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This is just the start of my decent in to dashcon 2
https://www.tumblr.com/existentialqueer/788563762731958272/the-best-photo-i-took-at-dashcon-2?source=share

Day 17 of the road trip was spent in Fremantle. Gorgeous old buildings, decent breweries, and great street art. #RoadTrip

@… calls for 'massive philology' at #IANLS25 . For the language models to become better at Latin, we need big corpora of Neo-Latin plain texts of decent quality, not necessarily perfect transcriptions. It will be a major undertaking to compile this …

The kids just had me go through all my old CatsOfMastodon posts. Pretty decent documentation of our past foster cats.
Also the reason for a few of my self-boosts 😉

Wearing decent, large headphones in 26°C weather is the most uncomfortable experience ever.
I am looking forward to fall when I can feel cold again.
#Hot #Summer

On my way to a PhD defense in Freiburg
#coffeechallenge #decentespresso #freiburg #academiclife

#AI

OpenRouter
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts

I fear that the expectation for every new EV is to give them the equivalent horsepower and torque of a surface-to-pedestrian missile.
Can I get a $15K electric car that compromises on performance for decent range?

Hi @… people, I listened to the first episode of #StarTrek Khan this morning in the car, and it was actually pretty decent.
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Welp, looks like the roll of the dice didn’t work out for me; 16 months in & the repaired screen on the 2018 iPad crapped out (half the screen is blacked out)
8 years was a decent run
So, new iPad time, ah well:
So…the volume buttons change sides when you rotate it? What witchcraft is this?!?😂
https://

The humidity wasn't great, but it felt decent with the temp under 70°F 😀
I haven't been able to do these morning runs in awhile, #insomnia, albeit somewhat managed with meds, and fatigue from #longcovid just makes getting it out of bed and going right away really hard. Hopeful…

@… I have to get one Thursday, for the first time. Hope the music choices are decent.

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
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To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

#running slow is hard but my fitness is such that it requires a rebuild of the foundation. Trying to stay in HR2 means a decent amount of walking interspersed. I don’t love it, but it’s necessary.
I have a much more open schedule now, so I should be able to get out and run regularly. The trick will be staying patient and trusting the process.

Nomad cluster powered down.
Everything is now running in a k3s monocluster on a Radxa Rock5b
What feels insane is I started this project in December.... But lots of little edge cases and such to solve for just like any real migration.
I'm using fluxcd and all my configurations are pretty decent. I could do a big-bang redeploy on a new machine and everything would work.
#homelab

**A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny: Effective July 4, 2025** from Andy Borowitz, via FB:
 
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to break from a leader who governs with cruelty, contempt, and corruption, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Who has ridden the California Zephyr recently? It’s been many years for me. I know there is no Wi-Fi but curious if there’s decent cell service, particularly interested between Emeryville and Grand Junction. Or if there are particular zones that are no service at all. Not interested in being on my phone but like to give a heads up to a couple of family members when I will not be reachable at all so they don’t worry.

#Claymation music video featuring the best of 90s video games. There's #Doom, Chun-Li (from Streetfighter), #Starfox and a bunch of other

looking to score the domain http://browzone.com (it was part of some old infrastructure I’m recreating) but it’s currently for sale exclusively through GoDaddy for about 7 billion dollars. anyone know how to avoid paying the scam price and getting the domain for an actual decent price instead? @…

I miss procmail. But this is a decent start for my web-hosted mail server.
#spam

£100Bn or £20?
How much would water nationalisation cost initially?
If the companies are allowed to go bankrupt then the latter.
Of course then there will be more costs of investing properly in decent water infrastructure, water conservation and waste reduction and management.
But the public are being asked to pay for that, and profits and bonuses now.
Labour’s arguments on #WaterNationalisation

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence
This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

I've struggled to find a decent #cricket podcast, and finally found a *great* one: "The Analyst Inside Cricket" by Simon Hughes and Simon Mann. Excellent stuff, and really good listening. I've actually started to go through several back issues starting from 2017. Check it out!

It does have use cases (we use it for prototyping spatial experiences at work) but for mainstream use that is spot on. The tech doesn't work good enough to combat all the negative aspects that come with its usage.
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114890146242778709

lighting up the purple sky with the frow show, 3 hours of new #music & decent-as-possible-under-the-circumstances vibrations from now 'til midnight on listener-supported human-made @….

#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
https://hellgateny…

Disabling Javascript in uBlockOrigin globally - and then enabling it on sites that are completely broken upon load - is actually a decent way of speeding up the web and avoiding annoyances.

Chrono Odyssey (Playtest)
Requested access to CO's Playtest this weekend and got the notification on Friday I was in. Installed and launched the game. Game defaulted to Epic settings. Left it there and started the game. Right off the bat, the cinematics had strange artifacting on them. Almost looked like the Steam browser in the background was ghosting into the game somehow.
Created a character. Decent customization. Male doesn't look absurdly buff. Femme isn't overl…

Looks like it is time for a new printer. The old one just won't connect. Everything I do and it says it is connected, but when I check the Linux and WIN10 boxes say it isn't there. It is an older machine (over 10 years old) so it owes us nothing.
Looking at a machine that will hook into the 5Ghz part of the network, mega tanks and decent reviews and... NOT HP!

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

KTorrent is a decent client and it follows all KDE conventions. Unfortunately there's no different color for finished downloads, just a barely visible thin line below.
Not automatically downloading to the Downloads folder doesn't help either.
Back to Qbittorrent then; I need a quick overview of the status without having to read percentages.

I feel that I might have some decent experiece and research around Iems to at least make a simple article about them, its been a bit as I have been busy with work, but I now have the time to do so. You may see it on your feed in augest :blobcatrainbow:

I have for very many years used #NearlyFreeSpeech #NFSN #Queer #LGBT