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Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is 🔥proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression,
⚠️ listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
"And I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration
is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can,
but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine a…

Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration
"One of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore," Vance said.

Stephen Jones ve avances en la búsqueda del coordinador defensivo https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stephen-jones-ve-avances-en-la-busqueda-del-coordinador-defensivo

Raiders GM John Spytek on trading No. 1 pick: 'We've gotten a few calls, and those teams know where they stand right now' https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-gm-john-spytek-on-trading-no-1-pick-w…

David Cronenberg, master of body horror movies, was born today (March 15) in 1943 (during World War II!)
I saw his films 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' early, around the same time, in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've seen many more of his- I just counted, I've seen 13 of his 23 films, and I've loved all of them. I'm a huge fan. My favorite was Shivers for a while. I'm not sure what it is now. Gotta see those final 10!
Happy birthday, David. We love …

Stephen Jones ve avances en la búsqueda del coordinador defensivo https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stephen-jones-ve-avances-en-la-busqueda-del-coordinador-defensivo

Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
U.S. Girls:
🎵 You've Got Everything - But A Smile (Theme from "Dead Lover")
#USGirls
https://usgirls.bandcamp.com/album/youve-got-everything-but-a-smile-theme-from-dead-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NrYRk0QcfZDSWrezlywEu

We've been playing around with stream settings for the past week. Here are the best settings we've tested for streaming #LOTRO and other games from #Linux. They should work well on Windows as well. Remember, if you're on Nvidia, replace the "VAAPI" with "HVENC".

I've now already read in the media that Trump has a 'plan' for Greenland, that he has 'a vision for the future' of Greenland, and that he has 'ambitions' with Greenland.
Cut the crap. Trump threatens to annex Greenland. That's all.

In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself.
https://www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-own-t

Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference and the Limits of any Academic Discipline
Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very different conclusions. Richard: Marcus, I've been reading your recent work on disciplinary self-reference. While I find your historical analysis interesting, I think you're making

Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nv

Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

Well, I've written all my number equality stuff. It's full of bugs, but it's written.
Debugging is a problem for another day.

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…

The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.

"You've probably Googled yourself, but have you Epsteined yourself?"
A new hobby | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/a-new-hobby/

Yeah, that's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead,
the rest bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm
a private eye.
-- "Calvin & Hobbes"

It was hard to leave my teams and the small Cloud Security org that I grew, but days like this are why it was worth it
After 5 years at Netflix, I've sorely needed time off to recover. I'm deeply proud of the work that Netflix Cloud Security did, and I will miss them
In a few months, I will be looking for a security leadership role at an organization that aligns with my values
Meanwhile, I'm glad to finally feel calm, safe, and secure

Dear friends in the #USA,
in case you haven't notices yet: you've lost the status of being a proper #democracy. 😔
Exhibit A from today:

My dryer is gaslighting me and it's not even gas powered, it's an electric heat pump dryer (edit: actually the washer is doing this not the dryer)
But i've been sitting down here for at least thirteen minutes watching the 7-segment display saying 0:01 remaining.

There's a lot of chatter here in Minneapolis about a far-right group staging a hate rally / “march” / attack on Saturday — and a lot of confusion about what the targeted community is asking in response.
If you want to rush in and play hero, STOP.
If you heard “don't go downtown, don't do anything,” also STOP.
The targeted community has a specific and nuanced request for us all. The information here is the best summary I've heard. Please take a moment to read.
#Minneapolis #MSP https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/115906410015463575

Charlene - “I've Never Been To Me” (1977)
There were a few songs I would hear on the radio as a kid that would seriously disturb me. This is one of them. Basically a tradwife anthem.
And this video from 1982 takes the madness to a whole new level.
#music

Listening to the doctor talking up 'Heidi', the 'AI' scribe used by doctors to speed note taking... and struck by the irony of the call being interrupted by technical issues. It's crucial to realise this system only works if we've got working int'l connectivity, and are paying eye-watering amounts to the foreign service providers.

I've a better idea.
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
Davey advocates what the Western consensus deplored in Iran.
Double standards
UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dz1k0rr4o…

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey
Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start work on a "fully independent British nuclear deterrent".

