Durrendal

@durrendal
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Occasional synthesizer of ideas into objective reality. Packager of many things.

Blog:
https://lambdacreate.com
Git:
https://krei.lambdacreate.com/durrendal

I also run a small retrocomputing event in the summers called Legacy Labs. You can read more about that here: https://lambdacreate.com/legacylabs

i keep having grandiose plans to build a synth/sampler out of a rpi pico and a toy keyboard. kinda like a cheaper op-1

Finally got around to adding an RSS feed for LegacyLabs. If you're participating, or inteterested in following along, that feed is for you!

https://lambdacreate.com/legacylabs/feed.xml

#legacylabs #llsc #llsc2026

The answer to any question that starts with "Who was the idiot..." is usually "me."
Craig Pilcher

we’re so back. never been more back than this

Craig Pilcher
From the archive: "Socrates' Garden of Letters: On Writing, Relays, and Discourse", by Trent Portigal https://epochemagazine.org/47/socrates-garden-of-letters-on-writing-relays-and-discourse/ #Philosophy
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We built an entire civilisation around the idea that more information would make us wiser.

We have more information than any humans who ever lived.

We are not wiser.

Working at Nyxt / Atlas Engineer: Thanks and Sorry
https://aartaka.me/atlas.html?ref=bubbles.town
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Working at Nyxt / Atlas Engineer: Thanks and Sorry

Atlas Engineer was a perfect Open Source Lispy team to work in. I was not the best teammate, though. Here’s how it worked in Atlas and what I’m worried about lately.

Artyom Bologov

Nicomachean Ethics has had me thinking about the relation between how we hone craft skills and the usage of LLMs. The output has never really been the point, just a side effect of the application of skilled labor.

Put a long-ish post together about it. Less coherent than I'd like, but that's sort of the point.

https://lambdacreate.com/posts/the-output-doesnt-matter
#philosophy #AI #LLMs

The output doesn't matter

Thoughts on Aristotle's Craftsmen in the age of LLMs

((lambda (x) (create x)) '(knowledge))
Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.

Windows Central