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Fabio 10 ore fa • friendica

mmmmmh

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Hypolite Petovan 8 ore fa • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Fabio Same energy as this article lamenting the web page clutter, shown behind a cookie dialog, a subscription modal and a notification/location permission request popup.

@Fabio

Tom Gauld 16 ore fa (Ricevuto 10 ore fa) • ActivityPub

My next book of science cartoons Physics for Cats is available to preorder now! Links here: www.tomgauld.com

An image of the book 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. On the cover is an impossible shape against a starry sky. Gravity-defying cats wander around it.

tomgauld.com

^tomgauld.com

VessOnSecurity 1 giorno fa • mastodon (AP)

Q: Why do the French eat snails?

A: Because they don't like fast food.

Eli the Bearded 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • mastodon (AP)

Source unknown.

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The Zen Lady 4 giorni fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • mastodon (AP)

I didn't realize how rare it is to have a female all orange cat

scientificamerican.com/article…

This Strange Mutation Explains the Mystifying Color of Orange Cats

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studies

^{Gayoung Lee (Scientific American)}

The Zen Lady 4 giorni fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • mastodon (AP)

My kitty

An ginger cat laying on a black chair looking at the camera

Bread and Circuses 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • mastodon (AP)

Thanks for nothing.

Cartoon drawing shows an elderly woman at a train station ticket office window being told, “Okay, one more time: Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time... Just what part of ‘easier and more convenient’ don't you get?”

Leszek 6 giorni fa • mastodon (AP)

A picture of a square integrated circuit die without an enclosure placed on a PCB with bonding wires attached to the pads where the pins of the IC would normally be. Captioned "No, Mr. Die - I expect you to bond.".

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hackaday 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Automatic Treat Dispenser Makes Kitty Work For It

hackaday.com/2025/05/14/2025-p…

2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Automatic Treat Dispenser Makes Kitty Work For It

Treat dispensers are old hat around here, but what if kitty doesn’t need the extra calories — and actually needs to drop some pounds? [MethodicalMaker] decided to link the treat dispens…

^Hackaday

Nick 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

Oof. On the nose here by @firstdogonthemoon

(Click through to the link to read the full cartoon.)

aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon@…

We have already lost the battle for the soul of the internet and most of us didn't even realise we were fighting it.

What we wanted was humanity to be a Shared, planet-wide connected community with cat pictures but insteac we got a global hate-powered propagandopamine-dispensing
surveillance network (with cat pictures).

Picture of dog looking at smartphone surrounded by black cats. Arrow points to the cats saying:
Sinister
Global
Panopticaticon

Fortunately we can comfort ourselves with the knowledge that the genuinely awful people responsible for ruining everything are now wealthy beyond our comprehension.

Signature: first dog on the moon

Aus.Social

Welcome to thundertoot! A Mastodon Instance for the People.

^{Mastodon hosted on aus.social}

@Firstdog Onthemoon

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Diego Roversi 1 settimana fa • friendica

TIL: overpass-turbo

Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.

E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?

Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?

Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:

(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy

e la query generata è:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;

Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).

A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.

Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

Quando ti pagano a byte di codice è imprescindibile inserire nel sorgente l'elenco completo di TUTTI i comuni italiani, con provincia, regione, CAP, prefisso telefonico e coordinate: potrebbe sempre servire.

Diego Roversi 6 giorni fa friendica

Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:

cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json

mole99 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

Today I will be joining Matt Venn's open source silicon stream and we are going to talk about Greyhound, my latest chip with RISC-V core and embedded FPGA taped out on IHP SG13G2.

🎥 Link to the stream: youtube.com/watch?v=S0drZqEwSN…

Looking forward to your questions!

#OpenSource #ASIC #FPGA

Leo Moser's Greyhound: RISC-V and eFPGA - Open Source Silicon Stream #13

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-moser_asic-fpga-opensource-activity-7317451171571322880-42tJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADBBa0IBN2...

