Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other.
In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

i think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment

Behold a cursed crate: a Rust macro that will use generative code to produce implementations. Write the function signature and that's it.

Nightmare fuel.

use ai_bindgen::ai;

#[ai]
extern "C" {
#[ai(prompt = "return the n-th prime number, please")]
fn prime(n: i32) -> i32;

// no prompt parameter (the signature should be self explanatory :)
#[ai]
fn max(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32;
}

fn main() {
println!("The 15th prime number is {}", prime(15)); // 47 (hopefully)
println!("max(4, 6) = {}", max(4, 6)); // 6
}

I like the "hopefully" there.

https://github.com/germangb/ai-bindgen

you used to be able to kill or at least wound a computer with the wave of a magnet but theyve since evolved resistance to such primitive attacks

Think of it as "a kindly old woman down the road gave me a nice piece of software". Are you going to demand she fix it for you to? Are you that big a jerk?

Call for Expression of Interest 👀

DWeb Camp Brazil is back!

It will be the final celebration of the year-long process to research and build agroecological tech that is designed for and with farmers. It will showcase the built prototypes, as well as share the lessons from its co-design process. 🌻

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#DWeb #DWebBrasil #DWebCamp #DwebCampBrazil #Brazil #AGtech #

normalise "my liege" as a nonbinary honorific

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Given current ongoing situation there really should be a movement for more domestic software development and a wider boycott of data exporting to America.

Okay, well....first of all every year is the Year of Linux Desktop if you are a massive nerd.

So jot that down.