Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@xinit There is legitimately a lot of malice out there tho

Do you approve of the state of the software industry?

I love independent proposals, so next release of #snac will include support for Webmention. It's a protocol built on top of web standards and part of the IndieWeb. It helps web page maintainers and bloggers to know when one of their URLs are mentioned in other platforms by providing a webhook to receive notifications. In snac's case, all links written in a Fediverse post (directly or using the Markdown format) will be tested for Webmention endpoints and notified if they exist.

I don't know how many web sites out there implement Webmention (I guess very few), but given that it has been very simple to implement, here it is.

Long live the non-big-tech Internet.

#Webmention #IndieWeb

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

@DJGummikuh the question is not whether the research might yield interesting results. As societies we kinda decided that the ends do not justify the means.

follow-up: looks like @Codeberg removed all the bad accounts and their posts in aggregate, so users like me didn't have to do anything. great! that's actually a better experience than GitHub in some cases.

If we approached climate policy with the same risk-mitigation framework we use for national defense, we’d have mobilized for a green transition decades ago. A 1% probability of foreign attack justifies trillions in spending, but a >90% probability of climate disaster doesn’t.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about

The battle is against vampires

Their battles against vampires are basically the same as your own battles against vampires

If only it wasn't considered rude to talk about vampires,

Then maybe we'd realize we're all fighting the same goddamn vampires

Super interesting publication: https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf It analyzes how much compilers actually gain from exploiting undefined behavior to optimize C/C++ code, by hacking up LLVM to eliminate UB and thus denying the optimizer those strategies.

They find that the performance degradation is only on the order of single digit percent, and that quite a few of those losses can be recovered with a little bit of compiler work to make non-UB optimization strategies work a little better.

I find this super interesting, because I'd naively assume that forcing the compiler to assume that pointers can alias would be catastrophic, but instead... it's kinda within the range where you could choose to pay for a slightly bigger computer in exchange for a language that doesn't randomly stab you in the face in non-obvious ways.

I wonder: are all the books against AI written by smart people and all books in favour of AI written by AI itself and the problem is that people don’t read, or don’t understand, or are willing to burn the planet for better code completion?

Perhaps I am oversimplifying and you get a bit more out of it. But on the other hand top AI nutsos are saying we might end up needing to spend 99% of the energy generated on AI otherwise the Chines will “win”‽ And AI bro number one said not too long ago that AI was going to require nuclear fusion technology. You know, the other technology that hasn’t been delivering for over fifty years. Except for bombs.

Ah, right. We also use AI for bomb delivery, of course.

#ButlerianJihad

@chris_spackman Technically, Emacs is a Lisp machine emulator with a set of demo applications, including a text editor. @rk

Me: I wish there were something like acme/help that wasn’t mouse-centric…seamless text editing and command execution and tiling windows and shell integration.

Emacs: Hey

Me: No

Emacs: I’m literally the guy in the pic

#unix #plan9 #emacs