If a company breaks the law and profits from it, and the penalty fine isn't more than what their profit was, then they have not been punished. They've just paid their extortion fee to the government.
#politics #fine

For 30 years, we were fine with an unencumbered internet. For 20ish years, we've had social media, and blogs before that. An entire generation was raised on the internet (I'd argue for the better).
And now, all of the sudden in the year 2026, every government on the planet is mysteriously deciding that we urgently need to do age verification.

DxO PhotoLab's color rendering is so rich and vibrant. I continue to be extremely satisfied with the edits I've gotten out of it. #Photography #DxO #PhotoLab

RE: https://sonomu.club/@threedaymonk/116408169469726499
Heh I've seen this a lot, people posting to their 1000s of followers on mastodon (I haven't seen this happen on other social media) and then bitterly complaining about replies, usually quite…

While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM

The Parent Educator Podcast
Because whether you've realised it or not - you have always been your child's primary educator. Here, we explore what it means to step into that role with intention...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-pa

Do I know anybody at GitHub who can help me get HTTP Toolkit into the student pack?
I'm happy to do free accounts for students, I've filled out the form a couple of times - they never reply, but students keep endlessly emailing me to ask me if it's included.

Love seeing this year's list of #GuggenheimFellows, which includes a couple of artists whose work we've shown recently: #KotaEzawa and #AllisonJanaeHamilton as well as

I've spent a bit of time today browsing through #pouet and #demozoo looking for #adlib demos that exercise the YM chip it carried. Not really played with

Scottish Government Value for Money team: I've heard some worrying information about how this team is influencing government grants, to restrict provision for maternity pay, etc.
If anyone has any concrete information about this team, I would appreciate it if you would let me know.
https://w…

Zoom, this morning: “Meet the new way to navigate" on a secondary window that you've spent the last 5 years training me to ignore, and that actually no one wants. Good one.

My favorite quote in Disney/Pixar's "Hoppers" is Mabel's line toward the end, practically pleading with the audience:
"I just want to work with people who... CARE."
Man, that's the ONE LESSON I've learned about life, work & happiness.
(1/2)
#hoppers #disney

Ok Linux users... I've got a dual boot machine thus using a Nvidia graphics card. What is the best tui system monitor for seeing grapic card info? #linux #tui #terminal

At this point today I'm willing to light anything on fire with the word "Plex" on it. I've never had a server fight me so goddammed hard. It's taken 10x more effort to rebuild the Plex server than it did to build the Jellyfin server. However, that part of the Great Migration is done and I only have two more servers to move over to Debian.
#homelab

why do things keep fucking installing pipewire. EVERY FUCKING TIME it breaks my audio setup and i have to remove it. and i NEVER realize i've installed it either

Yeah. Could've had that in 3. Just laziness on my part. #Wordle
Wordle 1 703 4/6
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For the past few weeks, I've been prowling around CachyOS like a hungry lion around a grazing herd of antelope. I even installed it once, only to return to my usual distribution a few hours later.
But it gnawed at me deep down—also because, after many years of abstinence, I wanted to install my old Steam library again and play a game or two. And according to all the enthusiastic reports, CachyOS is the perfect Linux for gaming. That's why I did it again yesterday and gave Cachy…

This is my occasional reminder to follow me without overtures if you've bridged your Bluesky account with the Fediverse.
Here's how to do it if you haven't already: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#get-started

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

If there's anyone on here who follows my northern Scotland account on "X" - ("@civiclilly1" or Lilly in Wick), please note that it has been hacked and please ignore any messages or tweets coming from there.
What an effing rigamorole to get X to suspend the intruder and give me back access 😡. I've had that account for twelve years!

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: For the past year now, I've been collecting all the information I could find. With Orac's help, I now know more about Control than anyone outside the senior echelon of the Federation. I think I can destroy it. [Avon claps slowly.] I'm not going to minimize the danger. It's a high-risk operation. That is why I'm not going to ask any of you to come with me.
GAN: You think you could do it without us?

