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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Reviewers feeding not-yet-public papers to in-cloud LLMs seems relevant to accusations related to math breakthroughs.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I’m again skewing the statistics for how many UTF-8 decoders the average person writes per year.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

We keep teaching people that your code—not the compiler or the computer—is broken, and then as a browser developer I look at a crash report and one of my first thoughts is that the CPU is defective and I’m just annoyed at how much time from multiple many people is required to become confident […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Points to whoever came up with the name Chavre for an oat-based goat cheese alternative.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

It's been obvious for a few years that the AI industry is building a great big financial bomb made of recycled debt, but I'm sort of amazed at just *how* big the bomb is. Even if AI was *all that* technically - which it isn't - the financial bomb will *still* go off. At this point the […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I know this is a minor inconveniece compared to dealing with war or climate disasters, but I’m so tired of having to rethink ongoing or recurring product/service choices due to discontinuation, price hikes, reputational changes due to what the leadership is up to, or unwanted changes to product […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Serious question: Why aren’t we seeing news of Chinese LLMs attacking various third-party systems? I suspect that the Chinese LLM labs are aware that if they acted like OpenAI, the reaction would be different, and they are doing something differently, but what are they doing differently?

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Kaisa S @kaisasaurio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mitä ihmettä @hs.fi ?

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I thought there had been layoffs in MSVC and was expecting Microsoft to be on track to giving up on their own compiler like they gave up on their own browser engine. I guess my impression was wrong and at least the back end is alive enough to get investment like this […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Is having Siri Recap enabled allowed in Apple offices? How long until the transcripts show up in legal discovery?

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I know that if you are unhappy with a crate author’s schedule or decisions, you can publish your own fork to crates.io under a different name. Strange to do it only for clippy lints, though.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This is over 2 hours long but worth watching about 1) what LG TVs collect by design and 2) what an attacker can do with it given that it’s a vulnerable Linux box with microphones. (Those two distinct aspects aren’t well separated in teaser clips.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@gabrielesvelto It's also equating a medium (for reading, learning, social interaction, artistic expression, self-discovery, evasion of malicious authority, etc.) with one particular low-value use of that medium (brainrot drivel).

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Should have guessed this from Servo becoming available on crates.io, but TIL that Servo is publishing the ICU4X changes that I made for SpiderMonkey but haven’t gotten into the upstream, yet, to crates.io: github.com/servo/mozjs/tree/main/mo… […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Rust nightly from 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05 regressed by 15% benchmarks that are important for SpiderMonkey strings and Gecko DOM text nodes. I disassembled both binaries and compared functions of interest: Identical. To prepare a bug report, I made a copy of the test harness and deleted all […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

It took a couple of years longer than I expected, but Evernote has reached the stage of trying to squeeze €199 per year from customers who were previously paying €99 per year.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Says something about Apple rumor journalism that AV1 hardware decoder is typically not mentioned as a new feature of the upcoming Apple TV, even though watching video is the primary purpose of the device and the rumored SoC is known to have an AV1 decoder.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Trying to understand what’s going on with “AI” is quite an exercise in assessing what’s BS and what’s not when folks who write about it extrude their point of view in a way that’s not believable but their starting point may be true. I see both “this is bad; none of it actually works” (even when […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Is there a retailer inside the customs union that is filling the opening left by Brexit breaking the usefulness of amazon.co.uk for the purpose of buying Blu-rays intended for UK & Ireland from EU countries other than .ie/.fr/.it/.es (which appear to have some special arrangement with .co.uk […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I don’t like it _at all_ when two ways of writing a small thing that are supposed to be just a syntax difference result in very different performance characteristics: phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D3… Aside: I think folks who want LTS Rust because they are afraid of the standard […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The main thing here is, of course, that the “Don’t trust” percentages are clearly larger than the “Trust” percentages, but I still find the relative order remarkable. Amodei, Pichai, and Huang as less trusted than Zuckerberg, Musk, and Altman […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Who do you trust to act responsibly on AI? Young adults aged 18 to 34

Alex Karp: 10% Trust, 81% Don’t trust
Peter Thiel: 21% Trust, 79% Don’t
Dario Amodei: 24% Trust, 76% Don’t
Sundar Pichai: 26% Trust, 74% Don’t
Jensen Huang: 29% Trust, 71% Don’t
Mark Zuckerberg: 29% Trust, 71% Don’t
Elon Musk: 70% Trust, 30% Don’t
Sam Altman: 69% Trust, 31% Don’t
Satya Nadella: 65% Trust, 35% Don’t

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

In general, Intel Macs are well-known high-quality hardware and, therefore, a good base for installing Linux on. Except wifi. I set up Ubuntu 24.04 on a Haswell iMac for use half the length of the country away from me. The proprietary wifi driver from Ubuntu’s setting panel for managing […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I bought a jacket of the same design that my father had in the 1990s. The design itself appears to be from the 1970s. 👴

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

It’s 2026. Web devs continue to put bogus values in the cols attribute of the frameset element. (Remember the frameset element?) 22 years ago, we aligned the behavior of a particular bogus pattern with Opera 7 and IE5. It seems we should now align with Chrome instead.

