Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

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

Right, having now used MS Sharepoint, initially in curiosity and subsequently in anger, I am now very clear that I never want to do so again.

@andrewducker

Umberto Eco:

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”

Link Post: Being online doesn't make people more aggressive or hostile; it allows a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/202209/are-we-all-becoming-more-hostile-online

@strypey

Many small, single subject matter models makes the most sense to me.

@jalefkowit

when the data centers steal all the ground water

water pressure is going to be the least of our worries

Just one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI #Python #OpenSource