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In case it's useful: #Context is critical. The way a group of people behave is always, always heavily context dependent. This seems relevant to some things people say on the internet...

"Trans people have higher rates of stress-related mental illnesses" - Right now, yes, while most of our societies demonize them and work to take away their basic rights. Let's try full LGBTQIA+ equality and see how trans people do.

"Only X% of people say they have nonbinary gender, trans identity, non-straight sexuality, or other LGBTQIA+ identity/experiences" - OK, yes, while nearly every person on earth lives in a society that marginalizes or demonizes sexual/gender minorities (I've seen X quoted as "under 5%", "under 10%", etc.). Thhose numbers will change as we make the world safer for people to express identities outside the prescribed dominant categories.

"Fascism has an advantage in economic downturns" - For now, when extractive/exploitative capitalist systems dominate the world. I wonder if this will still be true when we make all of our governments more humane.

"UBI is amazingly successful" - For now, yes, while small groups receive UBI in the context of mostly capitalist systems. Let's guarantee everyone a living income and then see.

"Women have better outcomes as political and corporate leaders" - Maybe. They certainly seem to right now, while most women (and eveyrone else) are raised in patriarchal cultures. Let's make equality actually happen and then see.

"Women are more interested in social issues while men are more interested in physical and power-dynamic issues" - Possibly true only while we acculturate women this way (there's actually cool empirical evidence suggesting this is not innate)

"Brown, Black, female, and queer people focus on community and justice while cis/het white male people focus on 'the bottom line' and 'concrete' outcomes" - Evidence that this stops being true when various kinds of inequality stop being the norm.

And so on.

#BigThoughts#gender#lgbtqia
skua

#HiddenHashtags continuing to inject #TimelineIntruders.

Readers get displayed different Posts depending on their method of reading.

I can't tell why some Posts are on my Timeline with #HiddenHashtags.

My Timeline - but not easily under my control?

Hashtags can create #Context.
Hashtags can attract specific types of users.
A visible hashtag experience can be very different to a hidden hashtag experience.

Hiden or visible hashtag #TrumpIsLordJesus.
Different UX.
Client dependent.

Inautilo

#Development #Approaches
We’re using AI wrong · “The question isn’t whether AI will get smarter.” ilo.im/164sly

_____
#Programming #Coding #AI #Chatbots #Context #Workflows #Codebase #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

N’s Blog · There’s a Better Way to Code with AIEvery developer I know has the same frustrating ritual. Open Claude Code or Cursor and ask it to do a task. The AI gives you generic code, sometimes useful (but usually not). You correct it. It apologizes. You explain again, with additional context. Rinse, repeat, until you want to throw your laptop out the window. David Cramer from Sentry recently shared his AI workflow where he maintains manual rules files to give LLMs context. Solid approach, but it feels like too much copy-pasting. It’s 2025, and machines can do a better job of remembering things. It’s funny how we’ve built the most powerful reasoning systems in human history, then lobotomized them by making them forget everything after each conversation. My question: is there a better way?
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Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:

Solved! 🥳

This was a pretty "interesting" bug. Remember when I invented a way to implement #async / #await in #C, for jobs running on a threadpool. Back then I said it only works when completion of the task resumes execution on the *same* pool thread.

Trying to improve overall performance, I found the complex logic to identify the thread job to put on a pool thread a real deal-breaker. Just having one single MPMC queue with a single semaphore for all pool threads to wait on is a lot more efficient. But then, a job continued after an awaited task will resume on a "random" thread.

It theoretically works by making sure to restore the CORRECT context (the original one of the pool thread) every time after executing a job, whether partially (up to the next await) or completely.

Only it didn't, at least here on #FreeBSD, and I finally understood the reason for this was that I was using #TLS (thread-local storage) to find the context to restore.

Well, most architectures store a pointer to the current thread metadata in a register. #POSIX user #context #switching saves and restores registers. I found a source claiming that the #Linux (#glibc) implementation explicitly does NOT include the register holding a thread pointer. Obviously, #FreeBSD's implementation DOES include it. POSIX doesn't have to say anything about that.

