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( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Nintendo homebrew developer and hacker. Member of @devkitPro and maintainer of countless libs. Horizon OS ♥ (this account mostly boosts🐱 pics atm) - he/him
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Discussing AI/LLM stuff with some friends made me realize something. I do like computers and programming. I like the process of understanding how they work and how to make them do what I want them to do. The LLM stuff makes that process worse and more frustrating. People that use them make collaboration less fun. This is another reason why I hate that stuff, even if it worked 100% perfectly (which it does not) I would not want to use it.

My early teens were spent largely online, and it allowed me to connect with people from all over the world. I would be a lesser person if I was restricted to only knowing the people geographically close to me.

This just increases the impact of the birth postcode lottery. And will continue this country’s decline backwards instilling more insular and xenophobic attitudes.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back

Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back

Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.

GOV.UK

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt - lr0:
https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

As someone who's put a fair bit of effort into implementing typography... I find it important to be aware of these sorts of things!

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva

Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …

La Vita Nouva
Full list of tracks I've managed to recover. If anyone wants any further information please reply or send me a message.
I am once again asking for help tracking down ProSonus MusicBytes, volumes I and II. These sampler CDs only partially exist online (in other CD-ROMs searchable using DiscMaster), as MIDI files and downsampled mono 22kHz wave files. Full CD audio quality versions of the tunes are missing.
I remember people being angry at @torvalds when he said "fuck Nvidia" (I myself was frustrated at the time!), but it really has aged like a fine wine. He was absolutely right and it remains true to this day. They've made some concessions specifically to the kernel at this point (though honestly not that many; mostly they moved a bunch of functionality to an opaque firmware blob instead of software), but even beyond the Linux ecosystem they continue to be bigger and bigger megalomaniacs with a thirst for control. https://youtu.be/Q4SWxWIOVBM
Linus Torvalds: "So Nvidia, F*ck you!"

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@cadey

As far as I know, there's nothing stopping the same thing from happening to Cargo or Maven.

Well, other than the possibility that Rust and Java devs are more vigilant, I suppose.

"No way to prevent this" say users of only package manager where this regularly happens

Xe Iaso's personal website.

more and more projects are adding an AGENTS.md that explicitly tells agents to stop, drop, and roll off a cliff, so if you see an AGENTS.md, remember to check what it specifically says before concluding it's there because the project is pro-AI

(and people who have done this have reported that writing the fuck-off message in that polite insipid tone LLMs use works better at getting them to actually stop: https://unstable.systems/@AmyZenunim/116672510693285709 )

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