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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Ulisu@mastodon.art ("Ulrich Suberg") wrote:

Painting the portrait at Dekaai again. It was raining pretty badly which is fine for the painting. But I didn’t bring any raincoat or even a jacket or something so it was quite cold. Either way, the model chose my painting again which today was fine since I didn’t really want to carry it home through the rain.

#Oilpainting #painting #portraitpainting #kunst #art #mastoart #fediart

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Good sounds. #grickledoodle #rain #pets #cats #dogs #icecream #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm pretty sure every single one of the upgrade problems I've encountered in the past would've have been, "Welp, time for a new computer, I guess" for people without my knowledge or access to a friend with my kind of knowledge. Of course, those people are probably running Windows or MacOS and don't get themselves into this sort of mess, so I dunno...

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

codeberg seems to be suffering again.

gee, i wonder why codeberg users aren't a fan of LLMs.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nicopap@tooting.ch ("Nora P. 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So we are looking for a new teammate.

You like Rust and want no AI mandate? You feel safer around trans people? Then join! You'll be working with me :blobcat_mlem: <- (me)

https://www.heliotis.com/en/careers/#offene%5Fstellen

(pls retoot profusely, so that I can get a cool teammate rather than the default techbro)

Don't hesitate to ask follow up questions. My instance has a short character limit.

Edit: onsite Lucerne (CH) and no consulting.

#Rust #GetFedihired #fedijob #hiring

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ah@goto.boserup.eu ("asta") wrote:

HAHAHA well it happened

Claude Fable 5 right into my Emacs

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/3735384b193

EDIT: several things seem a bit off, so maybe there's a charitable interpretation here??

EDIT 2: looks like it'll be reverted?

EDIT 3: They forcefully removed the commit. The repo is clean again.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW after the OS upgrade you're greeted with a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of your screen, the computer seems unresponsive to all keystrokes except CTRl-ALT-DEL, so you login with ssh with your pocket computer (we all have ssh enabled, right? (if that didn't work you would've tried messing with Grub kernel command line to boot into a different run mode)) and checkout "journalctl -b" to see what failed, notice PAM seems unhappy about something which apparently caused the login program to crash, so you (no LLM) search for the error message and helpfully land on a post that describes the exact issue and how to get out of it, and you apply the arcane commands, reboot with login repaired, and consider this an uneventful OS upgrade.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Once again feeling vindicated for staying a version behind Fedora's latest.

(Not that there's anything particularly wrong with Fedora's latest offerings, but at this point in my life, I have to let other people scout out and report problems and figure out workarounds. Also I really need to get off Fedora.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

A man from South Africa who has migrated to the United States, now wants Americans to kick migrants out of the country.

Make it make sense.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116982434655513966

Mitigating climate change was expensive they said. People wouldn't want to be burdened by the costs. Above all, industry does not want to contribute their fair share.

Count your pennies, the bill of (adapting to) climate change effects will be worse than the one mitigating it. (FYI this was all predicted in 2006 - see Stern review)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Wow.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@trysta%5Fkrick/post/DbPSl7xjL9H

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Almost forgot to add the photos themselves. These are from a new path that was made in the reforestation area to the north of the town to a small grove called Ísakslundur that wasn't really accessible before

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyway i am quite happy, because the floor for type system i can have is now HKT. that's really not a terrible place to be, even if i'd like somewhat more

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ah@goto.boserup.eu ("asta") wrote:

Ding dong the commit is gone.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

platypus now has a hat, that should help with the faceblindness

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kuriko@wetdry.world wrote:

there’s two type of life activities, vibing and following instructions

rave? vibe. tax forms? following instructions. gardening? vibe. rhythm games? following instructions

despite looking like following instructions, cooking is vibe

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
parisba@cloudisland.nz ("Dr Paris (he/him)") wrote:

librarians are always the coolest

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

my main takeaway is that FP people are frankly baffled by the idea that HKT might be slow because there is no good reason to think that.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay the working theory is that actually, HKTs are basically free, provided you are already trying to have a vaguely proper type system.

and that they probably would be slow in rust because rust already just likes to throw many templated copies of stuff at llvm

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
obtener@mastodon.world ("Georgiann Baldino") wrote:

#Science #ClimateCrisis #AISlop

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@deech/116986804037160449

dear types people, this is a very interesting thought and i am inclined to believe it. however, it strikes against the lore of compiler developers that i've absorbed over the years, with the conventional answer being that HKT is just inherently slow.

i'm not sure i've ever believed it was that slow, but clearly there is more to do to check the types.

my question: what can we have that will be fast and not beyond me to implement?

like i feel confident i could knock up a hindley-milner style arrangement, but i do not feel confident that i could implement a proper and useful type theory (which i would have to design first in any case...)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
shaedrich@mastodon.online ("Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET") wrote:

Is there a job portal/network for the #noAI, #neoLuddites crowd?

#FollowerPower #getFediHired #FediHelp #jobSearch

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
spiosra@sylfox.one ("Spíosra") wrote:

@patcharcana I read somewhere a good point that one of the key problems which FOSS in general has sidestepped from inception (maybe because it's not clear how to affect the possibility) is - and I roughly paraphrase - how can we make it easier for anyone to make changes to and deploy the software.

I think the same applies to self-hosted tech too. The problem of actually permitting the possibility has largely been seen as a secondary issue, despite the underlying principles of both open source and the Web naïvely assuming that self-deployment and user-modification as a taken for granted and fundamental action.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

in today’s NY Times

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Also, as someone whose own blog is coming up on their 28th anniversary in two months, I really encourage people to have their own spaces on the internet that they own and control, away from social media sites controlled by billionaires and algorithms. My site has seen the rise and fall of several generations of social media, from AOL onward. It's the one place anyone will always be able to find me.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

(coughs discreetly)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

there is a temporary irc channel ##dysfunlang on liberachat for now if people want to discuss ideas.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Finally wrote up my post about how I feel about LLMs. I hope this resonates; it was not easy to write and took a lot of re-drafting.

https://theweeklymiscellaneous.co.uk/posts/2026/07/large-language-models-in-2026/

I hope this wraps up my (inadvertant) series of LLM posts, I can't really write about it much further. Next idea I have for a post is to write up some of my gamedev work.