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profilefollowI may know more about Disney History and trivia than you. Maybe, I dunno. I write about pop culture on Super Review Time.wrote:
is anyone also hearing rumours about a power/internet blackout or is it just here?
😴profilefollowI 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
The government welds your door shut and then outlaws starting a business and living in McMansions, cars, skyscrapers, and tiny homes. The governments bans body odor and then closes stores and bans delivery services. The state closes bathrooms and then outlaws public urination. The government closes the border and then arrests tourists for overstaying their visas.
Error: Provider rejected the request (invalid_request_error, 400): Claude Code 2.1.75 does not support this model; version 2.1.251 or newer is required. Run 'claude update', or update the Claude desktop app, then try again. [request_id: req_011CedKqBRnC6Qr3m6nKEwNN] I’m not using Claude Code. This is how you drop the ball.
🧜profilefollow(\ (\ ( • •) ━∪∪━━━━ Full of mostly true stories, I occasionally write them down. Habit of talking to anyone. Bipolar. Author.wrote:
I needed to process 20,000 json files & 20,000 JXL files. I'm pulling together a website from them all. Anyway, started with emacs elisp to handle it all, just because I've not done that before. Went kinda ok, and I'm gonna use org-mode to export it all to a website (done that bit loads of times before). In the end, I ended up breaking out my C programming skills (late 80s->nowish). It was a delight. Nothing more refreshing than writing raw code, that doesn't rely on 3rd party code/libs. #prognotesfollow
profilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.wrote:
Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (◊duckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is ◊ character. Others are (◊find-file), (◊grep), (◊github-search), (◊show-commit) etc.
😎profilefollowwrote:
Anthropic is announcing the end of the world every few days. All this marketing disguised as news about an impeding danger of AI is tiresome.
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profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to😎profilefollow:
not marketing. yes their jobs positively select for concern about ai, but most people that are actively researching the field are concerned about the current state of safety, pace and incentives. I dont agree with a lot anthropic does, but i do believe the employees take safety seriously and they obviously have a better understanding of it than us. also theres no incentive for someone like coxon to sound alarm bells on twitter for "marketing" reasons, after quitting anthropic
😎profilefollowreplied toprofilefollowresearcher, developer, dancer:
Yes, but some people say that they are pushing for market regulation. They want the state to protect them from the chinese models and, also, to protect the massive investments in Anthropic, OpenaAI, et al. that these companies will never be able to return. This sounds plausible to me too.
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlywrote:
Is open source dead? Everyone has the power now to make their own stacks of things. The people aspect of open source is dead or dying. I don't think the bunny is going back in the box.
profilefollowI ain't no nothing!replied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
One nice thing about Open Source (at least for me) is different people doing the same thing in different ways and one of those happen to suit my taste perfectly. And in many cases, I won't be able to come with it myself even with Super Intelligence.
profilefollowadamspaul.short.gy/notesreplied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
Evgeny Morozov has pointed out that using ai through chat interfaces is based on an individualised and privatised model, which (heavily paraphrased) is inherently anti-social. With an extra layer now of people making small personalised tools, do bigger things still need teams of people who know what they’re doing? FWIW I’d like to see more sharing of vibe coded tools instead of everyone making their own more less the same ones. Mine are here: pauladams.neocities.org
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comreplied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
I don't think so. I have been using more open source software than ever before. You may argue that with LLMs I have the power to make my own stack of things, but this doesn't eliminate that I still need knowledge to properly steer an LLM to create something worthwhile. If I have no knowledge of what I intend to build, the best thing the LLM will generate is a half-assed copy of something that already exists. Which is what we have been drowning in the past couple of years.
profilefollowI am just a grain of sand on your beach. www.gruntsoft.comcontinued:
AI can be a superpower in the hands of someone knowledgeable. That makes the people aspect of open source more important, not less. If you offload your curiosity and desire to learn to AI, you will be a slave to it's limitations instead of being a master of its capabilities.
🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
Of course not. I think it is much more relevant to ask "Is closed source dead?". Anyone can now replace a proprietary program with a vibeslopped alternative which might suit them just as well. It will have the same level of trust (ie. none) and none of the other drawbacks.
profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
omarchy felt a bit like cheating so i redid a plain arch install and am using sway now. if im honest, its all not that far away from eachother. obsessing over configs and distros is really just a hobby that some people in the linux community take too seriously.
🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
I’ve been working with OpenStreetMaps a little and I must say, they’ve done an incredible job. The data are very detailed and accurate, I can’t believe they’re free to use. Someone must be paying all those topographers somehow or I don’t understand how this can be achieved by volunteers. This project, Warsaw in Voxels which uses them inspired me to play as well.
🧑‍🚀profilefollowSoftware • maker projects • music • DIY Mostly figuring things out as I go.wrote:
signals. thinking about shifting my mental framework to identify signals instead of waiting for concepts to be assembled. exploring the amount of energy and opportunities for distractions through the operations of processing what just happened and what is happening to short circuit latent and unnecessary systems. cut through the assembly processes and identify the raw signals. recognizing that naming these "raw signals" is misleading. maybe, shifting observability lower in the stack.
profilefollowI ain't no nothing!wrote:
I'm employed again. Once again through someone I know and not through LinkedIn. Still not feeling productive and comfortable.
profilefollowI ain't no nothing!continued:
After a decent break, cannot not notice how much of my time I have to sell for a "traditional" job.