@purpleidea CNCF is part of LF. I get a lot of spam from them every time I need to give the LF a new email address (because they fundamentally do not understand identity in a useful way).

@buherator @lauriewired @kenshirriff No offence taken, I just wanted to clarify the difference in approaches. I believe IBM i had a similar flow of being driven by requirements from the mainframe software teams. Intel famously does not talk to compiler people until they've finalised an ISA.

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures (Ed Zitron on wheresyouredat)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

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Next year is going to be big. Well, I personally don't think it'll be big, but if you ask the AI industry, here's the things that will happen by the end of 2026
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How much of this actually sounds plausible to you?
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"the banks turned to their pet politicians and begged for a bailout – and they got it. One that we’re still paying back today (the UK is just about to sell off its last few shares in some of the banks it nationalised in 2008 – at a loss compared to what it bought the shares for and without ever using its ownership stake to reform the banks or use them for the public good)" -- @thecommongreen

https://thecommongreen.scot/2025/05/25/burning-down-the-house-of-cards/

“I am disappointed in the discourse about AI because some people yell at me that my shiny new toys have terrible externalities that I am happy to ignore” is certainly a take.

@PattyHanson @lauren The really fun variant of thus is that a load of sites depend on cookies that the thing fetching the link preview will not have. I've lost count if the number of YouTube links where the summary is just 'before you continue to YouTube' and the URL is one of YouTube's ones with a random identifier. There is nothing telling me why I should go to the video. And it's YouTube, so I probably won't.

note to ui designers. when i'm reading a long piece of text. i select text while i read it. I select text while i read it!. i select the text using my mouse. while i read the text i often select the text. when i select the text i just want to select the text. i don't want to perform actions on the text. i don't want a popup menu to appear when i select the text. i don't want to accidentally click on a Share link. i want to select text while i read it

Any engagement with the Harry Potter franchise harms trans people.

I can’t believe we’re still having this conversation, but I still see people trying to justify their fandom.

Burn the fucking books.
https://sfba.social/@drahardja/114589167703194315

German politician Nico Semsrott has suggested that we give billionaires one year to solve the climate crisis. If they fail to do so, we should dispossess them. I think that’s a wonderful idea! It's never going to happen, but it's nice to dream.

@peter

I thought Borges' *Library of Babel* was just an intriguing fiction, but here we are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

if you have a library of 10,000 precious books containing thousands of years of human knowledge, and that library burns down, it's a tragedy. and it's the **exact same effect** if, instead of burning them, you mix those 10,000 books into a sea of 1,000,000,000 books that look exactly like them but contain fabricated content with no traceable record of who created them or why.

@kim_harding I am no longer willing to review papers for any venue that doesn't have an active plan for countering slop submissions. It is worth my time to review interesting papers in my field to learn about exciting new research, and reading and giving feedback on some mediocre research is an acceptable tradeoff. It is not worth my time to review AI generated nonsense, especially when double blind means I have no idea whether the results (as well as the writeup) are bullshit.

@kim_harding The only reason I am using a 9 Pro is that my 5T made an accidental trip through the washer dryer. It was working very well until then and would still be fast enough today.

@isagalaev @jamey The first new computer I got was a 166MHz Pentium clone, in 1996. It came with a 1 GB disk, on which I installed the newly released NT4. A friend with a Mac had a 2GB disk in a slightly older machine.

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse
Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse

@cast81 @lyndamerry484 They could have made the savings he claimed he would achieve by removing subsidies on Musk's companies.

@lproven They're also here!

@owlsintowels

@buherator @lauriewired @kenshirriff

Every ten years, Intel decides to build an architecture for which it is impossible to build a compiler. They did this with an iAPX432. They did it again with the i960. Then, again, with Itanium. Then a decade later with their exciting GPU architecture with the 2D register file. It's probably a sign of the decline of Intel that they haven't done this for more than a decade.

In contrast, we developed the CHERI ISA along with the compiler and OS and so are confident that it is actually usable by software.

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