Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026Thank you Photobucket, after the million emails about my never-used account being deactivated, it is good to know that I still have ... nothing in it. Useful like a bucket with holes in it. 001 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026Not sure that there's a better illustration for the relationship between capitalism and the commons than searching for "Wikipedia" in the app store and being presented, above the Wikipedia app, with a paid knock-off app that seeks to monetize the volunteer labor that makes Wikipedia possible. 105 5
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026There has been a departure from X in many waves since Musk took over in November 2022. Every departure filters the network down to the people who are comfortable with everything he does to amplify hate. Whatever Twitter once was, X Is now just a test for what people are willing to tolerate. 121 2
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026The burning Cybertruck in front of Trump Tower was a defining photograph for the year that was to follow. And a defining video for the year is a teleoperated robot kicking its operator in the nuts (bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.soc… […] [Original post on social.coop] 001 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025I picked up "I Was a Teenage Exocolonist" in a bundle and quite enjoyed my first playthrough; if you love interactive fiction with a lot of attention to world-building, you should definitely check it out. My full review: lib.reviews/i-was-a-teenage-exocolo… 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025It's gotten to the point where an Epstein face blocker would be helpful, as his smirking visage shows up several times a day in various news stories. In the meantime, if you want to help, you may find this PNG useful to attach to posts, overriding whatever they […] [Original post on social.coop] 001 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025In preparation for this release, I used the `VHS` utility to make scripted short videos for various features. Here are videos showcasing a few core features that were also present in older releases: - Character cards and user personas - Message presets […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025Chabeau 0.6.0 (open source chatbot TUI in #Rust) has been released. This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […] [Original post on social.coop] 102 2
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia. (Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.) 1853 53
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025Managing focus and scrolling in a terminal UI (TUI) is tricky, but I think I landed on a reasonable approach for Chabeau (github.com/permacommons/chabeau). It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video: - "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025Sometimes it's the little things .. made myself a little helper script using `yad` that I can use to quickly bounce the dev env for @lib_reviews :) One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025Got my first scam call with a spoofed "Kaiser Permanente" caller ID today. Apparently quite common. Nice reminder not to put too much automatic faith in any form of "identification". 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025Chabeau is fast, and works well with high speed inference providers like Cerebras. Here it is running against a Cerebras endpoint for the Qwen 480B model, showing off the speedy markdown renderer (provided by the `pulldown-cmark` crate, with some customization […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025Chabeau 0.5.1 is out (chatbot TUI compatible with many APIs). A few goodies in this release: - Built-in presets. You can still configure your own, but Chabeau now ships with three sample presets: short (quick responses followed by a numbered menu), casual, and […] [Original post on social.coop] 103 3
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out." - Ludwig von Mises 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025Chabeau 0.5.0 (my open source terminal chatbot TUI) is the first version that supports character cards, personas, and presets. Here's a simple preset in action that 1) keeps responses concise, 2) facilitates menu-style exploration. `cargo install chabeau` (full […] [Original post on social.coop] 003 3
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #AI players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up. (Graphic from Bloomberg: archive.is/Pagn7) 1213 13
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025Credit to /u/Im_so_little/ for this light edit showing the war zone outside the Portland ICE facility. 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025Mario Guevara is being punished for speech by deportation to a country he fled decades ago: El Salvador, a dictatorship that operates horrific gulags the US has previously made use of. You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […] [Original post on social.coop] 001 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025Permacommons devlog 2025-10-02 Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out. github.com/permacommons/chabeau It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […] [Original post on social.coop] 110 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025Set your name and username, but we'll focus you on the password field. If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty. "This is great. Ship it." 103 3
