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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tef wrote:

one of my more load bearing beliefs is that you actually have to give a damn about other people if you want to write good software

or good tools, at the very least

even though i know that games repeatedly demonstrate the opposite, that people will put up with any old shit if it lets them live out a power fantasy

but one can dream anyway

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

hah, oh well, we had to do the magic comments for string literals in a few places after all. s'fine. they're trivial.

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

no such luck with high-level flow-control but that's okay, there really was no way to have that work like that

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

pleasingly, because we went to a lot of trouble to make sure all three transforms defer to the authoritative implementation of the string-literal syntax instead of reimplementing it, it looks like we'll only have to do the handling for that in one place

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Taking up woodwork as a hobby has ruined porn for me. Now I am inordinately focused on background objects like cedar log gazebos and "What shaper bit did they use for that credenza?". I can't even post a screenshot and ask, because there's a hefty lass in the kip right in front.

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

we're contemplating some formatting features we might want to add, around indentation and stuff, and those might be a little more involved at some point

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

so today's work on Evocation is some home-stretch stuff, adding metadata for a few little things that aren't covered by the generic mechanisms. we're focusing on the label transform first and then we'll most likely have to implement these same things again for the log-load transform, but they're easy.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

when unsafe languages cause security debt, you're paying the use-after-fee

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

"Hearing voices" happens to *almost everyone* at least a few times in their life, but people are often scared to admit they had a harmless, benign voice-hearing experience, or they even deny to themselves that it counted, because the phenomenon is associated with being extremely crazy and dangerous.

For example: have you ever *sworn* that you heard someone call your name, but no-one did? You can point what direction the voice came from in real physical space, but no-one's there? This happens to almost everyone at some point. That's "hearing voices." It's more likely to happen when you're stressed, tired, or really zoned out. Hearing someone calling for you is very common, but you also might swear you just heard your long-dead grandmother say her comforting catchphrase or your worst ex snarl something hurtful.

The fact that you might hear the voice of someone you know is dead, or get the sense that it's a powerful benevolent or malevolent entity's voice, leads many people to spiritual explanations. But it's just your own subconscious grabbing the microphone and noisy, messy brain signals cohering into something you can make sense of at the conscious level.

If voices repeatedly belittle you, threaten you, or urge you to do harmful things, you do need to get outside help to address the inner low-level conflicts that manifest in this high-level distress. But there are millions of people in the world who routinely hear harmless voices, and it's just another facet of the messy human experience. Many people can even sustain dialogue with their voices and find it a helpful way to sort out their thoughts.

And here's a very modern, technocentric metaphor that may help explain why voices can be so nonsensical or disconnected from what you were consciously thinking. Have you ever seen the video game "Hey You, Pikachu"? It has a very simple form of microphone voice control. To do voice recognition with so little processing power, it just takes anything you say and matches it to whichever of about a hundred game-related words the waveform resembles most. So you can say "Carrie's scared of bees" and it will hear "Caterpie".

The subconscious-to-voice wiring is doing something similar: compressing an infinite space of wibbly thought-signals into finite conscious constructs, and the meaning might get rather distorted in the process. It doesn't mean you're "crazy" if the result is sometimes rather strange or embarrassing.

Wow, I'm on a psychological longpost roll...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

That "ChatGPT is reinventing the bronze age bicameral mind" meme sent me on a long journey to learn about the bicameral mind hypothesis, and while I think that Julian Jaynes way overstated an idea and its implications to untenable extremes, there's a fundamentally true idea in there (that "hearing voices" is the default state of the human mind and most people are culturally trained out of it)

The phrase "the quest for authorization" as the underlying motivation of religion stuck with me, and I do see a lot of profound parallels between traditional religion and over-reliance on LLMs: an unsure, worried person in a complex, frightening world desperate for a reliable external force to reassure them about the correct thing to do, often followed by a willful failure to notice when the advice is obviously bad

