@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-06 00:25:22
WR Keenan Allen returning to Chargers on one-year, $8.5 million contract https://www.nfl.com/news/wr-keenan-allen-returning-to-chargers-on-one-year-8-5-million-contract
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-06-07 04:59:49
i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…
![async def run(self, args):
if args.operation == "bridge":
os_iface = OSNetworkInterface(args.interface)
async def forward_rx():
async for packet in self.eth_iface.iter_recv():
if len(packet) >= 14: # must be at least ETH_HLEN, or we'll get EINVAL on Linux
await os_iface.send([packet])
async def forward_tx():
while True:
for packet in await os_iface.re…](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/640/314/746/449/561/original/8f1057c4cd6ca8f6.png)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-04 05:10:36
Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-04 17:58:48
So, here's where we're at:
Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.
“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial arts matches in recent months and is close friends with Dana White, the league’s president.
Trump announced his plan in Iowa during the kickoff for a year’s worth of fest…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-30 18:26:14
A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI
@zudn@theres.life2025-08-04 01:21:05
A kind editor had pity upon me:
#poetry
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-25 09:05:10
PhishingHook: Catching Phishing Ethereum Smart Contracts leveraging EVM Opcodes
Pasquale De Rosa, Simon Queyrut, Y\'erom-David Bromberg, Pascal Felber, Valerio Schiavoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19480
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-01 08:18:41
EVMx: An FPGA-Based Smart Contract Processing Unit
Joel Poncha Lemayian, Hachem Bensalem, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang, Pascal Giard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23518 https://…
@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-29 08:51:41
Ethereum Conflicts Graphed
Dvir David Biton, Roy Friedman, Yaron Hay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20196
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-25 09:43:39
I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.
What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?
What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?