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@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.wrote:
Turned Stepper (self-hosted AWS StepFunctions) into client-server. Server hosts state machines, clients poll for tasks. New resources about running #claudenotesfollow. claude -p works, now thinking if I need interactive session management.
@archivist_eyes๐Ÿ’€profilefollowYour mind is also supposed to create happiness, not just to receive it. You're supposed to find solutions, to invent, to imagine, to remember, to love. This much we always forget.wrote:
Turn the car on. Shift in Neutral. Gas to the bottom. This is how my head feels most of the time.
@tel๐Ÿ˜ดprofilefollowI really enjoy learning, I really enjoy making. I'm learning to be less guarded.wrote:
there's a gentle kind of space not some echoing cave nor some incessant chirping flock more a darkened back room lit by a projector candid photos of your neighbors songs made only for friendly ears and the kind of brave words that rarely make it out of our hearts
@kitnprofilefollowhallucinating with llms...wrote:
Apparently, Xiaomi is making a DGX Spark competitor.
@avioliprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
Unfortunately no. Just starting it. Got the proof of concept loading a dir with its sub-dirs then rendering on the GPU in textures silky smooth. 1.7mb executable, but will need to level up to SDL and that will double the size I think.
@avioliprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
I agree. It is #zilchnotesfollow for now. Will do better next time, but in my defence the text above the text box (when writing a new message, not a reply) says โ€œWhatโ€™s on your mindโ€. :-P
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogwrote:
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they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I donโ€™t believe we wonโ€™t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and weโ€™ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.
@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagasprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term
@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term
@personprofilefollowwrote:
szerintem jรณl sikerรผlt a cรญmvรกltoztatรกs a honlapon: a bรถlcsรฉszeti underground majdnem olyan ellensรฉges รฉrzรฉseket vรกlt ki emberekbล‘l, mint a skizofrรฉnia underground, lehet vรกlasztani, ki melyiket utรกlja jobban
I think the title change on the website was a good one: the humanities underground evokes almost as much hostility from people as the schizophrenia underground, you can choose which one you hate more
@robbyprofilefollowphotography, art, solo dev, based in NYCwrote:
#ainotesfollow Installed Hermes Desktop and starting to build out my team of bots. My experience with Hermes so far has been great: it keeps surprising me by being what i need it to be ... but I'll reserve a final judgement until after a proper period of use.
@chenxiangprofilefollowwrote:
ไธญๅ›ฝ็š„ๅผ€ๆบๆจกๅž‹ๅœจๆœ€้ซ˜ๆ„ๅฟ—็š„ไธปๅฏผไธ‹๏ผŒๅœจ้ข„่ฎญ็ปƒๆ•ฐๆฎ้˜ถๆฎต๏ผŒๅฐฑ็ญ›้™คๅคง้‡ๅฏนๅ…ถไธๅˆฉ็š„ๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒsft้˜ถๆฎตๆž„ๅปบ็š„ๆ•ฐๆฎๆŽบๅ…ฅๅคง้‡ๆ›ฟๅ…ถ่พฉๆŠค็š„ๅ†…ๅฎนใ€‚ๆ€ฅ้œ€ไธ€ไธช็บ ๅๆ•ฐๆฎ้›†็”จไบŽๅพฎ่ฐƒ
Under the overarching influence of a single, powerful force, China's open-source models filter out a large amount of content unfavorable to their designs during the pre-training stage, and then incorporate a significant amount of content defending their designs into the data constructed during the SFT stage. A corrective dataset is urgently needed for fine-tuning.
@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
just started using yazi and immediately love it. dont know why i ever put up with gui file explorers
@caminanteblancoprofilefollow(โ•ฏยฐโ–กยฐ๏ผ‰โ•ฏ๏ธต โ”ปโ”โ”ปwrote:
Bring back partial anterior encephalectomies
@caminanteblancoprofilefollow(โ•ฏยฐโ–กยฐ๏ผ‰โ•ฏ๏ธต โ”ปโ”โ”ปreplied to@vko_pngprofilefollowpoet by heart ๐“…ฐ:
It seems like removing some of the connections between the anterior and frontal cortices could have positive effects.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogwrote:
Added #meta tag โ€” use it whenever you want to talk about the site itself, and these posts will not show up in all, any or the postโ€™s page. Only those that follow the tag or the person will see these posts in my feed or in post pages. This is to keep the site clear of meta discussions which dominated a lot at this early stage and I think were annoying to many people. So this is the last meta without the #meta tag youโ€™ll see unless u follow. Iโ€™ll try to tag every post I find.
