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Please boost this toot! mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/1…. Even though it's old, it's important! My job right now is to replace […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Most things I've learned about the c++ in #Heliboard have been annoying lol. There are so many c-strings on the stack... Also, apparently, to pass a mutable reference to a primitive in the JNI, the author(s) really liked the trick of putting 1 item in an array. I don't understand why there […]

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Evil nerds being cheesy (derogatory)] I just learned that Greg Brockman signs as "gdb". For real? Come on. I am a huge nerd, but I can't fathom signing my name as a 3 letter cli program in all lowercase printed like that... Much less on publicly available government documents. Does his middle […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Pro tip for if you are helping a company with a business targeted at privacy conscious people. If this site immediately trips the XSS warning in noscript, I'm closing the site and not coming back. The number of businesses that fail this test is massive.

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@jonny Hey, you subject yourself to LLMs far more than I can bring myself to. I had a thought just a moment ago. Do you know if the continual effort to insert "guardrails" has resulted in chat bots being weirdly resistant to every day tasks when they are phrased certain ways?

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Anyone happen to know much about c++ in #AndroidStudio? Every time I change any c++ code (even a comment), 8 threads max out for the next 2 minutes. So, as I write doc strings I'm having to be next to a jet engine, when all my fans max out continuously. Maybe there is a setting I can turn off? […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

PSA: If you have multiple monitors, semi-frequently want to change the settings of one or more of them, use #KDE #plasma, and haven't heard of the kscreen-doctor command... you have now. Have a bunch of monitors and want to change the brightness on all of them, because its night now and they […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Recently saw someone talk about their prestigious AI specialisation to a group of veterinarians, who then walked out thinking that the guy was an expert in Artificial Insemination and asked me "So what's ChatGPT?"

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Люблю хлеб @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I'm optimistic because of this. it sucks to see people like this with power, but while they possess massive amounts of capital and have the initiative, they are deeply ignorant, broken people. they will fail, even if they weren't resisted, because they're too ignorant to function in the long run […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Oh wow, my cryptpad.fr account is over 10 years old! I was one of the first users, and iirc the first paying one, I know the founders. So glad to see it's still thriving after all these years 😁 #cryptPad #xwiki

Screenshot of my cryptpad account

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

After much ado, I have finally set up my my monitor upgrade to 3x1440p. One of my old monitors died after 15 years of service, and I have been feeling ill all month... So I managed to justify an upgrade to myself. 1440p feels very alien to me... It is going to take time to get use to everything […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117350705… Spread the word!

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

[Dire LLM prediction] It just occurred to me... When the bubble pops, spam will _increase_ not decrease. Those data centres will still exist, but they won't be getting used on training. Instead, it'll all be inference. And inference by itself is possible to break even on. That will be […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

People collectively lowering their standards and taking on more work, to bridge the gap to what can be automated by the service provider, is not the same as the promise of automation. (And this is not a problem new to the 2020s) That is all.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

No Sloptober no-sloptober.com « This October we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you. » <- I mean, why not? I do it anyway, every month…

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

What is even the point of rush shipping? I order economy and it shows up the next day. Can I ask for like economy-minus? I want to be like "no actually it's fine, I don't need this for like a week or three, take your time. Let the employees have bathroom breaks actually. Also, don't fly my […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[I shall now vague post about recent drama.] It is really disappointing to see people grasping for a feeling of control of their spiraling environment by attacking people that almost totally agree with them. It is just masturbation dressed as activism. It's a placebo. Actually, it is worse […]

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 22/09/2026

[ranty, KDE, DDH, big tech] I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DDH […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[pol, money, AI] So, apparently the theory on why the US 10 year bonds spiked so much more than the other time frames is, the bonds are competing with data centre debt, which is all pretty much in the 5-15 year range. In other words, the bubble is so big it's competing with the USD directly […]

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -- John Shedd, Salt from My Attic (1928). My good friend @ozoned shared this quote with me. It's my reminder to not hold my work too tightly, but to be brave and put it out there. It's terrifying. Always. But we can't stay […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Tried to order a set of 3 new monitors from [company unnamed]. (One of mine died, and I have wanted to upgrade to 1440p for a while). The only place they were available was from the manufacturer's online shop. I make an account and order them. 5 minutes later, order cancelled, no reason given […]

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

hi if you want to pay a software archaeologist to find, fork, and maintain the last pre-slop version of your dependencies we would love to work for money

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@whitequark Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for working on #chipass! Also thanks to the others that aren't as active on my timeline. I noticed it came to the repos in my distro very recently and I missed it! Immediately upon opening it... oh I love you all did with the qt6 work... My theme […]

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Люблю хлеб @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

One thing that's been interesting getting older is seeing style and fashion from a bird's eye perspective. When I was a kid, I remember seeing older fashions---even from like, the decade before---as deeply cringeworthy. But now that the fashions I grew up with have themselves descended into the […]

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A dipshit Tech company emailed me this morning, so I replied, in order to process future emails, I'll need $500 from you before proceeding. Please use your connected payment information to send me a PayPal payment to <PayPal EMAIL> and, well, I got some extra Pizza money today folks! #AI #LLM

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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

My dream is to be to @GIMP , what @davidrevoy is to @Krita 😭 #openblade #unix_surrealism #comic #gimp

OpenBlade: "You see, boy, one hundred thousand years ago, the developers of GIMP decided to make a disabled dog their mascot.

