Counterexample of one, but I’ve commented in womensstuff before as a genderfluid person and have not been asked to leave the space.

Alternatively, right-to-repair - “healthcare for tools” you could say

I would find it easier to agree with this article if it didn’t gloss over the shit quality LLM-generated code can have, nor that some of us love our craft because of how efficient and robust we are capable of making the code that we write. It’s not just about blood, sweat, and tears vs a quick prompt, it’s about knowing that the program that has been produced to go buy groceries isn’t going to make the machine run three times around the block balancing the eggs on it’s forehead before walking in the front door.

And I hate hate hate how I shudder at having written “it’s not (just) X, it’s Y”, but I refuse to strike that form of writing from my repertoire just because today’s behemoth stochastic parrots are “fond” of it.

From what I understand, it is the arch approach but with package binaries compiled to target newer hardware instead of the largest set of hardware. Their homepage claims they enable several performance-type optimizations in both the kernel and common system libraries. It’s not surprising to me that protondb, a repository of “how well can I get this game to run on Linux through proton?” reports, is studying an outsized proportion of users on CachyOS.

BoringCactus wrote a tentative post-mortem to “open source”/free software (five-and-a-half years ago already?!) that I find/found interesting and somewhat relevant to your question.

And 4-player co-op!

1893: the US air force guess back in time to pull the ultimate prank on it’s older siblings

the good kind of nihilist

The easy answer for music is these kid’s parents are putting those tunes on their home speakers. While I would agree Haruhi is some form of “classic”, I do wonder what parent is showing it to their kid…

Alternatively, how many of them have invested in one or more of these LLM makers and are ready to torpedo their own business as long as it makes the share price go up/feeds more authentic training data?

Interesting read, but boy does this journalist have a … different read on things than I do.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win.

IMO it’s the exact opposite; we talk about this because we want the best protocol to win, this time, while knowing full well that usually it doesn’t.

Of course search was broken because all OSS social tools must have one glaring lack of functionality.

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”.

I doubt that trump supporters cheering on the USA throwing their weight around like the world’s bully-in-chief would be receptive to such a message.

I can’t tell if I’m just too deep in the fedi-culture weeds, or if the article really is confidently ignorant.

not far off, sadly

It’s not chatbot psychosis, it’s ‘math and engineering and neuroscience’

top-tier sneer from The Register

They aren’t fediverse-first, and they’re French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info.

So, it’s definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don’t think we’re at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations’ website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren’t browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.

Flashy and pretty, but as a UI I find it places too much visual emphasis on form over function / style over substance. The biggest example I can give us that I don’t think the bright neon blue left border on posts should be so much more eye-catching than the post titles. If I were to change things, I would probably try to find a dimmer shade of blue for them, and/or add some additional decoration to post titles so that they more clearly are the first thing my eyes are drawn to when scanning the page.

Your last paragraph reminds me of the following series of YouTube videos that goes over how to build a “correct” fluid simulation, starting at the quantum mechanical level (iirc): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMoTR49uj6ld32zLVWmcGXaW7w2ey7Vh4.

Multiple scales of complexity and interaction, that’s way too computationally intensive to just directly stimulate how reality works, and so each scale has to be carefully “averaged out”, in a sense, to end up with a simulation that is cheap enough to run yet still behaves realistically and reproduces as many nuances as possible.

You can use me after free() all you want, babe

Yeah, go big or go home with this kind of stuff. Give me some Linux kernel source code, maybe even some well-known RFC!

Yup! YAML is defined as a “strict superset” of JSON (or at least, it was the last time I checked).

It’s a lot like markdown and HTML; when you want to write something deeply structured and somewhat complex you can always drop back/down to the format with explicit closing delimiters and it just works™.

Quinces are not that edible when raw. Best cooked as veg alongside meat, or jellied into gummies, in my experience.