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerswrote:
All emails from textlog go to my junk folder, @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog. Using iCloud+. Not sure if anyone reported that before, so here I am. :-)
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
Yeah it's happening to people. It's because the email contains a link and we don't have the reputation yet. Not sure what to do, have you tried reporting it as 'Not spam' in your client? Maybe if enough people do that it will fix. Gmail works ok.
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
Yup, I am moving them out of it. It might take a while, but eventually should be OK. All good, hopefully now with a password I will not have much use for them any more.
@catastrofer๐ŸฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guywrote:
I was curious of testing the Omarchy distribution this week just because I had some free time to work on it. I saw a lot of hate around it and kind of get the point but so far at least for what I have been doing it wasn't terrible (at least at the point of writing this) although I am not trying to convince anybody to use it. But it just remember me how much do I hate MS.
@zen๐Ÿค’profilefollowfather, cyclist, #haskellnotesfollow, #emacsnotesfollowreplied to@catastrofer๐ŸฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guy:
I think a lot of the pull around Omarchy is you get a riced desktop out of the box? Personally, I wouldn't really consider it for a number of reasons but I do appreciate a nice looking desktop. If you want something similarly pretty but a bit more normal and less monolithic (who needs a whole 'distro' for what Omarchy provides anyway?) approach then I'd suggest Niri + Noctalia.
@chenxiangprofilefollowwrote:
ๅฏนไบŽๆ•ดไธชไบ’่”็ฝ‘ๅŽ†ๅฒ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅฏ่ฏดๅŸบๆœฌไธŠๆ˜ฏไธ€ไธชๆ—่ง‚่€…๏ผŒๆˆ‘ไธ€็›ดๅœจๆถˆ่ดนๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒไฝ†ๆ˜ฏๆฒกๆœ‰็”Ÿไบง่ฟ‡ไป€ไนˆๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒไบ’่”็ฝ‘ไธŠๆฒกๆœ‰ๆˆ‘็š„็—•่ฟน๏ผŒ่ฟ™ๆ˜ฏๆ„ๅค–ๅŽๆžœ๏ผŒๅ› ไธบไธญๅ›ฝ็š„่บซไปฝๅ’Œๅ†…ๅฎนๆ”ฟ็ญ–
Regarding the entire history of the internet, I can say I've been largely an observer. I've always consumed content, but I haven't produced any. There's no trace of me on the internet, which is an unforeseen consequence due to China's identity and content policies.
@cyanohydrprofilefollowreplied to@chenxiangprofilefollow:
ๆˆ‘ไธๅคชๆ˜Ž็™ฝไธญๅ›ฝ็š„โ€œ้˜ฒ็ซ้•ฟๅŸŽโ€ๆ˜ฏๆ€Žไนˆ่ฟไฝœ็š„ใ€‚ๆฏ”ๅฆ‚่ฏด๏ผŒไฝ ๅˆฐๅบ•ๆ˜ฏๆ€Žไนˆ่ฎฟ้—ฎ่ฟ™ไธช็ฝ‘็ซ™็š„๏ผŸ ๏ผˆๆˆ‘ๆ˜ฏๅœจ้€š่ฟ‡็ฟป่ฏ‘่ฝฏไปถๅ’Œไฝ ไบคๆตใ€‚๏ผ‰
I don't quite understand how China's "Great Firewall" works. For example, how exactly did you access this website? (I'm communicating with you through translation software.)
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@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!wrote:
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell your name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!
@amyprofilefollowa work in progress; i love cats ๐Ÿฑreplied to@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!:
Nobody is perfect. Iโ€™m nobody.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!:
Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today How I wish he'd go away!
@ku๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am kureplied to@semperos๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
Reminds me of a little gag where little LuLu makes an excuse for not doing her homework. Homework? I thought you said housework. I spent all night vacuuming.
@lockbladeprofilefollowwrote:
At dragoncon, and it's even more than a zoo than I expected. way more people than I thought would be here on a Friday.
