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• Post #4235125

  RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117004310940800283 Can you say "legislative value capture"? I thought you could...

• Post #4235124

  Holy crap. Apple signing keys, and the management structure and user interface around them. That is all.

• Post #4235123

  RE: https://mast.hpc.social/@Elwell/117005765102919342 Wikipedia says 79m tons of steel in 2024, https://www.srfurnace.com/how-much-power-does-an-electric-arc-furnace-require.html says 400-500kWh/ton, so if I have my orders of magnitude right, US steel production is about 4.5 gigawatts?

• Post #4214173

  Looked into the details of "The Reality Network", and suddenly had the uncomfortable realization that WASM means that every one of those "checking to see if you're a human" pauses could be stealing compute for proof-of-work (like ads likely already are). JavaScript was a mistake.

• Post #4200984

  RE: https://werd.social/@ben/117003494260821180 The other side of this is: pretty clear that Microsoft's software development processes are horrendously broken.

• Post #4004679

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha/116961777595818023 Lemme tell you about the day we got X and Emacs running on the Chattanooga Online DNS server, 4mb of RAM. And it kept serving queries, too. Kids these days and their "only" 4 meg...

• Post #3964858

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165 As an emacs user, this was especially annoying, and I resented installing this thing for work.

• Post #3837744

  Is there a way to generate a large corpus of bad code in a variety of languages? Right now my web site is serving zip bombs to overly aggressive bots, but I'm thinking LLM poisoning needs to evolve...

• Post #2507522

  Back in the early naughts I had an elderly friend who hung out at the same coffee shop as me. Journalist with many cool experiences. He became convinced that he'd finally figured out a mechanism for betting on horses. This is also a post about conversations with people on how they use LLMs.

• Post #2393339

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116539164078873733 The act of writing software, and of maintaining software, is that of building a mental model that understands the processes that it is sitting in. Agile means the process understanding is built simultaneously with the coding. AI generated code means the process understanding is never built.

• Post #2303802

  Trying to help and elderly friend with his iPhone, and holy shit Apple's standards have dropped. Apple apps/screens that pop the keyboard over the password and won't let me paste, inconsistent placement of "next" buttons and permissions stuff. What happened to this company?

• Post #2303801

  Saving this point in the May 4th Petaluma City Council meeting so that when my city council member comes up for re-election I can gather all of my neighbors and have them watch this exchange and replace this guy with someone competent. https://www.youtube.com/live/F_mKQBORNcM?t=16831s

• Post #2303800

  RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116535410248869526 Feels like time to move to one of the BSDs.

• Post #2303798

  Facebook Marketplace rarely disappoints... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2026-05-09MaritalGrinder.png

• Post #2303797

  Anyone know who's running PetalumaCivic(dot)org? It appears to have some pretty misleading AI generated slop, and I'm wondering what the motivations behind it are.

• Post #2303796

  RE: https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/116545502669822723 This helped me understand why I found "Wake Up Dead Man" so unengaging that we turned it off midway through...

• Post #2079157

  Yeah, I know, everyone else is sharing the article, but we need this message in the public consciousness: Working from home may reduce a person's carbon footprint by 50%. #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3Rr7Eot

• Post #1925367

  "The laser pointer does not own you." - @baconandcoconut #NBPy

• Post #1793935

  My talk on Modern Western Square Dancing at North Bay Python this weekend is live... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVvaz8eFwA #NBPy

• Post #1353549

  Oh eeenteresting: Google's models respect Anthropic's poison pill constants. At work we just tried to use the Gemini API to summarize Flutterby, and it kept throwing errors. Bwahahahaha!

• Post #1353546

  This is, indeed, pure genius: https://puregenius.education via the similarly very good https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-resisting is really good, but it links to https://puregenius.education

• Post #1353545

  Lucy, the office pup, eyes deep in a Penry Park gopher hole.

• Post #1353544

  Lucy, the office pup, eyes deep in a Penry Park gopher hole. With picture. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2026-04-17Lucy.jpg

• Post #1353543

  The boats have arrived for Butter and Egg Days. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2026-04-17TurningBasin.jpg

• Post #1353542

  SMS with a verification code from a 5 digit phone number I don't recognize. Moment of panic, then I search for the number and discover it's the Safeway Rewards login process. Sorry, evildoer, you will not hijack my grocery coupons today!

• Post #1353541

  Is there either a really good intro to Rust's libcosmic, or a better/more mature widget set for Rust that isn't Qt? I'd love something lightweight, but a table that doesn't appear to have edit in place capabilities, or truncate/wrap for long fields, seems... more archaic than I want.

• Post #1353539

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116426276687793929 Needs some gender representation, some big dude with a porn 'stache, etc...

• Post #1353538

  Down to Sausalito for the community garage sale this morning, and we're taking the slow way home. Stopped in Roy's Redwoods, first time we've been there since they refinishef the trail revamp. Miss the old sense of wandering through forest but, given the increase in visitors, it's really nice. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2026-04-18Inside.jpg

• Post #1353536

  Some days I think we're seeing the consequences of Computer Science education having become chanting "Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" as a religious incantation rather than actually building mental models about code and systems.

• Post #1200084

  Turns out when autocorrect turns "Petaluma" into "proteins", the search isn't terribly useful.