The title of the blog post blog was clickbait for me. It argues #Thinkpad fandom boils down to price, build quality, and repairability.
There is one glaringly obvious omission any longtime user should spot immediately. There is no mention of the unique trackpoint-based keyboard design that you can't find anywhere else.
I've stopped using ThinkPads as my primary platform f…

The Myth of the ThinkPad
Lenovo does not care about you.IBM did not care about you.Thinkpads do not exist for your benefit. There are a lot of videos and blogs seeking to answer the question “why are ThinkPads so popular” …

TIL that WB0RLJ Jim posts videos of his POTA activations keyed by time, so you can find your call in his video description with a link straight to the time in the video. Very cool!
I also read his QRZ page and discovered that I did something that he dislikes. I've heard other ops say that if someone gives a partial call, you should reply with your sign twice to cut down on back-and-forth, and now I kn…

The office last night.
35°F/1.5°C, windy. Coldest outdoor gig I've ever played.
They say in Formula One that if you don't go into a corner at at least 60mph the brakes don't warm up enough to actually work, and there won't be enough downforce to keep you on the track as you turn.
Well, my fingers were completely numb after the first song, so I knew that the only way to play for 2hrs was to rock extra hard, to get the blood going!
But the

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

I realized something interesting today that I hadn't fully pieced together: living under #Trump is a pretty close approximation to being poor in a rural area, at least in my experience.
You're constantly afraid of authorities because any of them could randomly ruin your life. You randomly can't afford things (because some unexpected expense came up, or because some incompetent asshole decided to tariff something or start a war or whatever). Everything is terrifying, unstable, and unpredictable basically all the time. The only way you survive is with a community.
I knew Trump would take the rural vote way back because I recognized him as the crooked sheriff or good ol' boy mayor of more than a few little towns I've lived in. He's so deeply familiar, which is really triggering for the tiny number of people who managed to escape that kind of crushingly hopeless place.
So if this has all felt very terrifying and foreign, then perhaps use it to understand the people who find it terrifying and familiar. For at least some of those people, this has been an unpleasant return to (continuation of) an old normal. Understand why we say that things must change far more radically than that which lets a few people "go back to brunch."

Machado gave Trump the Nobel prize medal and got a swag bag in return, aha. Not even a t-shirt?!?
And of course he kept the medal—it’s made of gold, after all.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/americas/venezuela-machado-trump-meeting-nobel-intl-hnk

This film has finally come out. I recommend you see it, not because I did some strange pop/noise music for it, but because it is one of the strangest films I've ever seen.

MoMA PS1's wifi actively blocks Claude. This brings back such bad memories of trying to do a project here ten years ago. (this is the first time I've been back).

Oh well, our upcoming client doesn't provide cc files for each shot. Instead, we need to extract the grading values from an EDL file. Fortunately I've already written a script to do that a few years ago for another show.
The time to write a script might be more than what it takes to do the task manually (here it would be copying values from a text file to an xml file). But it pays off if you have to repeat the task. Even if that is 7 years later.

Recordatorio que este domingo es la #fedifiesta en #ColladoVillalba, #Madrid con la presencia estelar de @…

I've been seeing a lot of IPv6 apologetics on here lately. IPv6 hasn't taken off, and won't take off, because it's a usability disaster. We will literally collectively as a species do an entire gymnastic performance to make IPv4 work so we can avoid having to confront IPv6. We don't need to all give up and come to terms with the reality of having to use some half-baked crap dreamed up in 1995 that still doesn't work in 2026, we need to define and deploy a better stand…

For around 10 years I've been playing around trying to get GraphViz built for iOS. Admittingly I've not spent huge amounts of time on it but have never quite got it working properly. Have also tried over the last couple of years on and off with various LLMs to see how they would fare also without success.
Had another go this today with Claude Code - and got it working quite nicely! Took a few iterations to get things built properly but have a nice build script and understandab…

Welp, this will be my last run until after surgery. Is there a Walkers of Mastodon, lol? 😆 I will be doing more walking and light elliptical use.
I've had multiple instances of collapsed vestibular episodes, and I'm done powering through this in the interest of not losing my hearing, or worse. I'm one stubborn son of a bitch, but I've been doing more damage to my body over the last 14 months than I should have been (under the guise of this being long covid and part of …

The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic"
that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone,
give it away, and move on with your life.
I've been feeling this for a while now, and I suspect a lot of folks who have the itch to build feel it too, even if they haven't articulated it.

The Noble Path
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to solve your own

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ya Tseen:
🎵 I've Known (feat. Pink Siifu, Hanna Benn)
#NowPlaying #YaTseen
https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/track/ive-known-feat-pink-siifu-hanna-benn-2

I've just realised that a startling proportion of my projects are "X but don't OOM my server"

containerspy (RC, has been running in prod for months) is this to cAdvisor
micrometer (planned) is this to Grafana Alloy (see if Vector can fill your use case!)
Finite Scale (WIP) is this to ownCloud Infinite Scale

What's that? I've published a new article on my website?
All other writing has been on hold until I finished it, but my data review of 2025 is finally done 😅 🎉
I have absolutely no idea if it will be of interest to anyone else, but I love these posts. And this year's was using **even more** of my own, home-grown data, captured directly via the very site it now lives on 😁
#IndieWeb #YearInReview #DigitalHomesteading

I've used #pretix for a few events, and although I really like how feature-rich it is, the UX (both on the backend and public-facing pages) could use some serious design reworking. It was one of the few #FOSS alternatives out there to

Theming #firefox with userChrome.css
I've bored from the default view...

I've been using @… now for a while.
It works quite well. Found everything I was looking for.
Didn't use Google in a while.
https://www.qwant.com/

Qwant
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

I've finally finished VALIS, took months when it shoulda taken a week cuz of getting caught in the suicidal era. Free to read something else!! Now I'm tryna decide what to read next:
• Leonora Carrington's usually my all time fav painter, and I've already read some of her stories in my collection, but not all
• I've been intending to get into Umberto Eco for literal years, have had multiple friends recommend The Name of The Rose, liked the part I read of the I…

If you've ever wondered what revolution has to do with Garry Shandling, wonder no longer. And don't worry, you don't need to have heard Revolution Part 1 to understand it.
https://youtu.be/Bo_LmJ_2lM0

in a world of omnipresent shitty and baity talk/blog/video titles, I cannot appreciate @… 's talk enough:
"How to give your Python code to someone else”
It's perfect. 🥹
https://…

How to give your Python code to someone else
You've written some Python code. It works great on your machine. Now you want someone else to use that code. … Presented by: Russell Keith-Magee

Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-ar…

Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Backed by $70 million, Artemis is tackling the new reality of faster, cheaper AI-driven attacks.

I've ordered an eDP->HDMI adapter for my snapdragon laptop with dead screen; the firmware doesn't set up the HDMI output, and I've failed to get any Linux to boot - or at least if I have then I've not got any output on HDMI or serial or had much more progress visible anywhere - it's tricky because it probably needs secure boot disabling, but I can't see the BIOS to be able to do it. The adapter is due to be on a slow boat from Harbin; so it might take a while.

@…
heh, your logo graphic style is very striking and quite rare - only other use of this style I've seen is my own site, and I'm also involved with a retro VN thing. 😀 Hopefully I can catch a livestream.

That was among the craziest runs scored I've ever seen.
#baseball #WBC

""When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.""
Kristi Noem's 'outrageous' voting comment ignites frenzy: 'Saying the quiet part out loud' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2675270051/

As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.

Years ago, I was working for a non-profit on a contract basis (illegally on their part, since I should've been classified as an employee under state law; that's what we call a red flag, folks). I'd never met the executive directory (ED), but he was in the office one day.
I was showing my boss the kernel driver I'd just gotten working, and demoing it working on the prototype hardware. My boss calls in the ED to show him as well. The ED is impressed. (1/2)

The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else (Full Album) 2026
Been listening to this album and enjoying it more than I expected. It's nice hearing these voices in a contemporary setting. Anyone know how their other recent albums are? So many! I've not kept up. I just wanted to check out these covers, but now i'm like these guys are still really good!
#music

Eyes On Screen
If you're into The Testaments, TV recap podcasts, film analysis, movie reviews, or just hearing people unpack what they've watched in a way that feels like you're catching up with friends, you'll feel right at home...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…

😂 "Ratatouille" is my favorite Disney animated film & I NEVER GOT TO RIDE REMY'S RATATOUILLE ADVENTURE at EPCOT. (I only had 2 Multipass reservations & let my son & wife ride while I quietly sat outside)
This was the very 1st time I've ever seen Remy's ride!
▶️ Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure! - 2D POV - EPCOT, WDW | 4K 60FPS

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
KENDALL: We've calculated the orbital pattern required to maintain a balance and save our planet. [quickly takes neutrotope from Blake holding it up high]
BLAKE: Impressive.
https://

If I post something related to this, and you find yourself replying with
"oh that's easy all you have to do is just..."
you've made my point for me https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116037816367638660

Found this one online about #microsoft / #microslop and how they are killing W11. I have to agree - I've gone from a dual booter to a full time Linux user at home. I have one windows computer for special work - but it's offline as an air tight seal against updates. I stopped update…

NFL free agency playbook: 10 rules to follow, including bargain QBs, paying RBs and avoiding the WR wall

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agency-rules-to-follow-bar…

I shouldn't even call my ex wife my ex wife, I should really just call her a baby mama. My kid is 19 now and I've made sure to not say nasty things about her to him or around him, which she's made fairly fucking difficult. But I'm working at being the better fucking person or some stupid shit like that 😂

SpaceX has once again lowered our Starlink bill, now to €29/mo. In theory, this means they've also placed us on a 100Mb down, 50Mb up plan, but I am currently downloading a 6GB file at 38MiB/sec, which is well over 100Mb. 3.2x 100Mb, in fact. Very pleased with the service. Even during days-long power outages (particularly during the blizzard in Jan 2025) once the mobile towers are out of battery and nobody can get in or out without a helicopter, we're the only people around with a li…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
aja monet:
🎵 Give My Regards to Brooklyn
#ajamonet
https://ajamonet.bandcamp.com/track/give-my-regards-to-brooklyn
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GBgbltMAHgl2fBISWpZ7g

I've been wondering lately if my job is #bullshit.
I've given it a lot of thought, and I think it's not directly bullshit. I'm doing stuff that's meaningful, at least in a narrow scope, both in my dayjob and my #FreeSoftware / #Gentoo work.
That said, with the arrival of all the bullshit CEOs, CTOs, all their bootlickers, wannabe bootlickers, and all the CEO/CTO/bootlicker cosplayers, the whole software industry is becoming filled with bullshit to the brim.
Even if my work is meaningful, it contributes more and more to software that's either scam in itself, used to scam people or pure unadulterated bullshit. Even if the tools used to be useful, they either gain bullshit parts or bullshit dependencies.
I hate this, and it's making me hate what I'm doing.

13yo: "it's all settled to the bottom. it's like.. what's it called? It's like.."
me: "rain on your wedding day?"
13yo: "no, it's"
me: "a free ride when you've already paid?"
13yo: "omg dad STOP"
13yo: "IT'S LIKE MISO SOUP, OKAY!"

So to follow up on this, I've caught it in action. Models, when quantized a bit, just do a bit more poorly with short contexts. Even going from f32 (as trained) to bf16 (as usually run) to q8 tends to do okay for "normal" context windows. And q4 you start feeling like "this model is a little stupid and gets stuck sometimes” (it is! It's just that it's still mostly careening about in the space of "plausible" most of the time. Not good guesswork, but still in the zone). With long contexts, the probability of parameters collapsing to zero are higher, so the more context the more likelihood you are to see brokenness.
And then at Q2 (2 bits per parameter) or Q1, the model falls apart completely. Parameters collapse to zero easily. You start seeing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” sorts of behavior, with intense and unscrutinized repetition, followed by a hard stop when it just stops working.
And quantization is a parameter that a model vendor can turn relatively easily. (they have to regenerate the model from the base with more quantization, but it's a data transformation on the order of running a terabyte through a straightforward and fast process, not like training).
If you have 1000 customers and enough equipment to handle the requests of 700, going from bf16 to q8 is a no-brainer. Suddenly you can handle the load and have a little spare capacity. They get worse results, probably pay the same per token (or they're on a subscription that hides the cost anyway so you are even freer to make trade-offs. There's a reason that subscription products are kinda poorly described.)
It's also possible for them to vary this across a day: use models during quieter periods? Maybe you get an instance running a bf16 quantization. If you use it during a high use period? You get a Q4 model.
Or intelligent routing is possible. No idea if anyone is doing this, but if they monitor what you send a bit, and you generally shoot for an expensive model for simple requests? They could totally substitute a highly quantized version of the model to answer the question.
There are •so many tricks• that can be pulled here. Some of them very reasonable to make, some of them treading into outright misleading or fraudulent, and it's weirdly hard to draw the line between them.

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Life truly comes at you fast.
The plot? Buckle up.
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A so-called mini “baby boom” is unfolding across the upper echelons of the Trump administration.
Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Katie Miller are pregnant, each with due dates in late spring or summer.
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If you have to call your roving band of marauders "legitimate law enforcement" in a news conference, they're not.
You've lost.
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