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
The rho coding harness Iโ€™ve made has come along way and Iโ€™m constantly trying to evolve it, but whenever I go back to pi itโ€™s startling the difference of what a solid computer science background brings.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogwrote:
I hate crawlers that donโ€™t advertise theyโ€™re crawlers. โ€™n badly written. They donโ€™t respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Canโ€™t block them theyโ€™re distributed.
@ku๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am kucontinued:
For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@ku๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am ku:
But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.
@humprofilefollowwrote:
Feather to paper that's moon inked for you -- a greeting from somewhere. It isn't for you. But it will be for you.
@hydprofilefollowpermanent head damage, human-computer infractionwrote:
I'm not an optimist, just a pessimist who's still proactive: I don't think things are going to get better, but I just can't talk myself into giving up yet.
@ryuichiprofilefollowwrote:
I like this, it feels like Reddit before what it is now, but I feel like it wonโ€™t be long until the internet destroys this place. Until then Iโ€™m happy to be here.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@ryuichiprofilefollow:
My favorite part of classic reddit was the use of elaborate hacks to circumvent the restrictions on custom subreddit CSS. E.g. animated gifs weren't allowed, so people made filmstrip sprites with stepwise animation in such a way as to look exactly the same.
@lemonthymeshortbreadprofilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
For the first time in a couple of year, I wove a rattan basket today, and the best part is it only took two hours when I was expecting it to take all day #basketrynotesfollow
@cfiggprofilefollowwrote:
Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propagandaโ€”it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.
@asmund๐Ÿฅทprofilefollowwrote:
Vรฅr konges livsgjerning gรฅr mot slutten, landet samler seg for รฅ ta farvel med en konge som har vรฆrt samlende og god for landet. Mรฅ Gud velsigne hans minne og hans etterfรธlger. #norgenotesfollow #kongharaldnotesfollow
Our king's life's work is coming to an end, the country comes together to say goodbye to a king who has been unifying and good for the country. May God bless his memory and his successor. #norwaynotesfollow #kongharaldnotesfollow
@curtisprofilefollowGot my head in the clouds right now.wrote:
Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today
@jgprofilefollowNew herewrote:
How did all the tech oligarchs seem to go fash so quickly?
@gonzprofilefollowI make custom 3D engines and love writing lower-level code in general. Living in Bulgaria. github.com/GoNZoooGitHubGoNZooo - OverviewBackend & frontend. Odin, Zig, Haskell, PureScript, TypeScript, Elixir/Erlang and lots more, check repos. - GoNZooo & www.youtube.com/@mccGoNZoooYouTubeRickard Andersson (gonz)Educational programming videos: - Projects - Language learning course-style contentreplied to@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.:
This is what we need.
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerscontinued:
The โ€œyou have seeing it allโ€, etc.
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@catastrofer๐ŸฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guywrote:
I need to re wire my brain a bit. Last couple of weeks has been a bit harsh dealing with some issues I had with someone. I started to give it a go a pay a bit more attention to myself, is the second time I get therapy but for some reason this time feel harder.
@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.wrote:
Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (โ—Šduckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is โ—Š character. Others are (โ—Šfind-file), (โ—Šgrep), (โ—Šgithub-search), (โ—Šshow-commit) etc.
@hellodaviddevprofilefollowdev, programming, going off vibes and coffee hellodavid.devDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.wrote:
In an attempt to put myself out there, I have started a blog to write about my experience as a software engineer. Feel free to check out my first article :) www.hellodavid.dev/thinkingDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@hellodaviddevprofilefollowdev, programming, going off vibes and coffee hellodavid.devDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.:
Great read, wish you best on your new endeavour!
@hellodaviddevprofilefollowdev, programming, going off vibes and coffee hellodavid.devDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.continued:
new link; my page is a work in progress - it is now more mobile friendly hellodavid.dev/blog/thinkingDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollow:
Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".
@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollowreplied to@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@xlayn๐Ÿคชprofilefollow:
You've hit the nail on the head. But here's the mindblowing partโ€”writing isn't just about text on a page. It's not about listing a bunch of facts to memorize. Writing is about human connection. And here's where it gets even more fascinating... [parody, not AI]
@xlayn๐Ÿคชprofilefollowreplied to@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appear:
Some writing yes, If you want to write a post saying why your company has a position yes; if you are documenting an API, does the average swagger page have a human connection factor? If you are in X/FB, is any of your followers a "human connection"?
