Mastodawn

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

eightbitraptor 23h ago

Max B 23h ago

New post by Jacob about recent heap modeling optimizations in ZJIT :D

https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/

How ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

ZJIT’s optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRuby’s shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.

Rails at Scale

eightbitraptor 2d ago

Matt May 2d ago

If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke

eightbitraptor 2d ago

Justin Searls 2d ago

We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSS—often without users' knowledge—and cut out the creator.

eightbitraptor 2d ago

Esther Payne

2d ago

Perhaps the uncritical use of LLMs in our FOSS ecosystem is a symptom of burnout in our maintainers and projects.

eightbitraptor 3d ago

George Monbiot 3d ago

Well, I for one am extremely relieved that the line between the "defensive" strikes Keir Starmer said UK bases could be used for, and offensive ones is so clear-cut, and that we can trust the US to respect it on every sortie. Phew! ukaviation.aero/raf-fairford...

RAF Fairford at the centre of ...

RAF Fairford at the centre of Operation Epic Fury: Britain’s strategic bomber hub | UK Aviation News

UK Aviation News

eightbitraptor 5d ago

Jeff Atwood 5d ago

if you were really worried about "impending sentient AI apocalypse" or whatever, let me assure you these LLM tools are absolutely dumb as rocks, there is zero "intelligence" here, only global brain stats

eightbitraptor 6d ago

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Glyph 6d ago

The suggestion that the article makes is all about passive monitoring of the amount of time that your LLM projects *actually* take, so you can *know* if you're circling the drain of reprompting and "reasoning". Maybe some people really *are* experiencing this big surge in productivity that just hasn't shown up on anyone's balance sheet yet! But as far as I know, nobody bothers to *check*!

eightbitraptor 6d ago

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Glyph 6d ago

The very fact that things like OpenClaw and Moltbook even *exist* is an indication, to me, that people are *not* making sober, considered judgements about how and where to use LLMs. The fact that they are popular at *all*, let alone popular enough to be featured in mainstream media shows that whatever this cognitive distortion is, it's widespread.

eightbitraptor 6d ago

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Glyph 6d ago

I'm open to a future where we do some research and figure out the limits of how AI influence works, and where the safety valves are, and also the extent to which it's *fine* that AI can influence our views because honestly many different kinds of stimuli can influence our views, not least of which is each other. But it sure looks right now like it has a bunch of very dangerous feedback loops built-in, and it's not clear how to know if you're touching one.

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