This made a bunch of people very angry."

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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 14/09/2026

A lot of my colleagues are concerned that #XMPP could kill all of humanity by the end of this decade. This is not a marketing stunt.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

this was incredibly annoying but I've added 1Password SSH key import to ChiPass! this is our first significant feature work codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass/pulls/…

Import SSH keys from 1Password's 1PUX vault export files

Fixes #148. ## Testing strategy - Import a 1Password 1PUX file. - Check that all of the SSH private keys have been imported. - Add the keys to the agent and check that they can be used for authentication. ## Type of change - ✅ New feature (change that adds functionality)

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

We abandoned it because the joke had pretty much run its course, but full auto "agents" are still wandering into the AgentPipe honeypot. Despite the arrival of AGI, the quality leaves much to be desired

$OreoMuncher45 opens a pull request that consists of just "{pr_body}"$

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Fireside Fedi @firesidefedi.btfree.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Trees, Pixels & Press: The Human Touch in Design - Prisca Schmarsow - E98 Special thank you to @humanum@mastodon.art 🚀 #VOD tubefree.org/w/891jDRNf6zVg9... **Never miss an episode!** 🔎 #Follow @ozoned@tubefree.org 📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 🎧 #Podcast […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 14/09/2026

Going through some personal tasks, I'm just never going to get around to this, so if anyone wants to pick up "make a PR to Homebrew to make Python keg-only" (i.e.: not installed onto $PATH), please go for it. github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussion…

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 13/09/2026

I was inspired by whatever the latest round of AI bullshit is to add a new shirt to #HTTPShirts... sellshirts.com/product/23563

A red tshirt with white text reading "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself - Hayao Miyazaki"

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[Analysis of perplexing slop] Saw this in a comment about AI in mathematics. Was posted in _favour_ of human creativity. A large number of people don't consider things they aren't practised in to be within the domain of meaningful creative tasks. When one […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An incredibly busy diffusion created pixel arrangement meant to be Terrance Tao, Nikola Tesla?, Anubis, a magic cat in a hat, and an army of identical white men wielding giant pencils and math equations fighting an army of corporate robots.

There is a lot of text in the image, often labeling various actors in the arrangement as holding certain principles. Such as a robot with "corporate control" on their armour.

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[Annoyed at computer pol] I had a revolutionary new idea! What if we had the computer do the eugenics for us? It can't be racist, because like math is objective. /s

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/1… Anyway, I know technically, they are allocating to the stack here, and that requires basically a macro to do this the way they are, but my contention would be _why_? These 4 lines can become 1 in c++11 which came out before this […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Read a java string into an array of c++ chars, with a 1 byte pad, that you then write a null character to the last index... sometimes twice in a single function call! It is happening in more than half the functions I am reading right now. I know why they are […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

$c++ code that reads: char localeChars[localeUtf8Length + 1]; env->GetStringUTFRegion(locale, 0, env->GetStringLength(locale), localeChars); localeChars[localeUtf8Length] = '\0';$

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

How to remove the dpad key in #heliboard 4.1 @vincentvalentine @eqe Hope you both find that easy to follow.

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

My 15 year old samsung monitor might have just bitten the dust. It stopped displaying, so I went to unplug it. "oh faint smell eminating out the top vent... that seems bad..." Welp! I don't think I am going to be having time to fix that. Thank you for your service Samsung Electric SMBX2440.

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

My new life goal is to get really good at enjoying the parts of software development people find boring so that I can be like a magician when I fix stuff by simply knowing what's in the code no one wants to look at.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

While CEO's see "AI" as the tool to ensure they no longer have to pay people or depend on them, many workers adopting "AI" get taught through that use that skills they don't have/other professions are worth less. This destruction of worker solidarity and interdisciplinary collaboration is a core […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I have decided I don't hate #doxygen, but it is also rather weird and I don't know why its defaults are like this. Certainly it should be extracting static functions by default? Also, the fact it can't disambiguate namespace collisions when the thing being linked to is in the same file is […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I get that people are incensed 1Password helped fund a project run by a white supremacist. There's lots of talk about canceling them. But we were in this same place with Framework computers last October. That seems to have blown over. I see nothing but gushing love for them these days. I agree […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

[genAI related pondering] I think most people don't actually like genAI output. However, their preferences for specific intersections of interest can override that dislike enough that they will like what was output, if _they_ prompted it. They won't extend that same grace for genAI output, if […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I think it's kind of cute when someone emails in like 10 gestures. I mean, I appreciate it, don't get me wrong. I just think it's cute, I appreciate the person gave it a go, it wasn't really for them, and they made sure to send in their data. It's just that, 5 minutes later, someone is going […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Spying on one person, in order to learn their habits to better separate them from their money is a crime. Spying on a million people at the same time, to learn their habits to better separate them from their money is a business model.

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Rimu @rimu.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Did a fun podcast interview with @ozoned yesterday to run through the installation and setup of a new #PieFed instance. It all went pretty well, thankfully! Watch it at tubefree.org/videos/watch/f3bca0f0-… #fediverse

Piefed - Rimu - E05

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Hot damn, sorting the background collected data before compressing works _really_ well. Just fit 3k gestures in a 1.2 mb zip... That's better than randomly ordered with zst compression on the active data. That's like 22:1, where as zst was getting 11:1. Going to have to quadruple check that […]

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