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That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/bui…
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The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
Mh.
last update of #archlinux defaults to #GTK4 #GSK #Vulcan Renderer:
GDK_BACKEND=wayland because the terminal is in VSCode, which runs on XWayland and define GDK_BACKEND=x11. In VSCode because gnome console was a black rectangle too)Yes, that white rectangle is the window.
I had to set GSK_RENDERER=ngl in .config/environment.d/gtk4.conf
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen…
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…Pivot to AI
@cstross It does look money!
Breaking news, a new startup has announced they will produce new *AI* infused technology to insert as many brainslugs into any machine you want.
*Five*years*later*: Brainslugz has declared bankruptcy after years of complaints revealed that Brainslugz were not aware that half the slugs froze to death while kept on the floor.
I'm probably trying to approach this the wrong way (trying to understand the cause of this error)
I don't get where the 0.21 result is coming from 🤯
Just for fun i asked ChatGPT the same question and now the answer is "correct" (it was wrong but it "corrected" itself)
Funny enough, when pressing it that it was wrong and the right answer was 0.21 I got this
Mario non sa fare il lavoro, Paolo sí.
Paolo con il macchinario di Mario potrebbe fare il grosso e poi fare gli aggiustamenti di fino che é in grado di fare con l'esperienza.
Io uso da due anni e mi ha velocizzato molte fasi del lavoro noiose senza impattare sul risultato finale, anzi a volte ho visto approci nuovi e interessanti facendo crescere le mie conoscenze di tubarolo.
É il vibe piping che é una 💩
@𝓜𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓸 𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓻 mi unisco agli utenti di friendica che scrivono “la prima”
prima di aver sentito come @Diego Roversi è arrivato al risultato, che è un sistema molto più furbo di quello con cui ero arrivata io
Climate change and energy: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
technologyreview.com/2025/05/2…
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
— MIT Technology Review
I didn't realize how rare it is to have a female all orange cat
scientificamerican.com/article…
Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studiesGayoung Lee (Scientific American)
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Automatic Treat Dispenser Makes Kitty Work For It
hackaday.com/2025/05/14/2025-p…
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
Oof. On the nose here by @firstdogonthemoon
(Click through to the link to read the full cartoon.)
aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon@…
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.
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
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
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-moser_asic-fpga-opensource-activity-7317451171571322880-42tJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADBBa0IBN2...YouTube
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.
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.
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…
: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'Connor Jones (The Register)
Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.alex.party
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.
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPTMiles Klee (Rolling Stone)
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.
@Fabrix.xm qualcuno sa che serpente sia?
(la foto è stata scattata nel norditalia, attorno agli 850 m s.l.m.)
@Fabrix.xm somebody elsewhere suggested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_s…
(a juvenile one, probably, since it was only ~25 cm long)
@Fabrix.xm qualcuno da altre parti suggerisce it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronell…
(probabilmente giovinetto, visto che era lungo sì e no 25 cm)
