Notices by Ignas Kiela (ignaloidas@not.acu.lt)

@gsuberland@chaos.social makes you appreciate how compact USB-C is for what it allows

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I mean, teeechnically micro B is also in B series, in a way

@whitequark@mastodon.social idk, all of the longest living servers are essentially run by a single person (some for I think close to 10 years now?). There is a vulnerability in bus factor ofc, but there is strength in the fact that a single person will (usually) not have an internal conflict about some other stuff that leads to them shutting down the server.

The server I originally joined like 8 years ago is still very much alive and well, though my interests outgrew it and I went over to host my own a couple of years ago. And tbh moving was fine.

@whitequark@mastodon.social I mean, many of them are essentially in a Henry Symeonis situation, where they were added to some blocklist for some small thing ages ago and everyone just copied each others blocklist over and over and nobody even knows why half of the blocks exist anymore

@whitequark@mastodon.social eh, I think not? You just need to understand how and why the person running it is running it. I know a couple of server admins that have run their servers for many years, and the common thread is them wanting to keep it small and keeping it low drama.

@whitequark@mastodon.social there are a good few other ones like that tbh, though I do understand not wanting to search for one like that.

Interestingly enough, all of the longest surviving servers I know of are also the ones that are on the most blocklists

@whitequark@mastodon.social tbh I am more annoyed at the existence of mastodon.social (I think it was a mistake from the start) than at it's users.

@sun@shitposter.world It is a quality argument, but I don't think it's saying that it's bad quality because it's free software - rather that many "stallman enjoyers" tend to overvalue the fact that something is free software that they stop caring that it's bad quality.

@sun@shitposter.world I don't think that's what the comment you originally were replying to was arguing for?

@sun@shitposter.world while I do broadly agree, but the second cannot happen without the first. E.g. for your stuff to be usable it has to offer a migration path - even if that means that said migration path has to support proprietary operating systems. Putting principles over user needs breaks the migration chain for most users, and builds an ecosystem with no users.

@sun@shitposter.world I've said this a bunch and I'll say it again: Free software movement is fundamentally a "purity" argument, while general ass users don't care about some "purity", they care for a solution to their problems.

Sure, that solution can follow the "pure" philosophy, but that fact alone will not win you any significant userbase besides a couple of FSF superfans (if that). You get users by solving their problems, better than others, and for consumer users it mostly doesn't matter whether your software is free or proprietary.

@whitequark@mastodon.social @misterdave@tilde.zone funny idea - use weval on a wasm interpreter as a jit compiler, in wasm

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange https://tinyvg.tech/ ? Haven't seriously investigated it, but seems kinda what you're looking for?

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems this makes me think that a bunch of the self-reported productivity improvements are just an effect of people noticing their work more because LLMs point it out to them

@hj@shigusegubu.club @sun@shitposter.world firefox nightly of some age

@hj@shigusegubu.club @sun@shitposter.world trying to click the link:

@jonny@neuromatch.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @kacey@mspsocial.net FWIW you could make models that are AST-aware - after all, the model only outputs the probability weights for choosing between tokens - and if your tokens were syntax elements, and the LLM driver eliminated ones that were invalid, you could get way better results. But nobody does that, for some reason.

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io @hj@shigusegubu.club @quad@akko.quad.moe on one hand: yes

on another: if I'm spending a bunch on making my own IoT stuff, why not make it nice? esp considering I'd want to build my own LED lighting controllers (using of the shelf fixtures where possible because I have to draw the line somewhere)

@quad@akko.quad.moe @hj@shigusegubu.club I mean, I understand that if I'm committing to rewiring stuff, my effective price goes up like 10% to redo a bunch of walls and stuff.

Thankfully the market here isn't completely stupid, though I'll probably still have to look for a good deal.

@sun@shitposter.world @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo btw, here's a local example on how to make an overlay, might be a good help on the "frontend" side https://github.com/geerlingguy/obs-task-list-overlay