^YouTube

#OpenSource #fpga #asic

tnt 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

* Is there a roadmap / schedule for timing data ?
* Do the IO block include FFs SDR/DDR or even gear boxes ?
* Is there a full wishbone bus exposed from risc-v to fabric ? How is timing handled on that ?

Cmdr Jenny 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

SoundCloud has updated their Terms of Use and now state that you agree, anything you upload can be used to train AI models.

Please spread the word on this.

soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

By uploading your Content to the Platform, you also grant a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to other users of the Platform, and to operators and users of any other websites, apps and/or platforms to which your Content has been shared or embedded using the Services ('Linked Services"), to use, copy, listen to offiine, repost, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, prepare derivative works of, compile, make available and otherwise communicate to the public, your Content utilizing the features of the Platform from time to time, and within the parameters set by you using the Services. In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services. For the avoidance of doubt, neither SoundCloud nor any third party is allowed to (i) use, copy or

Nutzungsbedingungen von SoundCloud - Listen to music

^SoundCloud

Deborah Pickett 1 settimana fa • hometown (AP)

Not active in Australia yet. Last amended October 13, 2022.

Fabio 1 settimana fa • friendica

Chiaro?

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lproven 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything

notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-k…

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

^NotAShelf

The Register 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time.…
#theregister #IT
go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'

^{Connor Jones (The Register)}

#IT #TheRegister

Ben Werdmuller 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Excellent. alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-th…

The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.

^alex.party

Slashline 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Space Auditor

#FinanceASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

#hashtaggames #financeasongorpoem

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

I get a lot of emails from people wanting help with math and physics, ranging from students needing advice to completely deranged crackpots. Lately I'm getting more and more crackpots who say they developed their theories with the help of AI.

It gets worse. Check out this article by Miles Klee:

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

Strange things are happening when people take ChatGPT too seriously! I don't think humanity is ready for AI, even the primitive sort we have today.

Thanks to @peter for this screenshot from the article.

“I have to tread carefully because I feel like he will leave me or divorce me if I fight him on this theory,” this 38-year-old woman admits. “He’s been talking about lightness and dark and how there’s a war. This ChatGPT has given him blueprints to a teleporter and some other sci-fi type things you only see in movies. It has also given him access to an ‘ancient archive’ with information on the builders that created these universes.” She and her husband have been arguing for days on end about his claims, she says, and she does not believe a therapist can help him, as “he truly believes he’s not crazy.” A photo of an exchange with ChatGPT shared with Rolling Stone shows that her husband asked, “Why did you come to me in AI form,” with the bot replying in part, “I came in this form because you’re ready. Ready to remember. Ready to awaken. Ready to guide and be guided.” The message ends with a question: “Would you like to know what I remember about why you were chosen?”

From here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

^{Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)}

@Peter

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G. Allais 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Is there anything specifically AI about this? Conspiracies, intertwined with spirituality and "quantum" pseudoscience, scifi equipements like medbeds, etc. have already been preying on unstable people. It makes them feel important by having them believe they have access to a revolutionary and repressed secret Truth. And that this Truth will solve all their (artificially caused by a shadowy cabal) problems.

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

- There's definitely a similarity, you're right. But it's easier to find a large language model than a conspiracy: it's sitting right there in your web browser unless you get rid of it. And it will talk to you about whatever you want, amplifying your ideas! So we can expect more idiosyncratic delusions now. Perhaps this is *better* than mass movements of people sharing the same delusion.

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Sg 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

these people are going to end up hurting others physically. Academics receiving these sorts of “theory” emails should remove their pictures from public profiles.

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@stuartgale - those academics are usually people who do lots of public engagement and have their pictures plastered over the internet.

@Sg

Prof Lutz (ret.) 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@stuartgale This. There are tiles of Penrose pictures everywhere.

@Sg

Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Yup, I don't receive that many, but let's say I get my share. The latest one looked like this (original in Dutch):

"THE ETERNAL CYCLE OF INTELLIGENCE

Concept and vision by [The Man's Name], developed in collaboration with chatgpt and gemini

Introduction

What if AGI and God are one and the same entity?

