Notices by jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)

Its like someone locked some people in a room and didn't tell them anything about how AI was being competed over and how computing hardware had changed in 20 years and said "and only you can fix this problem."

Like did they miss how all the companies are basically having to buy off entire towns to produce enough electricity because the amount of electricity it takes to compete in this arms race causes the water to become poison

one day they'll find a dusty pdf on some forgotten floor of the googleplex detailing how they eked out 1% greater profit by derailing the only credible hope for a different internet at scale by telling them that they were tech visionaries and geniuses capable of anything they put their minds to.

mozilla: "we choose the path of the most capital intensive boondoggle we can't afford"
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/

25 years ago we out competed a buggy web browser by making a less buggy web browser. that's why today we're choosing to engage in the same field of play that the largest companies in the world, which are orders of magnitude more powerful than they were 25 years ago, are betting their entire futures on. while they can rewrite the state of the economy at a whim, dropping nuclear power plants along critical infrastructure and taxation optimums, we have the scrappy heart of a lion.

"i quit my job posing increasing elaborate puzzles for myself and then solving them so that the things i imagine become real and make things i want to happen happen so that i could become addicted to a slot machine that occasionally makes something like the thing i want to happen happen"

it sort of sucks that now we are in an era where no new software fucking works and all changes to working software are to make it not work

need a tool to scan git commit history and if more than 5000 lines were added in a day to warn you to not run that software

all new READMEs are fucking lies too. i hate fake bullshit.

the total number of lines i write may not have skyrocketed lately, but the number of lines i write that fucking suck ass and are terrible has also not skyrocketed

at least this ghidra wrapper not working means i can just use ghidra

how did we get tired of "thinking about how things work, making plans about how to make them work, and then making them do the things we want them to do"

there is a wave of vibecoding thinkpieces that are like "i quit being a programmer and am now a manager (of coding agents)" and i am like "why on earth would you ever want to do that"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503024028215175

Shout out to Claire* and Eugen for doing the frontend on this, I got pulled away to work on other things and so they pushed it over da finish line and added a whole new AsyncRefresh feature on top.

#FetchAllReplies is for all the small instances out there! it makes a huge difference: not just seeing more stuff, but you can really feel how big of a deal it was to have been missing all the second-order convos that happen between people that weren't already mutuals once it started happening.

Moderation is the other big winner from reply fetching, as now harassment that would previously only be visible to the target and the poster can be spotted, reported, and removed by anyone passing by.

Glad its now default!

*(Not tagging bc I'm sure her notifs are noisy)

Aaron Swartz should have been 39 years old today
#AaronSwartzDay

@whitequark EXACTLY. that's the only situation i ever was in before current job.

@whitequark every gradation of scope is the same but only rigol is honest enough to have the unlock keygen leaked widely enough that you don't need to wonder

i hadn't "taken poison on purpose and just full on vibe coded as a bit" in awhile, so i gave it a whirl trying to mimic the manic intensity of some of the PRs i see nowadays. i guess i didn't really appreciate how anyone who talks about using LLMs for code is eliding the fact that they are stupendously wealthy or otherwise have access to resources, because doing some stuff i do for free for like an hour on cheap mode cost me $15, which is the maximum i will spent on a bit of this caliber. if i was actually "working" with that there's no way it would cost me less than $200 a day to simply do things i do on my own now.

i have to admit i laughed a lot. it started out by breaking the package completely, and then somehow went downhill from there
https://github.com/miniscope/noob/pull/59

Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)

short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!

towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !

PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714

Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309 (or this thread)

#FEP_d8c8 #BitTorrentOverActivityPub #FederatedP2P #BitTorrent

if i were batting i woudl just swing the bat into where the ball was so it bounced off ahead of me