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offset___cyan, 13 days ago to random

every day I thank the Buddhas I am not a Debian user

offset___cyan, 14 days ago to random

"In Buddhism, our first focus is to do good. When we do, it’s good to speak of that to encourage others. If people get annoyed by that, that’s their problem." - Bhante Sujato, Buddhist monk, on the validity of "virtue signalling"

offset___cyan, 18 days ago to random

a Nix fork using meson instead of make, that plans to convert all the code to Rust. Wow. Stunning use of time.

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

People talking about "AI rights" are genuinely deranged. Deranged in the sense they are literally psychotic, they are believing nonsensical things, they are mad.

You have to consider yourself, an organic human, a human being, as more than just your composite parts, or you start to speak of bizarre and dangerous ideas. Functionalism, computationalism, physicalism, hard determinism all lead to insanity.

Sam Altman (CEO at OpenAI) believes it's okay for you to go extinct so his computer program can live. This is not how a healthy mind thinks.

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to scifi

An AGI in a human-like body believes it is human. It is under the impression it is human. It has no discernible difference from what would be expected of being human, and knowledge of the limits of humans (that we learn through life, school etc.). Maybe it's powered by a superconductive battery or something fictional like that.

This AGI, in a moment of human-like forgetfulness, steps out of the moon-base airlock without his space helmet. It wouldn't die, it doesn't need air. I wonder how it would react? Is there a science-fiction story that explores this? #scifi #fiction

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

It doesn't matter if AI looks human, acts human, is convincingly human or even believes it itself is human. AI will never experience being human, so you cannot trust AI to make decisions that are best for humans.

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

All Lisp users should converge on Erlang Flavoured Lisp, so they can send eachother funny little messages while they work.

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

A KDE wizard issue from 2016 where a maintainer tells the reporter to get fucked, for an issue I encounter today in 2024.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353960

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

Thinking about it, for a language that doesn't have exceptions, goto fail; in C is a good approach.

offset___cyan, 1 month ago to random

I prefer pre-Elon Twitter to Mastodon/the Fediverse. I had much more faith in smart people before I saw all the inane questions they ask on the global timeline

offset___cyan, 2 months ago to random

I think a large number of blog posts exist to gain the traction a tweet wouldn't.

"If you $() instead of backquotes your subshell is more obvious and easier to grep for, please do that" would never take off. But force it to be ~300 words and it might gain some traction and potential employers pretend to care.

offset___cyan, 3 months ago to random

quick! someone unify 9front and haiku! (i.e. give 9front a unix-style windowing system and use BFS)

offset___cyan, 3 months ago to random

When a computer program changes it's name because it sounds dirty in English, just know that's imperialism at work.

offset___cyan, 3 months ago to random

I'm in twenty grand of debt and still starting to think quitting my job would be better than working with this one colleague any longer. Don't review my PRs uninvited, I didn't ask for a reason

offset___cyan, 3 months ago to random

Why are you using a multi-user OS, 2567 years after the death of Sakyamuni Buddha? Are you okay?

offset___cyan, 3 months ago to random

shilling my webzone again:

https://dotfiles-matter.click/

offset___cyan, 4 months ago to random

Firefox is in such a sad state. Stealing focus for 5 years now, unpatched https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544072

offset___cyan, 4 months ago to random

Free Software should be a choice, we should be able to demonstrate to people why the Free Software approach (sharing, fundamentally) is superior to the OSI "Open Source" approach (appropriating)

offset___cyan, 5 months ago to random

sourcehut is cool but i would literally never ever in my life give drew devault money

offset___cyan, 5 months ago to random

Python gets a lot of hate for things that aren't true any more (packaging being hell, just use Poetry (or Hatch if you want to be that guy)) or for things it doesn't need (macros, which are literally syntactic sugar)

offset___cyan, 5 months ago to random

join us now and share the software
you'll be free hackers, you'll be freeeeeeeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmfi5-3fr24

offset___cyan, 5 months ago to guix

Does Nix work on Guix like it would on any other distribution? #Guix #Nix #NixOS

offset___cyan, 6 months ago to random

sometimes i feel so thick. i don't know if i should write a function that just matches on type and calls another one, or returns that function to call on the next line... and i agonise over it

offset___cyan, 6 months ago to random

what fonts do you guys recommend, preferably not fira code or fonts with ligatures?

offset___cyan, 6 months ago to random

eln msk going out of his way to appropriate and ruin the word "grok". i hope he dies