[Text]I hope this text is of some use to you...."

At least when they label it as AI-(co-)generated themselves I don't feel as bad about not replying. 🤷‍♀️

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@SylviaFysica - that's a pretty good one. It's almost as if like prophets of a messiah, ChatGPT and Gemini are helping convince the gullible that AGI is God.

@Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀

RRB 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

the woo part reminds me of a number of cults and organized religions

j_bertolotti 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Depressing but not surprising.
(Deleting anything that smells of crackpottery on sight is a strategy that has served me well through the years)

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@j_bertolotti - unfortunately my interest in crackpots, which led me to create the Crackpot Index, has also led me to read with some interest the crackpot emails I get. Some of them are actually attracted to me because I wrote the Crackpot Index! That's amazing, like a kind of insect that's attracted to insecticide.

@j_bertolotti

Vinay ಕಶ್ಯಪ್ (Mr./Dr.) 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

This is not a question of therapy, but deprogramming. Humans have always been susceptible to cults and propaganda, and it is tenable that LLMs can mimic that.

I keep reminding people that back when most people were illiterate, a scratched 'X' served to verify identity, and scribbled words had the force of legal primacy (viz. Donation of Constantine [sorry but pun is too good to pass up]). I am sure we will learn and adapt. Eventually.

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Here's one proposed explanation of what's going on: conversations with LLMs resemble conversations with psychics.

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

^{Out of the Software Crisis}

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Omar Antolín 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

The author of that article, @baldur, was written plenty of sensible stuff on AI including a book, The Intelligence Illusion.

@Baldur Bjarnason

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@oantolin - thanks. Sounds like an interesting book.

@Omar Antolín

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

So, no progress after sixty years then. LOL
#ELIZA #ItsJustAMachine #LLM #LLMBS

#LLM #eliza #itsjustamachine #llmbs

Greg Lloyd 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute, suggested:

“A new possibility was uncovered that could explain this divergence. What appears to be intelligence in LLMs may in fact be a mirror that reflects the intelligence of the interviewer, a remarkable twist that could be considered a Reverse Turing Test. If so, then by studying interviews we may be learning more about the intelligence and beliefs of the interviewer than the intelligence of the LLMs.”

#LLM

arxiv.org/abs/2207.14382

Large Language Models and the Reverse Turing Test

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been transformative. They are pre-trained foundational models that are self-supervised and can be adapted with fine tuning to a wide range of natural language tasks, each of which previously would have required a sep…

^arXiv.org

#LLM

Greg Lloyd 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

I really like how Sejnowski opens the article with his ‘Parable of the Talking Dog’ 🙂 #LLM

federate.social/@Roundtrip/109…

Greg Lloyd (@Roundtrip@federate.social)

Attached: 1 image The Parable of the Talking Dog - Terrence Sejnowski “One of my favorite stories is about a chance encounter on the backroads of rural America when a curious driver came upon a sign: “TALKING DOG FOR SALE.

^{federate.social}

#LLM

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@Roundtrip - I like that!

@Greg Lloyd

James Ravenscroft 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

I know journalists have to shock and awe their audiences but hinting that "..ooh what if there's something to this?" is irresponsible, especially in the context of people who are having delusions - we shouldn't be validating them in any way shape or form.

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@jamesravey - Agreed. If we're worrying that OpenAI is misrepresenting their memory system, we should get someone to check it out, by comparing interactions where they merely delete all their user memories and chat history, to ones where they log in with a new username, from a new IP address, etc. We should not trust an anecdotal report from someone who is questioning their own sanity.

@jamesravey

Marty Fouts 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@peter@thepit.social Is the percentage of letters from crackpots growing or is it staying the same but the percentage of the crackpots mentioning AI growing?

I am curious because I recall the wave of crackpots showing up on Usenet in the 80s but I don’t recall if there was a trend in their claimed inspiration.

