pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #IBM. #Debian developer. PhD in Computing Science. Amateur historian (Computing Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

One lasting drawback of working on the "Freedoom" project, as I did (probably over 15 years ago) is I can never spell "freedom" correctly on my first try

@malte the former.

Looks like nomanssky.social might have fallen over / gone away

Argh
“What a week, huh?” “Captain, it’s Monday”

There are no penguins in Greenland you absolute moron.

AI generated image from the White House with Trump holding hands with a penguin, which is holding an American flag. The flag of Greenland is stuck in the snow in the distance.

To keep LLMs under control, we need to give them Religion

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I like Durham, and we've no shortage of virtuous work to do.

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I kind of love the idea that Perl is dark magick that LLMs refuse to discuss

gah it's done it again! When will this finally settle down?

Bastl opening up some of their synth stuff https://cdm.link/bastls-kastle-2-and-citadel-eurorack-now-are-diy-kits-open-source-platforms/

I have a kastle v1 I bought In person in Prague, a long time ago

Has anyone modded Trump into civ2 yet?

@afewbugs your thread is reminding me strongly of “what’s on her mind” by Allison Daminger. Great book

@hughsie gee I wonder what prompted this enquiry

@sxa ah these instances were at least on separate computers in my case (with firefox sync probably the culprit for theme weirdness)

@sxa no need to apologies, it's great to chat!

I made the mistake of trying a different Firefox theme in *one* instance of Firefox and of course my Firefox instances *everywhere else* immediately reverted to the default theme

Another stand out ye gods track https://yegods.bandcamp.com/track/guide

@RogerBW it’s to avoid people mistakenly believing I’ve used an LLM for anything I write, not to prevent LLMs consuming my content. I appreciate that, assuming a large enough collection of humans stop using em dashes, LLMs will stop too. Eventually

I used to routinely use em-dashes in my writing (memorised the X compose sequence to generate them) but they’re now considered to be a sign of LLM content so I’m sadly retiring them.

(disclaimer: this opinion could perhaps have spent more time in the oven)

Over time the aspect of #Debian that has mattered to me most is the community, and how welcoming and awesome some of it is. This is something to be treasured.

On the other hand, this stands in stark contrast to the subtext of just about any intra-project communication I see now. We are not civil, kind, or patient with each other.

I think this is a serious problem. More so than most technical matters du jour.

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