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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@thedansimonson This is exactly what we do with efficiencies targeted at the individual. Squander them through the prisoner's dilemma until they become zero sum or worse. Thanks for the link, I am going to love pulling this one out to give to people.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"Thus it takes this American 1500 hours to go 6000 miles (in the course of a year). Three and a half miles take him (or her) one hour. In countries that do not have a transportation industry, people travel at exactly this speed on foot, with the added advantage that they can go wherever they […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@thedansimonson postradamus all he did was be a dick head, and they attacked him just like he predicted.

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@glyph logging feels to me like something where the tools that exist for it are kind of sad. It's kind of unreal that genuinely plug and play for logging isn't the norm. I think it's because logging isn't seen as one of the fun parts of programming, so not a lot of effort has been put into it […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

There are a ton of implementations in the AOSP latinime JNI stuff that are in the header files, and I can't figure out what the rationale was for putting them there. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. There will be one function body in the .cpp file, and five others in the .h file. It is […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Oh wait, now I get it, when they say singularity, they mean IPO.

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

No. I don't like this. I am displeased.

$Some unholy C++ code that reads... ''' ErrorTypeUtils::ErrorType TypingWeighting::getErrorType(const CorrectionType correctionType, const DicTraverseSession *const traverseSession, const DicNode *const parentDicNode, const DicNode *const dicNode) const { switch (correctionType) { case CT_MATCH: if (isProximityDicNode(traverseSession, dicNode)) { return ErrorTypeUtils::PROXIMITY_CORRECTION; } else if (dicNode->isInDigraph()) { return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_DIGRAPH; } else { // Compare the node code point with original primary code point on the keyboard. const ProximityInfoState *const pInfoState = traverseSession->getProximityInfoState(0); const int primaryCodePoint = pInfoState->getPrimaryCodePointAt( dicNode->getInputIndex(0)); const int nodeCodePoint = dicNode->getNodeCodePoint(); const int keyIndex = traverseSession->getProximityInfo()->getKeyIndexOf( primaryCodePoint); // TODO: Check whether the input code point is on the keyboard. if (primaryCodePoint == nodeCodePoint) { // Node code point is same as original code point on the keyboard. return ErrorTypeUtils::NOT_AN_ERROR; } else if (CharUtils::toLowerCase(primaryCodePoint) == CharUtils::toLowerCase(nodeCodePoint)) { // Only cases of the code points are different. return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_CASE; } else if (primaryCodePoint == CharUtils::toBaseCodePoint(nodeCodePoint)) { // Node code point is a variant of original code point. return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_MISSING_ACCENT; } else if (CharUtils::toBaseCodePoint(primaryCodePoint) == CharUtils::toBaseCodePoint(nodeCodePoint)) { // Base code points are the same but the code point is intentionally input. if (keyIndex == NOT_AN_INDEX) { return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_MISSING_EXPLICIT_ACCENT; } return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_ACCENT; } else if (CharUtils::toLowerCase(primaryCodePoint) == CharUtils::toBaseLowerCase(nodeCodePoint)) { // Node code point is a variant of original code point and the cases are also // different. return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_MISSING_ACCENT | ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_CASE; } else { if (keyIndex == NOT_AN_INDEX) { return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_MISSING_EXPLICIT_ACCENT | ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_CASE; } // Base code points are the same and the cases are different. return ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_ACCENT | ErrorTypeUtils::MATCH_WITH_WRONG_CASE; } } break; '''$

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Thomas Sibley @trs.metasocial.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

rhododendron bits blurred on street view

A screenshot of a street view photo showing a rhododendron hedge with several inexplicably blurred out spots.

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Oh no, #creativeassembly what did you do to my precious #total_war_shogun_2, I can't even bring myself to install it after someone I played with sent me these. I assume the code you the same treatment, after they told me about their performance woes. My deepest […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An upscaled image of a Portuguese terco waving a finger from a 6 fingered hand at a samurai who is looking away in disgust.

A unit card of a samurai on horse back with an upscaled version that clearly went through generative AI, the samurai's face is gone.

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Woah, this is surprising me. More than half of people responding think it will get past the tech debt? I am nowhere near that optimistic. For it to get stopped by patent law, it needs to get to the point adobe is afraid of it, and for that to happen they have to keep tech debt under control […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

www.betootaadvocate.com/firmus-fail… I very much enjoyed that.

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Firmus Failure Blamed On Most Investors Not Being Fucked In The Head

**ERROL PARKER** | _Editor-at-large_ | Contact The nation's investment community has been criticised for sabotaging Firmus’s proposed A$44 billion valuation by having brains that are not fucked. The company’s planned ASX float was abandoned after fund managers repeatedly asked whether the enormous

eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@ludicity Deloitte deserves it, and the attendee should know the company they work for by this point.