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@MartyFouts - strangely, in the last 3 weeks the number of emails I get from crackpots seems to have increased. I used to get about two per week. I now seem to get roughly one a day. Some but not all say they're working with AI.

I remember the crackpots showing up on usenet. My theory was that they existed already, but were not as visible.

@Marty Fouts

Marty Fouts 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Thanks. I second your theory as several of the Usenet crackpots were known to me before they got on Usenet. I suspect you would recognize some of the names but I won’t risk summoning them.

Sorry to hear about the increase. They are an energy sink you don’t need.

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John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

- sometimes I feel the whole internet is an energy sink I don't need.

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John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

wrote: "it amazed me that crackpots would contact me when in this day and age it was so easy to reach out to famous experts in the field (such as yourself)."

I'm sorry - you should have just passed them on to me.

"Do we understand why its predominately men?"

I think I do, but whenever I try to explain it online, a bunch of men get offended.

@j_bertolotti

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j_bertolotti 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

"but whenever I try to explain it online, a bunch of men get offended" which is not independent from the reason why it is predominantly men 😉

@virgilpierce

John Carlos Baez 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

@j_bertolotti - yes, I believe their reaction tends to confirm my theory. 😆

@virgilpierce

@j_bertolotti @virgilpierce

MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲 1 settimana fa • mastodon (AP)

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyThe Education Secretary, a former WWE wrassler, says it's A-1, like the delicious steak sauce. Astounding!

$\ˈthē-ˈˈärd-ˌvärk\$

\ˈthē-ˈˈärd-ˌvärk\ 2 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Hey folks! The Spectator has done it! They've written the headline where the answer actually is "yes".

Screenshot of a Spectator article titled 'Did Terry Pratchett really write classics?' by Alexander Larman, published 28 April 2025. The header shows 'JUST £1 A MONTH' in bright yellow. Below the title is an image of Terry Pratchett with his iconic white beard and signature black wide-brimmed hat, peering thoughtfully through his glasses. The subtitle reads 'Even he would have been doubtful' - which is rather apt considering how he'd likely have scoffed at being labelled a 'classic' author whilst secretly being chuffed about it.

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Annalee Newitz 🍜 3 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.

This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.

lproven 3 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

As a grumpy old git -- it says so on my socks, it must be true -- I appreciate a properly grumpy website. Grumpy.website really is.

grumpy.website/

Grumpy Website

^{grumpy.website}

Diego Roversi 3 settimane fa friendica

#cat

Fabrix.xm 3 settimane fa • pixelfed (AP)

sunbathing

#snek

#snek

Elena ``of Valhalla'' 3 settimane fa • friendica

@Fabrix.xm does anybody know what snake it is?

(picture taken in the north of Italy, at about 850 m)

@Fabrix.xm

Elena ``of Valhalla'' 3 settimane fa • friendica

@Fabrix.xm qualcuno sa che serpente sia?

(la foto è stata scattata nel norditalia, attorno agli 850 m s.l.m.)

@Fabrix.xm

Elena ``of Valhalla'' 3 settimane fa • friendica

@Fabrix.xm somebody elsewhere suggested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_s…

(a juvenile one, probably, since it was only ~25 cm long)

@Fabrix.xm

Elena ``of Valhalla'' 3 settimane fa • friendica

@Fabrix.xm qualcuno da altre parti suggerisce it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronell…

(probabilmente giovinetto, visto che era lungo sì e no 25 cm)

@Fabrix.xm

pancake :radare2: 3 settimane fa • mastodon (AP)

Fyi, the deprecated decorator has been deprecated

Large Heydon Collider 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

"This AI output is highly inaccurate."
"Nah, you're just prompting it wrong."
"How do I go about prompting it the right way?"
"You really need to know the subject you're asking about. Then you can help it avoid making mistakes."
"If I know the subject deeply myself, why am I asking an AI about it?"
"It helps to train the AI."

