WILLIAM B PECKHAM

@wpeckham@social.linux.pizza
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Ancient Educator, Warrior, IT (Coding, DBA, Network, Linux) Guru, now mostly retired.   πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
LinuxFOSS, BSD, KolibriOS, FreeDOS, Linux (Manjaro, Devuan, Q4OS, Sparky, VSIDO, DSL, TinyCore, Alpine,.....), Venyoy, OpenVZ, QEMU, etc
AgeOlder than some rocks

I finally categorized the levels in #Lazarr! by difficulty from very easy to very hard. So the level ordering should make a bit more sense in the next version.

#GameDev #Luanti

Padilla's assault & handcuffing is getting all the attention, but what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials

Who TF thought it was even worth considering adding "#AI summaries" to #Wikipedia?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/yuck-wikipedia-pauses-ai-summaries-after-editor-revolt/

At least the idea is "paused" due to (CORRECT) backlash. Good. The next step must be to trash it entirely.

LLMs are !!!NOT!!! suitable to summarize written text; the error rate is just too high. LLMs really do more harm than good in this area.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/

#LLM #bullshit #slop

β€œYuck”: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt

The test grew out of a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference.

Ars Technica

#PeteButtigieg #HeatherCoxRichardson
American Conversations: Pete Buttigieg with the great historian Heather Cox Richardson June 11, 2025.

American Conversations: Secretary Pete Buttigieg
https://youtu.be/4diHMLyJPx0?si=fj2lU55asnjJJQRs

American Conversations: Secretary Pete Buttigieg

YouTube

I am furious β€” incandescently furious β€” over the attacks on science by Trump and his regime, especially the actions of RFK Jr., which, *as history has plainly show us*, result in deaths upon deaths.

You want the receipts? I've got the receipts.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/standing-up-for-science-ca09

Standing Up for Science

Why we must defend science, and the text from my national rally speech

Bad Astronomy Newsletter
Statement on Unbound

June 6th, 2025 Unbound, my former UK publisher, owe me a lot of money. What’s worse, though, is that during their collapse, it came to light that they were underreporting my sales and shorting my...

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Together with ~90 orgs & individuals, we've sent an open letter to the EU Commission to uphold strong encryption.

No government can change the laws of math.

Read the open letter ‡️
https://tuta.com/blog/open-letter-against-protecteu

We wouldn't have this problem with DOGE's interns if they had to learn COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL - like I had to.

BTW: My major programming language? Perl

Second only to Objective-C... NOT SWIFT. Obj-C!

#Perl #DOGE #FORTRAN #PASCAL #COBOL #OBJC #ObjectiveC #Swift

Retired: 23 years Combat Arms (12B/92Y) US ARNG, 10 years Secondary Education (Teaching Science/Math), 35 years IT Guru (Programmer, DBA, SYSADM, Network Admin).  Have a lifetime fishing license for my state.  Addicted to good coffee (not a starbucks molten candy bar in a cup, just the real thing).

Active, sometimes, on Facebook (where family hangs) , MeWe.com (Fellow Linux, RPi, Android, and alternate OS fans), and LinuxQuestions.org (I think you can figure that one out).