Mastodawn

Every now and then people share languages with very minimal or very uniform syntax (think Lisp, or Haskell, or Forth) and go "look, all the noise is gone". And to each their own, and familiarity goes a long way, but I think I've pinned down my feelings about it, which is "that wasn't noise, that was signal; I was using as scaffolding when reading the code and now I have to wade through every token linearly".

Emmanuele Bassi 19h ago

The real problem with LLM/GenAI tooling is that I now have to spend a lot of my time dealing with, or writing, policies for projects I collaborate on, and I can't just say "don't", or give up, or fork, because I am not made of time and infinite resources, and self-immolation is a fundamentally stupid way to get the last word

Emmanuele Bassi 23h ago

tante 23h ago

"I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie.""

(Original title: Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie)

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

Andreessen caused a minor kerfuffle by saying on a podcast that he doesn’t introspect at all, and that in fact, people shouldn’t. What’s really going on?

The Verge

Emmanuele Bassi 1d ago

Rewatching Dan Olson's "The Future is a Dead Mall" after the announcement that Meta is killing off the metaverse. It's been almost three years to the dot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

Emmanuele Bassi 1d ago

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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2d ago

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

	Yes
	No

Poll ends at Mar 25 at 1:03pm.

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Emmanuele Bassi 1d ago

Even without acquihires…

Emmanuele Bassi 1d ago

The countdown to the announcement of a new Python packaging project has now started…

Emmanuele Bassi 2d ago

GNOME 2d 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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Emmanuele Bassi 2d ago

Happy GNOME 50 release day!

https://release.gnome.org/50/

#gnome #gnome50

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Emmanuele Bassi 3d ago

#gnome #gnome50

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