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物理的な装置のみを使った力学的コンピュータ (mechanical computing) 入門。電気を使わないので、計算に必要な理論上の最低エネルギー限界に近づけられる可能性がある。
https://tennysontbardwell.com/blog/2025/04/30/mechanical-computing/index.html
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump has brought me to my breaking point with US tech.
I’m going to keep pushing for governments to get serious about digital sovereignty, but in the meantime I’m looking for non-US alternatives — and will have more on what I’ll be using instead soon.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-im-getting-off-us-tech
#tech #digitalsovereignty #eutech #donaldtrump #cdntech #elonmusk
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?
oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...
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@palomakoppaloma kop ⁂'s 404 page is 
https://palomakop.tv/404
Someone asked about a deployment that failed using django-simple-deploy. The root cause was that their requirements.txt file had a UTF-16 encoding.
I'm currently parsing requirements.txt (when present) with path.read_text(), with no args. I could catch the UnicodeDecodeException, but is that worth supporting?
Is a UTF-16 encoded requirements file just going to cause problems for them down the road? I've never run into this before, and have no idea how common it is.
mew
apparently a phrase first used 84 days ago is set in stone and cannot gain additional meaning or semantics TIL
@simonSimon Willison I think the term “vibe coding” has entered the ethos now as the accepted term in for AI-assisted coding, regardless of its permanence or deployment. No-one I speak to uses it in terms of Andrej’s initial definition. I think that’s a battle lost. A new term for throwaway code written by AI will need to emerge. For most people, code is code. It’s only us nerds that care about its quality or longevity.
‘Rafael Onak, a user experience writing manager at Apple, instructed an employee to add the phrase “external website” to the screen because it “sounds scary, so execs will love it.” Another employee gave a suggestion on how to make the screen “even worse” by using the developer’s name, rather than the app name. “ooh - keep going,” another Apple employee responded in Slack.’
https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown
‘Rafael Onak, a user experience writing manager at Apple, instructed an employee to add the phrase “external website” to the screen because it “sounds scary, so execs will love it.” Another employee gave a suggestion on how to make the screen “even worse” by using the developer’s name, rather than the app name. “ooh - keep going,” another Apple employee responded in Slack.’
https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown
Artichokes and broad beans carpaccio. #spring #vegetarian #food #italianfood
Another kind of bug revealed by including tests in your coverage:
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
process_data("bad data 1")
process_data("bad data 2") # never executed!
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202008/you_should_include_your_tests_in_coverage.html
Designing type inference for high quality type errors https://lobste.rs/s/6lrfje #compilers #plt
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2025/02/14/designing-type-inference-for-high-quality-type-errors.html
RVSDG: An Intermediate Representation for Optimizing Compilers (2019) https://lobste.rs/s/camwi9 #compilers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05036
The year is 2070. Humanity—or what's left of it—fights for survival on a handful of islands after most solid ground was swallowed by the sea. Extreme weather devastates what little land remains. On the bright side, Apple has been forced to lower its app store fee from 30% to 25%
Inline-asm poll.
GCC is looking how to improve __builtin_unreachable behavior by maybe expanding it to a trap instruction instead of following through to the next function.
So the original reason why __builtin_unreachable[https://gcc.gnu.org/PR39252] was added was to mark inline-asm as not "returning" for use inside the Linux Kernel.
There was an old patch (https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2000-01/msg00190.html) which adds "pc" as a clobber to do it too.
Though with the raise of attributes, maybe it is better to use an attribute on the inline-asm.
So the poll is what syntax would be better.
Please spread this wide. I will doing a more formal poll on both GCC's mailing list and LLVM discourse next week after this informal poll is finished but I want to get some ideas/inputs here first before I submit a RFC. I will implementing the GCC side of things and hope someone on the LLVM will pickup the LLVM side.
The year is 2070. Humanity—or what's left of it—fights for survival on a handful of islands after most solid ground was swallowed by the sea. Extreme weather devastates what little land remains. On the bright side, Apple has been forced to lower its app store fee from 30% to 25%
"People are going to have relationships with AI. How do we make sure these are healthy relationships?" You don't. Those relationships can't be healthy because they're premised on lies.
The single most effective thing AI companies could do to encourage healthy relationships with AI would be to stop presenting them as people, but they won't because doing so would make them less marketable.
우웅
I get why but I still find it funny that "GIF" has semantically drifted to mean just "video with no audio", so if you upload a silent video to mastodon it gets labelled as a "GIF”
1/n
Oh yeah, I already mentioned this a while ago but I also added support for pidfds in Linux coredumps.
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been extended so userspace can instruct the kernel to install a pidfd for the
crashing process into the usermode helper process, e.g., systemd-coredump.
