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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Just over a week until the DNA Lounge does Hackers again and while it was such an absolute joy accidentally ending up standing at the back and so watching Iain Softley appreciate several hundred nerds love his work at @emf last month, doing so in a more rollerblade friendly environment than, well, a field is a wonderfully different experience

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

They Knew and the congressional inquiry into When Did They Know and How Else Is Star Trek Costumes/Props Ahead Of Known Psychometrics SOTA

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Corrolary: all the evil guys are the most rubberized: the cardasians have whole head and neck pieces and can't really look around. The ferengi have their whole top half of their face and teeth covered. Klingons. Etc. And then they made the good versions of the bad guys like the bajorans just have little accents. The symbiote species just have leopard spots.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I'm sure this won't cause anyone any headaches:

"Since DEFLATE is the underlying compression used in archive/zip, compress/gzip, compress/zlib, and image/png, the outputs from those packages may also have changed."

https://go.dev/doc/go1.27#compressflatepkgcompressflate

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Is this anything: Star trek's costumes/props designers create all humanoid species by adding rubberized ornamentation to the cheeks, teeth, eyebrows, forehead, neck, and scalp, which is very rigid. So the only facial features left for the actors are their outer embouchure and eyes. A diagnostic correlate of autism is greater dispersion of gaze over the face when attending to emotion.....

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

sorry, that's single-use, single-author projects or projects that are by or for LLMs.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i see this happening all over and there are basically two flavors of reactions, "not even acknowledging anything about the code anymore because in space" and "desperately trying to mask the consequences" and i am still only seeing "very happy with LLM code" occurring in single-use, single-author projects.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

so we have this program that takes some abstract schema and generates a bunch of different representations of it. when i started working on it, there was a bunch of spaghetti procedural string munging code in every renderer. So i wrote this templating system to separate the different concerns: the procedural translation between domains from the declarative representation in the target domain - "how to make" from "what is made". This makes a nice programming surface that can be read and written, the last human being to do any real work with it before "AI" was very pleased with it, saying "you really cooked with this" after having worked with the more spaghettilike code.

we have reached the point of LLMs where their utility is dramatic brute force, fable is good because it just keeps generating until it gets it right. since this templating system is not oversampled in the training data, though, and the documentation is in a slightly different location than the code, fable just brute forces through it and not only undoes the work of the templating system, but uses the templating system to introduce two novel forms of spaghetti and code divergence.

so anyway. asbestos et al. actively undoing any design work. a pulp mill that pressure-casts every problem into statistical boilerplate broth. fractal regression as a service

https://github.com/linkml/linkml/pull/3818#pullrequestreview-4990129294

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Here's a link to the article, in case you missed it: https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

I get that Olly wants to sell his web service. I also sell a web service. But I'm never going to discourage people from building their own web pages and being truly independent, if they want to explore that. I think the "IndieWeb" has gravitated toward too many layers of abstraction, and it's especially sad when we're abstracting people away from the beautiful simplicity of an HTML file on a server.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

This part really cracked me up:

> "If you choose the hardcore DIY approach, you're subjecting yourself to a lot of maintenance, unexplained errors and headaches that suck up a lot of time, or will require you to pay for an LLM to fix it when you're stumped."

We're not operating a nuclear reactor here. Making a web page and sticking it on a web server is one of the most simple and maintenance-free things you can do on the web.

And if anyone ever runs into problems writing HTML, please feel free to just ask me for help. Any time. No LLMs needed. 👍

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://indieweb.social/@olly/117128684877670880

I think Olly kinda missed the point of Hardcore Indieweb. It's a piece reminding everyone that making your own web pages yourself and uploading them to a web server is still an option in 2026, and it's the *only* option that eliminates your reliance on others. The only actual "indie" option. It may not be the best option for everyone, but it's still an option!

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i picked up a cat last week and it just melted into my arms and remained docile and essentially inactive, but still cat shaped. i picked up a cat yesterday and it released all the tension in its muscles. i picked up my cat and she remained rigid and buff and lept expertly out of my arms without a scratch and wall-jumped up to her perch and grabbed some of my hair in her claw to show her dominance. built different.

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Here it is, the rust FPV Lego car

https://dystroy.org/blog/picamobile/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

some cats are big ragdoll furballs and that's great for them, they have more friends and live easier lives, but she has chosen the life of the warrior and it shows.

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Les écologistes ont devant eu un boulevard, qu'ils vont manquer.

Ils pourraient dire, à chaque intervention, qu'il faut à la fois lutter contre le changement climatique ET contre ses conséquences, qu'il faut limiter la pollution ET adapter les territoires, que ceux qui nous ont mis dans cette merde par stupidité et égoïsme ne sont pas ceux qui peuvent nous aider à y survivre.

Mais ils vont encore, par dogmatisme, refuser de préparer scientifiquement le second volet.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i adopt the value system of my cat when choosing what to be proud of her for and after visiting a number of other cats i am so proud of her for being so fast and ferocious. she is like 3x as fast as the other cats.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

the horrible bros harassing women with the glasses are a problem for facebook only insofar as they associate their product with that kind of behavior, but the bros are doing FB's ideological work: steadily grinding down everyone's resistance to living in a total surveillance society, every action recorded and financialized, never safe from being recorded for random "viral" content, wearily compliant subjects of adtech hell. that's what the glasses are most fundamentally *for*.

jwz wrote:

Facebook's Pervert Glasses functioning as designed.

Meta glasses are a workplace menace: The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media. Another Target manager came across the video...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-8

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117124586590788576

Here's the piece:

https://infrequently.org/2026/08/notes-on-performance-remediation-strategies/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Doing it doesn't make someone trustworthy but if someone doesn't immediately collapse into ritualized babytalk when arriving home to their pets then they definitely are not to be trusted.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Falsehoods ADHDers believe about tasks

• I’ll remember to do the task today
• I’ll remember to do the task
• I’ll remember that the task exists

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Oh, forgot a couple more from ~2 weeks ago:

- irc.social.lol ➡️ Ergo 2.19.1
- elk.social.lol ➡️ Elk 1.0.1

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Some recent omg.lol service updates:

- social.lol ➡️ Mastodon v4.7.0+glitch
- source.tube ➡️ Forgejo 16.0.3
- phanpy.social.lol ➡️ Phanpy 2026.08.08

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

"Well, folks, this is your captain. I've been flying 30 years and I've never heard the noise this plane just made, so we're going back to the gate"

Chat, is this good

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ferrix@mastodon.online ("Greg Bell") wrote:

@jonny dude there's so many cruft layers, some of the physical laws are still using the particle API so they have to still support *both*. Lots of weird bugs from that

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Call 1800 I'm sorry to reach sorry ain't enough

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Even I am not stubborn enough to walk the duration it would take me to catch a cab home so I can ride my beloved D line

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The people mover grift going on at LAX is some of the most preposterous bullshit. Its THERE. it RUNS. But nobody can USE IT.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Its sort of cool how light is a physical phenomenon that can bend and be reflected and wavelengths and whatnot but its also sort of bullshit and they should patch it so things just look like how they are