Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…
But it would be nice to have not just a link in the lecture notes, but a preview. And you know what? It’s almost too easy to write a little #Pandoc Lua filter for it ;-)
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(I intend to write a blog post about it next week or so.)
@sd.solle.uk:
“Fun fact: Erik Von Daniken didn't write 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴 — it was actually created by a prototype Large Language Model, the existence of which was then covered up by … 🧵1/73”
The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…
Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/spotify-tests-more-person…
Which open source tool do you recommend me to write rules for finding patterns (mostly vulns)?
Can somebody explain why MLC/TLC/QLC flash is apparently slower to write than SLC?
it seems to me that if you're PAM4/PAM8/PAM16-ing the same amount of data across less bitcells you should get *higher* write speed. Why is MLC not double the write throughput of SLC?
People on here don't seem like Kid Rock much.
[I meant to write "to like," but dig the changed meaning so am leaving it as is.]
Where should we recommend events & community host long videos that isn't YouTube?
* Vimeo - paid, embeds work, recently acquired is a bad sign
* @… - free, no embeds
* BunnyCDN - paid, lots of options including APIs, no embeds
* Peertube - self-hosted, no embeds
Full write up in the forum
#Linux question: I would like to have a shared partition, on a #DualBoot between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24, which would be encrypted but still useable (read & write) from both OSes.
It seems that one way to do this is via "Veracrypt" (see
@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.
If I was going to write a cyberpunky story, one piece of local colour that I would add would be a fashion trend for unique, intimate tattoos.
The idea being that deepfake machine generated porn has become endemic, but if you had an unusual tattoo around your bits the machines obviously wouldn't be able to guess what it was, and so a video of you in the act without the tattoo or with the wrong tattoo would be more obviously fake.
Sonnet 080 - LXXX
O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless de…
🥳 JavaScript Database (JSDB) version 6.1.4 released:
• Adds TypeScript type definitions
Been meaning to do this for a while and finally got round to it :)
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#javascript-database-jsdb
One time a student* told me if I didn’t correct his homework and let him write the exam, I would hear from his dad’s lawyers. - But that’s not a threat, he’s just informing me
* _exmatriculated_ student, who had already failed out of the program
#academicChatter
Has anyone ever gotten `services.webdav` to work on :nixos: #NixOS?
I have a very simple and probably very common task: Expose a directory (in my case `/var/lib/paperless/consume`) via #WebDAV so my scanner can upload their PDFs there. I'm pretty much doing this¹ here, but also this person has p…
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#CheesyOneLiners
Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/08/gmail-ai-free-features/
@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.
"This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale."
(Original title: The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails)
https://aftermath.si…
I might write a longer blog post if I find time (which, tbh, isn't likely), but... given that I'm seeing a bunch of people who run mailinglists in 2026 having problems, and I think I understand the underlying technicalities quite well, a few notes on running a Mailinglist in 2026:
There is only one way to run a Mailinglist and be compatible with all the stuff you are usually expected to do if you send e-mails in 2026. That is to rewrite the From address to a domain you control.
@… you seem to misunderstand the nature of the Fediverse, where people write something and other people might, or might not, read that thing.
Serendipity.
I can''t recall how your toot became visible. That's how it is.
"ChatGPT, write a 200 page manual in the style of the existing series, on the subject of, and entitled, 'AI for Dummies'."
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116051558040617228
I read this and all I see is "fuck have I got to write ANOTHER payment gateway integration they are so boring and I am already doing WorldPay again for like the fourth time."
I will confess that out of morbid curiosity, I'd find it interesting to watch the entire process of someone generating a novel using AI. I feel like the prompt would end up being as long as a decent synopsis.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026…
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City disciplined three nurses
who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns
following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month
— a consequence their union calls unlawful.
The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision
to write up two nurses and suspend another the day after Thanksgiving for discussing the union’s safety proposals with fellow nurses
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
6. How has your past writing shaped your present writing?
7. What future writing goals are you working towards with your present work?
8. How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?
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6. Typically, the more you write, the better you write. 10k hours and all that.
Beyond that, hard to say.
7. Reaching audience to s…
I mentioned earlier that I was writing something on #LLMs. Here it is...
#LLM
i liked writing xhtml. I still write xml-compliant html.
About to write a complex application for a research grant in Africa. It is at least 3 full days of work, apart from the research itself. And it's a very unpredictable outcome. But without these grants from public and private donors, it would not be possible to carry out such documentation or reportages abroad.
I will focus on the support of renewable energies by German ODA and how the diminishing aid is affecting it.
I read „arriving in style for game dev“ and thought: They‘re gonna write some awesome Lua code with that attitude!
But then I reread the post 😅
#GameDev https://twitter.com/trailblazers/statu
Anybody know of an "asan for vulkan" tool that can catch use of uninitialized values in a VkBuffer? Validation layers will catch out of bounds access but not reading a value that you failed to write first
The term “artificial intelligence” finally makes sense when we view it not as equivalent or superior to human cognition, but as fundamentally incompatible and alien. That is precisely where the danger lies...
https://write.as/bartux/when-ai-no-longer-needs-to-talk-to-us…
We have 2025, and people write messages: “Hm, I have a friend in this place, I'm wondering how far that is from that place?” (both in the same small Alpine country)
Seriously?
I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…
I’m seeing more comments to my blog from people asking for the latest support / bug / gap / etc for testing I’ve performed.
I write these posts so people can do it on their own.
I look forward to people commenting with their own (rigorous) testing results instead. Some day.
@… look what you made me do
Twenty years after the U.S. invaded Iraq,
the American consensus is clear:
It was wrong.
Neocons admit it.
Reaganite conservatives admit it.
Liberals who helped sell the war admit it.
Bret Stephens — well, Bret Stephens regrets nothing,
Even George W. Bush himself won’t come out and publicly defend the war he started,
leaving Peter Baker to write an entire article premised on the question,
but what if he did?
Yet as a society w…
services.radicale.git.enable=true now makes nicer commit messages, for events and contacts it will list the name and even describe renames. Proof of concept, written in bash/awk. It'll be hard to write a diff-parser that covers all kinds of changes, I guess having a local LLM could do it, but it'd slow down radicale significantly.
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…
I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115848969233248224
Like every year one of the plans for this year is to write more into my blog.
OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
So, I have an answer to my previous question about GPU transfer efficiency.
Original code: write data to staging buffer on CPU, vkCopyBuffer to GPU local memory, run int-float32 conversion on GPU out of that buffer. The copy operation shows 50% SM occupancy by compute warps, 50% unallocated warp slots in active SMs.
GPU memory write bandwidth is sitting around 2%, about 1.9 ms copy/shader run time.
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#CheapSongsOrPoems
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#FrenemyASongOrPoem