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Timo Jyrinki @timojyrinki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

"Sidosryhmätilaisuus EU:n teknologisen suveneriteetin paketista" -sähköposti. Klikkaan esitysmateriaalilinkkiä. "Kirjaudu Microsoft-tiliisi" 🤷🏼‍♂️ En tiedä mitä esityksessä on, mutta toivottavasti jotain käytäntöön laitettavaa. #digitaalinenitsenaisyys

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally render the entire War and Peace as a single static HTML page, no problems. So why is your annoying React app removing (“virtualizing”) 8 paragraphs of a tiny 10-paragraph document the moment they go […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Came across some code which is subjected to a complexity analysis tool; the tool, called "lizard", has a specific annotation you can add in a comment to request it skip a function, which results in a rather alarming line of code without knowing that context: // #lizard forgives

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@shafik/11707511265220… Who has standing to enforce a trademark is not aligned with the stated purpose of trademarks.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Very frustrating to diligently Godbolt specific pieces of code only to learn that when you put the pieces together, LLVM outputs something worse.

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

🔴 A defense contractor is now selling technology that scans every electronic device in your car as you drive past a camera. It ties everything to your license plate. You cannot opt out. It is called SignalTrace. Made by Leonardo, an Italian military contractor with existing U.S. Special […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

I’m curious what the back story is for Microsoft to set so strict hardware requirements for Windows 11 and then fail to require AVX2 and BMI2. It’s such a missed opportunity. Around the time Windows 11 launched, Intel sabotaged its own opportunity at advantage over aarch64 by releasing Tremont […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Today, I re-learned that SIMD on 32-bit ARM is so bad that ASCII validation using 32-bit reads is faster than ASCIIvalidation using 128-bit reads.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 05/08/2026

Erinomainen kolumni. Mitä enemmän viranomaisille annetaan pääsyä yksityisiin tietoihin, sitä isommaksi kasvavat riskit väärinkäytöstä. www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...

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Kolumni | Tahdotko virkamiesexäsi tiirailemaan tietojasi?

Kun viranomaisten käytössä oleva data lisääntyy, virkamiehen kiusaus oman työn helpottamiseen kyseenalaista oikoreittiä käyttämällä kasvaa.

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Mika Salonoja 🚲🇫🇮♥️🇺🇦🚲 @mikasalonoja.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jarla kommentoi Kelan toimintaa, aikana jona laitaoikeistohallitus ohjeistaa ihmisten kiusaamiseen (kutsuen niitä "säästöiksi")

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Saw a photo of the Vasa in my feed, and it took me a couple of seconds to figure out if it was a C++ shitpost or just someone visiting Stockholm.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Booted MIPS Debian in qemu and ran rustup update for the first time since 2018 only to discover that mips-unknown-linux-gnu is no longer supported by rustup.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Losing the Google Earth desktop app and getting an image generator in Google Earth does not look like a good trade.

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

The UTF-8 to UTF-16 and UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversions in the simdutf library use large lookup tables. Mere throughput benchmarks don’t measure how the perf of other stuff is affected by (at least parts of) the tables ending up in L1 cache and evicting something else. I fail to find a blog post […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Two things where Rust chooses principle over practicality with SIMD and that annoy me right now: 1. Calling a function annotated with a target_feature from a function not so annotated requires unsafe even if the target_feature is statically enabled. (E.g. sse2 on x86_64.) 2 […]

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Don Marti @dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Is there a name for the paradox where a space is _more welcoming_ by having and enforcing _stricter policies_ for specific problematic behavior? For example, if a user group or makerspace has rules on surveillance glasses (must be put away in an opaque container if brought on the premises) and […]

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

What’s the deal with notion that American AI data centers are noisy very noisy due to cooling? I’ve walked past Telia’s Helsinki data center in summer time, and it doesn’t make noise, smell, or emit visible fumes. It’s the size of a city block and there’s a regular sidewalk right in front […]

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