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So theyโre letting me host a session the #Fedicon conference on August 1st in Vancouver, BC ๐จ๐ฆ
Iโll probably ramble about: #Music, #UX, and #Commerce on the #Fediverse
What do you all want to talk about?
An online searchable reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines https://lobste.rs/s/nmu0qm #performance
https://simd.info/
It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else
A question for all non-Note focused #ActivityPub developers and thinkers:
Should we ever think of a way how to embed ActivityPub objects into others (in the content)? E.g. embedding a Question object within a long Article?
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@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle 
@smallcirclesjust small circles ๐ 
@evanEvan Prodromou
Feel free to tag more people in replies!
I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.
I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.
I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.
"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph youโre stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.
I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.
I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.
I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.
I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.
I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.
I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.
"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph youโre stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.
HP is introducing a way to track maintenance data for secondhand laptops securely. They say the system will reduce e-waste, improve IT managers' decisions with accurate and up-to-date histories, and boost device security.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/carmax-used-pcs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
i feel like i heard that seeing cute things helps with coding... or maybe i'm wrong...??? 
random reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers
wayback is now fully on freedesktop: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback
thanks to 
@nealNeal Gompa (ใใผใซใปใดใณใ) 
for driving this, and 
@mupufMartin Roukala (nรฉ Peres) for doing the sysadmin work on freedesktop gitlab!
yes, I am married. โฆ and I have a five-year old boy. โค๏ธ roe.dev/ama #ama
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I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow
Link: https://github.com/oisee/zvdb-z80/blob/master/ZVDB-Z80-ABAP.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487110
Confession: I get mildly stressed when people list their pronouns as "any" because then I worry I'm picking wrong but they won't tell me I picked wrong because they said "any", but ACTUALLY wanted specific ones but said "any" because ...
@azonenbergAndrew Zonenberg 
@jpmJoel Michael also "software reset" and "general call"
@whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง @azonenbergAndrew Zonenberg @jpmJoel Michael special shout out to my house's German HRV system which uses 5 volt i2c for the bus from the ventilation unit to the wired remote, and the ventilator shoots raw 7-segment display data at general call while the remote(s) send button presses to... general call also
wayback is now fully on freedesktop: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback
thanks to @nealNeal Gompa (ใใผใซใปใดใณใ) for driving this, and @mupufMartin Roukala (nรฉ Peres) for doing the sysadmin work on freedesktop gitlab!
i wish bsky notificaitons would "consolidate" as in like i dont need an individual notif every time a single person likes my RT lol ๐
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@swetlandBrian Swetland @whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง oooh i2c (and SMBus) are *way* more cursed than you realize. those two buses aren't 100% compatible. the data hold timing is different by 100ns, so it is possible to make a host that is i2c compliant but won't work with certain smbus devices. i've seen this in the wild. smbus has different logic levels. a lot of i2c/smbus devices cannot handle saturated accesses at the full 100/400KHz clock rate.
@swetlandBrian Swetland @whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง my favorite is that i2c eeprom devices that put extra memory address bits in their i2c address behave differently depending on the brand. some devices latch those bits only when you write the internal address counter, others update them from the values at the start of every transfer...
@whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง
Thinking further, I feel like the best advice for using I2C in designs is:
(a) don't
(b) if you must, limit it to exactly two devices per bus
(c) you probably should ensure you can reset or power cycle the target though, just in case
(d) in the event of b and c you now have a solid 40% chance of things mostly working
(e) or you might get something like that QCT I2C controller that sometimes wedges on transfers of lengths it dislikes and remains that way until SoC reset...
@swetlandBrian Swetland @whitequarkโงโฆCatherineโฆโง oooh i2c (and SMBus) are *way* more cursed than you realize. those two buses aren't 100% compatible. the data hold timing is different by 100ns, so it is possible to make a host that is i2c compliant but won't work with certain smbus devices. i've seen this in the wild. smbus has different logic levels. a lot of i2c/smbus devices cannot handle saturated accesses at the full 100/400KHz clock rate.