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Better to be a Luddite than a Sloptimist

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

okay i've figured it out, we just have to get cher to turn back time a few years and fix some stuff

Boosted by jwz:
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich #GuillotinesWork #AreYouMadeOfCake #Halloween

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
www.thebeaverton.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Beaverton") wrote:

Trump says Canada having more friends is bullying

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/trump-says-canada-having-more-friends-is-bullying

WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States President Donald Trump has blasted Canada’s recent proposed alliance up to the European Union, insisting the new partnership is tantamount to picking on him personally. “It’s really not cool for Canada to go around bragging…

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

shamelessly stolen from slack so that I can post with the comment: "lmao"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Rhiannon Giddens released a beautiful new album today. The title track "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" is based on the lyric poem of the same name by Emily Dickinson.

The video for the song shows Nigerian textile artist Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu creating the amazing cover art from fragments of colorful fabric.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfmRXYCguc

Album: https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com/album/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers

#Art #Folk #Music #NewMusic #Poetry

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

Digital Ocean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks - Keith:
https://keith.is/post/digitalocean-and-css-tricks

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

Call me a Luddite, but my position isn't that these were that wrong people too give billions of dollars to with basically zero oversight, it's that *nobody* can navigate that much wealth and power and be a healthy person with reasonable attachments and nurturing relationships.

Boosted by jwz:
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Meanwhile, SpaceX filed another ex parte (= extra bonus rich people briefing) with the FCC yesterday (which you can find here if you sort by date: https://fccprod.servicenowservices.com/ibfs?id=ibfs%5Fsearch&q=SAT-LOA-20260108-00016)

They say their million satellites will be 4 tons each, but don't worry, they will burn up completely in the atmosphere (once every 3 minutes) and there's a 0 casualty risk. They also will never crash into each other or anything else because SpaceX is perfect.

Don't worry, our future in space will be GREAT.

jwz wrote:

Batman: The Doome.

"The doome warning all men to the iudgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approued authors by St. Batman professor in diuinite." 1581.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5Ft

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

Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.

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

this week's "captains speaking" has ben saying he's noticed a recent rise in people coming unprepared to their simulator training.

dear chatgpt, what's the flameout procedure for an airbus a380?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Greetings from the Overhead, the Albatross / #TheDearHunter concert in #MCR!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Dan Lyke") wrote:

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117291573233666795

Yes, and, if you use LLMs, you're getting a bias, and that bias is already definitely towards the desires of capital. So will you be able to tell when ChatGPT introduces ads?

Because they already have, even if they're not explicitly getting compensated directly for the economic forces they're shilling for.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
AlarminglyBad@mstdn.social ("Alarmingly Bad") wrote:

*Fun* facts? In this economy?

#comic #webcomic #funny #funfact

Attachments:

• video: Alarmingly Bad comic video about fun facts (the facts are not fun)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
alicemcalicepants@ohai.social ("Dr Alice Violett") wrote:

God save me from people trying to "help" unasked. I have a system and you're messing with it, dammit!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
3TomatoesShort@disabled.social ("WearyBonnie") wrote:

It's depression purchase time, but this time I've gone with a cross stitch pattern, so it's only a very small upfront cost (fabric, floss, and maybe a frame to eventually follow).
(From StitchingAddictioCo on Etsy)

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

so earlier, when i was musing about size classes, i overlooked something important: there is no fragmentation with size classes beyond padding things to the next size up if they are smaller. well there needn't be if you're already tracing, anyway.

this also means the only reason to evacuate would be to merge partially filled blocks of the same size class.

the downside is that each thread needs at least one block of each size class that it's allocating into. but again, this is comparable to ordinary allocators. so one partially filled block of one of each size class that's been encountered. that's kind of an annoying constant overhead.

now why haven't i heard of anyone doing this before?

Boosted by jwz:
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸") wrote:

Social media bans exist to prevent young people from organizing on climate change, Palestine, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

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

The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.