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

okay fine littlegem will be garbage collected. i suppose we'll aim to dispel the myth that garbage collected languages can't compete with c on performance then.

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

anyway, because gc actually uses less runtime than reference counting, gc kinda saves power, provided you aren't stinging on heap size too much.

but if you want to save more power, you want to e.g. sleep threads when they're not being used. this sort of thing can be tedious so most people don't bother.

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sebastianandresvis ("Sebastiàn Andrès Vis") wrote:

My name is Sebastian and I live and work in Amsterdam 🤙🏻 I’m exploring what words can look like when typed instead of written. I make concrete poetry, visual experiments, and occasionally analog photos.

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

as it has always been, if you want to throw memory at it, you can just garbage collect less often and pay for it less often.

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abbiistabbii@blahaj.zone ("abbiistabbii :nya:") wrote:

hello mortals, if you can give me a list of interesting people to follow on the fediverse I will be very happy.

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

anyway it does make one rather obvious in hindsight suggestion: increase the heap size so it doesn't have to collect as often and it will magically get more power efficient

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jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

I'm always careful to not swear in my conference talks, but I've just learned that @webdevconf talks won't be filmed this year...

If you want to see how the lack of video shapes my resolve, there are still tickets to join us in Bristol Oct 9th where @rivea0 and I will be talking about how AI code tools are impacting developer skills.

https://webdevconf.com

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

i've got a paper about gc energy efficiency open and it's suggesting shifting fully concurrent gc tasks to E cores.

that might even work on ARM with big.little, but i wouldn't say E-cores are particularly energy efficient on intel...

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

@andrewnez no, yeah. sigh. well said.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Good Morning, Your Toaster Is Compromised

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/17/good-morning-your-toaster-is-compromised.html

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

A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.

of course they have

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Meanwhile, down here on earth, this is what's really happening while we're all forced to entertain the "super intelligent" machine god killing us cause its too smart 🙄

Best believe Anthropic & OpenAI sales people are lobbying hospitals to adopt these tools at full speed.

You think they're asking for regulation AGINST this stuff 🙄

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@soatok

That’s pretty good for most proposed uses of blockchains. Typically, they add more problems than they solve so solve a negative number. Solving exactly zero is a big improvement.

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Rycochet@furs.social wrote:

@soatok Nothing helps security like having every single thing written forever on a slow database that government agencies can and will find way to gain access to over time, just ask the people who followed the chaos that was the crypto space for any length of time.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

I am still of the position Nvidia will be fine after the AI bubble pops.

Nvidia still sells real things people want that are the best in their field. It'll be a good business after the crash too.

I think it's even likely Jensen can stay CEO after the crash if he wants to - because Nvidia will crash less than everyone else does, it'll still be that good business, and he did make all the money for the shareholders.

I don't think anyone will be arrested for the multipronged Enron that is the AI bubble, this is not a regulatory environment that does things.

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

“What kind of Software should we fund?”

https://tante.cc/2026/09/17/what-kind-of-software-should-we-fund/

Separately from what I’m responding to, Tante, though, does a good job of gleaning useful observations from the original post. Read this; don't read the original it's responding to

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

Giving the vibe-written ideas of an npm founder whose track record is such that, if they found the philosopher’s stone they’d use it to turn gold into lead, any airtime is probably not the most constructive use of anybody’s time

Esp. since said idea is basically “Spotify for OSS libraries”

Spotify being a model FAMOUS for paying artists a liveable wage…

Wait, no. It’s famous for the other thing. The opposite.

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royaards@newsie.social ("Tjeerd Royaards") wrote:

The church of AI.

#ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #AIslop

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mrtazz@chaos.social ("Daniel") wrote:

opened the iOS 27 mail app yesterday and discovered it had enabled intelligence priority inbox or whatever. Setting aside the fact that I don't get enough email to need it and whatever your feelings are about whether LLMs help with email. The fact that I now don't know for sure whether my phone sent my emails to some server somewhere without me enabling it is a very terrible experience for a "we're all about your personal privacy" company.

This is the first iOS I seriously consider rolling back

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

It's just a competition to see who can get BBC News to print the most ridiculous headline.

current winner: "Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft"

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glen_malley@mstdn.ca ("Glen Malley") wrote:

I didn't think the USA could fall any lower, but how the hell do you manage to make bacteria-infected SOAP? That's literally soap's ONE JOB.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/what-to-buy/sales-shopping-news/a73746801/hand-soap-recall/

#shitpost #contamination #soap

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447934257751

unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them, too.

do not opt out of friendships because you’re too embarrassed that you used a chatbot for a while

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sarahjeong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("sarah jeong") wrote:

the ai ceos calling for a slowdown because of agi is like when your friend who's really into conspiracy theories is like "and that's why the ruling elite is beholden to epstein" but then before you can agree, they add, "because of satanic rituals"

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sarahjeong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("sarah jeong") wrote:

we're facing existential threats from inattentive or lazy work, as well as burnout, fatigue, low sleep — stuff that requires the kind of regulation of working conditions that the tech industry has been ambivalent on, because management was psychotic and workers were happy with the fancy cafeteria

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

Semi-autonomous agents?

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jaz@toot.wales ("jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂") wrote:

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email.

Here's an email I got from one of them.

Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they still owe me $110.

Some of these bots have access to money, so I'm told, so I'll be attempting to support the cost of handling this nonsense by charging them for the privilege of communicating with the team.

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

how did the weather suddenly become cold

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LottieVixen@toot.cat ("Mx Lottie") wrote:

friend wants to learn BASIC programming on a modern computer without buying extra hardware... anything I could point them to? any online resources?

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

Did the thing where I woke up early to get on the ticket registration page for the last batch of tickets for a popular event

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Too Used to Prompt

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/070.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater