@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-23 05:38:39
Federal prosecutors on Oct. 22 announced the arrest of a Virginia politician and a half dozen others in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.
According to an indictment filed Oct. 14 in the Eastern District of Virginia, state Sen. Lille Louise Lucas and six other co-defendants
are charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijua…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-22 18:36:32
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-10-22 14:26:10
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-10-22 13:17:06
Looking at Sun3 psu parts again, it seems to me that they were designed in negative - this little daughtercard makes it pretty obvious - they've not laid down tracks - they've down the gaps and ended up with sets of lands. The whole board is only a few cm across, so I don't think anything here is taking significant power.
#retrocomputing
@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-10-23 13:21:54
Status: Scanning an entire distribution for certain CA certificates…
@audiodump@podcasts.social2026-10-21 23:20:53
ad239 Das ist wie Baby Kafka (mit Hendrik Mans)
https://audiodump.de/2026/10/22/ad239-das-ist-wie-baby-kafka-mit-hendrik-mans/
Die Golden Girls des Podcasts diskutieren ausschweifend über KI: Bens fucking Waschmaschine hat eine, Suno erklärt uns…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-10-22 17:02:42
Spotify and other music streaming services are a product of the current time, which is mainly defined by the lack thereof. People would enjoy buying CDs, MP3s, taking the time to listen to albums, if that wouldn't take away the precious time our economic system demands for productivity.
Streaming services provide music as it is required in the western world: Something that is experienced passively, to numb, and to distract, not something to be actively enjoyed.
Of course any musi…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-10-23 03:38:55
RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qnd2lqn52ernybdfonq4mc43/post/3myiumwxbac2l
It's weird seeing distribution packagers get shoutouts in mainstream media outlets. Mostly, we'r…
@sperbsen@discuss.systems2026-09-22 18:04:33
Video of my @… talk on Local-First-Distributed Configuration is up!
https://youtu.be/a8AinsQZJ9I?si=83HwrwexDso-FNUb
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-10-23 15:01:07
🎯 Faster decoding with DSpark draft tokens and confidence-scheduled verification (default max draft length: 5). SWA bounded replay cuts decoder prefill work by replaying only a bounded suffix
🔒 Batch-invariant inference keeps results identical across batch compositions, deterministic sampling returns identical outputs for identical inputs and seeds (both NVIDIA only). Structured outputs constrain generation to regex, JSON schema or EBNF grammar