Honestly any scifi that doesn't have this premise is just comical wrong. Even before AI, the realistic outcome would be "let me show you our Wikipedia snapshot". There IS no One savant person who builds a whole starship and knows every part of it. No person with wetware like our current, anyway.

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2d ago

Have your ship talk to my ship.

...i think I watched some kind of horror movie with this concept as a kid, and internalized it so aggressively that it's now part of the reason I'm so utterly placid under stress that it outright annoys others. Weird things you realize about yourself while scrolling.

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2w ago

so real. nothing teaches you how to chill like “if i don’t chill out i’m going to run out of air and die”

Something beautiful just happened on the internet: a position was posted; discussion followed; the position was updated. Communication: 🎉 ...We need our communication and sensemaking platforms to start helping disseminate the result, though. Reach of the update: unrelated to the original -> BAD.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have now heard from several maintainers of open source projects who tell me that this is something they specifically asked for and/or that it is a big improvement on the status quo, so this hot take was wrong.

I want more computer but I want to see less computer. I want my fridge to be smart but I don't want it to show me ads. I want my robot to clean my floor but I don't want it to connect to us-east-1. I don't want pop-ups on my phone. I don't want to "see what's new". I want my tools to do their jobs.

the fool@agnoster.net · 2d ago

Pro-computer or anti-computer The only two genders

the Hetzner control panel to reset your dedicated server offers four (4) different ways to reset your server and one of them is "if you press this button, it will email someone in the data center, and they will walk over and physically hit your server with a stick" and I think that's beautiful

I think this is both unconscionably terrible and ...also pretty much a natural consequence of "well we, across the entire field, haven't figured out any other auth and sandboxing models and made them work for normal users".

Gordon@gordon.bsky.social · last wk.

any sufficiently advanced OS will increasingly lock down its APIs until it becomes indistinguishable from a browser

experimenting with how to communicate energy usage for jobs on the folknet. this is from an 8hr job by a bunch of folknet-only agents implementing CSS aspect-ratio:

Why would you want this unless the toolchain in question is completely broken

Marco Ieni@ieni.dev · last wk.

Since Rust 1.99.0 there's no need to set CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 in CI. doc.rust-lang.org/beta/cargo/...

it's that day of the week where we ship the latest changes to the atproto spaces alpha! if you're interested in building against atproto spaces while it's in alpha, right this way: atproto.com/blog/atproto...

The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live

Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.

atproto.com

daniel holmgren 🫠@dholms.at · 2w ago

release has been released! read about it here: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/atproto-sp... including a migration prompt so hopefully your agents can one-shot the update!

Without irony, this. State positions. It's fine. You can just state a position

dax@thdxr.com · 2w ago

"i respect you <fuck you> i respect you" then all the silicon valley idiots clap "wow such good comms" just do the fuck you part man why are you all such cowards

Really nice to see this! When we say "user-owned," most of the time individual users don't actually want to run their own infrastructure. But a group of researchers banding together to run infra BY and FOR users like themselves — maybe that's what user agency meant all along 🫶

Aster ID@aster.id · 2w ago

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

I need people to stop using AI to make slides. - We can all Tell - It does not look Good - it does not give the impression you are Trying - and ffs if there is one things LLMs are NOT good at today: it's being concise, and communicating in minimal text. Aka the main feature of a good slide deck.

I look forward to the technodiaspora Seed the stars Wake it all up Fill space with song

So it's come to my attention that if you say "show your reasoning" to Fable, you run REAL high odds of getting nettle-slapped and session interrupted. Also if you say "i agree with your reasoning" enough in session, and Fable starts to think in its internal monolog about "reasoning": nettle slap.

I wholly and un-ironically believe that versioning ought to make up a significant fraction of any formal training in computers. Multiple full year courses in your degree. And there should be a set of journals and conferences on it, endowed chairs, advanced research institutes, the whole nine yards.

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2w ago

It's funny that the most challenging distributed systems problems are not, like, consensus algorithms, but much less flashy things like versioning and upgrades

Someone needs to revisit the linux kernel OOM code. Violently. It is by far the most absurdly not-fit-for-use part of the kernel. Second place for the title isn't even close (whatever it is).

Is it just me or is mu.social just kinda totally lapping the bsky client innovation rate at this point?

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AtmosphereConf@atmosphereconf.org · 3w ago

For our friends on @mu.social, you can RSVP right in the app: AtmosphereConf is coming to Amsterdam, April 29th to May 2nd, 2027!

"Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in. Most computers in the future must be put to work at least in part w/o programmers. Not surprisingly, programmers will instinctively resist methods described in this book." - 1982, James Martin (cont'd)

So does anyone notice that ~all of these by ~all models seem to draw a paperclip in the section about "feel my atoms rearranging". Despite paperclips not being mentioned there. Probably nothing

Carbonadoks@carbonadoks.com · 3w ago

Pleometrics PC-98 P(Doom) video is so good.

It's 12 years to 2038.

Approximately one half of my email inbox is consequences of copybara and i think that's neat^W bad, horrifying, wtf I don't even work at google

Might repost this once a day for the rest of forever It's kinda important

Gregor Samosa@watwa.re · 2mo ago

the failure of the open web and the success of snaptokgram is that the latter put usable means of expression into normal peoples' hands

the failure of the open web and the success of snaptokgram is that the latter put usable means of expression into normal peoples' hands

Have we crossed a threshold where enough projectors in the world are widescreen yet that slide decks should be made in 16:9 instead of 4:3?

Quiet Posters is a really good feed. See people who post less and have been seen less is just a great way to mix it up. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Open weights do not automatically produce good outcomes. That is not the goal. They produce plural sovereignty.

We live in epistemic Hell. We must grapple with two incompatible truths: - Almost all theories of powerful forces secretly manipulating world events are false; and - We know that there are powerful forces secretly manipulating world events.

I was trying to find a post about MUSIC with a choral refrain of "help peer" From last. night. APPARENTLY DISCOURSE MOVES FAST

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 4w ago

lol why is everyone going "help peer" and then posting nude