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• Post #4186832

  Ah, the trustworthiness of modern LLMs…

• Post #4119977

  I'm not quite sure what I think about implementing Doom in a regular-expression. https://4rh1t3ct0r7.github.io/doom-regex/ There's something unholy about the mere concept.

• Post #3660199

  Okay, I'm confused (and clearly don't actually follow soccer/futbol). Today's score was listed as SUI 0(4) vs COL 0 (3). My reading is that neither team scored any goals (0-to-0), but I'm unsure what the 4-to-3 aspect means in relation to SUI advancing over COL. (on the bright side, with COL out of the running, I can stop caring about the #WorldCup 😆)

• Post #3610848

  got this in my feed this morning and it felt just a bit too close to reality

• Post #3540485

  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116850588672790759 This is interesting (though I dislike that it seems to be burning tokens/resources to determine). It says my "Gumnos" nym has a "strength" of 294 and is in the top 20%. I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean. Top 20% of what? More amusingly, it seems to have identified me as an active Stack Overflow user (I have maybe a dozen posts and haven't logged in for *years*), that I'm associated...

• Post #3403646

  All The Signal Ladies

• Post #3402025

  @phil@fed.bajsicki.com There was recent kerfuffle¹ about LLM-washing of licensed code, training an LLM on it, and then getting "public domain" versions of it on the other end. As @cwebber@social.coop noted a while back², that would either mean you can license-wash proprietary software (train it on the source to Photoshop or Windows and get a public-domain version out), or the underlying code licensing still holds…both are interesting outcomes. ⸻ ¹ the most notable one I've seen h...

• Post #3362366

  Okay, I hit a crazy #OpenBSD (or possibly Perl) peculiarity today. For background context, OpenBSD's pkg_* tools are all written in Perl. Testing stuff in a discussion with @rl_dane@polymaths.social, I had cause to throw ktrace on the pkg_info command like $ ktrace -f pkg_info.ktrace pkg_info -Q remind All said, fairly boring. But when I was browsing through the dump $ kdump -R -f pkg_info.ktrace | less I found that it did a stat(2) call on every single file in my current working dire...

• Post #3339350

  Just saw news that Epic Games has release "lore", a version-control tool for large projects like games (with their associated assets) https://github.com/EpicGames/lore My first concern was licensing which turns out to be BSD-licensed. That's good. My second concern is how open they are to outside contributors. Based on the CONTRIBUTIONG.md file, this feels like "you can view it, you can fork it and do your own thing, but all project contributions get vetted through intern...

• Post #3309364

  Hey, kids, it looks like they may have released a new AI model with vastly reduced power/water requirements and improved accuracy: #AndItFitsInYourPocket

• Post #3300977

  Before I go and code it up myself, does anybody know of a battle-tested utility that will take a Maildir directory as input, process all the messages into an output Maildir directory normalizing all messages to just their text/plain components? The notable edge-cases I see: • pure old-school text/plain (without any MIME component), in which case just copy the message over • messages with just a MIME single text/plain would ideally get promoted to a non-MIME embodiment of the text/plain body...

• Post #2835121

  Wishing a happy 5.25 day to all who celebrate (mostly USAians who write dates in the most braindead way, but the ISO8601 crowd should also be down with this ordering)

• Post #2568798

  For the #SQL & finance nerdery folks, this was an good writeup¹ of fraud-detection using SQL, providing actual queries with technical explanations. I'll grant, the audience for the post is pretty niche, but if you're an aspiring SQL dev, it has some strong examples using window-functions (including named window-functions² which I don't often see in the wild, since it's only become more available in the last 5 years or so). ⸻ ¹ https://analytics.fixelsmit...

• Post #2326243

  @NanoRaptor Loved the CDEphone operating system, but more of an Octane-phone for the hardware sorta user…

• Post #2316118

  This was a really good article on TUI accessibility (and lack thereof) https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility by @xogium To add to the list of apps, I appreciate that mutt/neomutt and Alpine email TUIs offer accessible options like arrow-cursors, minimizing redraw, and other features to make them usable in a screen-reader. And on the other side, my @ed1conf alter-ego makes it pretty clear that I enjoy linear interfaces like ed(1), mail(1) (and...

• Post #2285784

  As one living in Texas, I found this particularly amusing when it crossed my feed

• Post #2160671

  To my #SSH folks: Is there some documented process of moving SSH from one machine to another transparently? I get that I can copy the server-keys from $OLDSERVER to $NEWSERVER, but my understanding is that SSH will still notice the IP address (they connect via name, and DNS will point to the new IP address) changing and still raise alarms. Short of also migrating the IP address too (not an option here since they're owned by different orgs), is there a least-painful route? The current...

• Post #1717172

  RE: https://io.mwl.io/@quotebot/116459148451079249 Just if you're a…shifty sort of person 😆

• Post #1555651

  Okay, whoever authored this deserves a raise

• Post #1483850

  N Gauge 🥁

• Post #1396132

  I'm not really sure what to say about this other than "bahahahahahaha", but I really never did understand the "gold audio cables" folks. https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

• Post #1160625

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116404232260697488 okay, this is brilliant in its crafty deviousness for disabling JavaScript on the current page without reloading. I both hate it and love it. Thanks, @mcc !

• Post #1084516

  NASA: "Four green crew members" Captain Kirk: "Aww, yeah…" #Artemis2

• Post #1015022

  pilfered from around the web

• Post #994650

  pilfered from around the web #git

• Post #964830

  An interesting article¹ by Spencer Mortensen on obfuscating email addresses on web-pages, detailing how well each technique has worked. While all the more advanced techniques had much higher blocking-success, I dislike how they rely on CSS or JavaScript which breaks in most of the simple text-mode browsers. For inline-text email addresses, the comment method me@examp<!-- comment -->le.com seemed to hit the sweet-spot of working in all browsers, yet effectively eliminating 98% o...

• Post #818333

  while there are many things about AI/LLM stuff that bother me, Phillip Moore eloquently elaborates on my particular irritation with the term "prompt engineering"—there's nothing *engineering* about it: https://the-infrastructure-mindset.ghost.io/prompt-engineering-is-not/

• Post #772359

  RE: https://techhub.social/@pragprog/116261695092722408 Even better, get the book, use tmux, and skip the Claude sessions 😆

• Post #772357

  @pythonbytes / @mkennedy Hey, is there any chance you'd split the existing podcast into Python Bytes and something like "AI Bytes"? While it used to be a great Python news-brief, it now feels like the AI portion overshadows the Python aspects.

• Post #772356

  Ah, that lovely season where you've been forced to change your $DAYJOB password but not your muscle memory, so you get the password wrong the first time, every time. 😑