Notices by Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)

My day job basically requires me to use LLMs (or, it is strongly encouraged) on the software that I develop. Now I understand why LLM fatigue and LLM burn-out happens. It is because you constantly have to babysit the LLM to keep it from screwing things up.

Babysitting is exhausting work. At one time in my life, as a 20-something-year-old, I was responsible for a group of 30 kids age 5 to 12. Every day I went home so drained that I could barely stay awake long enough to have dinner. I know from experience that school teachers perform some of the most labor-intensive work in the modern world.

It is what they call “emotional labor.” When other people are unable (as with kids) or unwilling (as with a lazy roommate) to live or play or work with you as a cooperative peer or team member, you essentially have to spend mental energy keeping an eye on them and making sure they aren’t doing something that is disruptive. That mental energy is a real energy cost, it really does consume calories and make you feel tired.

The worst part about it is that the LLM never really “learns.” Kids can learn to work and play with you. Lazy roommates can learn to live with you. But an LLM never really learns, and it keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. People who work with LLMs often end up keeping a directory of scripts they can deploy with a quick copy-paste so they can quickly re-explain something to an LLM. So the fatigue of watching over it and making sure the LLM doesn’t do something wrong is a constant emotional pressure, and it never gets better with age.

#tech #AI #LLMs #LLM #VibeCoding #AIFatigue #BurnOut

@DeliaChristina if they are saying this, then they have reason to believe that they are untouchable.

@hellomiakoda what drives me absolutely insane is that Trump has already been impeached three times, is a convicted felon, there is very strong evidence that he rapes kids… and nobdy in government has the guts to remove him from office and put him and his whole cabinet in prison.

These are the features of a third world dictatorship. There is no rule of law anymore.

@amszmidt perhaps I should mention Putin as one who should face justice. I did not mention him because Russia is currently not among the belligerents in this latest war against Iran, so it seems a little off-topic.

Iranians do not want regime changed forced upon them, especially not by convicted felon and known child rapist Donald Trump, or the corrupt politician evading arrest for war crimes Netanyahu. All people of conscience must oppose this illegal war, and demand the war criminals and convicted felons who started it face justice for their crimes. Until justice is served, the criminals will continue to commit crimes with escalating severity.

Quoting this post which does not come with alt text:

From: Poya Pakzad (@Pakzadesque@twitter.com) Date: 2026 February 28

As an Iranian, I would love to celebrate the death of [Ayatollah Khameni]. But I feel I debase myself by cheering an execution carried out by a vulgar genocide state, then circulated for applause across the smug timelines of European racists. Sorry. But fuck all of it.

#politics #EndTheWar #NoWarWithIran #NoWar #Trump #Iran #Israel

RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/116154680655982813

@hellomiakoda yeah, the FLX1 seems to have a weird build of Linux. I wonder if they are trying to do something clever, like build Alpine with Musl Libc, or maybe they are using DirectFB instead of Walyand, which is why it might be so screwy? I have no idea.

@hellomiakoda yeah, good call.

My in-laws have a WiFi-over-5G thingy. You could maybe get something like that if you really wanted to connect your laptop to the cell network, and SIP over WiFi.

@hellomiakoda True, and so is iOS. But there are no reliable free-software phone operating systems.

So basically, your phone has to spy on you, or you have to use no smartphone ever. (Fuck capitalism.)

@hellomiakoda The FLX1 runs it’s own operating system, right? It sounds like most of your problems are software related.

My daily driver smartphone is a Fairphone 5 which runs stock Android, I would never screw with the operating system on the cell phone that I depend on to make calls or keep my calendar up to date. That shit needs to be as reliable as possible, and me screwing around with the OS would definitely cause reliability issues.

I would, however, buy a second smartphone that I did not depend on and use it to play around with other operating systems. Sounds to me like your FLX1 might be a good candidate for screwing around with (e.g. Mobian, Graphene, Postmarket, etc.), once you replace it with a more reliable cell phone.

I decided to merge my #Scheme react-like declarative GUI framework (schemacs ui), even though the back-end isn’t completely bug-free yet. (It is still an experimental software project, so the main branch is the development branch).

Though it is written in pure #R7RS “small” Scheme, the only GUI back-end currently available is for Guile users who go to the trouble to install Guile-GI all on their own.

If Guile-GI is installed, put on your safety goggles and run this command in the Guile REPL:

I haven’t tried getting it to work in a Guix shell for almost a year now, but my last attempt did not go well (it crashed while initializing Gtk). To anyone who wants to try the GUI, I am sorry to inconvenience you, but I’m afraid I just have to ask you to please install Guile-GI yourself using the old-fashioned ./configure && make && make install method. If anyone happens to be able to get it to work in a Guix shell, please let me know, or open a PR on the Codeberg Git repository.

The only examples for how to use (schemacs ui) are in the test suite and the Schemacs Debugger. The only documentation so far are the comments in the source code, though I did try to be very thorough with comments.

The “Debugui” debugger works, but only has one single feature: the eval-expression command, which is bound to M-: (Alt-Colon). This command works the same as in #Emacs but you enter a Scheme language command instead. The #EmacsLisp interpreter is not yet connected to the GUI.

Now that this is merged, I am going to work on a few tasks in the Emacs Lisp interpreter that have been pending for more than a few weeks now. Then, back to creating new features in the GUI toward the goal of making it a useful program editor. And also, of course, writing some more documentation.

#tech #software #R7RS #SchemeLang

@Infoseepage as an American, it fills me with hope to see that so many young people in the world can see America with such clarity. World War 3 has begun, and we are the Axis of evil.

@hellomiakoda I am guessing you are using Arch or Gentoo? This doesn’t happen on Debian or Fedora. It may pause to warn you that it will overwrite a config file in /etc because they don’t want to delete a config you may have meticulously written by hand. It may pause to ask you about how to configure your database if you are asking to install the web server packages. But they won’t ask for your password.

— will be live in about 5 minutes.

https://emacsconf.org/2025/watch/dev

Questions can be posted to this live chat: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-schemacs

EDIT: Thanks for all the great questions everyone. It is so encouraging for me to see that there is so much interest in this project, it really keeps me motivated to keep working on it.

#tech #software #Emacs #SoftwareDevelopment #EmacsConf #EmacsConf2025 #SchemeLang #R7RS #Scheme

Executive dysfunction is at the top of this list.

@hellomiakoda I have been noticing that one of myself a lot lately. (It is why I am here on Mastodon right now, instead of doing something more important.) I have been curious about taking prescription drugs to cope with it, I have heard they can really make you feel very productive and happy. But that means I need to get a perscription, which means I need to get over my executive dysfunction and see a doctor.

@hellomiakoda clearly we are at the stage of capitalism where all of the big business owners have come to the conclusion that lining-up behind the fascist despot is the best way to turn a profit. The same thing happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

@hellomiakoda sorry, I meant to say xwayland, not xweston. Does the FuriPhone repos have that?

@rl_dane @nonehitwonder

@hellomiakoda if you are using Wayland, you need to run the xwayland server first in order to provide an X11-compatible display server, then it can run X11 apps like Dillo. If you are using Xorg, try

@rl_dane @nonehitwonder