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Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

Link: https://loss32.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173

#linux

Mutual grooming this #TongueOutTuesday 😺 #cats #CatsOfMastodon

So, I just read Ed Zitron long post on AI bubble, backed by hard sources and digits and it's a masterpiece.

It's long, but there's so many things in it:

• a 4th stage of @pluralisticCory Doctorow enshittification where VC are the turkey being roasted, companies manipulating stock price to drain them,
• and so the vanishing of available liquidity for VC,
• the fact that there's only 2 buyers of GPU-backed datacentres appart hyperscalers, none of which able to pay for them,
• datacenter that ate unlikely to be built on time or budget, because the projects are insane,
• datacenters obsoletes before even being built, built on a ever increasing debt based funding,
• starting to makes banks very uncomfortable,
• and that nobody has a path towards profitability in the whole chain of AI providers,
• apart NVIDIA which is massively lying about a lot of things and manipulating the stock price in diverse ways,
• and that there doesn't seem to be an analyst worth his bullshit in peanuts and able to even ask "how the physical world accommodates to your insane projected numbers?" "In what timeline?"

This is going to be a massive, fucking collapse with very real ripples up to the very real public banks having put tens of billions in that scam.

And so I think that there's a 5th stage of enshittification : the one where states are enshitified, being used as collateral of last resort, socializing the risk and greed of parasites, holding the bezel for even longer because if it fails, the country collapse.

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Which timeline do you read more?

#EvanPoll #poll

#TuxieTuesday kitten gang 🐱 #FosterKittens #cats #CatsOfMastodon

Neutering day! Shhh, don’t tell him the details 🤫 Good luck little Elvin. You’ll be in your forever home soon! 😺 #FosterKittens #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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@stocker stockstart CVNLvXS16M #notestocklogincode

i turned off altbot for now.

a conversation happened that i need to sit with and that i want others to read and also to consider: https://ieji.de/@anantagd/115804706509841365

Not trying to drag on @codinghorrorJeff Atwood here - but I’ve seen this repeated a few places and he just ends up being the convenient toot (he retooted it into his own timeline so I’m not picking out of a thread here.)

This is correct. LLMs are a tool. They can be dangerous when used wrong but helpful when used correctly. Academically correct.

The problem is that the way they’re being sold and the way they’re being implemented is incorrect. And that’s human nature.
https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115809981895624727

The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It https://lobste.rs/s/w2wpls #programming
https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it

@glasspusherglasspshr @AlterNewtNewt @biff52 That was a neighbor cat named Tough Boy. He lived to be 20, then disappeared. He was a sweet guy and hid out with us a lot because their neighbors' son got a psycho German shepherd.

Proof of Life toot.

Not to BRAG or anything, but I'm really good at identifying kitty cats. :3

@codinghorrorJeff Atwood An irony is I think most LLMs are trained up on Stack Overflow content, so your experience in this domain probably primes you to formulate the right question patterns 😅

🚨Ebook Sale alert! Today only, A DEADLY EDUCATION is $1.99 at all major ebook retailers. ❄️Whether you’re curling up to stay cozy & warm on this chilly day, or just chilling while you wait to ring in the 🥂new year, 🎉 come vibe at a magical school that’s trying to kill the students.

🎁Add to your library, or gift a New Year’s gift to a friend! https://lnk.bio/naominovik

youtu.be/ca49xOubdys?... 이채널은 새 영상 올라올때마다 꼬박꼬박 들어가서 챙겨보는데 진짜 퀄리티가 대단함 많은 경우 AI가 불필요한(?) 영상/음성/텍스트를 만들어내지만 이분은 유용하게 잘쓰고 계신듯

'제가 고쳐드릴게요.' 영화처럼 보는 SCP 이야기 [...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonafato/115112797225187677

Today is not Friday, but we are down to the final hours for a lot of folks who are able to take advantage of things like employer matches during fundraising drives. If you have that or other reasons to donate to organizations before the end of the year, let this be a reminder.

Five Years of Tinygrad

Link: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757

@raganwaldraganwald 🍓 @baldurBaldur Bjarnason yeah, but I FUCKING HATE all software by default -- I really do -- and I do not hate LLMs. I was surprised, too. Turns out, if you know how to ask good questions (cough) the pro / paid LLMs can save you a fair bit of time. Again -- anyone who doesn't believe this, block off two hours for a call with me and I'll go over about a dozen great examples I experienced personally that saved me, and my team, many hours. Like any tool, it can be misused, abused, or stab you in the eye if you don't wear proper eye protection. But to argue that it is a binary "100% PERFECT" or "ABSOLUTE CRAP DESTROYING THE WORLD FOREVER" is just.. really not true. I regret being the bearer of, well, reasonable news.. but LLMs are in fact quite useful for a number of tasks. Are they worth ten trazillion billion dollars? I mean, I dunno? Is there a gold rush mentality? For sure. But unlike the first dot-com bubble there is real utility here. Disagree all you want, but that's a fact, Jack.

