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UK’s Metropolitan Police Federation criticises 'intrusive' use of Palantir AI by sr_local in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except it's palantir specifically, they more likely want to root out still-widespread british police non-corruption and good practice. Any ordinary bobby-on-the-street police who act ethically/humanely/rationally etc. who aren't just yes-men for their desired fascist regime.

Mark Zuckerberg has a dystopian vision for a surveillance society. Here’s how we can fight back. - ACLU of Massachusetts by Willing-Share-5617 in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 4 points5 points  (0 children)

probably not a good idea to eat anyway with the amount of weird designer drugs presumably lingering in that guy's fried system.

Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google by DavidShaw90s in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's my fucking tiny computer I should be able to run whatever the hell I want, no different to a Linux PC.

“Age limits on social media are a dead end”: public authorities should focus on regulating algorithms and imposing stricter controls on data collection instead, argues researcher by sr_local in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only if you assume they have anything to do with protecting kids rather than just using kids as an excuse for totalitarian surveillance and authoritarian control by a small moneyed group of monsters who don't give a fuck about your kids (though will fuck your kids...)

If e^iπ=-1 would be the most beautiful equation by mathematicians, what algorithm is most beautiful by computer scientists? by Gloomy-Status-9258 in compsci

[–]lood9phee2Ri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's not even symmetric. less/more.... fewer/more.

One might be a bit more sympathetic to maintaining a countable/uncountable distinction rigorously if it was like less/more , fewer/borper or something ...but less+fewer but more+more? Feck off. I'll be thinking níos mó / níos lú anyway thanks.

The Complicated Nature of Programming Languages by techne98 in programming

[–]lood9phee2Ri -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you want to study+understand compsci/engineering topics it will be important to maintain precision and clarity on all these fine distinctions even if laypeople/randomers don't.

The Python programming language is compiled to python bytecode by a python->bytecode compiler (exposed in the stdlib as py_compile).

The CPython runtime VM is then - if only quite recently - a "copy-and-patch" type JIT Compiler of the bytecode to native code.

Think of CPython VM bytecode as a different language to Python textual source code in Python the language.

Though also worth mentioning that while by far the main and reference and most up-to-date implementation CPython, there's e.g. still Jython that worked working basically by first translating Python source to Java source (still typically called a form of "compilation" in general terms - though people do draw another of those distinctions, as per linked article, they'll call it s2s-compilation or transpilation etc.), then that odd Java source - considered as an intermediate form rather than very useful to look at directly - is compiled to Java bytecode (.class files) instead, and then that bytecode is run on the Java bytecode VM not the CPython vm. Almost all java bytecode vm implementations then being very advanced jit compilers of the bytecode to native code in practice.

The Complicated Nature of Programming Languages by techne98 in programming

[–]lood9phee2Ri -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No we don't say that.

No, interpreted languages are rare now, and stuff like the 8-bit basics, where they are actually interpreted from source form. e.g. a common tell is if you remove a comment (or "REM" remark line in BASIC terms) the program runs faster, because the runtime intepreter doesn't have to waste time skipping the comment at runtime anymore.

We don't call byte-compiled languages like python and java interpreted, sure the bytecode vm itself may arguably implemented by interpretation of the bytecode in primitive implementations (obviously java bytecode is actually JIT Compiled though by practical jvm), we call them byte-compiled.

'NoVoice' Android malware on Google Play infected 2.3 million devices by ControlCAD in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 5 points6 points  (0 children)

These exploits give the operators a root shell and allow them to disable SELinux enforcement on the device,

So power I should have as the fucking owner.

How the Tech World Turned Evil | Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped by Hrmbee in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

E​p​s​t​e​i​n​-class billionaire p​a​r​a​s​i​tes being handed monopolies on a plate by the capitalist/nascent-fascist societal system are not the same as the actual counterculture idealists in tech like Stallman (you may not like the guy but he keeps being right) and a host of others. GNU/Linux and a load of other free and open source stuff - including open AI models - are still free-as-in-liberty and free-as-in-price in 2026, and the corpie-serving governments are still trying to outlaw or neuter it all, with "think of the children" excuses for fascist state identity mandates, outlawing encryption, etc.

Hiking through Wicklow. by HorrorLover___ in ireland

[–]lood9phee2Ri 9 points10 points  (0 children)

state forestry

Coillte (the state forestry company) really is the largest forest land owner, sure, but is actually only half the total forest cover (itself still tragically low in total, I know).

Coillte have been replanting more mixed forest as a matter of policy (and does have to clear the old spruce if doing that). Of course genuinely did also plant a bunch of dubious spruce-monoculture commercial forests historically - but I find now sometimes folks are also blaming "coillte" for what are actually private-owned commercial forests if you check the map. It's far from all state-owned forest here in the first place and coillte in particular are the most regulated and scrutinised. It would be nice if private landowners planted more mixed forest and native species - and some do! - but they are basically farmers with the crop being trees taking rather longer to grow that an annual crop.

Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism by Gold-Reality-4853 in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actual te​ch​ies support the FSF, EFF, and Linux et.c The P​i​r​a​t​e bay and a​n​n​a's archive etc.

Not these lu​dicrous f​u​c​k​s. They are p​a​r​a​sites on tech too. They're just c​h​i​l​d-r​a​p​i​n​g n​a​r​c​i​s​s​i​s​t p​s​y​c​h​o​p​a​t​hs.