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

@benpate I really want matrix to work, I really do... but man I _hate_ using it. They need some UX designers to take over product development for the next decade. When KDE was at its worst, I could still enjoy the user experience, but matrix is another beast. I get such weird problems in both […]

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

@aj It is almost like... she is alienated from the production that results from her labour? hmmm...

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Kelson @notes.kvibber.com · 09/10/2026

"The People Holding Up The Internet" Real examples of the people behind critical projects thanklessly maintained by one random person in Nebraska since 2003, underlying all modern infrastructure. (Well, not Nebraska or 2003 specifically, but you know the XKCD.) […]

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

Correction it is an arraylist of int array arrays! This is fucking hard to read! I still haven't figured out what ngrams are being shoved in this thing. The ngrams that could end in this word, or the ngrams that this word starts. May I please have some more abstraction sir? *grovelling with […]

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

No. Whoever did this should apologize to me, personally. github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/blob/… This is so painful to read. I don't know whose fault this is, the people that came up with the JNI or the person who wrote this. But I am in […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

If someone genuinely, provably, does a perfect byte for byte decompilation of any arbitrary binary I can give them, but now it's magically written in rust no matter what the unknown source language was of the original binary, I'll pay for an LLM subscription. No joke. This would be the first […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

LLM boosters that don't know how compilers work are now claiming that you can do byte for byte decompilation by brute force guess and check now? There are so many problems here I just can't even, nor can I odd. The only way this works is if you have a compiler capable of reproducible builds […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Serious question, is there any precedent of people who have tried to sue the various tech companies for collecting data on them, using typical recording consent laws? (1 party / 2 party whatever) If someone can't sign a contract for you, certainly they can't sign the EULA for you with regards […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@thedansimonson I wouldn't even give it that much credit. It's a great way to obliterate fuel tax revenue for the next many years, because it becomes unenforceable the moment you allow dyed diesel in any vehicle it otherwise would normally not be allowed in. It also puts an otherwise controlled […]

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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@thedansimonson yep, my favourite part is this is I don't suspect it will improve when the financials catch up, the local models will happily scrape Wikipedia pages they aren't actually making use of as well

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

@thedansimonson it's because the scraping is happening at inference time, over and over. They don't want to host a mirror.

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

@jonesmurphy racism on Xitter? Surely you jest. /s

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

@glyph I don't doubt that there were real vulnerablities being found, perhaps even often at one point? I think, though, that the classes of bugs that LLMs readily find are pretty low hanging fruit. After you run the LLM over a codebase a few times, you are going to run out of low hanging fruit […]

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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 · 04/10/2026

@arjen @timnitGebru @emilymbender Fabulated is a good word here. "confabulation" is the only word I'm comfortable using when describing LLM output, and I would say all of it falls into this category, regardless of if it's accurate to reality or not.

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

@WeirdWriter when people tell me that they think people are just next token predictors, I believe they mean it... but they probably wish I didn't.

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

@glyph I am confident that I wouldn't be able to make this assessment if I was using them. I'm very certain I would fail to get this correct, even if I tried measuring, because the attempt to measure would very likely be poorly controlled. (Especially when you take into account additional bugs […]

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

@thedansimonson first album: "Confabulations for My Funeral".

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 · 03/10/2026

@glyph I've never been to one of those! I just know that among the people I know I've had more people ask me about help moving to Linux in the last year and a bit than in the 10 years previous. It was nuts right at the win 10 EOL. The people I know are steam users, but they don't use steam much […]

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

@glyph funnily enough, I think this stuff valve has done here has had more effect outside steam users

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.

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

@glyph @tante the one problem with that metric is fedi tends to have a higher rate of fall off. People join, stay active for about a few months, then stop being active. There is a sort of worrying consistency to the number of active users, despite people signing up all the time. There are […]

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

@thedansimonson I suppose it's lower level than interpreted languages many of which have their interpreters written in c, but I would hesitate to call it low level. Maybe simple and encouraging of anti patterns, but low level I would have to dispute. I think that classification is coming from […]

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

@thedansimonson in theory it means running software with no layers of virtualization. I've heard it used in the context of hypervisors and hardware pass through. However, no terms in CS mean anything anymore afaict, because I've seen people claiming openAIs systems involved in the hugging face […]

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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?

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?"

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

@dansup oh wow, I would be so stoked to have a dead behind the eyes portrait of myself after sending a perfect mugshot of me to who knows who online somewhere!

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

@glyph my biggest issue with utilitarianism is it degrades until you use a surrogate for utility. Often money expenditure is used... meaning a person's wealth is their utility. In EA, it seems the surrogate is experiencing a unit of conscious existence. In this model, future hypothetical […]

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

And they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for @thedansimonson and his tooting

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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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