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Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.

Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."

He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.

Social-Media-Altersgrenzen, puh, ja. Ich sehe die Schmerzen und die Hilfslosigkeit der Eltern, und ich sehe einen massiven Druck, sich jetzt endlich der Welle pro Verbote anzuschließen.

Nur: Wenn wir den Kids Social-Media verbieten, werden sie erst recht nicht zu euch kommen, wenn da was schiefläuft. Und da gibt es Gefahren, keine Frage.

Aber wir haben ja auch Altersgrenzen für Alkohol? Ja. Aber würdet Ihr sagen, Social Media sind dasselbe? Ich glaube nicht. Da gibt's auch ..

PC 온라인 게임 어디까지 해봤어?! .. 빡겜 뿐만 아니라 "해본" 게임으로 범위를 넓히면 농담 아니라 여기 언급된거 전부 싹 다 해봤는데 찍먹조차 안해본 게임은 ㄹㅇ 하나도 안보임

Conversation this morning that, if I understood the details right, and my own understanding of how LLMs process data (reinforced by experience) is correct... epistemia is gonna bite a bunch of projects and companies so so hard in the the near future. It's gonna hurt, bad.

Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.

Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."

He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.

@dansup Are you the creator of this platforms?

"Claude will never deliberately include advertising" is not the same thing as "Claude will deliberately work to reduce advertising content that it outputs" which do you suppose they mean by "ad-free"?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gq4fo3u6tqzzdkjlwzpb23tj/post/3me26zvlvps2s

Want to know something funny? People in Spain don't speak Spanish. Spanish is a New World language. In Spain they speak Castellano, Gallego, Basque, Catalán, and a bunch of other languages. If you show up in Spain speaking Spanish, they'll understand you but that's not what they speak.

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.

This is what the patriarchy looks like when it wears a suit and has friends in high places.

We’ve seen this before.

1/n

실제로 정신과에도 들어가면 성경구절 써져있고 예수 십자가상 있고 그럼 위험 플래그이므로 얼른 도망가세요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Don't do it, @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠!

This is my face when modern Go self-tests that you can run during toolchain build require roughly 5 GBytes of temporary disk space.

(For Go people, this is './all.bash" on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, git tip.)

@rhizome Welcome!

Trying to decide if it is worth including diagrams and formulas in the empty space of my celestial sliderule (now with lunar timekeeping on the reverse side)

This makes me sad (been there). From Joe Menn at WaPo: "Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things."

케이토연구소 보고서에 따르면, 1994년부터 2023년까지 이민자는 세금 기여로 14조 5000억 달러의 재정 흑자를 창출했으며, 특히 서류 미비 이민자는 1조 7000억 달러의 재정 흑자를 만들었다. 이민자는 세금 납부 비중이 높고, 교육, 복지, 교정시설 등 정부 서비스 지출 비중은 낮다는 분석 www.fortunekorea.co.kr/news/article...

“불법 이민자가 적자 줄였다” 30년 데이터가 뒤집은 ...

Can someone let me know the average cooking time for fish?

I can't locate one of those handy time tables on the microwave in the employee break room.

왕빵빵톡겨

@mcc Very much like the Rapture that inspired it: the point of that is not the going to heaven, everyone always said you could do that, but the going to heaven without the painful scary dying bit first.

@mcc to be fair some of them just think that if they cause it, they can control it

I can't believe I've waited this long to create this stupid shell function:

```
rfc() {
local rfc="rfc${1##rfc}";
curl -s "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/${rfc}.txt" | ${PAGER:-more}
}
```

I got a beautiful bunch of okra when I was up in the 505 last weekend. Anyone have an okra recipe that they like? #food #cooking #okra

all of mastodon encapsulated in one Wilson comic by daniel clowes

@wjmaggoswilliam.maggos i got the full the #forkiverse experience and can tell you it's been amazing. As most, at least in the very first days, I thought this is what all of fedi is like. If we can, we will continue to partake in any positive development 🙌

Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-to-retire-ingress-nginx/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn

You could keep running Ingress NGINX on #Kubernetes without support; it would be really stupid, but you could!

The Great Unwind

Link: https://occupywallst.com/yen
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008

Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile

Link: https://spritely.institute/goblins/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832606

With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org

We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.

“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”

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#linkrot

I know everything is overwhelming for a lot of folks but I have never, NEVER been in a moment in tech when so many people have *actually* been talking about people's need to learn and questioning the needs of their own minds. And that is really cool. It is a moment of flexibility to make new demands

Me, sitting bolt upright: if your company's principal reward and recognition framing is "exceeds expectations", what you're really being rewarded for is a safety buffer for the reward/recognition frame of the person above you on the orgchart.

Larissa Baca (@babaklarLarissa Baca) thinks we can best grow the Open Social Web by continuing to talk about how it benefits the community and how it is not run by tech giants who don’t care about people. For their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2:

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

My favorite media "joke" is the one where fake news stories describe the US as an unstable regime led by an incompetent strongman leader.

You know, the way US media portrays any country we're not supposed to like.

Only in this case, it's mostly true.

I've finally made it. I'm apparently famous enough to be impersonated by a scammer in Discord DMs.

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account"

If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others.

For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know that you may already have one; here's how you use it: https://www.augment.ink/the-everything-account/

now, i also don't mean that 'more lines of code is good', obviously. but just to characterize differences. i certainly wouldn't have written 708KLOC by hand in the past month

#ProtocolsForPublishers @kevinmarks.com@bsky.brid.gyKevin Marks : I'm going to be live skeeting the Protocols for Publishers talks at Newspeak House tonight https://luma.com/2d2s26jg

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

The Everything Account

If you're curious, from 2026-01-02 to 2026-02-03, i apparently did: 10,638 Messages +708,462/-172,910 Lines 6416 Files 19 Days 559.9 Msgs/Day what's really wild is that i feel like i could do way more than this, actually.

just found out claude code has `/insights` aka claude code wrapped it produces an html page with details about your usage and suggestions for using the tool more effectively extremely interesting

Blood pressure 420/69

anyway sorry still at the 'barely coherent' stage here, haha

by the same token (bad pun), using English to generate code is also a form of leverage. a little prompt can make a lot of code. the core difference between a lever and an llm is that the lever doesn't have semantic drift. that's the challenge of effective tool usage here

type-system-j https://lobste.rs/s/0m2dw3 #apl #plt
https://github.com/Pascal-J/type-system-j