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My personal request: if you see a headline that makes you feel a strong emotion, you should think about whether it’s actual for at least 20 seconds before boosting or typing out your opinion
The fuckyous will continue until morale improves:
NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
Link: https://qlabs.sh/slowrun
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251259
It's simplistic to replace "user" with "person" in technical discussions. Not every person described in a technical document is an end user; some are administrators, developers, designers, data objects, or other kinds of people. "User" is a role in technical systems, not a derogatory term, and we shouldn't treat it as such.
Home Assistant 2026.3 🎉
This month we focused on getting the amazing contributions from our community merged. 🤩 Send your vacuum to specific areas 🧹 wake word detection is now available on Android 🤖 and the energy dashboard shows real-time power consumption ⚡️
#SmartHome #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #Release
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/03/04/release-20263/
Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlookcom_email/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044
The cat is out of the box: 
@matrixThe Matrix.org Foundation is looking for a new Thib!
If you think you can be a good fit for the role, please send me an email explaining why and attach your CV.
If you tick most of the boxes but not all, please reach out nonetheless. It’s a tall order, but we have fantastic volunteers and a great handbook to help you settle into the role.
@evanEvan Prodromou My answer is a "No" without a but. Any form of classification or algorithmic unpacking reflects intent. Intent with bias. That cannot be seen or changed. No matter how much we try. That's at least my lesson based on many years of experience. And yes, I am fully aware that my personal timeline also reflects a lot of bias based on the people I follow. But that is ultimately a good thing in a world of disinformation and clickbait.
@jwildeboerJan Wildeboer 😷
What if the bias is on the users' part?
For example, if I create a list in Mastodon with the accounts of my close friends, that is an attempt on my part to stay better connected to those people and not lose their updates in the flow of the hundreds of other accounts I follow.
This is biased -- it assumes that a clearer view of my friends' posts will improve our relationships, and it also assumes that I know who my real friends are. But that's up to me to decide.
RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/116172656195255415
so Apple is selling the MacNeo with specs similar to the Dell Inspiron with soldered 8GB of RAM of 10 YEARS AGO?
why drop $600 on a laptop when you can get a used Dell laptop for 50 bucks at a Goodwill store?
oh, the keyboard is backlit, has more ports and the display is a touchscreen.
i know, cuz i use one for the “smart tv” i dumbed down on purpose to avoid the fuckery of Roku’s & TCL’s spyware.
“Claude has contributed to ZFS” is not a good look :(
그거 시그마 DP2(....)
いえーい！！
3月5日だなおすきさん
〜！！
😻😻😻24歳でーす！😽😽😽
Breaking news: Max Headroom, one of the greatest TV shows ever made, is free on Tubi.
I find the terrible Tubi ads really enhance the dystopia.
Today I discovered both a brilliant mug, and the University of North Texas’s extreme desire to avoid the joke of the brilliant mug
“DOJ Drops Defense Of Biglaw Executive Orders, Leaving Capitulating Firms Holding $940 Million Bag
Turns out the Executive Orders Biglaw feared aren’t worth defending after all.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/doj-drops-defense-of-biglaw-executive-orders-leaving-capitulating-firms-holding-940-million-bag/ #LawFedi
German folks: would you use "wunderschön!" as a standalone reply to something you thought was beautiful, or would you just go with "schön"? Or something else?
if I saw a nice photo posted on here, I might reply "beautiful!", and I'm wondering if "schön!" has equivalent vibes.
RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116171523767115603
Interesting how people value/prioritise different things. I'm just fine with 60Hz, but non-HiDPI/Retina screens literally give me headaches.
It's good that we have choices I suppose.
A ground up rewrite of a project transitively used by millions would be extremely concerning even without AI usage.
It raises serious questions of stewardship and the responsibility of project maintainers to not create unnecessary churn for downstream consumers.
Maybe this instance will be ~fine.
Maybe other projects get used to doing python3/vue3 level backwards compatibility breaks every few releases.
맥북 에어가 sRGB 99%된것도 몇년 안 되었는데 72% sRGB 때도 맥북 에어는 달라 하는 사람들을 가득 봐서 그냥 웃죠.
移動速度的な意味ですき
RE: https://layer8.space/@momar/116171818615455256
And we are already excited to house it very very soon 🥰
Shanty im Hochwasserzone🐕
Je suis tellement contente d'avoir réussi à ghoster Ghost aussi rapidement 
Les sites statiques avec écriture en markdown et prévisualisation en local on ne fait rien de mieux 🥰
... I fins aquí el primer dia del #msc26
Ha estat espectacular i ho penjaran a la web. Moltes felicitats i gràcies 
@setemcatSetem Catalunya
I gràcies a 
@dvdgmz 
@mogams 
@esenabreEnric Senabre Hidalgo i 
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ !
If you should ever find yourself with a lower leg injury that requires you to be non-weightbearing, try to get your hands on an iWALK knee crutch. It's an amazing piece of technology. Being able to walk around while still having the use of both hands (unlike crutches or a knee scooter) is so helpful. I can make a cup of coffee and carry it to the couch.
An interactive map of FLock Cams
Link: https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252049
I'm back to thinking about CSRF: why is it useful for sites to be able to embed resources (like <img src="othersite.com/whatever.jpg">) and for the browser to send the user's cookies to the third-party site?
There's "ads" and "tracking" obviously but I feel like there's another actually-useful-to-users reason I'm not thinking of
Because I was curious: The last Mac laptop to ship without a backlit keyboard was the 2010 polycarbonate unibody MacBook.
Every Mac laptop sold since the 2011 MacBook Air has had one. Well, until now.
Not the only thing that‘s missing, either.
https://512pixels.net/2026/03/the-differences-between-the-macbook-neo-and-macbook-air/
The Technical Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air - 512 Pixels
With a price point of $599 (or $499 for students!) Apple had to make some cuts when designing the MacBook Neo. Here’s a list of what separates the MacBook Neo from the $1099 MacBook Air, besides their sizes: Only supports 8 GB of unified memory No MagSafe One of the two USB-C ports is limited […]
512pixels.net · 512 Pixels
Link author: 
Stephen Hackett@ismh86@eworld.social
@evanEvan Prodromou who is "we" in "can we create and use...." ?
@awol4t people on the Fediverse. Us. You and me and everyone here.
Shanty mit Krokos🐕
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RE: https://layer8.space/@momar/116171818615455256
And we are already excited to house it very very soon 🥰
Python Illustrated -- a Purrfect Book for New Programmers https://slott56.github.io/2026-03-04_python_illustrated.html
AT&TのIPアドレスから絨毯爆撃どばー。携帯電話なのかしら携帯電話網へのルータみたいなのかしら
I mean when I check my feed much of the Bluesky eng team seems to be posting about how great Claude is all the time so I have been background wondering how common vibecoding is in that ecosystem
It's me, the person who Causes Discourse but is Reasonably Nice About It but not everyone else involved is as careful with language and maybe not everyone else should or needs to be but ultimately the people involved aren't sure whether to be mad at her or mad at the people reading what she says or maybe this whole thing is in her head
A ground up rewrite of a project transitively used by millions would be extremely concerning even without AI usage.
It raises serious questions of stewardship and the responsibility of project maintainers to not create unnecessary churn for downstream consumers.
Maybe this instance will be ~fine.
Maybe other projects get used to doing python3/vue3 level backwards compatibility breaks every few releases.
똥이 계속 묽은 감이 있어서 걱정돼
침대 위에 샨티 침대 놓고도 자봤는데 일단 좁고 샨티한테 너무 높다
I ship out tomorrow morning for #SCaLE23x , where I'll be supporting the civic data nonprofit 
@civicband !
It's my first SCaLE ever and I'd love to meet some of you. If you're attending, please come through the booth and say hi!
그래도 샨티 침대 내 침대 바로 옆으로 옮기기 성공 헤헤
발코니랑 창고는 시작도 안했음
As for the nation’s literature, Brandeis may have been the first .. to refer to the Constitution as a “living organism, capable of growth and adaptation.”
“This approach allows the fresh context of the present to perform alchemy with the wisdom of the past, to offer new ways to make the law and faith relevant and responsive to present conditions,” he said. “Prophetic witness cannot set its gaze backward on a frozen history with an unrecognizable context. Instead, it faces forward, informed by the past, yet determined to bring back vision into the world in the present age.”
This no longer works, unfortunately.. how does the constitution change when it is effectively impossible to amend due to Constitutional Calcification .. only "interpret" through a ridiculously gerrymandered (thanks Mitch M) SCOTUS? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116115405545619662
봄맞이 청소가 끝이 없다;;;
New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice
Link: https://folding-sky.com/blog/ny-senate-bill-s7263-chatbot-liability
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250286
Hey, if you're going to be #scale23x, I'll be there exhibiting @civicband, the civic data / #OpenData nonprofit I've been working on.
It would be great to see you, please stop by!
"Archi, a Daghestanian language traditionally assigned to Lezgian group, has an amazingly rich system of inflectional morphology. The mere size of verbal paradigm strains credibility: grammar description calculates that a verb has in principle 1,502,839 forms (Kibrik et al, 1977)."
https://www.digitorient.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Chumakina122004.pdf
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Inside Fediverse
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