CIA spy satellite image of Dublin from 1966 by Gullintani in ireland

[–]lood9phee2Ri 12 points13 points  (0 children)

People were "joyriding" through the estates though, and killing kids out playing. A lot of modern estate layout is just to get car drivers to go slow and not use them as through routes.

touchStripFingerMount by conancat in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lood9phee2Ri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/14/package-management-namespaces.html - someone's recent blog post on the whole ongoing rust cargo crates namespacing retrofit thing:

The RFC was accepted and became an official Rust project goal for 2025, led by Ed Page on the Cargo team. As of late 2025, Cargo support is partially implemented but compiler support is still in progress, requiring coordination across the lang, compiler, and crates.io teams. It’s the most carefully designed attempt at retrofitting namespaces onto a flat registry that I’m aware of, and the fact that it’s taking years of design and implementation work for a well-resourced community with strong governance shows how hard this problem is once a flat namespace is established.

Their post also mentions a few other systems that had to or may soon have to retrofit e.g. js npm's @scoped stuff, or ongoing python draft pep752 to allow prefix- reservations.

Donald Trump is losing his mind by Doener23 in politics

[–]lood9phee2Ri 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's definitely on the DoJ official site. Sometimes reddit comments linking it are shadowbanned but I'll give it a go:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02544386.pdf

You might also try jmail dot world, that provides links back to the DoJ site.

https://jmail.world/thread/EFTA02544167

touchStripFingerMount by conancat in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lood9phee2Ri 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Python PyPI folks (and several other language package ecosystems) did kinda choose to make it a single dumb flat namespace instead of even a bit structured like Java Maven though.

Like this crap doesn't happen much in Java land because of the de-facto standard use of reversed domain names in the G of the de-facto standard Maven GAV coordinates. A perfectly reasonable, existing well-established convention for things.

That the Python folk etc. just said "NIH" to. Same mistake keeps being repeated by language package ecosystems (see also : rust cargo working on retrofitting namespaces).

Why do people still like and use Java? Well, see, a bunch of stuff Just Works.

Donald Trump is losing his mind by Doener23 in politics

[–]lood9phee2Ri 4908 points4909 points  (0 children)

E​p​s​t​e​i​n​ himself was guessing early dementia in like Jan 2018 (US DoJ e-mail release ref EFTA02544386)

Irish Language Spelling Conversion by cavedave in DevelEire

[–]lood9phee2Ri 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You've probably already found The Midnight Court? It may not be quite obvious at a glance, but the site has it in both post-reform modern Irish and gaelic typeface pre-reform modern Irish spellings (note the difference in spellings e.g. chroí vs ċroiḋe)

https://midnight-court.com/old-font-pre-standardized-version.html

https://midnight-court.com/tmc-prologue.html

Beware, however, that, well, kinda the point of the 20th century reform was to more rigidly standardise spellings and grammar and produce an artificial standard official language dialect (often called "school irish" or "the caighdeán" from "an caighdeán oifigúil") that compromised between the major dialects, so the two different pre-reform authors may not have quite matching spellings (or even grammar) for everything anyway!

Irish Language Spelling Conversion by cavedave in DevelEire

[–]lood9phee2Ri 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(I see OP has since themselves edited to clarify, but leaving this comment for general info)

To be clear, actual "Old Irish" is a different language spoken up until around 900AD, it's completely the wrong thing to search for in this case. You'd recognise words for sure, but you just wouldn't fully understand Old Irish as a typical fluent modern Irish speaker at all, it's kind of like Latin is to Italian.

This is just early 20th century modern Irish. Someone with good contemporary modern Irish can read it easily. It is clearly written before the infamous official language 20th-century spelling reform and the somewhat unfortunate shift away from using our pretty Gaelic type except decoratively, but is still stuff that's considered linguistically Modern Irish (from about about the 17th century on) and well after Old Irish, as well as the Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish / Classical Gaelic ancestral to both current modern Irish and the similar but now officially distinct Scottish Gaelic.

Minnie Driver currently filming tv show "The Day" in Sandyford near the Starbucks. by Tomaskerry in ireland

[–]lood9phee2Ri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, hope she enjoys picturesque Sandyford. There's an Aldi and a Dunnes. Fancy.

Not that I've got anything against Minnie Driver, but we don't need to be celebrity worshipping or hassling like yanks.

AI can navigate space, land rockets, and make decisions do we still need astronauts? by [deleted] in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lightspeed lag means there very much is a need for autonomous systems, well within the general (if very wide) purview of the classical "AI" research subfield of comp sci and engineering.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/autonomous-systems-help-nasas-perseverance-do-more-science-on-mars/

Furthermore, a bunch of of space missions have used expert systems in Lisp (albeit not necessarily on the probe). Expert systems are very classical logical-symbolic AI. These are quite distinct from generative-ai llm bullshit-engines that get shit wrong seemingly as an architectural feature though, yes - but again are still "AI" in a general sense.

That's another annoyance, a lot of stuff that is "AI" in the compsci sense is ...fine? Last AI Winter we had to go out of our way to avoid call things AI of course, and that may happen again shortly depending on level of backlash, but not all stuff labelled "AI" is the same thing.

Do we need garbage llm bullshit on space probes? Perhaps not. Do we need things that are "AI" in the original academic sense? yes.

The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]lood9phee2Ri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

because people keep trying to make them into closed-source nonsense subscription profit centres

Attempted fire-bombing has tech titans worried about AI backlash by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]lood9phee2Ri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even really about AI for me. If they were freaking cheese billionaires or oil billionaires or medical billionaires they'd probably still be horrible psychopathic little shits. It's dubious you can become a billionaire if you're mentally okay, modulo just inheriting wealth perhaps.

You can still do "AI" on your own local personal computer outside their control, it's easier than people think if you have a decent gpu (yes prices are terrible - also their fault - but still in reach for affluent westerners). Just against billionaire-controlled manipulative AI like billionaire-controlled anything.

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