Another thread on the FreeBSD forum about avoiding slop. Free’s dragging its feet on a slop policy & has accepted a few slop commits, so it’s clear which way the wind’s blowing.

Slop huggers are there, calling people who want working software that isn’t stolen terrorists & McCarthyites. Lolz. They’re on a list alright, but it’s a different Joseph.

NetBSD’s the only slopfree BSD now. A few Linuxes but the kernel’s gone, well, better than nothing. The Alpine news is a kick in the nuts.

#bsd

Time to post some #GRiD #Compass photos!

This laptop was presented in our local #hackspace by a guy who bought him to use, but found that there are no easy way to install programs, transfer files, use GRiD Compass emulator on PC, connect this laptop to the network — so he started working and solving beforementioned problems A LOT — as usual for anyone who is deeply in retrocomputing

#RetroComputing #RetroHardware #GridCompass #photography #TechPhotography #RetroTech

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a GRiD logo on the display with a perspective lines on the background.

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Keyboard of a GRiD Compass — mechanical (?) keyboard with a QWERTY-layout. There is a GRiD "system card" on top of the keyboard with a list of specific keybinding, starting with "CODE" key plus letter.

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a main menu of GRiD OS on the display.

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a menu of some application (?) with keybindings on the left of menu items.

GenAI work good enough. They don't need to be any better to be usable in hands of people who learn how to use them. It's irrelevant if it makes mistakes or lies . What is relevant is the cost: social, ecological, our impeding economical disaster. It doesn't matter how good they are or if they will improve. The cost is unacceptable and this technology has no right to exit. Focusing on the shortcomings of them as product - a millionth example it it counting letters incorrectly, or that drive to the wash example - is not the way to go. It's funny, but it's just playing their game: it's technical problem, it can be fixed in the next iteration. Jut a few more billion dollars, just half a year. Meanwhile the actual problems emerging with GenAI being present everywhere are shunned of. Have you read Antropic reply to Pope? They have nothing to address any non-technical problem. They don't even have a framework to even think about it, because that's not where the discussion is. VCs don't ask, press doesn't ask, and we just focus on some random tidbit on Google. Look at our shiny benchmark, forget about the CO2 we are generating.

This commentary on Eric Schmidt's ill-received commencement speech at University of Arizona is spot on:
https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY

It is a thoughtful, stern public call-out of a man who had all the power and opportunity to make the right, ethical decisions at Google, but didn't – and who now demands that students inhabiting the technofascist dystopia he helped create go in and fix it.

The booing at that commencement speech was a rare and much-needed moment of accountability for Schmidt.🔥

#Google

But there are also articles only the author could have written. Ones that come from personal experience, ones written in their distinct style. It's no longer "how to do this thing" or "how is this thing". Again, I feel no need to write them. What I want to write is things about me - so the shift to "how did I that thing". A more personal web. Ruben has his style (which is a 4 letter sentence), Tim has an amazing intro on how to use Mail, and so on. Those sites and texts are distinctly their. I hope there will be less orange-site style texts written, which you could copy to any other site (or even yahoo) and not even notice. More MWL, less O'Reily.

As a complete side note: I try to write better technically.

https://thenextweb.com/news/danish-pension-spacex-blacklist-governance-overvalued

Married! (Only took us… 12 years?!) 🎉

Long story short, I just ordered 6 bottles of Obello Bianco Malvasia as The Wife considers it now to be the greatest thing since pizza. I now an participant in AA wine culture.

Every marriage has one person who reports whenever a celebrity dies and one person who says, “Oh.”

that's how i've always done it, Microsoft

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Word (Agent) - create a word document using just your words

https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations

Okay, so the general vibe here is less 'Hooray, new model!' and more 'Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't take away Opus 4.6'.

the consensus is overwhelmingly skeptical, bordering on hostile. The community is clearly still traumatized by the Opus 4.7 update, which most users consider a massive downgrade. The news that 4.8 "builds on 4.7" has gone down like a lead balloon.

The Cult of 4.6: Everyone is terrified of losing access to Opus 4.6, the subreddit's beloved gold standard. Many are reporting it's already gone from their model list, while others can still access it, causing widespread panic and threats to switch to competitors.

Token Terror: The number one concern after losing 4.6 is how fast 4.8 will incinerate usage limits. Early reports are not comforting, with users claiming it's even more token-hungry than 4.7, rendering the Pro plan a "sampler" at best.

Benchmark Blues: Nobody trusts the benchmark charts. The phrase "trust me bro" has been thrown around a lot, with users pointing out that 4.7 also had a pretty graph before it disappointed everyone.

Sonnet & Haiku Neglect: A significant number of users wish Anthropic would focus on improving the cheaper models instead of another incremental Opus release, especially given the cost concerns.

>A few brave souls are reporting positive initial results, saying it feels like a fixed 4.7, but they are a tiny island in a vast ocean of doubt. The rest of the thread is basically a support group for people who miss the good old days of Opus 4.6.

This is in line with my understand: models are stagnated, and most improvement is from work on harnesses. And they can't do it without burning even more tokens.

Przeczytałem dzisiaj że tatuaże to regres do barbarzyństwa i rodzaj wtórnego pogaństwa.

Warto było sobie zrobić <3

https://pl.forvo.com/word/the/#en_usa

Guess where I am!

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That would be too easy

ps -ww -p 88163 -u | awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) a[i,NR]=$i} END {for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) { val=a[i,2]; if(a[i,1]=="VSZ" || a[i,1]=="RSS") { val=sprintf("%.2f MB", val/1024) } print a[i,1] ":\t" val }}'

#snac

What a piece of technology this snac is.

Finally some good tech news? #LastFM is now independent again.

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591/2

God damn it. Firefighting?! US, go home. You're embarrassing yourself.

It only lacks auto-complete of handles and tags.

#snac

@SamuraiSakura I love following your offline journey, and I am also ready to ditch RSS. My last elfeed update pulled 327 items and it's not manageable.

How do you now follow blogs? Whenever you remember the url, a bookmark, some other cool way?

Buying out-of-print comic in perfect condition is a terrible, expensive hobby... But hey. European comics!

#nomarvel

Follow my future account to be the first to see it!

It's hot as hell, but I'm no longer dying. It's not pleasant (16C is perfect), but it's not worthy of being annoyed even.

Fight Club
Space Jam
Silence of the Lambs

ok, ok. What the hell is going on? The CEO idea is "people want to see the same thing a 1000th time" and not "people want to see new things like this"? They make new movies. If they stopped - I get it. But they do. There's a He-Man movie, but I'm no longer 6. I'd see a new movie like Silence of the Lambs - TV series are not it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5uT_C4

edit: I lost it at Buscemi