In short, avoiding TLS accesses when running with a custom context solved the crash. 🤯

💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Geospatial Without Maps [blog post]
--
cercanasystems.com/2025/05/geo <-- shared blog posts
--
[I will be honest, I can’t remember the last time I personally made a map…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #mapless #AllDataIsSpatial #usecase #appliedscience #appliedtechnology #automation #coding #machinelearning #AI #maintenance #utilities #GPS #infrastructure #datasupply #dataflow #spatialdata #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #farming #agriculture #precisionagriculture #yield #InternetOfThings #integration #smartinfracture #earthobservation #model #modeling #routing #urban #planning #spatiallogic #proximity #zonal #statistics #geostatistics #context #systemsintegration #workflows #processmodels #spatialintelligence #decisionsystems #businessrules #efficiency

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JJ :blobblackcat:

@mcc some options you may or may not be aware of:

  • switch to librewolf (recommend!)
  • set extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config
  • set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config and put #context-savelinktopocket { display: none } in <firefox-profile>/chrome/userChrome.css

this last one lets you hide a bunch of junk in right click menus. my current settings:

#context-navigation,
#context-sep-navigation,
#context-sendimage,
#context-print-selection,
#context-bookmarklink,
#context-stripOnShareLink,
#context-take-screenshot,
#context-sep-screenshots,
#context-searchselect,
#context-searchselect-private,
#context-translate-selection,
#context-ask-chat,
#frame-sep,
#context-savelinktopocket,
#context-sendlinktodevice,
#context-sep-sendlinktodevice,
#context-viewpartialsource-selection,
#context-inspect-a11y,
#sidebarRevampSeparator
{
  display: none;
}
#context#frame#sidebarrevampseparator
// foss.events

Update on // foss.events:

registration has opened and description updated for

ConTeXt meeting by context group, Ryszard Kubiak on 22-29 August 2025 in Holiday site KREFTA in #Chmielno, #Poland

Find out more on foss.events/2025/08-22-context

Official account: @context
Official hashtag(s): #ConTeXt

// foss.eventsConTeXt meeting on // foss.eventsEverything in a nutshell about ConTeXt meeting on // foss.events
#foss#floss#freesoftware
Jef Allbright

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature." — Niels Bohr

and

"Progress is measured not by convergence but by proliferation — by the expanding collection of contexts in which we can say something coherent, predictive, and actionable."

Very good article on perspectival realism, without using that term. Highly recommended.

freedium.cfd/https://csferrie.

#perspectival#epistemology#truth
Jef Allbright

I had an eye-opening experience working with Gemini yesterday on my book.

I experienced Gemini being able to manage a complex, novel chain of thought, _until_ it had to switch context to the conventional view which due to its established popularity, had overwhelmingly more _breadth_ of context in the LLM's training data. At that point its attention mechanism would lose focus on the novel concept and be dominated by the many available associations of the overwhelmingly popular thinking. Repeatedly. When I pointed this out to it, it confirmed my assessment and apologized, saying yes, that is currently its nature as a large language model.

I was testing my chain of thought on perspectival realism (epistemological, not ontological) and functionalism as a more coherent and extensible foundation for metaethics, I was doing this by engaging Gemini in argument against the classic definition of knowledge as "justified, true, belief" (JTB) and focusing on the weakness of its self-referential use of "True" knowledge to define true knowledge,,,. We went around and around, and as I explained the perspectival/functional viewpoint it was able to explain it back to me and even compose a comprehensive and compelling argument for its coherence, extensibility, and application to a reality that we always only know not for what it _is_, but for what we perceive it _does_ at the expanding boundary of our environment of interaction. But after establishing that it "understood" the new concept, when I then asked the AI to look for weakness in my thinking in contrast with JTB, it would effectively forgot the levels of reasoning providing support for the novel thinking,

#ai#llm#epistemology
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Koen Hufkens, PhD

On algorithmic complacency... and context collapse.

"I am seeing mounting evidence that an increasing number of people are so used to algorithmically-generated feeds that they no longer care to have a self-directed experience that they are in control of."

"... it feels like large swaths of people have forgotten to exercise their own agency."

by @TechConnectify

youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

YouTubeAlgorithms are breaking how we thinkBy Technology Connections
#socialmedia#psychology#culture
Jens Notroff

And this here is not only an amazing find of a #hoard of Celtic and Roman coins near Utrecht in the Netherlands, but a really great example illustrating how much more of the whole story we can tell thanks to find #context:

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j via The Guardian

The Guardian · Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquestBy Daniel Boffey
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