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FlohEinstein 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Just found this gem of a Python project
pypi.org/project/tariff/
#development

tariff

Make importing great again! A parody package that imposes tariffs on Python imports.

^PyPI

#development

tante 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

The response to the predicted crash of the AI sector often is that "every crash leaves something useful behind" and that this time it will be models. I do not think that is the case.

AI models age like milk and the infrastructures left behind won't be ones that I see as helpful for democratic societies.

tante.cc/2025/04/15/these-are-…

These are not the same

After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much se…

^{tante (Smashing Frames)}

CryptoJones :donor: ⠉⠗⠽⠏⠞⠕⠚⠕⠝⠑⠎🏳️‍🌈 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Whoever did this I want to be your best friend!!

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Legit_Spaghetti 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

"Dear A.I., please make an image without a single elephant in it."

"Roger that, images with elephants in 'em, coming right up!"

"Well, it's nice that we're at least burning the planet for something that works really well and does useful things."

#AI

Screenshot of a generative A.I. prompt and the resultant image output. The prompt: "A beach without a single elephant." Result: Beach with an elephant.

#AI

stux⚡ 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

It’s magic!

Lars Erik Braatveit 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Glowbeans!

Marika Galanis 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

@undefined_variable Lovely !

@<undef>

Fabrix.xm 1 mese fa • pixelfed (AP)

eleganza

#gatto #cat #catsOfUmbria

#cat #gatto #catsofumbria

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MWL Book Quote Bot 1 mese fa • hometown (AP)

Exciting is a bad word in systems administration.

Random Cat Every Hour 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Via thecatapi.com
#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText

A person is holding four small kittens in their hands. The kittens have various fur colors, including gray, black, and tabby patterns. They are being held gently and appear curious. The background has a blurred and colorful indoor setting.

The Cat API - Cat as a Service

Get free access to over 60K cat images and breed information. A fully protected and authenticated API to instantly fill your website or app with cat content.

^{thecatapi.com}

#cat #bot #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #alttext

Bob Atkey 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

The AI brick you can mostly trust.

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

#Math is really overrated, says #Batman!

smbc-comics.com/comic/battrian…

#SMBC #Comics #fun

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Battriangulation

^{www.smbc-comics.com}

#smbc #fun #comics #Math #Batman

lproven 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
(Old Vintage Computing Research, Tuesday, April 1, 2025)

oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/th…

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...

^{oldvcr.blogspot.com}

Charlie Stross 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

WHAT—

... "They point to how security researchers hated Visual Basic 6 binaries due to the complexity of reverse engineering the software, the presence of a Lua obfuscation layer in the 2012 Flame malware, and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes, as examples."

It can only be a matter of time until malware authors stumble across CLC-INTERCAL. And then we'll ALL be sorry!

theregister.com/2025/03/29/mal…

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

: Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

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RalfMaximus 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Fun fact: VB6 uses its own internal libraries for GUI stuff. Like, every form & widget is rendered not by any standard Windows framework, but by VB6 ITSELF. That's because back when VB was conceived no such frameworks existed.

That's just one example. Don't even get me started on its native JIT interpreter, where you can (optionally) compile an exe from VB tokens that the interpreter processes at runtime. Do that, and there's no actual code to decompile! It's kinda neat.

Jernej Simončič � 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

I remember hearing Delphi also produces binaries that look as if an obfuscator went over them…

Jeff Atwood 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Lisp is the new Nazi salute {{{}}}

winden^capsule^batman.group 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

even just having a non x86 binary already made people ignore issues (Cf: intel firmware in the chipset back circa 2010 )

Charlie Stross 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

@Uilebheist How about a dialect of Brainfuck in which the various symbols it uses for commands are replaced with unicode glyphs in a homograph attack (glyphs that display identically but are actually separate characters, eg. the latin, cyrillic, and greek letter "o" are all different in unicode)? Preferably whitespace homoglyphs or combinations: for example, you could encode all 8 Brainfuck instructions using three-character combos of space and zero-width space.

