a different way when we're in a nested transform.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

if you can follow our threads, you can follow the book. take it however slowly you need to, it'll be fine.

okay, that's our contribution to humanity's future for the day, back to coding...

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

it's a timeless book, written in a style that has successfully made its lessons independent of recent advances in computing. it's got lots of complex ideas in it, and people find it intimidating for that reason, but it's really extremely friendly once you give it a chance.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

oh, before we get into that, if anyone reading along wants our advice on how to learn data structures and algorithms

a college course is probably a good approach for those of you who have that option. we took one eventually, but it wasn't available to us as kids, so we read volume one of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. we do recommend that. it takes patience, but it rewards it.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

anyway, now to see if we can remember what we were doing with the label-transform-one patch...

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

if we were an academic, we'd write a paper about this strategy (writing is hard work and not worth it to us when the sole benefit is to get credit for something, rather than to make change in the world)

"Reflection: How to trust less trust"

something like that :)

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

that has ALWAYS been the appeal to us. everything else is secondary. recent events have forced us to find words for it, is all.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we refuse to program with any tooling that doesn't give us "fuck yeah!!!!" moments after we prove to the universe that we understood something

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

it's gonna be really nice having that working. we were just contemplating how easy it'll make it for us to do big pivots in language functionality, if we ever choose to.

there won't be any obligation to make new versions of the compiler build successfully with older ones, since the hex dump is effectively a pre-built copy. compilers usually have to worry about that.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

that performance improvement is good enough that we'll have absolutely no reservations about immediately declaring the flatassembler version of Evocation permanently obsolete, as soon as we're satisfied with the readability of the hex dump.