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Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactions https://lobste.rs/s/9zmd46 #ai
https://www.anthropic.com/research/values-wild
The web part of this thing is starting to take shape
ClickHouse gets lazier (and faster): Introducing lazy materialization https://lobste.rs/s/aassef #databases
https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy-materialization
A workshop I am unqualified to offer but would really like to attend: start with a medium-sized website (cloud-hosted, multiple services, etc.) and walk participants step-by-step through the process of making it greener by reducing energy consumption per response, using hardware with lower lifetime carbon cost, etc. I bet people would learn a lot of other useful things along the way…
“Separate the art from the artist” is an idea from literary criticism: it’s about giving you permission to talk about what the art _does_ without having to argue about whether the artist _intended_ that effect.
It’s not a moral framework! It doesn’t say anything about how to feel about buying a product, art or otherwise, that supports creators with odious opinions.
It’s not incongruent to be totally subscribed to the Death of the Author and also not want to buy any Harry Potter stuff.
World leaders from Trump to Zelensky to attend Pope's funeral
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8ry3x172o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories 
@top-stories-BBCNewsTop Stories
미국 정부가 구글 반독점 소송의 합의 조건으로 크롬을 매각하라고 압박하는 가운데, 오픈AI가 사겠다고 나서.
https://www.theverge.com/news/653882/openai-chrome-google-us-judge
다 지우면서 내 피아노도 날렸네. 오셨으면 피아노 보고 가시죠. Blüthner 190cm, 1897년 제작, Aliquot & Patent 액션, Paulello 스트링. 해당 프레임과 Blüthner Patent액션 조합으로 구하긴 쉽지 않은 편…
Tesla profits plunge amid Musk backlash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0x50yr46lo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-BBCNewsBusiness
Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
Link: https://alexshtf.github.io/2024/01/21/Bernstein.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764101
Scale and monoculture are out. Cozy corners and vibes are in.
The full “Building Communities Across the Social Web” panel is out now, featuring 
@andypiper, @rose.bsky.teamRose 🌹 and Leila Brillson discussing what it takes to create and sustain healthy online communities in 2025. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW in March.
https://flipboard.video/w/fr6Ajy9YxgmW3ZGdAycBca
#Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW #Community #OnlineCommunities #OnlineCulture #SocialNetworks #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
Glyph
! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
@lynnesbianLynnesbian 
I loved the latest album by legacy modem bouquet!
feature request for the next version of KDE plasma: achievements (named kudos)
描きかけの変なのでてきた
one of the reasons that fascism is a loser ideology for losers who always lose is that they just can't stop themselves. customers were okay with a _shocking_ amount of grotesque behavior from Musk. were he even half-competent he could have done a full authoritarian takeover of the most powerful country on earth while being the richest person on earth, but the essence of his political project involves being more and more of a shithead _until people will not do business with him any more_ #USPol
Japan continues to debate whether to change its law requiring that Japanese spouses have the same surname. A Japanese woman gives her own thoughts on the impact the law's had on her life - and why she thinks it needs to change.
$wife was getting super annoyed at having to smell a neighbor's cigarette smoke every time the window is open
so we've now spun up a wireless laser-scatter particulate sensor tied to outside air (<€30 in parts, thanks to ESPhome <3 and 6/8mm PVC tubing) which seems to detect within a second of it starting <333
Do you maintain or contribute to a #Python package that includes a C extension? Would you like to run a fuzzer against it?
If so, let me know and I will run it, or help you to get it running.
The fuzzer is #fusil, which generates random code calling into your functions and methods. It's useful to check for crashes on invalid inputs or unexpected call patterns.
It has found about 50 crashes in #CPython, 20 in #PyPy, 6 in #Numpy etc.