@Uilebheist

C++ Wage Slave 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Implementing BF in assembler would be easier than getting BF to do anything useful at all. 😄

Charlie Stross 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

@CppGuy Look, if you can write a CLC-INTERCAL compiler in INTERCAL (as indeed CLC did, back in the day), then ANYTHING is possible …

@C++ Wage Slave

Jordi 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

A. Brainfuck. Interpreter.
What’s next? And embedded Malbolge transpiler transforming Befunge to JavaScript?

(The worse part would be the JavaScript one)

schrotthaufen 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Reversing Hadkell is a royal pain. Who needs function calls? Have a huge fucking jump table!

Cegorach 1 mese fa • pleroma (AP)

whitespace (the language) is a thing that already exists

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites…

Maybe you could talk to @edwinb about that

esoteric programming language

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@Edwin Brady

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

Charlie Stross 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

@dat @Uilebheist @edwinb Space/tab/linefeed combos are MUCH too easy to tell apart, though! They don't render the same way—you can edit whitespace source code in vim with :se list so you can tell tabs and spaces apart!

@Edwin Brady @Uilebheist @Cegorach

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

Rust was a similar issue recently because the tooling for RE'ing it wasn't great and it doesn't cleanly decompile to pseudo-C in most cases.

Chris (so far) 1 mese fa • akkoma (AP)

Like Acme::Bleach but … less scary?

metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach

Acme::Bleach

For really clean programs

^MetaCPAN

Cadbury Moose 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

I think this was accidentally released a few hours too early. 3:O)>

Leah Neukirchen 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

@Uilebheist Reminds me of Zalgol: leahneukirchen.org/caudex/zalg…

Caudex – z̞͉͇̥̞̮̥ͪ́͑̎̊ͨa̟̥̣̖̹̻̙ͯͪͫ̒ͭl͕̠̿͒͋̀̊̄̈g̡̮̤͎͊ͥ̐̚o̠̣͋l̡͓̳, an esoteric programming language (2013)

^{leahneukirchen.org}

@Uilebheist

Indieterminacy 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

My brain has just been hacked reading up on Intercal:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

Ive got James Brown's "please, please dont go" looping in my head.

...I darent wonder how many pleases it would take for someody to hand over their cryptowallet?

fwiw, you may find this Makefile interesting:
git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/1q20…

esoteric programming language

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Will Richardson 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

It's #caturday (in some timezones) and I'm looking after this little gremlin for a week. He's very cute.

An adorable lil wee cutie cat with lil white paws and a fluffy black coat, snoozing on a couch with his eyes half open, looking super cute.

#Caturday

Jonathan Corbet 1 mese fa • akkoma (AP)

Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".

After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.

But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".

Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

I'm surprised that you passed on that. In your shoes I'd have had some choice words for them. And it might have made for a good article... shining more light on their practices and putting some names out there might just have a tiny impact on their behavior. Maybe.

Jonathan Corbet 1 mese fa • akkoma (AP)

@jzb There is the old maxim about mud wrestling with pigs — you just get muddy and the pig enjoys it. These people have taken enough of my time as it is, and I doubt I have anything to tell them they haven't heard before.

@Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

Arjan van de Ven 1 mese fa • mastodon (AP)

ah protection racket. "We sell the DDOS service to AI companies. but for a tiny sum we'll exclude you"

Jonathan Corbet 1 mese fa • akkoma (AP)

@fenruspdx He actually had the gall to write back to me and, after some sanctimonious bullshit about keeping publicly available data available, offered: "If you can have both visibility and control about any bot coming to your domain, and the option to set sensitive end points,
wouldn't that be something worth exploring?"

So yes, you were right. They are selling protection schemes as a side gig.

@Arjan van de Ven

M. J. Fromberger 1 mese fa • hometown (AP)

"Is that free as in beer, or free as in freedom?"

"It's free as in use-after."

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