@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-02-02 18:36:17
Nature: OpenAI's brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? #ultrasound
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-02-02 18:36:17
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-28 05:02:03
Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-02-01 20:31:35
Added performance counters for keeping track of PCIe transfers between the CPU and GPU.
I still need to track allocations, and there's a bunch I can do to merge temporary buffers etc. But one step closer to understanding memory system behavior better.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 21:34:03
Sources: SpaceX plans to merge with xAI ahead of an IPO; the combined company is expected to price shares at ~$527 each and would have a valuation of $1.25T (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/elon-mu…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 17:13:33
I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-02-14 15:03:05
what a mess lol
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3987
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 21:32:25
Enshittification wasn't an accident.
It also wasn't inevitable.
This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history
#Enshittification was a choice:
Known individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment.
They created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to monopoly,
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-19 20:02:12
WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-01-30 02:04:57
@…
It's possible that some of the conflicts are our own fault: it's easier to make mistakes in svn's model where you create a branch by copying into a folder and can operate on subfolders. Git is simpler in that way: you have a working copy and commands to switch branches. But I blame svn's merge metadata tracking being less robust that git…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-19 19:55:59
Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-04 17:01:44
The Sun EIC Victoria Newton told staff that the paper plans to merge its features desk with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle team, placing some jobs at risk (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2025-12-22 11:23:34
@x_cli@infosec.exchange2026-01-13 11:56:00
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 17:03:18
Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/115741417416659492
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-15 23:22:17
Introducing Merge Labs https://merge.io/blog
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 18:50:44
Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-12-18 14:20:45
@… deep merge??
@compfu@mograph.social2026-02-21 19:17:50
The latest release of the small and nifty monitoring tool #Beszel merged a pull request from some AI dude who made it using Claude. The merge request's text has the usual embarrassing amount of emojis and it was merged without a lot of back and forth. It adds the ability to notify and send data to external services like healthchecks.io. This feels slightly unnerving to me. Wasn't there a r…
@keen456@infosec.exchange2026-01-25 15:24:43
@… have you seen this PR for KDE's Kwin that turns it into a 3D VR Desktop. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8671
@keithp@fosstodon.org2025-12-21 01:40:36
I managed to merge five PRs from other picolibc contributors today. I really like getting contributions from other other people; it makes me think that maybe my little project is starting to be useful in the world.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-18 17:54:35
What could go wrong?
Trump Media to Merge With TAE Technologies, a Nuclear Fusion Firm, in a $6 Billion Deal - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-fusion-power-deal.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-27 17:34:22
At sufficiently high energy levels, incompetence and malice become indistinguishable and merge into a single force https://beige.party/@pattykimura/115964654344514184
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-15 18:11:23
Exclusive: OpenAI and Sam Altman back a bold new take on fusing humans and machines https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman-back-merge-labs-bci The Merge or the Übermensch in a Silicon Valley jacket.
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social2026-01-15 19:56:10
@… @… @… aus dem Nähkästchen: ich merge bei uns Dupes in Bookwyrm und da kommt…
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-14 09:26:54
Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-15 18:26:38
The Extended Stellar Distribution in the Outskirts of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: #DwarfGalaxies Merge? New Clues from the Outer Stars of a Milky Way Satellite: https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2026/01/13/3641.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-13 15:25:55
Sources: French production company and MasterChef-owner Banijay is in advanced talks with All3Media-owner RedBird IMI to merge their TV production businesses (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-02-09 13:47:00
“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary impl…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-02-03 00:30:02
Different Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
📷 ZEISS IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2025-12-22 20:18:48
Navigating our golden years involves balancing robust health with sound financial management. Both are key for true wellness as we age. What's one invaluable tip you've discovered to merge physical vitality with financial security? Let's share insights and empower each other for a thriving future! 🌟 #FinancialWellness #HealthyAging
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-08 21:42:03
from my link log —
Lessons from merging hash tables.
https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338
saved 2026-01-08
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-15 15:51:17
Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/altman-s-merge-raises-252-million-to-l…
@arXiv_mathQA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-23 13:28:21
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.QA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.QA/new
[1/1]:
- Merge on workspaces as Hopf algebra Markov chain
Matilde Marcolli, David Skigin
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-09 09:24:48
@sean@scoat.es2025-12-06 19:16:59
FWIW, this is fixed now. Thanks for the merge @….
https://php.net/pipe
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza2026-01-08 12:53:13
I've asked before, and I ask again.
People who try to merge onto the interstate at 40 mph, what are you doing?!?!
@paul@social.van.buu.re2025-12-05 09:58:19
Mij lijkt het een verschrikkelijk plan dat Rotterdam z'n kunstacademie verliest.
Onderteken de petitie:
https://savewdka.petities.nl/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-12-05 06:28:13
Content warning: Advent of Code Solution - Day 5 (Python)
I stayed up far too long tonight for this one, but it was fun. Saw that we were dealing with an absolute metric ton of ranges at the very beginning so my initial thought was to reduce/merge those ranges and that's what I spent most of my time on before even tackling part 1.
It paid off tremendously and made solving everything very, very easy. There's still the Nim version to write, but I'll handle that after I get some sleep.
Solution:
@thek3nger@mastodon.social2025-12-05 12:22:23
A classic. I've implemented the sweep-merge-interval algorithm in more languages than I can remember. #Gleam
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 23:31:59
Obvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 13:30:35
Coursera plans to acquire rival online education platform Udemy in an all-stock deal valued at $2.5B, combining two of the largest US learning platforms (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coursera-udemy-merge-deal-v…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-18 19:55:59
Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694
@dawid@social.craftknight.com2026-02-04 10:59:52
Wydaje się dużo - przekombinowanie i masakra, ale - co ważne kroki 1a-1h są zautomatyzowane w GitPod'zie gdzieś w chmurze. Taki "Sprint" to teraz max 1 dzień, a zazwyczaj i 2-3 sprinty na dzień - coś co wcześniej ręcznie zajmowało 2tyg sprint i czasem dłużej. Równolegle uruchamiam kilka takich zadań.
Restrykcyjny CI odrzuca wszelkie błędy, pre-commit hooki sekrety, dziwne formatowanie, martwy kod, CD pozwala na natychmiastowe sprawdzenie merge request'a bez potrzeby dot…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-02-11 20:36:20
Bright [C II]158 μm Streamers as a Beacon for Giant Galaxy Formation in SPT2349-56 at z = 4.3: #GiantGalaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/forming-massive-galaxies-in-the-early-universe - new radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early Universe.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 17:09:50
I spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
2/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-17 20:50:51
Filing: Comcast's offer to merge NBCUniversal with WBD valued Comcast's media and theme-park assets at about $81B; Comcast's overall valuation is about $111B (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 12:10:45
TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-17 00:46:10
Sources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/-ford-…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-19 09:31:02
Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 14:15:52
Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M in bookings in 2025 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/two-air
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-16 08:34:54
Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-12 21:15:48
Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle-based…