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no sarcasm

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can someone tell me what a network engineer does

olav,
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@kakafarm every day?

olav,
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@holgerschurig @kakafarm thanks!

louis, to random
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The Mastodon developers started to implement telemetry for everything you search for: Posts, Accounts, Tags

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/commit/acc77c3836974473e7c6a423cbd1138479ae197a

I'm not so sure if I like what I see in this commit. But we all knew it would be coming eventually.

So important that we build Mastodon-compatible server alternatives.

#mastoadmin #mastodonsocial

olav,
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@louis emacs.ch pleroma arc?

kev, to random
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Bitcoin and their ilk really aren't my thing, but many talk about the need for a digital currency. But here's the thing - we already have one, don't we?
https://kevquirk.com/we-already-have-a-digital-currency

olav,
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@mykhaylo @kev

Most of inflation comes from uncontrollable emissions of money by governments

I might be mistaken, but I think the vast majority of money is created by commercial bank lending, as opposed to money printing and crisis money, if that's what you mean.

olav, to random
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if only

olav,
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@holgerschurig @mykhaylo @holgerschurig @mykhaylo breaking text search (important) for aesthetic preference (unimportant)

seems like an extremely terrible design decision tbh

I worked on a codebase with such a feature, iirc it was a Vue codebase, where names where accessed in CamelCase in templates and snake_case in JS. It was super annoying and not worth it at all. Whenever debugging I'd always have "but have I really found all the references" weighing on me. hate it

louis, to emacs
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Today marks the 555th day of uninterrupted uptime of our Emacs.ch instance. 🥳

That's also 555 days of admin work and a spending of roughly $1200 for IaaS. Donations of our users make that much more sustainable.

With consistently well over 400 monthly active users, we established a friendly and supportive Fediverse community in the Fediverse united in a passion for the world's most humane "text editor". And you helped to make that happen. 🎈

Emacs is not just a program, it is the incarnation of freedom, self-development, respect, tolerance and companionship in the software world. It will never go away and will never turn against its users.

Let's continue to grow and strengthen our community! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our donation page: https://liberapay.com/emacs-ch

Together, we can keep the spirit of Emacs alive and thriving for years to come. Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey! 🙏

#Emacs

olav,
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@louis wohoo 🥳

abcdw, to scheme
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All the basics of Arei Scheme IDE in 5 minutes. Overview of functionality avaliable in 0.9.4.

mpv https://youtu.be/ygeph9Uet9A

https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei

olav,
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@abcdw looks fantastic and great intro!

I'll definitely try this for my guixing

looks like home coming from CIDER

olav, to random
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for newbies

olav,
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@yeti it's fine :)

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    olav,
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    @louis Have you genuinely tried to make use of AI? If so I'd be very surprised if you don't find it useful.

    The AI discourse on Mastodon is all just "AI hallucinated -> AI is completely useless"

    In any case, it works on my machine:

    olav,
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    @louis "ChatGPT 3.5"

    olav,
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    @louis Which version of Mistral LLM? I agree that hallucination is a problem, encyclopaedias still serve a purpose for sure.

    For me ChatGPT 4 only rly hallucinates when I ask it Guix questions heh.

    4 and 3.5 are miles apart.

    olav,
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    @louis well of course they're gonna say that :p

    olav,
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    @louis I don't really know. That discussion quickly becomes a philosophical discussion about what knowledge even is.

    In practice I find ChatGPT4 very useful for questions in a broad range of areas. As opposed to reading articles, books, docs etc, it can tailor the info for you, so that if you ask the right question you get just the right info back instead of having to scavenge and piece together what you want to know. Especially useful if you don't know exactly what you're looking for.

    fwiw my feeling from talking to it is that it has a lot of knowledge.

    I wonder, do LLMs actually have knowledge of the real world, or is it just a giant text transformation engine?

    Idk

    using LLM along with knowledgebases is quite popular. I think it's called RAG?

    Basic example would be passing a whole wikipedia article about the subject to the llm...

    louis, to random
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    While most programming languages pride themselves in how they limit the programmer, there is one that does quite the opposite. One, that rewards you with every day you spend, every struggle you overcome with a new box of undiscovered tools. And when there are no more, you have all the tools you need to build your own.

    You all know which one I'm talking about.

    olav,
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    @louis asm?

    olav, to random
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    PSA: Vultr TOS Change

    olav,
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    im not using vultr anymore (switched to hetzner), but closing my account after this...

    olav,
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    @dekkzz76 Good thing. I'm never touching them again.

    olav, to random
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    anyone know a cheap city in Europe with a good hackerspace?

    looking for some place to hang out in Europe lol

    olav, to random
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    gf wants me to reinstall windows cus her doing game doesn't work on linux 😔

    olav, to random
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    am back on irc :)

    any good irc chans I should check out

    olav,
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    @crmsnbleyd joined, used to hang out there back in the day :)

    louis, to random
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    Installed 7.4 on a Hetzner ARM VM yesterday, it's almost effortless, everything just works - and OpenBSD is a joy to configure, thanks to simplicity, comprehensive man pages and consistency.

    Linux now feels almost like the Windows of the *nixes.

    @mms

    olav,
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    @louis @mms openbsd is fun! be careful though, in my experience the filesystem tends to get corrupted on power outages...

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