There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop.
Did you know there’s also no technical […]
I just saw a truck with two pairs of truck nutz. It's an Indiana four-leaf clover.
Copyleft is simple: share with others as others shared with you. Some say that large laundering models render it obsolete. I say it exposes those whose grasp of the social contract stalled out in kindergarten. It's as vital as ever.
#Copyleft
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/116177282859842761
> I think society is better off when we share, and I consider the GPL to run against that spirit by restricting what can be done with it.
> ...
> Content licensed under the Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike License.
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@lamp.bsky.social lmfao
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social We lost something as a society when Gtk stopped supporting keyboard themes, and we've never quite gotten it back.
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social I know you gave up on Mastodon, but I've seen a few Tk diehards on this side of the bridge, plotting their second act.
Codeberg and GitHub each have their share of incidents, but one tends to get grace from its users, and the other derision. That's a reflection of how they treat their users. While they sort it out: isn't it nice to be on a platform with shared values?
#Codeberg #GitHub
I rarely remember dreams. But for the last few days, I can't stop thinking about a fast food place named "Garlic Circus." It looks like a Hardee's. Surely that was a dream?
Does it bother you that your coreutils human-readable units default to base 1024 while your Emacs modeline is in base 1000? There are dozens of us! Not kibidozens, but, dozens! Well, I made a minor-mode:
https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/iec-mode-line.el
#Emacs
"Dedicated Followed of Fashion" (The Kinks, 1966) is a song about software engineering.
I am competitive, I am a programmer, and I am disgusted by the phrase "competitive programming."
@reillypascal BASIC was my first language and Perl my first paid language, but Scheme was the first where I started to see how to make the others. That one is special.
@reillypascal I was fighting the urge, and then you had to drop an Emacs and a Scheme on me. How can I resist?
@reillypascal I had a program in the mid-to-late 1980s called Music Construction Set, and haven't composed much since. This post kinda makes me want to drop everything and dive back in.
96th Street Nickel Plate Bridge is finally open! The days are getting longer, and so is the jogging trail. This will be good for the soul.
#Indianapolis #Fishers
RE: https://radikal.social/@henry/116143876277203506
When I said I enjoy glue work, this is not the end state I had in mind.
Wishing my fellow Hoosiers a relieving Adjournment Sine Die today. I'm celebrating with a tenderloin, even if the bill to make that the state sandwich stalled.
#Indiana
It's Google Summer of Code season! Celebrate by firing up your Slopomatic 3000 and then badgering tired maintainers with slash commands as though they're bots. Do it in enough repos, and maybe you'll become a "contributor" in about as many repos as you end up banned. Not that you'll visit any of […]
I get a lot of free credit monitoring offers from data breaches, but a university that I have no relationship with just leaked an address I haven't lived at in 25 years.
Anyway, reset the counter to zero.
@oantolin I had a Mastodon exporter that spat out Markdown files. I replaced that with a JSON dump, which I can turn into pages with a Hugo content adapter. When I use ox-hugo, I can seamlessly integrate the content written in Org with those other dumps.
Nothing I couldn't do from scratch in […]
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social Also that the person who mostly unremorsefully launched the platform without any guardrails or guidance is continuing to do so under OpenAI's employ. This shit sucks at multiple levels.
@oantolin Hugo solves problems like cache busting my CSS that I could also solve with org-publish, but don't have to. It also lets me easily integrate org-originated content with other sources.
It feels dirty, but my attempts to replace it have felt dirtier.
@evert Neat. I used Lynx and tried to sign the guest book and it wants me to "enter a database query." Maybe I need to find a better gopher client.
Person behind us tonight at the symphony grumbled through the opening piece by Chen that it "wasn't Beethoven," then snored through the last two movements of the Beethoven. I hope he enjoyed what came between!
Because open source is global, we can't introduce ourselves by walking into the room and splatting out a wet fart. The closest approximation is to open an unsolicited PR with an LLM.
Inspired by tonight's Homebrew Website Club, set up Miniflux on NixOS as an RSS reader. The grieving period for Google Reader, which was a questionable choice even before its demise, has officially concluded. Better a decade late than never.
#Miniflux #RSS
A crescent moon and Mercury behind a bare tree shortly after dusk
#Mercury #Moon
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social No spoilers, but strong ending, too!
Ross A. Baker wearing a beaded neckless with red ornamental crabs over a black Indiana Football National Champions sweatshirt.
Scored this sweet neck piece at a Mardi Gras party in a church basement. I'm going to start wearing it to the Rust meetings at work.
#MardiGras #Rust