NotebookLMが作るポッドキャストに関して追加
これに関連してもう少し話すと、「このレベルのものはAIが作れるんだ」という感覚じゃないかなと感じました。たとえば別の言い方をすると、このレベルのものを軽んじて、あまり注目を向けないという感覚なのかなということです。それは、意識がより高いレベルや抽象度の高い方に向かうとも言えますが、似たようなものを人間が作った場合に、それを軽視するという危険性もありそうです。
もしかしたらこれは、AIが作ったものに対する嫌悪感の言語化かもしれませんが、まだはっきりとは分かりません。今はまだ人間側が、AIが作るものに対して「こんなものまで作れるんだ、すごい」という感覚を抱くものですが、それは「人間が作ったもののレベルまで近づいたんだ」という驚きであるということ。
でも、その驚きの前提としては、「人間が作ったものを見て、自分が感動した経験」みたいなものがあるわけです。でももしも、これから生まれてくる人が「人間が作ったものを見て、感動する」よりも前に、AIが作ったものを大量に見るとしたら、人間が作ったものを見て驚くその度合いは小さくなるのかもしれません。（そんなに単純じゃないかもしれません。）
あまりまとまってない話ですけど、とりあえずメモ。
From: 
@hyuki結城浩 / Hiroshi Yuki
https://social.hyuki.net/@hyuki/114432236611234328
Me, a reviewer: Well I’ll get to it in the next six weeks
Me, a submitter: it’s been 2 hours; what is wrong with these people?
eslint/core v0.14.0 has been released!
Another kind of bug revealed by including tests in your coverage:
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
process_data("bad data 1")
process_data("bad data 2") # never executed!
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202008/you_should_include_your_tests_in_coverage.html
@stefano@bsd.cafeStefano Marinelli One queation about your blog, do you ever try to write for people who have no experience, no skills in setting up servers, maintaining servers, or do you only write for people who work in IT and sysadmin, but for people who have no knowledge the blog is not for them will not try to teach them anything?買堆高機送媽媽wwwwww
#61.10 ❓
Sharing some professional news: I've joined Mastodon full-time as Head of Communications! After freelancing with the project since 2023, I'm excited to bring my experience in open source and community to help tell the story of the Fediverse. Read more on my blog.
Redis is open source again https://antirez.com/news/151
Funny how when you come back from a convention like #ExcavaCon, you start noticing the topics of the talks all around you.
@dabeazDavid Beazley Do you offer a beginner Rust course? The courses on your site seem to be for experienced Rust users.
#1ermai #1ermai2025
Un pays qui se tient sage
Meanwhile, working on an elevator hardware simulator. The question is whether or not anyone will be able to write software that can control it without crashing. https://dabeaz.com/rusty_elevator.html.
Someone knocked all my shampoo bottles down. I asked the cat, but he didn't know either.
you think Vibe Coding is bad?
the phrase "Vibe Surgery" popped into my head today. 😖
Are you getting warnings that your corporate password is about to expire?
Put your device in the freezer before the expiration date. Freezing your password will preserve it, keeping it safe to consume for up to four weeks!
Follow me for more #infosec tips.
for the expert #linux laptop hardware users out there, these 3 are basically the same right?
- #tuxedo - https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen9-AMD.tuxedo#specs
- #slimbook - https://slimbook.com/en/evo
- https://laptopwithlinux.com/product/tongfang-gx4/
any useful reviews out there?
interested in hearing about noise, heat and robustness of the chasis. and if there are any hacks for potentially using archlinux.
I think that for a new job they will force me a macbook as everyone does & I'm sounding things out to see if I can suggest something else.
This has been used so out of context. Further studies show that yes, transgender youth who transition can later achieve orgasm even if they transition young, and lead very satisfying sex lives. See this study: academic.oup.com/jsm/article-...
À la suite de ses annonces de début d'année, l'équipe 
@Mastodon donne des nouvelles, et dit que la création d'une entité à but non-lucratif est en cours de finalisation. (probablement une non-profit international basée en Belgique comme 
@renchapRenaud Chaput avait annoncé)
Les prochaines étapes : le step down d'Eugen Rochko comme PDG de Mastodon GmBH (la société ayant perdu son label "non-profit" qui héberge Mastodon), et le transfert de l'intégralité de la propriété intellectuelle du projet et des assets à la nouvelle entité européenne.
👏
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/
(schéma par 
@nclmnicolas ⁂)
Bravo aussi à @Mastodon pour leurs nouveaux recrutements au sein de l'équipe, qui viendront accélérer l'impressionnant travail de développement du projet Mastodon, jusqu'alors réalisé par une poignée de personnes (+ contributions bénévoles) ! 🔥
Si vous le pouvez, donnez au projet Mastodon, qui vit en grande partie du crowdfunding : https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate
Pour rappel, Piaille reverse chaque année 10% des dons reçus au projet Mastodon ! https://www.helloasso.com/associations/piaille
I just found out that Patrick Widmer has packaged Goguma for Alpine!
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/81343
I'm impressed: Flutter is quite difficult to bootstrap, especially on non-x86 non-glibc. Thanks Patrick!
If one wants to create a small social experience with the ethos of (and connections to) the #fediverse, but with a feature set that is a mix between #Mastodon (with personal feeds) and traditional forums (for group discussions), is there anything available to do that? Is this what 
@bonfire is aiming for?
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please dont tarrif the island inhabited solely by penguins thats where linux gets made
Darius Kazemi
Glyph
Simon Ser
쯔방 
just small circles 🕊
