Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

https://threads.net blocked

#defederatemeta #defederatethreads

> Each second that sled does not crash while running your critical stateful workloads, you are encouraged to thank these wonderful organizations. Each time sled does crash and lose your data, blame Intel.

https://docs.rs/crate/sled/latest

lol

It's interesting how some folks simply don't believe this is possible. I suppose because they've never seen it happen.

What's that joke about the Queen thinking everywhere smells of fresh paint...?

Europe is buying russian gas at an unprecedented rate in 2025, spending billions of dollars the kremlin can use to fund its war in #Ukraine just weeks after the end of a major transit agreement raised hopes the continent may break its dependency

Data collected by commodities intelligence firm Kpler and analyzed by POLITICO reveals that in the first 15 days of 2025, the European Union's 27 countries imported 837,300 metric tons of liquefied natural gas from russia.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-devouring-russian-gas-at-record-speed-despite-cut-off-sanctions-war-ukraine/

@catsalad LLMs are being trained on Mastodon too.

Tell me the truth... I'm.. I'm ready to hear it.

I wanted to add `rust-toolchain.toml` to ONE toy project. I'm now heading into hour 3 of yak shaving my Nix config and compiling god-knows-what from scratch.

Sure, I was assigned a gender at birth. I also got assigned homework at school but I didn't do that either.

🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

#Wikipedia

#EU shipyards are repairing russian "ice-class" tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling moscow to keep moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector, the Financial Times front page

@jonn

@jasongorman

That's why you iterate. I have no idea what the implementation will look like, so I start with some test. Often a guiding test. It teaches me about the API I might want. As I expand the code and tests I rearrange it all frequently as I learn.

Type driven development is also cool but I think mostly complementary to tests.

@jonn @faassen And how do you know you need those types?

LLMs are a near-perfect rentier technology. The cost of training them to the point where they're even marginally useful is so prohibitive that only people with very deep pockets can do it. The goal then is to make us all reliant on them, by shoehorning them into as many products as possible.

And it doesn't matter whether or not we actually need them if products won't work without them.

Wow. I follow news about Free and open source software quite a bit – but where do I learn that a movie made with @Blender actually won a freaking Golden Globe!?

On @europeanspodcast!

Congratulations to the creators of the movie Flow – and to all contributors to Blender throughout the years, who made this possible! What an achievement!

Here's an interview with the director, with focus on the use of Blender https://www.fastcompany.com/91232740/flow-movie-turned-a-4-million-budget-into-an-animated-work-of-art

#FOSS #animation #Blender #GoldenGlobes

Jan 14, 1914: On this date Selahattin Ülkümen born. A Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the Holocaust. While Consul General of Rhodes, he saved ~50 Jews of the 2000 living on the island. (1/2)

#WW2 #Resistance #Turkey #Muslim #Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selahattin_%C3%9Clk%C3%BCmen