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Claude is triggered to review all the pull requests that I do to the codebase at work.
While it's working, it's little icon animates like this.
Every time I see it, I imagine it straining to push out it's shit from the chocolate starfish.
Its hard to unsee.
2/3
#ai #claude #graphicDesignIsMyPassion

Added 'a few' math tests to picolibc today. These create reference values using nickle with its arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic. The result is a list of functions which need work to improve their accuracy. Most are "close", with known errors of 1 or 2 ulp, but tgamma is in rough shape with errors of 56 ulp for binary64 and 97ulp for binary128. The complex functions are almost all in very rough shape with errors of thousands of ulps.

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

For hosting our internal source code repositories, we're using #gitea. There are a bunch of other options and all of them seem to mimic github's look and feel. Gitea was the one I found out about first some years ago and it stuck. It has an issue tracker and works well for doing pull requests and reviewing them online.
There's a commercial cloud hosting offer and an enterprise opt…

Quinnen Williams trade grades: Cowboys pull off blockbuster deal with Jets to try to save their season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/quinnen

For some web sites... NO, I WILL NOT TURN MY AD BLOCKER OFF. You want to make money then show me generic ads. I will not allow you to snoop and pull all of that info to sell. Block me from reading? Fine, I will go elsewhere.
Keep this in mind. How do they know you are running ad blockers? Must be those snooping scripts trying so hard to siphon all my info.

I spent the weekend making a fun DevOps pipeline because I felt like it and am now quite pleased.
I'm hosting gitea, n8n and docker registry in my lab. I now have a webhook in gitea for certain repos so that when I push to them, it triggers n8n to pull the repo and build the dockerfile. This image is then pushed to the registry, and watchtower will pull it when it runs.
Naturally have all my own DNS things for these app web guis which go through nginx. All of this is in pro…

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
ENSOR: I'm on three-quarter boost as it is. She's not responding! I'm going to maximum. It's all right. It's all right. She's slowing. Compensators beginning to hold. [Ship starts to steady.] Come on, come on, that's my beauty. That's...come on. Pull us back, pull us back. All right, she's coming back. We're all right.
MARYATT: Don't do that too often, will you? I'm a very nervous passenger.

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Game Recap: Bears pull out thrilling road victory over Raiders https://www.chicagobears.com/news/game-recap-bears-pull-out-thrilling-road-victory-over-raiders-2025-week-4

Russia exceeds all historical precedents for cruelty and villainy.
Trump supports the evil deeds and plans, increasing the suffering and terror of the Russian genocide against Ukraine.
Americans who voted for Trump and who support him still, they are all useful idiots for the Kremlin, and despicable examples of the lowest depths of depravity.
Worse yet are the billionaires who see themselves as a completely different class of human, above the pull of basic empathy or conce…

Bogged Down in Mud, Torrential Rains, and Bombs
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Looking at https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/STM32MP2_boot_chain_overview there's so much secure boot and TEE and uboot and multistage boot chain complexity...
All I want to do is have the bootrom pull a native binary off SPI flash and run it with ful…

American healthcare is on life support, -- and Republican policies now threaten to pull the plug.
Last summer, all but five GOP lawmakers worked with the Trump administration to enact the
“One Big Beautiful Bill Act,”
a law that defunds healthcare for working families,
all while funding tax breaks for billionaires.
That’s why I testified at an Oct. 8 hearing held by House Democrats in Washington, D.C., to speak out against this partisan law
—because it wil…

Republicans Are Pulling the Plug on American Healthcare
We must protect and expand coverage, invest in safe staffing, and fund community hospitals, writes Dr. Bryce Pulliam.

"Disney is under siege from all sides.
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, the parent company of ABC has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle. The company now faces protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats."

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, Disney has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle.

Well, we've mailed out our first tranche of charitable donations for this year.
Times are tough especially with the Federal government drying up funding for so many things.
My message here is that we - you and me; all of us - need to pull together, and that one way to do that is to make donations, either in cash or in kind, to organizations and people in need.
The Old and New Testaments and the Koran all ask us to care for one another, to help the stranger.
We'…

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Can someone please pull the plug on Skynet? Please make it all stop
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/

I thought I was going to be in luck, as there's a convenient 'Export Data' which generates a .zip containing all the source account data.
Went to the new instance expecting to import that zip, only to be greeted with 'This only supports CSV files'...
FML
SO, my current thought process is to let the new server pull in posts from the original server organically, (with help from

GitHub - nanos/FediFetcher: FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.
FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance. - nanos/FediFetcher

It will be so funny when Linux finally gets its Eternal September in the form of, idk, let's say the Steam Machine, and all the "~pull requests welcome~" losers can eat shit and go lie in a ditch and cry forever

Even if the oligarchs pull back, all that tells them is that they need to slow down. This has all been a long time in the making, and if you don't believe me then go look up "the business plot."

Welp, went ahead and broke out every signal that goes over the CMPTR connector. All of the signals go to BNC connectors except for the audio which gets a special RCA connector. There is a bank of DIP switches that pull selector signals to ground as well. Still need to get all of the signals routed, but that should be pretty straightforward.
#electronics

I thought I was going to be in luck, as there's a convenient 'Export Data' which generates a .zip containing all the source account data.
Went to the new instance expecting to import that zip, only to be greeted with 'This only supports CSV files'...
FML
SO, my current thought process is to let the new server pull in posts from the original server organically, (with help from

Giants' Darius Slayton: Rookie QB Jaxson Dart to 'get introduced to all' of his 'haters' in Philadelphia https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-darius-slayton-jaxson-dart-introduced-to-haters-philadelphia-week-8

This is a cool video about what made the famous video game "Another World" so incredible when it came out in 1991.
I didn't know how limited the Amiga's graphics capabilities were (it was so colourful compared to my dad's monochrome 286 PC after all!) and the tricks that were used to pull of the vector graphics.
(btw: Mastodon now seems to do previews for youtu.be URLs, not just youtube.com. Neat!)

I've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource