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LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful https://lobste.rs/s/qauaqt #vibecoding
https://blog.kagi.com/llms
What Killed Perl?
Link: https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977900
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https://gist.github.com/zunda/2189218dbf77e7f22c99094c567813a5#file-master-master-sh
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@EUCommissionEuropean Commission Fuck this simplicity!!! We need protection from "ai" and those stupid American Big tech companies!
@uberprutserRolingMetal @EUCommissionEuropean Commission
You want simplicity? How about this simple solution: you 100% absolutely and fully prohibit any citizen's private data being fed to any #AI whatsoever under any circumstances. Can't get much simpler, no?
Can we put it on referendum to see which percentage of #EU citizens would prefer that form of simplicity over your idea of "let's simply abolish last remains of privacy rights EU citizens still have so greedy companies will be able to bribe us better"?
Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission We do not need AI leadership, in fact we need the exact opposite: protection from AI and a guarantee that our data won't be fodder for Silicon Valley. This is a sad, shameful and objectively bad strategy.
Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.euEuropean Commission You simplify nothing. You just eradicate privacy in Europe. And worse, for false marketing assertions for a fascist technologyโฆ
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Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission Youโre giving a green light to corporations to use our sensitive data, like e.g. health data for data mining. Youโre also set on bringing back chat control through the backdoor, and youโre significantly weakening the GDPR. Thatโs not a win. Thatโs cow towing to the tech fascists.
Reform politician suspended from Welsh Parliament over racial slur
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crregkj885do?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission are these the watered down privacy rules that will profit American companies?
Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission "we killed privacy rights for our citizens because AI warriors asked us to"
Fixed it for you
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Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission You're not simplifying, you're destroying some the basic principles of the GDPR. As many experts already stated.
Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission
"Cut red tape", AKA let the american megacorps do whatever they want with Europe
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Simplicity is on Europeโs digital menu ๐ช
Our new Digital Package could save businesses โฌ5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Hereโs how โ
๐ Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
๐ Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
๐ฑEuropean Business Wallet to cut red-tape and facilitate cross-border operations
By simplifying digital rules, we can lower costs and unlock innovation โ all while safeguarding privacy, fairness, and security.
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission
Are you kidding us? You are demolishing our digital rights and have the audacity to try and sell it back to us as a nice little improvement? A mere simplification?!
Has it become too hard for you to advocate for people's rights? Our rights? Does putting businesses over people and caving in to corporate greed make everything SIMPLER for you? Is that the simplification you are really talking about?
Well, let me tell you, we won't SIMPLY forget that! We will vote again some day.
US gov is giving $1bn for Microsoft to restart a nuclear power plant at a former nuclear power plant disaster site, because AI. https://gizmodo.com/us-approves-1b-loan-to-restart-three-mile-island-as-microsoft-data-centers-drive-demand-2000688138
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Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
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A new update for Hacktivate is out now, introducing 10 new challenges from Iron Star in Europe. These are some of my best yet, so I'm looking forward to hearing what you think! ๐ https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hacktivate-capture-the-flag/id6748286602
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@alexmu But we do know the right level! They are the boundaries at which we accept the user data coming from outside the system. For example in Haskell or Java, I'd propagate such errors to a boundary and make a decision there instead of crashing at somewhere deep in in the program. I think it is a culture thing.
very long blather about rust errors
@abnvAbhinav ๐ @alexmu so .. folks don't always discuss this in presentations of rust errors (and I'm not here to totally defend where rust errors wound up) but the question of recovery boundaries was _central_ to the design discussions and iterations.
many of us had experienced working in C++ (or eg. Java) where "pervasive exceptions from any possible expression" + "lots of mutable state that touches all other mutable state" meant that there was rarely any place in a real-world try/catch programs where a catch would actually wind up with a program in a safe, non-corrupt state.
(there's a whole literature about this in C++ called "exception safely levels" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_safety#Classification -- which of course nothing can check or reason about statically and most programs completely fail to adhere to. It's extremely hard to even consistently write exception-safe C++ destructors.)
in addition, there are a bunch of things in C++ at least that _don't_ throw, but _do_ kill the process. and that's going to be true in most systems languages. rust has unsafe! and if you segfault or execute an illegal instruction your process is toast.
given that, we saw and continue to see a lot of programs adopt "process boundary" as the safe(r) boundary for "major error recovery". web browsers and many network servers for example tend to do process separation. so there was an argument that "unrecoverable error that kills the process" is probably a good primitive concept to include, and for super-pervasive errors they should probably be routed into there.
but of course, not all errors are fatal, and some are a bit more "expected" and _some_ seem meaningfully recoverable (eg. see the distinctions between checked and unchecked exceptions in Java), and so we iterated a bunch on the question of lesser types of error (including a condition-handling system a bit more like common lisp) and ultimately landed on the result type, and a copy of Swift's ? operator for propagating it, which is .. eh .. ok? not great but at least fairly explicit and well-marked, and easier to reason about than "every expression everywhere might throw mid-evaluation".
the result is a bit of a muddle. error and result shipped with too little support for abstraction and composition, and there are probably too many ways to panic, and unwinding and unwind-catching is a thing of arguable utility (I'd kinda prefer to remove both). but the whole design does have a rationale behind it, it's not just foolishness. at worst I'd say "they shipped something incomplete under time pressure and limited information about how it'd wind up being used".
Google AI is scraping entire websites without consent of owners and generating their own versions. Pop AI bubble, pop! (Court document showing Google drew 'hard red line' on publisher choice)
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Build a Stranger Things Wall You Can Freak Out At In Your Own Home
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/19/build-a-stranger-things-wall-you-can-freak-out-at-in-your-own-home/
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5 min scrolling on bsd.cafe gives you more cool news and stuff compared to the two hours I managed to watch Microsoft Ignite yesterday..
Keep it up guys
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Hello you fine Internet folks,
I was in San Diego last week to Qualcomm's headquarters where Qualcomm disclosed more information about their upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite.
Hope y'all enjoy!
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/qualcomms-snapdragon-x2-elite
https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/11/19/qualcomms-snapdragon-x2-elite/
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Building with Distributed Actors: What and Why https://lobste.rs/s/z7hwno #programming
https://withblue.ink/2025/11/19/distributed-actors-model.html
A Function Inliner for Wasmtime and Cranelift https://lobste.rs/s/ywczyh #compilers #wasm
https://fitzgen.com/2025/11/19/inliner.html
Meta Segment Anything Model 3
Link: https://ai.meta.com/sam3/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073
The #FSF40 #hackathon is this weekend. Here's what you need to know: https://u.fsf.org/49h
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