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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@gitlab.com , you should take over the site. Or make one in the same vein. The "99 bottles of beer" program is simply the best program to illustrate basic language features such as I/O, looping, and conditionals.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 05/09/2026

Fun Fact: Venezuelan Oil is known as "Heavy Sour" and the number of refineries that can process Heavy Sour oil in the USA is not enough to alleviate the fuel supply pressure. Trump's war is indeed proving to be very damaging to the USA. #PoliticalFootgun www.bbc.com/news/article...

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US diesel prices hit an all-time-high

Fuel prices have soared since the Iran conflict began at the end of February, mirroring the surge in wholesale oil prices.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 05/09/2026

##LLM #ArtificialIntelligence is now good enough to do code review... as long as you don't take its word at face value. Like, yesterday #GoogleGemini (free version) identified what I was trying to do and suggest a better way of doing it. Which I *studied* first then *reimplement* on my code.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 29/08/2026

Excuse my language, but... This is fucking scary. The swell carried so much debris it's like a scouring pad, a polishing liquid. The "after" pics are totally horrific. Buildings, bridges, roads... 'erased' from the face of the Earth, leaving no traces of human civilization. #NepalFlood

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 21/08/2026

Seems LL is changing their mind about how the #TransSansaraCauseway will be built... #SecondLife #SecondLifeGeography So they added 3 new regions south of Albion and ended with this:

Bird's eye view of Trans Sansara Causeway, now implemented as an extension of Frog Road.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 17/08/2026

At which point do you stop 'improving' your #bash script and just go, "fuck it I'll make a #Python script instead" ? #PythonProgramming

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 13/08/2026

Aaand an enterprising resident (not me) made a map showing the undersea part of the #TransSansaraCauseway ! #SecondLife #SecondLifeGeography #SecondLifeCartography

A map of Second Life showing the undersea tunnel part of the Trans-Sansara Causeway

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 12/08/2026

Oh yeah! This has got to be a #HistoricalMoment for #SecondLife #SecondLifeGeography !! Should be an article for the #SLGI wiki!! Can someone check when the "Under Construction" signs were plopped down on Luna and Pomponio?

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/08/2026

You can kind of see the terraforming already done toward the small island in the second pic. And to the East of the larger island, also some terraforming and some crossing surfaces already extending diagonally into the big Protected Land on South West Albion.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/08/2026

And someone disabled water rendering and mapped out the undersea tunnel of #TransSansaraCauseway #SecondLife

Tunnel begins on the Luna region in front of the Luna Mall

Tunnel punches through the South West corner of Okeanos, seemingly targeting the smaller island. Maybe it will emerge there and go up in a bridge before going undersea again.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 24/03/2026

Let's be clear: the SAVE America Act is a massive voter suppression bill. Full stop. This bill doesn't protect elections. It rigs them. By making it harder for millions of Americans to vote, the SAVE America Act is one of the most dangerous attacks on democracy I've seen in my lifetime.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 08/03/2026

There's a nascent #SecondLife viewer called #PyroKitty that's in development. It uses Godot as the rendering engine, and from the vids I've seen (from its devs) it renders quite well, and can even render mesh and rigged items! Look forward to it being launched!

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 08/03/2026

@inarapey.secondlife.bio Hey your BSky link in your blog seems to need a fixing, when I clicked it, BSky said "it cannot resolve the identity" or something like that 😅

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˚⋅✧. ℝ 𝕚 𝕧 𝕖 𝕣 .✧⋅˚ @riverofstars.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Furry hacker group name idea: The Uwuminati

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

FYI You can emulate this Python line "keyword".startswith(cmd) in #bash, using the following: [[ "keyword" = ${cmd}* ]] With one catch: cmd must NOT contain any whitespace. #BashProgramming #BashScripting #Scripting

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/02/2026

Tomorrow's premium: The Hater's Guide To Anthropic, a company burning $8 to $13 for every dollar it makes selling Claude Code and burning billions of dollars a year. It needs $283bn to survive the next 3 years. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Despite its positioning as the trustworthy, “nice” AI lab, Anthropic is as big, ugly and wasteful as OpenAI, and Dario Amodei is an even bigger bullshit artist than Sam Altman. It burns just as much of its revenue on inference (59% - or $2.79 billion on $4.5 billion of revenue, versus OpenAI’s $2.5 billion (62%) on $4.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2025, if you use The Information’s numbers), and shows no sign of any “efficiency” or “cost-cutting.”

Worse still, Anthropic continually abuses its users through varying rate limits to juice revenues and user numbers - along with Amodei’s gas-leak-esque proclamations - to mislead the media, the general public and investors about the financial condition of the company. Based on an analysis of many users’ actual token burn on Claude Code, I believe Anthropic is burning anywhere from $3 to $20 to make $1, and that the product that users are using (and the media is raving about) is not one that Anthropic can actually support long-term.

I also see signs that Amodei himself is playing fast and loose with financial metrics in a way that will blow up in his face if Anthropic ever files its paperwork to go public. In simpler terms, Anthropic’s alleged “38% gross margins” may, if we are to believe Amodei’s own words, not the result of “revenue minus COGS” but “how much a model cost and how much revenue it’s generated.”

Anthropic is also making promises it can’t keep. It’s promising to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure (and an additional "up to one gigawatt”), “tens of billions” on Google Cloud, $21 billion on Google TPUs with Broadcom, “$50 billion on American infrastructure,” as much as $3 billion on Hut8’s data center in Louisiana, and an unknowable (yet likely in the billions) amount of money with Amazon Web Services. Not to worry, Dario also adds that if you’re off by a couple of years on your projections of revenue and ability to pay for compute, it’ll be “ruinous.”

I think that’s he’s right. Anthropic cann…

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 16/02/2026

With at least 2 open source hypervisors available, #KVM and #Xen, why oh why do anyone think they should make a home-brew one... #Hypervisors #Virtualization

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rita hatesville @ritatreats.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

10 days ago, matt mullenweg uploaded a blog post about how he started using AI to code and now tumblr is entirely non functional great job, buddy! i knew you havent lost your touch

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Noetic @itnoetic.blacksky.app · 16/02/2026

The bit about being locked into a multi-day coding session reminds me of something I read the other day about research showing that AI usage increases the amount of time spent working.

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 16/02/2026

The very moment one declares that one's service is "100% vibe coded" hackers will start to prepare that service with a fine-toothed comb *and* discover the plethora security holes in that service. Not "try to discover". Hackers WILL discover. #ITSecurity #VibeCoding

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 25/01/2026

If we apply #ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit) function (a common item used in #ArtificialIntelligencr, namely #NeuralNetworks) ... Then it is clear #SamAltman has consistently increased #OpenAI's profit by a factor of 10 every year. 0 x 10¹⁰ = 00,000,000,000 Awesome consistent performance!

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 15/01/2026

The USA is now totally an oligarchy whose sole objective is Profit Above All Else, and not humanity. youtube.com/shorts/rBcTu...

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The 1 word behind Trump’s UN pullout

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 03/01/2026

I'd say that a majority of my problems crashing out of #SecondLife is because of connection problems. Windows 'kindly' hide 'temporary problems' until it became severe. #CachyOS immediately alerts me whenever a connection problem happens. The result:

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 03/01/2026

Observation on running #KokuaViewer on #CachyOS, visiting a very-texture-and-PBR-heavy dance party in #SecondLife : 1. My GPU doesn't heat as much as when I was still using Win10 2. Several times the viewer froze, but after a couple of seconds work again. Which is great, actually! (See below)

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 02/01/2026

We need to have her medical license revoked and retrain her from attaching an M.D. after her name.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 31/12/2025

Oookay I just learnt from my mentor that #bash actually perform syntax checking etc when a function is first defined. So if you want a bash script to not error out mid-processing, leaving the system in an indeterminate state, wrap the logic inside a main() function. Then execute that function.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 31/12/2025

Remember, folks, that an #XML reply is still a valid reply from an API endpoint. You have no rights dictating what encoding format an API will return to you. If your app can't handle XML replies then that's YOUR skill issue. Full stop.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 31/12/2025

I love how FAST #CachyOS boots on my laptop. Like, so fast that I don't mind rebooting to test things. And reboot again if I want to undo the things. It boots, like, an order of magnitude -- or two -- faster than Windows 10 Pro ever could. #Linux #ArchLinux #WindowsFree #MicrosoftFree

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 30/12/2025

I have to admit that #ArchLinux -- specifically, #CachyOS -- has come a loooong way w.r.t usability and suitability to be a daily driver. Provided you're not a #Linux newbie.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 30/12/2025

For reasons unknown I always have a hard time connecting -- and staying connected -- to #SecondLife is I use my ISP's DNS Server. Which is why I greatly dislike systemd-resolved as it insists on using the ISP's DNS Server. Furthermore, all unencrypted UDP traffic to port 53 gets intercepted.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 30/12/2025

I was riding on the bus, engrossed in reading a web novel on my phone. I heard spattering sounds on the window. I looked up, and wondered aloud, "Wow, it's raining?" The kind gentleman sitting beside me affirmed, "Seems so. And quite heavy, as well."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Now exclude all the cases where it was added to software that people were already using without them asking for it.

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deedotkurses @deedotk.eurosky.social · 30/12/2025

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

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Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I see your claim, and raise you this diagram, recently published on Nature.com, as part of an article that they’ve since been forced to retract.

A diagram illustrating an article on autism (now retracted) that, when you actually try and read it, immediately turns out to be complete gibberish.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 30/12/2025

If you're still subscribed to #Nature @nature.com , then it's time to unsubscribe. And blacklist maybe.

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Shadowhawx (commissions open!) @shadowhawx.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I don't want gen AI in my browser. I don't want gen AI in my PC. I don't want gen AI in my art. I don't want gen AI in my games. I don't want gen AI in my music. I don't want gen AI in my movies. I don't want gen AI in my books. I don't want gen AI in my cart. I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.

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ZestyDoesThings @zestydoesthings.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In light of recent Ai related nonsense in the creative industry, I wanted to present some easy-to-digest facts about Generative Ai

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BadassFreeman @badassfreeman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

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Chrissy Skydancer @chrissyskydancer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Scammer Links mostly use ".shop" or "herokuapp.com/" dont click. But if you did MFA / 2FA may save you from a SL account los. We had already 69 nice upvotes #secondlife - please support that idea and give it push! feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...

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2FA activated grants 10 additional groups | ✨ Feature Requests | Second Life

Reduce Linden Lab's support costs in a simple way, while motivating people to protect their accounts better. We all see it weekly, nearly daily — scams

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 29/12/2025

Why does the USA accept a dementia president? It's because the billionaire oligarchs can steer him.

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