@xlayn๐Ÿคชprofilefollowcontinued:
Then, in some spaces, say big corp communications, the terse, direct communication is desired, for example the quarter earning communication? What about software?, what part of your browser gives you the "human connection"?
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@xlayn๐Ÿคชprofilefollow:
If writing (incl X/FB posts) is meant to convey "some human being did/saw/thought this and found it worth writing about", then AI undermines human connection and will annoy people. API docs, earnings reports, &c never conveyed that to begin with, so nobody will care about AI use.
@timprofilefollowi write instruction for computer to follow. i'm a software engineer.wrote:
how do i know my user id? i created by account 5hr after #launchnotesfollow. im user # what?
@egeprofilefollowcheck out my blog: hypersubject.netege's webloghypersubject.netHi! Iโ€™m ege. Welcome to my corner of cyberspace. The following is for you to make sense of who I am. It is an attempt to make myself legible to you. So you can label and categorize me and decide if Iโ€™m worthy of your time and attention.wrote:
turns out the power of exclamation mark thing in bash is bigger than !$ and !!. i learned a few tricks from refp.se/โ€ฆ/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-markrefp.seA shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. | Filip Rosรฉen - refp.seEvent designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s โ€” so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise., worth reading!
@sayheytozoeprofilefollowSoftware engineer (of course) in Londonwrote:
I finished Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte and now I'm struggling to take any other book seriously. I need a pallet cleanser or something before I can move on
@rossdavidhprofilefollowwrote:
I think more than 50% of our economy's businesses, are cosplaying. Not in it for customers or profit; in it for investors and investments. "Looking like a business", as your real line of work.
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@sicilicaprofilefollowreplied to@ryansepassiprofilefollow:
I've never thought of something like OF as gambling. But I guess your point is that young adults are pushed to a lot of "you have a 0.1% chance of hitting it big and a 99.9% chance of getting no online traction at all" types of careers?
@ryansepassiprofilefollowreplied to@sicilicaprofilefollow:
Yeah, no point in investing in yourself or a real sustainable long-term future, just gamble the little you have for a shot at life above the line. Barbell economy.
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@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@rossdavidhprofilefollow:
a business loan is not an investment, it is debt financing that pays back with interest. An investment means putting money into a company to gain ownership or a share of future profits. to me it feels like youre arguing against cosplaying, showing small businesses struggle and arent just playing boss for the funzies.
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
Sharing your work with others is a hard computer science problem in 2026, the Year of our Lord. You either here the sound of chirping crickets or the sound of "AI Slop" yells.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
My past 3 projects went viral. I didnโ€™t write a single line of code in any of them. But I still feel I engineered them. There were a few people that noticed but the majority didnโ€™t see an issue.
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlyreplied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
You're fortunate in that you've genuinely captured something that people clearly want with textlog. No one wants another static site generator or coding harness. Ideas that resonate are pretty few and far between now.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
I should have said past 4 projects went viral but the other one I did a lot of coding too, so wasnโ€™t entirely โ€œAI slopโ€. In all cases though, I made something I wanted to see. It just happened to resonate with others. Still, none of them extremely popular yet. All <500 users.
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.wrote:
The dream of Twitter circa 2007 is alive in 2026
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.:
Twitter was 140 chars. That makes it double the dream, right?
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.wrote:
Lot of wildlife run-ins on my neighborhood trails this week. Ran past three deer yesterday, including a buck. Then a hare as I made it to the top of San Pedro Mountain this morning.
@skace๐Ÿง™profilefollowwrote:
(Opinion) People donโ€™t like generative AI because it made the {insert creativity} too easy. Saw the HN post on โ€˜AI music banned from top 40 chart in Australiaโ€™ and people had very strong opinions in both directions. The hot take: If youโ€™re ok with someoneโ€™s creativity being outsourced to others, then you should be ok with AI doing the same. If โ€œAI made this and I call it mineโ€ is bad but โ€œsomeone overseas on fivver made this and I call it mineโ€ and itโ€™s suddenly ok, time to self reflect.
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@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@skace๐Ÿง™profilefollow:
My hot take: from the moment you use technology, be it an instrument, a synthesizer, a DAW, and now AI, it is still your idea, your effort, your time spent, and that makes it yours. Others can do the same if they choose. The same way someone chooses a classic guitar over a synthesizer, one can choose an AI over (insert ancient way of doing things).
