Paxxi

ricci, 23 hours ago to random

At last, some information from Google that students can really use!

ernie, 21 hours ago to random

Hard to disagree with this take.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

Patricia, 1 day ago to random

Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

molly0xfff, 1 day ago to random

“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

mekkaokereke, 23 hours ago to random

Every Black rapper has a political opinion. Every single one. But you only hear about the political opinions of the ones that support Trump. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Because that's what US news, which is tuned for white eyes, pushes.

Many white Dems and white GOP folk genuinely believe that Black folk only vote for Black folk, and that Black folk blindly vote for whoever a Black celebrity tells them to vote for. They're genuinely surprised when Black folk don't vote for Kanyes or Hershels or Tim Scotts. Every time.

arne_mertz, 14 hours ago to random

New blog post: PayloadOffset_t: A small type design challenge
https://arne-mertz.de/2024/05/payloadoffset-type-design/

baldur, 16 hours ago to random

At least we can comfort ourselves with the thought that at least this AI Bubble shall pass too, leaving behind a new global infrastructure for fraud, misinformation, and spam, ensuring that everybody involved in implementing these models will have helped make the world much worse, contributing to our collective inability to fight the global climate crisis and paving the way for the return of fascism.

No, wait, that’s not comforting. That’s the other thing.

Patricia, 22 hours ago to random

People who think I was hash against the book should read it. But then really, actually read all of the words, and not give up, skim and start just looking at pictures and headlines.

mwichary, 1 day ago to random

Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.

BlackAzizAnansi, 2 days ago to random

What tech issue radicalized you?

NanoRaptor, 2 days ago to random

What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

typeswitch, 2 days ago to random

C library functions are always like: "SYNOPISIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check errno global to find out why."

Toastie, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Funniest thing I've read all day:

"the United States is committed to serving as a model in the international community in promoting and protecting the collective rights of #indigenous peoples as well as the human rights of all individuals."

https://www.achp.gov/sites/default/files/whitepapers/2018-09/AnnouncementofUSSupportfortheUNDRIP.pdf

josh, 2 days ago to foss

The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁

Let's not squander it!

A sold out #PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.

Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.

Who will it be? 👀

#HealthAndSafety #FOSS #OpenSource #PublicHealth

campuscodi, 2 days ago to random

Just think about it!

In just 14 days, Microsoft pivoted from "do security" in an internal memo on May 5 to "let's install spyware on everyone's PC" on May 21.

That must be a world record in bad corporate management

zadjii, 1 day ago to windows

oh I guess I made #sudo for #windows open source today at #msbuild

ripienaar, 1 day ago to random

Nice by February the Baltic states will disconnect from their current Russia/Belarus only power grid

Pretty serious preparations and all 3 countries have to cut over simultaneously apparently. What could possibly go wrong.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/23.05.2024-latvia-receives-massive-power-device-to-connect-to-europes-network.a555074/?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=links

gregsdennis, 2 days ago to dotnet

Just a reminder that if you'd like to promote continued development of JSON tech like #jsonschema #jsonpath and others in #dotnet, please consider sponsoring the #maintainers.

https://github.com/sponsors/gregsdennis
https://github.com/gregsdennis/json-everything

Also goes for any #opensource project.

Rhodium103, 2 days ago to random

GossiTheDog, 2 days ago to random

My favourite trope is people saying “you can’t do that, it’s against the law! GDPR!” to big tech companies… as they steal the world’s copyrighted material to train AI, run Washington DC, count almost every EU data regulator as email customers and fund anti-trans political candidates for commercial gain.

People think they’re holding spears but instead they’re armed with plastic forks from a chip shop.

KirillOsenkov, 2 days ago to random

Most important #MSBuild announcement from today:

MSBuild binlog viewer can now explain that a file is copied to output because it came from the output of a project reference (direct or transitive).

inthehands, 2 days ago to random

“The problem, as usual, is that the journalists covering the trial are writing for each other and their editors, rather than for the public at large.”

Ouch.

From @froomkin:
https://journa.host/@froomkin/112479764639969220

timnitGebru, 4 days ago to random

❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644