social.gl-como.it
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
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
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)
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-…
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)
"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
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bookmarking this one! Love the cocaine analogy!
“Coincidentally, Natalie Ponte on LinkedIn posted today: try replacing “ai” with “cocaine” in all the posts you read about it. it’s pretty funny
Let’s try it!
“My cocaine skeptic friends are all nuts, they’ll be left behind.”
“Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.” Checks out.
Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”
It's quite insightful!
@briankrebs
Thank you for this! I'm sending it to my cousin who, as she says, "Hurting me? I have conversations with AI every day. It's not hurting me. It's encouraging me."
I believe she uses chatgpt. She's been using it for her health problems that she now is obsessed with. She's diagnosed herself with blood clots and POTS. It's seriously messing with her mind.
Thank you!
this is one of the first things I noticed about using LLMs and talked about it as such for a while.
It’s gambling addiction Programmer Edition and that recognition of that fact made any respect I had at my last org just plummet once I realized how hooked the techbro leadership was with their new favorite slot machine.
It’s no wonder the biggest AI hyper at work were also the same people who were super into cryptocurrency. 🙄
Pigeons caught in an intermittent reward cycle.
smithsonianmag.com/science-nat…
#enshittification seems to always go for the addiction cycle. Manufacturing cognitive crutches, cults, zealots, & addicts.
forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/20…
nytimes.com/2023/10/25/health/…
forbes.com/sites/ximenaaraya-f…
theguardian.com/technology/201…
neurosciencenews.com/blind-bag…
theweek.com/articles/468363/li…
nautil.us/addicted-to-anticipa…
Addicted to Anticipation - Nautilus
Maia Szalavitz (Nautilus)But these days, I am starting to think that maybe it could be even much more of an empty hype than I ever imaged yet.
JATB - Just another Tech Bubble.
Bubble grow until they pop.
Eventually those massive AI data centres will be repurposed or dismantlesed.
Companies will fail and investors will lose money. People will lose their jobs.
🫤🤷♂️
It’s the selection bias you also have on Instagram that they’re trying to build an industry out of.
Sure this picture of the baby is cute. Not pictured are all the times the baby shat the bed.
It took my own personal reflection upon the words and conversation (just like it would with a real human) to realize the BS for what it was. Not worth my time.