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jwildeboer, 20 hours ago to bluesky

"Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter" so he left Bluesky and now he invests in Nostr and will try again because third time's a charm :) https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

#Bluesky #Dorsey #Twitter #Nostr

mattb, 3 days ago to random

User (to me: maintainer): why don't you just do this incredibly obvious thing that you would have obviously done already if it was possible because it's so fucking obvious.

Me (externally): because... rtfm link.

Me (internally): oh, just fuck off.

mattb, 5 days ago to random

"The Abyss Gazes Also"

mattb, 5 days ago to random

German speakers: how old is the Barbaras Rhabarberbar tongue twister? Is it something like She Sells Seashells, or How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, that almost every child would know.

I was introduced to the version done by, presumably, a couple of comedians recently, and it's quite wonderful.

mattb, 12 days ago to random

I'm not (at least not yet) persuaded by the argument that the output of an LLM is a derivative of all the material it was trained on. The problem with the argument is that it also applies to me: if I see some cool code you wrote, you bet I'm going to make a mental note of it. The trip hazards here are patents and non-free licenses, but they also apply equally to people.

There are other problems with LLMs, but I'm not convinced by that one specifically.

mattb, 13 days ago to random

English(English) speakers: you all know what a leat is, right?

paul, 13 days ago to random

40 years ago, I got my first home Desktop computer.

An IBM AT.

I still have it in the garage.

Time to pull it out and video record a demo for the "kids" and play some Flight Simulator, maybe make a "Newspaper" with the newspaper publishing software, etc.

I wonder what LOTUS 123 will do?

LOL

mattb, 19 days ago to random

It's peak #bluebells season in England.

mattb, 19 days ago to random

A few years ago I confirmed experimentally that the theorised condition known as "too much cheese" exists in practise. The apparatus primarily consisted of fondue.

However, a few years on these results still feel improbable. I wonder if I should try to replicate them again.

foosel, 21 days ago to random

I finally gathered the courage to write a mail to my landlord about installing some flexible solar panels to my (south facing) balcony.

If he says yes (no idea how big my chances for this are) I'll also have to clear it with the house owner assembly, and it is really unclear whether I'll get an ok from there and if so how long it'll take.

All of this so far made me not want to even start this fight, as stuff like this costs me a TON of energy, but on the other hand it's a shame not to try.

mattb, 22 days ago to random

I've got 24 hours in Paris in July with my 14 year old son. We've done the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur, and the Arc de Triomphe before. We didn't do the Louvre last time, so we'll book tickets to take selfies with the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo (total expected visit time <1hr if we drag it out or the queues are bad).

What would you do?

mattb, 23 days ago to random

What is the function giving the probability of having a number of odd socks N in a sock population of size P?

And if, as I suspect, I'm way at the improbable end, is this evidence I'm in the Matrix?

mattb, 25 days ago to random

One of the few good things to happen during the pandemic: they opened our town's main shopping street to humans, and it was wonderful.

Then they closed it again, of course.

creepy_owlet, 25 days ago to random

How does anything manages to burst into flames exactly before a feature freeze? Asking for one very frustrated engineer.

mattb, 26 days ago to random

Birth scene on TV: congratulations, it's a healthy 6 week old boy!

coldclimate, 28 days ago to devops

I've sent a little time this morning searching for articles around "patterns for service to service authentication" and found a couple of bits.

I'm trying to document/evangelise that evolution of patterns is OK (in fact preferable) to long cycle large shifts.
Anyone got any go to posts about intraService authN/authZ patterns ? I hate to say #microservices. #softwarearchitecture #devops ps

nyquildotorg, 1 month ago to random

I didn't see an eclipse today, but I did spend time in two different caves. One of them was once used to age cheese, but now all the wooden aging racks are piles of mush filled with mycelium.

Deeper in the cave, looking back up toward the ladder and the outside world above. There are rocks everywhere and rays of light shining through the mist in the liminal space where the inside air and outside air mix, condensing into a fog.
Very old lumber that has decayed to a mushy pulp. Strands of white mycelium cover it.
More lumber pulp, with white strands of mycelium spreading out in all directions

shadower, 1 month ago to random

Reading Pride and Prejudice (1813) is fascinating. English changed a lot.

I didn't know "call" used to mean "to visit", for example.

But the thing that really surprised me was when someone described a person as "condescending" and clearly meaning it as a positive thing.

At first, I thought it also had a different meaning (like "gay" being "happy"), but nah.

Lady Catherine is condescending AF and Mr Collins is just a fucking idiot.

But like, Lizzy will end up with Darcy right? (no spoilers)