Omg I love this illustration by ActivityPub for WordPress with wapuu, and Pixelfed/Ghost/Mastodon mascots ๐
Source: https://activitypub.blog/2025/07/09/7-0-0-i-will-follow-you/
be careful to update freebsd to 14.3 when you are desktop with desktop environment and drm-kmod after upgrade the drm-kmod will not run correctly see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287069
I am fighting with that whole day and still no win.
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My brain interprets certain female faces as "me," but not my own face. Likewise, in my dreams, I can project a full female body for myself and a face that registers as "me" to go with it even though I've never experienced either in real life.
Like, if you take trans / intersex brain differences seriously, you start to see why there is so much apparent overlap between us and autistic and ADHD people. It's less "my brain is broken" than it expects different inputs.
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Posts are nice and all, but long, in-depth conversations in the replies are what make the Fedi fun for me.
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Not very much retro activities this week, but plenty of R'n'R with family and friends, very much needed! ๐๏ธ๐
What would it look like for our universities to be "radically abundant"? To not be governed by logics of scarcity and precarity, but instead by logics of radical abdundance and sufficiency? What would it look like if they were actually run democratically, and actively working towards dismantling the structures of power that fuel climate breakdown, genocide, fascism and war?
Most importantly, how do we get there?
Our new paper "Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation" provides a contribution towards answering these questions.
We present a vision for an academic system centered on public provisioning and communal sharing, rather than the currently dominant state of artificial scarcity. We then make use of the โstrategic canvas for degrowth,โ developed by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, as inspired by the work of Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright, to understand how power is today challenged within the universityโs walls, and how transformation towards radically abundant alternatives can be enacted.
#Degrowth #Academia #Decolonisation #RadicalAbundance #Capitalism #Democracy #Strategy #Transformation
What I'm listening to today: "TD-3 // RD-6 + volca FM = f u n k", Ricardo Schnidrig
Here cheap Behringer reproductions of the Roland 303 and 606, both running at maybe half the tempo those machines are usually run at, combine with an entire garage workbench worth of guitar pedals to make some *unbelievably* laid back acid atop a foamy wall of phased FM. Cool and dreamy and a little bit hypnotic.
What I'm listening to today: "Scarlet Skies", CorvusScribe
This is a chiptune piece on the 4-channel POKEY chip that handled sound and random number generation on the Atari 400 and 800 computers, plus most of Atari's 80s arcade games (Missile Command, Centipede etc).
This one's all big crashing chords, epic and dramatic. Sometimes you just want to listen to some PWMed square waves. The visualization in the video looks pretty cool.
Announcing TypeScript 5.9 Beta | by Daniel Rosenwasser.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-9-beta/
Humanize something free of error
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e9170e2de1 (upstream/main) Bump version to v4.4.1 (#35329)
5cfc1fabcf Fix nearly every sub-directory being crawled as part of Vite build (#35323)
786b12e379 Relax error restriction in initializer (#35321)
e7c5c25de8 Fix replying from media modal or pop-in-player tagging user `@undefined` (#35317)
a1e8813522 Emoji Indexing and Search (#35253)
76c1446416 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#35310)
8bd2c87399 Fix support for special characters in various environment variables (#35314)
1e2d77f2c7 Use `if_exists: true` when removing duplicate indexes (#35309)
fb6c22f5c2 Use `touch` to record viewing annual report (#35296)
f7259f625f Prefer `on: :update` in Tag validation declaration (#35297)
This open-source bot blocker shields your site from pesky AI scrapers - here's how https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-open-source-bot-blocker-shields-your-site-from-pesky-ai-scrapers-heres-how/ by 
@sjvn
Fed up with #AI companies scraping your site's content? Meet Anubis, the self-hosted, proof-of-work firewall that's stopping AI bots in their tracks.
Does anyone on the Fediverse who runs #FreeBSD ever got WINE to work properly in 14.3? It just won't play games. I get weird memory issues.
If you do run FreeBSD and WINE to run Windows apps, please share how you got it working. Thanks!
Boosts very welcome!
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