i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects from years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

UNIX Time 1780000000 will occur on Thursday May 28 2026 at 20:26:40 UTC 🙂

#UnixTime #1780000000

Whoa.

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wp23/

I've always knew #WhatsApp was trash but it's all coming out now:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-encryption-privacy-claims-2026-05-21/

I don't think it will change things in Latin America though. The entire region runs on WhatsApp.

increasingly clear that when tech nerds refer to "AGI" they just mean trying to invent a type of girl who will like them

I'm sort of a notebook guy/geek and I love my travelers notebook. So when I saw the 20th anniversary card size edition I had to get it. Of course it was sold out, so I waited until the given date (4/29, 12pm PST), refreshing and refreshing until I could finally add it to my cart.

I went to checkout, was in queue, by the time I was able to pay I was told they were out of stock :(

Went to eBay and bought it from a reseller for nearly double the price. This little fucker better be worth it (but I think it probably will be)

The rainy season has officially begun here in #Nicaragua. Rain overflowed my pool last night, pool guy came in and drained all the excess. Today it rained enough to overflow it again. Fun times in the tropics.

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop?
Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours?
If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers!
Go add your business now!
And please boost this?

Most BSD fans daily-drive Linux (based on a poll) https://silversword.online/@darth/116404948062081788

If you say “fuck off” backwards, it changes accent to British accent.

@pronto #unixgods unite! Dude for some reason my instance hasn't received an update from you since 2024. I thought you just stopped the Fedi but checked on the chaos.social site and there you are, tooting away.

Hope all is well man! Something happened with Efnet and I could never connect again so I've been out of #unixgods for I don't even know how long now

https://www.ishormuzopenyet.com

Had fun doing dead lifts today.

#Powerlifting #problems

Israel bombed an Iranian synagogue on Passover

https://youtu.be/TRPUpErYeco?si=qUDHTaGy69vslROT

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/03/12/crackarmor-critical-apparmor-flaws-enable-local-privilege-escalation-to-root

Privilege esc in apparmor 😐

Introducing taco: linktaco from your terminal

https://linktaco.com/blog/taco-cli-tool-linktaco.html

#bookmarking #social #cli #taco #linktaco

In a perfect world, China would have a billionaire named Cha Ching.

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

This is why we can't have nice things.

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

#openai #ai #astral

. Less than 168 days remain before Android becomes a locked down platform!

Google intends to force all software developers to register with a centralized Google service before their apps can run on the biggest mobile operating system on the planet, regardless of whether those apps are distributed via Google Play.

Find @keepandroidopen’s website at https://keepandroidopen.org for more information about this, why it’s a problem, and how you can make your voice heard.

As supporters of open platforms we have consistently encouraged developers and alternative app stores to refuse to participate in this program, and to spread this message throughout the Android community.

Read our open letter to Google’s leadership: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

#Android #KeepAndroidOpen #Google #PrivacyGuides #Privacy

2 hour call with my CPA today. There's not enough beer in the country to appease me today.

“//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner” by Alan Donovan — https://go.dev/blog/inliner

#golang

This is a pretty interesting video about how the Egyptian Pyramids may have been built (new theory basically):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kWDOuY2Uo

Anyone else always have issues writing out withdrawal as withdrawl constantly or am I just a special type of person?

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can use vim without any age verification.

Re: https://mastodon.online/@marekfort/116164253291515471

@_elena

People who use X are increasingly radicalised until they end up as Nazis.

People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers.

hey everyone,

you may have guessed reading between the lines, but I lost my job in the recent tech layoffs…

also burnt out and realised I need to go back to working on stuff I care about.

I hope to gather enough small monthly sponsors to at least cover the bills, so I can:

- 🖥️ create beautiful apps for #Linux / #GNOME

- ✏️ provide free #design support to #OpenSource projects

if you like my work, please consider $1/month to make this possible?

thank you. :)

https://github.com/sponsors/hbons

I am always amazed by the expert mode of the SQLite CLI.

You type .expert
Then you paste your SQL query.
And #sqlite tells you which indexes you should create to speed up your query.

No AI, no complex program to install. No expensive database architect to pay for. It's just clever programming.

To my knowledge this is the only database in the world to have this feature.

https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_expert_
https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk&name=ext/expert

Not sure why I took so long to do this but moved our db backup encryption from gpg to age. It was very easy just one of those todo list items that seem to never get checked off. Well, now it's checked.

The war in Iran is what is known in international policy circles as "FIFA peace".