Good Evening, “RISC-V” was a 12-year, 17-day sociological study conducted by University of California, Berkeley. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
Eric Hallahan
@erichallahan.bsky.social
Engineer doing Community Management and Engagement for AIFoundry.org on behalf of nekko.ai. ADHD, ASD, hearing impaired. PSU Engineering Graduate. Personal Account. https://erichallahan.github.io/
cool to be running a @discord.com server with 10,000 people that someone brigades in order to mass report, getting the the accounts of mods and the only admin (me) disabled for a joke I made 6 years ago noticed I couldn't send DMs to my clients anymore for my current freelance work so, cool, thanks
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.
I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...
I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”
Really incredible but entirely predictable that, with the all the likely potential to damage the already lackluster state of AOWR for years to come, Roger Penske would go out of his way to do something so incredibly divisive with zero guarantee of success because politics.
I keep seeing takes that F1 is leaving IndyCar in the dust in America, but IndyCar found a way to embarrassingly link up with an unpopular despot of a country for a street race without even leaving its home market. That's innovation! F1 has to go to other continents to do that!
If someone was to tell the me of five years ago that my first proper job would be “community management”, I probably would have thought they were crazy. Alas, a lot can happen and change in five years!
Well, it's time to take the *cat* out of the bag: With the help of nekko.ai, I will be joining AiFoundry.org in community management & engagement, developer advocacy, lab maintenance, and more in benefit of the project.
Inspired by Prusa's new license "for the maker community", OCL, I'm introducing it's long-awaited sequel, SOCL! Like Hollow Knight Silksong, it promises to be an improvement over its prequel in every way. Looking forward to community adoption and feedback! github.com/theacodes/socl
GitHub - theacodes/socl
Contribute to theacodes/socl development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
prusa3d.com@prusa3d.com · 9mo agoWe're open-sourcing the full CAD files of the CORE One and CORE One L, released under a new license we built for the maker community. Read more about it in Josef's new article: blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad...
PSA for Statesiders: KOSA, SCREEN Act, and (most dangerously) striking Section 230 are back for their perennial appearance in Congress, and you should be calling your representative to kill the bills unless you really want the Web as you know it destroyed.
Rare (for these days) political post, to simply say: I'm proud of my hometown.
Initial appraisal on Xe3: It's a nice improvement over Xe2, and it's a good thing it isn't a radical change generationally: L1$/SLM increasing to 256 KiB in-line with Battlemage is appreciated, and the doubling of L2$ to 16 MiB is even more welcome given limited memory bandwidth.
Huge endorsement from me for this proposed push for getting Mesa's Vulkan drivers set up with Cooperative Matrix and beyond. It's always been my preference long-term if possible, as ML compute would be a whole lot easier to manage without vendored stacks. airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/rama...
ramalama/mesa : benchmarks on my hardware and open source vs proprietary
One of my pet peeves around running local LLMs and inferencing is the sheer mountain of shit^W^W^W complexity of compute stacks needed to ru...
airlied.blogspot.com
It is with disappointment that I announce the end of my close relationship with Intel and their Software Innovators program—it was great fun while it lasted. I wish all the best for their consumer GPU endeavors and will personally continue be an enthusiast for them going forward.
Long-time followers of mine are probably already familiar with this article of mine, but newer ones haven't seen it in a fully functional state. With some recent interest, I finally put in the effort to fix it up to good-as-new again! erichallahan.github.io/articles/hea...
Compensating for Hearing with Basic Signal Processing
A look at (and an explanation of) how I came to compensate for my hearing when I am not wearing a hearing aid.
erichallahan.github.io
New blog post: Automatic differentiation with Enzyme… on OpenCL?!? Yes, you heard right! erichallahan.github.io/articles/enz...
Enzyme's secret language
Demonstrating OpenCL kernels autodiffed with Enzyme
erichallahan.github.io
This continual level of ignorance (although I am tempted to assume bad faith or its rhetorical equivalent) is not only dangerous, but undermines work towards very real problems it seems to have originated against (silicon valley hype, corporate control, environmental concerns, the rising tide of
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last yr.LLMs used as synthetic text extruding machines have no legitimate use cases and --- for all the reasons discussed in the stochastic parrots paper --- are prone to harmful outputs to boot. >>
I did something kinda cool with an AI tool today, which was creating a fun little tool for personal use. It doesn't involve lying, or taking away anyone's job, but I know that if I post about the details here I'll get yelled at. And I'm kinda sad about that, because I like posting about fun things
cis people you can just do this you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last yr.I'm pretty sure if I went into a public British bathroom this week with a trans flag tshirt on there is a good chance of my being told to leave, regardless of which bathroom I tried to use, or my 'biological sex'. And that is the point.
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
I have done the same. cis people in the UK, please support your trans buddies by putting pressure on your politicians and lawmakers. they need to know that we want answers on how trans people's rights will be safeguarded.
Dan Entwistle@garciansmith.bsky.social · last yr.Following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, I wrote to my MP. I'm not the best at conveying the nuances, as a cis man, but I needed to get my views to her as soon as possible. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
it’s funny how the letters “A I” just immediately derange people into a moral rage now. realizing that i live in a shattered epistemic landscape. there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · last yr.FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...
My guess gaming this in my head as someone with limited knowledge: Only way out is for at least one major power to retaliate (reasonable concession already has been shown to be unviable). Probably PRC, perhaps also EU—PRC has already shown that retaliation prompts the USA to shoot its foot harder.
I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.
