Bartosz Leper

Bartosz Leper

@bl-nero.bsky.social

Grumpy nerd. Software, music making, politics, human rights. Uses em dashes — deal with it. 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦 Buy my music: https://bartoszleper.bandcamp.com/ Some of my projects: https://github.com/bl-nero Książka: https://biurwana.pl/kup he/him Opinions are my own

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"This will be one of the greatest and most historic sports events in history, and President Trump hosting it at the White House is a testament to his vision to celebrate America’s monumental 250th anniversary," It's official, they've reached the propaganda level of KCNA.

eu.usatoday.comPentagon inviting soldiers to Trump's UFC fight, but only if they're fitAround 1,200 active-duty service members will attend the Ultimate Fighting Championship match at the White House.

It's funny how some CEOs are completely ignorant about history.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

This essay is worth your time. I don't necessarily agree with the ultimate conclusion, as I consider it a bit simplistic, radical and utopian, but it's still a must-read analysis of the Machine. 1/3

tante@tante.cc

Yesterday I published a piece demonstrating that "AI" as an artifact is built on fascist thinking logic. We need to push back against this further encroaching fascism into our collective consciousness.

Most important quote: ‘I am a big believer in Stafford Beer’s principle that “the purpose of a system is what it does”, that when evaluating systems one needs to look at the actual effects that system has on the world and not its manual or the sales pitch. … 2/3

Out of all crazy things that Laurie did, this one is the Lauriest. (So far, at least.)

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social

Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM!

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The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

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I was on CBC-KW this morning to chat about #Artemis II and got a lovely view of the waning gibbous Moon on my way in to work afterward. We have such a pretty satellite 😍 BTW, did you know NASA has a Daily Moon Guide with Moon-viewing tips & info? science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-m...

science.nasa.govNASA's Daily Moon GuideYour interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year, featuring detailed views from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, plus special Moon events.

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Replying to @nikigrayson.com

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

taggart-tech.comI used AI. It worked. I hated it.I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.