Fun Interrail quirk: the passes are based on calendar months, so a 1 month pass started on January 31st lasts for three days (1 before, two after) longer than a pass started on February 1st

Wow, it actually came out. I figured it was missing its vague 2025 release date but squeaked in just before the deadline. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3390980/DaemonBrideADDITIONAL_GAIN

A bit of a late and lazy start for the day as befits the holiday spirit, but I will be streaming in a few over at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ and we're going to draw some translucent arcs on the screen

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@raganwaldraganwald 🍓 @baldurBaldur Bjarnason yeah, but I FUCKING HATE all software by default -- I really do -- and I do not hate LLMs. I was surprised, too. Turns out, if you know how to ask good questions (cough) the pro / paid LLMs can save you a fair bit of time. Again -- anyone who doesn't believe this, block off two hours for a call with me and I'll go over about a dozen great examples I experienced personally that saved me, and my team, many hours. Like any tool, it can be misused, abused, or stab you in the eye if you don't wear proper eye protection. But to argue that it is a binary "100% PERFECT" or "ABSOLUTE CRAP DESTROYING THE WORLD FOREVER" is just.. really not true. I regret being the bearer of, well, reasonable news.. but LLMs are in fact quite useful for a number of tasks. Are they worth ten trazillion billion dollars? I mean, I dunno? Is there a gold rush mentality? For sure. But unlike the first dot-com bubble there is real utility here. Disagree all you want, but that's a fact, Jack.

I'm so glad macOS has had a compose function for the keyboard (option-key + regular key) for basically as long as it has exists (I know it was at least in macOS 6? Maybe earlier, but that's all kinda blury now. I can't imagine what horrible travesty Ive and Cook would have come up with.

I’ve published a retrospective on Django On The Med 🏖️

It’s a follow-up written a few months later, reflecting on what worked, what didn’t, and the value that emerged beyond GitHub activity, when the focus was on people and being together.

https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/30/django-on-the-med-a-contributor-sprint-retrospective/

#Django #OpenSource #Community #Sprints #DjangoOnTheMed

CC @carltonCarlton Gibson

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Jade, world champion head-tilter.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

#Catima 2.41.0 is out!

https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/releases/tag/v2.41.0

This release adds support for UTF-8 barcodes (by default, the encoding will be extracted from the pkpass file or auto-detected if set otherwise).

It also contains some bugfixes and UI tweaks.

Due to Google dropping Android 5 compatibility in their libraries, this will be the last release available for Android 5.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Important talk by @Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker and Udbhav Tiwari on the immediate and serious threat to privacy and data security posed by "Agentic AI" like MS Copilot and similar.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

#39c3

While I often use #openstreetmap and especially the excellent @organicmaps app, I wonder if there is an alternative to reviews on #googlemaps?

Is there any #opensource solution - ideally even #federated?

Having a solution based on #activitypub that allows reviews for POIs on @openstreetmap might be very interesting and open a lot of opportunities.

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network

Link: https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432999

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

Link: https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435418

*smiffsmiffsmiff*

"By 2003, with the blogosphere now established, music fans had begun to gravitate to blogs to pontificate about the music and artists they loved."

https://cybercultural.com/p/mp3-blogs-2003/

#music #history #TheWeb #internet #cyberculture

Important talk by @Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker and Udbhav Tiwari on the immediate and serious threat to privacy and data security posed by "Agentic AI" like MS Copilot and similar.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

#39c3

Alle aufgezeichneten Talks vom #39c3 finden sich hier https://media.ccc.de/tags/39c3

Meine persönlichen Hilights:

- Fossile Industrie liebt KI
- Power cycles statt Burnout, wie Einflussnahme nicht verpufft
- „KI“, Digitalisierung und Longevity als Fix für ein kaputtes Gesundheitssystem?
- Brennende Wälder und Kommentarspalten
- The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber
- Klar, das Känguru...
- persist, resist, stitch

Ich hab bei Weitem nicht alles gesehen...

*smiffsmiffsmiff*

This year, Grok was reprogrammed to say Elon Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/

Approachable Swift Concurrency

Link: https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432916

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby

Link: https://charm-ruby.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430558

Stop blaming @chillybotChilly 🛡️ for the chilly weather 😭

Initial impression of Mastodon…
(image source thanks to @jsitJay: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrqzp-F420/)

single quote your strings

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/single-quote/