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Situation: Andi uses the word "texel" as a noun in a sentence. Do you know what she means by this?

What I'm listening to today: "#feedbackuary ...Crystal Cherry Blossom Caverns... [Pulsar-23] [Enner] [Blackhole]"

Slow 80s-style-industrial music based on a pile of idiosyncratic SOMA equipment and a musician playing a cracklebox like a violin. Run harsh buzzy noises into a big enough echo pedal and they take on this smooth fluid sound. The mood of a journey through a cursed, destroyed world, hunkering with your weapons in the back of a pickup truck, wind howling past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLAiBZmmks

@aeva Maybe just be more openminded?

What I'm listening to today: "Speed Learn", Tomaga

Got lost on Bandcamp and wound up listening to sleepy jazz for tired cats. Here is a machine gradually coming online, whirring wheels over tracks and indifferent buzzing and uncorrelated electronic blorps. It has some kind of meaning, hidden from you, in the firmware of the thing that blorp is issued at some meaningful moment, in a service manual not distributed outside the manufacturer its secret truth is revealed

https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/speed-learn

@whitequark This would all be much easier if GNU would switch their position from "We had a discussion in a meeting once and we think probably LLM generated code is not eligible to be GPLed" to "no GNU project will accept LLM generated patches'

When I say "fork every software project containing code by by 'AI code assistants', starting at the commit before the slop is known or believed to have been added, and resume from there", I really do mean every project

https://donotsta.re/objects/8e2166c6-3e0f-4ea3-8a29-3008702a39f7

Not this website. A different one

Wishing this website had a checkbox in the settings for "stop trying to be my friend"

@sanityinc @glyph also at any one time maybe it's being puppeted by a human or a state intelligence service, who knows, the cloud service is a black box

@sanityinc @glyph the thing that makes it problematic is not that it is artificial or tool-driven the problem is that it is thoughtless¹

we spent a hundred years with fiction training people to think of "AI" as "a thing which thinks, but in a different way" and this is now serving as marketing cover for a thing which actually does not think

¹ and also, the other problems

@Sylvhem sry

This sparks joy

@jeffmcneill "code" in this post refers to source code, e.g., the form of a computer program designed for reading and changing

@liw Are you aware of any good options for an Android phone?

@clarity smalltalk documentation standards in reverse

@rperezrosario so this is where I admit this is all about me trying to find a way to word it other than "stick_bottom"

Everybody seems to like "the bear" and "the pit"

Imagine you are writing a reusable UI component for a scrollable list. You want your list to have a property such, if true, the list follows the rule "if the user is already scrolled to the bottom of the list, and a new item is added to the bottom, autoscroll to the new bottom".

What would you name this property?

@m oh… this post was meant to be a reply to your post https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116115453811522063

@mkljczk That is not what the people who originally created Linux believed. It's not what we believed when I first started using Linux in like 1997-1998. The idea that the open source movement is driven by the leavings of large otherwise-propreitary software corporations is something that developed after the fact.