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025Permacommons devlog 2025-09-10 Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days: - markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache - table rendering - block selection for quick code extraction to […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025Even more than Trump himself, nobody symbolizes the decline of the United States more profoundly than RFK Jr. The damage he is doing will impact millions -- hurt them, and in many cases kill them. Even if he resigned tomorrow (he won't), he already has blood on […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025Permacommons devlog 2025-09-06 Today was pretty productive, mostly working on github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex. - Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof - Added interactive theme picker & […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025I find dealing with MIME parts (e.g., when troubleshooting email rendering) incredibly annoying. There's solid CLI tooling (e.g., `ripmime`) but it still involves a fair bit of poking to get the stuff you want. Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […] [Original post on social.coop] 001 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025- Briefly checks out #Omarchy by DHH - OK, so I don't think I ever need to read anything about that again. 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-19 This took a while to get working, but in my quest to automate all the things I managed to end up with a publish workflow for the `chabeau` crate that seems fairly sane. 1) Stage release on a release branch, using "cargo release" […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025Permacommons #devlog 2025-08-14 Today was a bit of a side-quest into "how to print a version string". The behavior I ended up with is: - For dev builds, print detailed git version info - For "cargo install" builds, print only basic build info - Ensure we […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025Pretty neat feature in the #Cline VSCode agent -- you can create custom workflows fairly easily as project-local or global markdown file. Here I'm running a custom workflow by just typing `/msg.md` to generate a commit message in the […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025Today's Dr. Evil shoutout for hiding basic security features behind enterprise plan upgrades goes to .... 🥁 #BrowserStack! Charging people extra for 2FA - just amazing. 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025Didn't take long for Cerebras' high-speed inference of the new open source Qwen3 model to be "temporarily unavailable". This combination is hitting an interesting market niche, where you may end up spending a lot less & get very high speeds on mundane tasks, and […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025@tiotasram I agree with much of Juho Snellman's argument here. Crucially, note the dramatically _lower_ costs of open source model inference compared with Claude's leading model. Anthropic could subsidize to crush the competition, but they don't need to because […] [Original post on social.coop] 200 2
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025@tiotasram > The 60% profit margin is more likely on B2B sales contracts than public individual subscriptions, from how I read the article you linked. Here's a bit more from The Information. Note also this bit: "Anthropic has also told some investors that if it […] [Original post on social.coop] 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025These are the kinds of consistent stories of human rights abuses you hear about from the worst authoritarian regimes. But in this case, it's the US government that directly effectuated them. archive.is/t71OF → […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025And what message is that, NYT? archive.is/6uC7X → www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/am… 100 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025Echoes of Abu Ghraib. archive.is/X4mq9 → www.theatlantic.com/international/a… 101 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025Now that 252 Venezuelans have been released from #CECOT, the stories of what was done here by the United States government (through El Salvador's rent-a-gulag service) are coming to light. Frequent beatings with wooden bats. Horrific prison conditions […] [Original post on social.coop] 101 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025The #UX #Reddit uses for managing thread views is one of the worst I've ever seen. The "Single comment thread" loads additional comments every time you click it, and eventually turns into an unclickable text that's styled almost identically to a link. The "See […] [Original post on social.coop] 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025The location in the Fastmail web UI is a bit weird, but this kind of "What's New" tray is the correct way to handle changes to your website or app, maybe with a "Show me" action for more details. Please don't throw a boatload of "We just changed our UI we're so […] [Original post on social.coop] 103 3
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025With Abrego Garcia returned to the US, however, briefly, he has had the chance to let the world know about the conditions of the concentration camp the US government has sent more than 280 human beings to. Forced kneeling for hours, denial of bathroom access […] [Original post on social.coop] 101 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025Cool beans Nodesource, this is definitely a trustworthy way to advertise your product 000 0
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025The NYT has a pretty good story up about people whose delusions are exacerbated by #ChatGPT riffing and expanding on them. While I caution against over-indexing on extremes (that way lies moral panic), it is certainly a real phenomenon. If someone in your life […] [Original post on social.coop] 111 1
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025Pretty impressive that it manages to be wrong in two entirely different ways on the same page (the date was May 28, 2025). Time travelers making it back to this year will be very confused. 102 2
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025When the history of America's decline is finally written, this chart will be a prominent part of it. 112 2
Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025Will the NYT find its spine before all its writers are forced to recite the pledge of obedience three times a day or get sent to CECOT? My magic 8 ball says: outlook not so good. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/style/tr… 385 8