#fuzzing #fuzzer #testing
See here:
https://github.com/devdanzin/fusil/issues/37
Every single hash and HMAC algorithm exposed by default in Python is now provided by HACL*, the verified cryptographic Library - Post by Jonathan Protzenko #Cryptography #Python https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html
$wife was getting super annoyed at having to smell a neighbor's cigarette smoke every time the window is open
so we've now spun up a wireless laser-scatter particulate sensor tied to outside air (<€30 in parts, thanks to ESPhome <3 and 6/8mm PVC tubing) which seems to detect within a second of it starting <333
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to launch a new program next month to lower gasoline prices by ¥10 per liter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/22/japan/ishiba-gas-price-cut-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #shigeruishiba #gas
ultraviolet hair and neopronouns
goo morning
i had a dream about people who didn't like rap but loved the intro buildup part, so they got tiny rats to sit on their ears, and whenever a rap song was playing past the intro, the rat would push its tiny butt into into your ear to stop you from hearing it
ちょい前に「反権力はかっこいいと思ってる」って文字列があちこちで見られたんだけど、ネチネチとバカみたいなDD論を振り回して権力者のケツ舐めしてるオタクさんたちに比べたら、RATMやグレタさんやVoBが格段にかっこいいのはどうしようもない事実だよねー(;´Д`)
Puffin's Bluff
Where Flakes Fall Off: an Eval Cache Tale https://lobste.rs/s/iqiglx #nix
https://santi.net.br/blog/where-flakes-fall-off-an-eval-cache-tale/
The MLS Architecture document – the companion document to the MLS Protocol document – is now finally available as RFC 9750:
if my browser looks like this I'm either having a great time or a really terrible time (not always sure which)
feel free to use this section to ask questions about me or other such
@SnoopJ probably best to just push up a PR in case someone (maybe me, but probably someone else) has time to look at it and steal some stuff from it
whoever is doing this _please_ stop playing with the monkey's paw https://mastodon.social/@verge/114383625601142305
RFC 9750: The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Architecture, B. Beurdouche, et al., https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9750 #RFC The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol (RFC 9420) provides a group key agreement protocol for messaging applications. MLS is designed to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery, and to provide forward secrecy (FS) and post-compromise 1/4
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
Hugo van Kemenade
! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
@lynnesbianLynnesbian Poob has it for you.
studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like
The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:
adjacent ! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::
! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::
! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON
You can also configure spooling with systemd.
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google https://www.theverge.com/news/653882/openai-chrome-google-us-judge
Can we still recover the right to be left alone?
Link: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lowry-pressley-right-to-oblivion/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741549
Listen I'm here to report that giving three talks in three weeks is too much.
Just in case you were thinking about it, or had a time machine through which you could send a message to me
Deeply grateful to every audience that holds space for me! Bye I will not see you for a while 😂
student affirmations: i am wrong in ways chatgpt cannot be.
@SnoopJ the focus behaving correctly is the only new change, so that's great news.
I wonder if I'm just not handling monitor_geom.y correctly at all there. I don't really have a way to construct arbitrary geometry collections to test that, given the way that Parallels' fullscreen / multi-monitor support works
Some cleansing positive energy for your timeline #antifa
Refeed daily for #health and #prosperity
📢 research call 📢
please boost! we're running a series of small group design workshops for community governance on fedi. if you are a user, admin, mod, dev, organizer - or have thought quite a bit about governance on fedi - and a legal adult in your locale, join us!
each workshop, scheduled based on peoples' availability, is:
🌐 2 hrs on Zoom
👥 w/ 6-10 people
💲 comes w/ $60 USD per person
details: https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/
sign up: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3SdG4y6wocMPie
questions: frictance@princeton.edu
@rgegriffrgegriff (On a new server) The big problem with Wayland is that it's not finished. The actual architecture of the software is reasonably good. It is a legitimate improvement over X11 in the ways that it set out to be. But it is unfit for purpose, and it is unfit in such a way as to distort the rest of the ecosystem to pick up the missing pieces in incompatible, balkanized ways that make the experience of writing software that uses it _incredibly_ miserable.
Listen I'm here to report that giving three talks in three weeks is too much.
Just in case you were thinking about it, or had a time machine through which you could send a message to me
Deeply grateful to every audience that holds space for me! Bye I will not see you for a while 😂
finally wrote something real about what i've been building!
too many of my infra workflows were buried in slack threads, docs, or shell history
so i started working on Atuin Desktop:
- runbooks that run
- local-first, crdt-powered
- embedded terminals, db queries, monitoring blocks
more words here: https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/
would love to know what you think! ❤️ 
@rgegriffrgegriff (On a new server) I have ranted about it before and it would probably not be a good use of time to go into more detail, but Wayland is one of the most disappointing pieces of software I have ever had the misfortune to have to interact with.
amos
