Fabio Valentini

@decathorpe
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Rustacean 🦀 with a Computer Science degree 🎓

I write Rust and Python, and maintain lots of RPM packages for Fedora Linux. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and Packaging Committee (FPC) member. AI Luddite.

Fluent in English and German. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺

Websitehttps://decathorpe.dev
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Fabio Valentini11h ago
Frontend Dogma13h ago

The Hardest Part of Being a Developer Isn’t Coding—It’s Disappearing Quietly, by @northerndev88.bsky.social:

https://dev.to/the_nortern_dev/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-developer-isnt-coding-its-disappearing-quietly-52l

#career #community

The Hardest Part of Being a Developer Isn’t Coding. It’s Disappearing Quietly.

A weird thing happens when you become a developer. You can go days without anyone needing you in a...

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Fabio Valentini1d ago
GrapheneOS3d ago
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
Fabio Valentini1d ago
Esteban Küber 2d ago
I feel like everyone's nerves are frayed and it manifests (amongst other ways) with behaving like the worst of Twitter in its heyday.
Half the time I even agree with the underlying sentiment, buy it is being expressed in such a vitriolic way that I just stay the hell away.
Fabio Valentini3d ago
chaotic enby3d ago

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Fabio Valentini3d ago

/me again wondering whether our new American neighbours are burning down the house or just barbecueing ...

(this happens multiple times a week, so it appears to really be just incessant barbecueing)

Fabio Valentini5d ago
GNOME5d ago

We are pleased to announce the release of GNOME 50! You can read about what our contributors have been working on at https://release.gnome.org/50

We’d like to use this new release as an opportunity to thank all of the contributors who made it happen. ❤️

Let us know what you think!

#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux

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Fabio Valentini5d ago
just listened to people talk about market problems and JIRA tickets and epics and action items for an hour and a half and now I need ice cream
Fabio Valentini6d ago
Matt MayMar 17
If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
Fabio ValentiniMar 15
Karsten SchmidtMar 14

Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮

Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #NoAI #Agents #Deception

Fabio ValentiniMar 13

yay! another week, another LLVM codegen bug

on an obscure architecture that has maybe a double-digit number of users

that I have to care about because *waves hands about*