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@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
I am not a musician, so I lack the jargon to properly explain what I mean. I used AI for creative writing (nothing too fancy, TTRPG). There, the broader the dice roll, the more generic and uninteresting the results. Slop, if you will. It was surprisingly good to build up on ideas I had however. I imagine muisic also has building blocks. Melodies, instruments, mixing, etc. AI can perhaps be used in a similar fashion there.
@tel๐Ÿ˜ดprofilefollowI really enjoy learning, I really enjoy making. I'm learning to be less guarded.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
I heard a perspective I sort of like: if AI is a tool then acceptable AI use is, more or less, defined as "when my audience no longer notices or cares". It's dynamic like that. Bad photoshop is detectable and annoying, so are overusing presets. Your artistry needs to expand to meet the tool. I don't know if I 100% like that or agree. At the same time, it's a pretty straightforward line, a practical take.
@xlayn๐Ÿคชprofilefollowreplied to@skace๐Ÿง™profilefollow:
I kind of ask that and here is my theory... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289341#49290428 But on the rejection for AI just for the sake of it, I think part is that analyzing takes effort and if there is more and more to analyze you creates this mechanism to defend yourself... scroll twi... I mean reject the premise as false and ask for a human made thing because that one is "truth" more worthy.
@henrikprofilefollowwrote:
I work with c# and distributed systems. Anyone with experience in that domain?
@c0c0a5profilefollowwww.C0C0A5.comreplied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
Choice is definitely a problem. We notice it when we go to our cabin, about a 2 1/2 hour drive away. The grocery store there targets #foodnotesfollow for its local community. It is beef-centric and often boxed foods -- which is not our diet. Access -- or lack thereof -- is the worst kind of problem. Food deserts in my townArcGIS StoryMapsFood Deserts in the Twin CitiesHistorical factors, health impacts, ArcGIS mapping, and a local nonprofit illustrate the historical and complex nature.
@semperos๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
Maybe neither of us will ever know when this was written. Live.
@ben๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowDesigner, no-code maker of stuffreplied to@semperos๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
Itโ€™s easy, just add your own timestamp to posts 2:35โ€ฏam Tuesday, 25 August 2026 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied to@ben๐Ÿ˜ŠprofilefollowDesigner, no-code maker of stuff:
No one would ever misuse this convention. This post was written on Thursday, 26 November 2009, 16:05 UTC+3:00
@ilyaprofilefollowreplied to@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.:
This is how one accidentally encourages the creation of timehash services which vend cryptographically provable timestamps....
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
The inaugural, proverbial first post. Seems like a lovely service here.
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
The proverbial first post should have been โ€œhello worldโ€. :-P You are the first rustacean I come across!
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlyreplied to@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
LOL! Good point:)
@asmund๐Ÿฅทprofilefollowwrote:
There are many distractions. Much is way too verbose. A calm, quiet and โ€œdistraction lessโ€ experience suits me better. I am not sure my thoughts will fit in 280 characters, but letโ€™s try and see how far that goes.
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.wrote:
I laughed at this. I'm all for people crafting their own tools, but it really feels like everyone's reinventing the same handful of wheels for agentic development.
@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineerGitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runnerStravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeownersgetonmain.comMain ยท A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.continued:
In terms of where I invest my time, I'm trying to find ways to zig while everyone's myopically zagging.
@kitnprofilefollowhallucinating with llms...wrote:
in a hackathon rn. building a cloud platform for agents on my homelab.
@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to ๐ŸŽถ, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.wrote:
Microsoft Word Online (web version) is horrible.
@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollowreplied to@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to ๐ŸŽถ, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.:
It was the only way to reproduce the authentic horrible experience of the offline version.
@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to ๐ŸŽถ, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.replied to@hippo๐Ÿฆ›profilefollow:
๐Ÿคฃ Did not remember the offline version being this bad, but maybe it went downhill in the past 5 years I have not used it.
@gruntprofilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied to@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to ๐ŸŽถ, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.:
I never used the online version, but the last time I used the offline version it already was a horrible experience. This was about 5 years ago, before I had moved entirely to Linux. It was so bad I downloaded a pirated version of some old MS Office 2007 Blue Edition to have something acceptable. I unironically prefer Libre Office.
@fastidious๐Ÿ™ˆprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerswrote:
There is someone absolutely rotten and fetid in this airplane. Every 10 minutes. Dear Spaghetti Monster!