Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼

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An advocate for Free Software, Open Source communities, the GNOME project, Open Hardware/Firmware - and sustainable open source - I might talk about politics too. I'm also the oneAPI community manager. As a community person I care about equailty for all- proud partner to @aartiramkrishna
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Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼1d ago

Scientific American was bought by some corporate company and they have fired everyone in a union but also they are squashing any reporting that focuses on politics around science because they want to avoid trouble from Trump.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/goodbye-scientific-american

Science has always been our superpower. It's deeply unfortunate that we have reached this stage. Coupled the SCOTUS judgements we are turning into the worst versions of ourselves.

Goodbye, Scientific American! - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Scientific American has been acquired by LabX Media Group, which holds Discover Magazine, IFLScience, and a number of other science publications. I haven’t looked at IFLScience since it was a Twitter account stealing other people’s material. They say it’s different now. And they have started out by firing writers and editors. The Writers Guild of […]

Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼2d ago
Good morning!
#CatsOfMastodon #Cats
Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼5d ago
@dirkhh @Popehat yeah, definitely get that vibe as well here. Although you are probably not shocked that I was on a HOA board 😅
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼5d ago

Apparently, bluesky is all a flutter because @Popehat bsky account was suspended. He made some edgy comment about Elon Musk on June 12th and took the moderators this long to take action.

I suspect that this is all to be demonstrative that everyone has to abide by the rules.

Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼5d ago
@Popehat I heard some shit went down at bluesky - are you no longer there now? Will come back here?
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jun 19
☃️karolherbst☃️Jun 19

Sooo.. we've landed experimental DLSS support in #NVK that uses pre compiled shader binaries that are part of the runtime. However, if the application/DLSS library doesn't contain the GPU binary for the used GPU, it won't work.

However, those ship with PTX and we'd need a PTX to Nir/SPIR-V compiler inside mesa to support that.

However.. Nvidia might get angy and before I consider working on it (or somebody else), it might be better to have somebody covering potential legal fees, lol...

Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jun 17
Show threadEugen RochkoJun 17
@EUCommission It's kind of crazy that Mastodon never got this kind of promotion and endorsement, unlike this 4 month old platform that came out of nowhere.
Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jun 16
@finn my hand itches to pet the cuteness.
Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jun 16

@karolherbst Sure, if english is not your 1st language I can see it doing that but the beauty of language is that you can be precise - most LLMs generate text at below college level reading comprehension.

I know writing is hard. It takes me a long time to write something because I'm trying to make sure that I'm writing something that connects with people in a very specific voice. LLms can be good to get inspiration that I can modify. But I wouldn't use it wholesale.

Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jun 16
@karolherbst If you're letting AI write your blog posts then you're really demeaning yourself since it's not remotely you. It means you couldn't care enough to write something in your own voice and style that is unique to you. It's just a task to you.