2026-04-11T09:16:10Z https://yabu.me Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: https://yabu.me/npub10da6vqjrceppxld6c03vz5tlmgvnzwau0emcdlg0seug8gqr4kaqfr8kcw https://cdn.masto.host/socialmh/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/0c1e54d5c276be2d.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/socialmh/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/0c1e54d5c276be2d.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyqngvhdz05sd4qhuvpp65e9c6rdh289yz97fza7yep9kem77l4pqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5l4jfp3 I didn&#39;t expect that I would see the tech industry slowly turn into an industry that people get into only for the money. Maybe the tech industry now has more psychopaths per capita than the finance industry. Eventually it might compete with organized crime in lawlessness and outright evil. 2026-02-24T05:45:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy57h8n78k3057g02e674q0mwfzfckru5selhcmg3s6uacelpl4yczypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm53nsnr7 January 11 was the day when Aaron Swartz was killed by the academic publishing industry who are now happy to make deals with his contemporary, the compulsive liar Sam Altman.<br/><br/>The system puts some people to death for scraping while making others billionaires for doing the same thing. Mark Zuckerberg has torrented the entirety of libgen with no consequences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc</a><br/><br/>Piracy is legal now, provided you register an LLC and get a .ai domain for your website. 2026-01-12T03:30:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdgqs4gjfugg660hkx0zpmsj29xtpupsdrg2fa0v22axcc38rwj0szypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm56mzt4d It might be worth moving out of GitHub just to avoid nonsensical vibe-coded pull requests. :blobthink: <br/><br/>Also, GitHub Actions is the most inefficient CI/CD system I&#39;ve ever encountered.<br/><br/>Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg ⚡ Zig Programming Language<br/><a href="https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/">https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/</a> 2025-11-27T06:58:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyzn0lhqpttpglyuxpmpts54x5mypu2dghu33h5g05m0nqsszvv5gzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5gnjvx8 I put together a few facts.<br/><br/>NVIDIA GB200 is $70,000 each. Enough to employ one intern or new college grad for a year.<br/><br/>AI companies need 100s of billions of dollars in investment unlike regular software startups that need a handful of millions.<br/><br/>AI companies are eating up all the venture capital. We could&#39;ve had a 1000 startups funded instead, but it&#39;s all used up by NVIDIA chips, their data centers and operating costs.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Yes, AI took our software jobs, but not by replacing programmers. 2025-09-30T11:27:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfvg00m7x4u4t86ke35v7337dtzz0xlzj8k5kjyx7jz0k9kz7x6cqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5cf5rhd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfr6hx7933q27mdx5sj05007ersz4nym05hp4eqxuyfcshvatdfss3ml5s7'>nevent1q…l5s7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>After switching to Neovim (no AI plugins this time), I feel like the joy of programming is slowly returning.<br/><br/>LLMs are like energy vampires. They suck the joy out of everything. 2025-04-16T16:23:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfr6hx7933q27mdx5sj05007ersz4nym05hp4eqxuyfcshvatdfsszypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5cz8pl2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00y8fcgk0qyxymy7es5tnfzxyd7dqg6eexxeup0v8yjd2jnjr3fgtqracd'>nevent1q…racd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Used VS Code without Copilot for a day.<br/><br/>While I&#39;m at it, why not ditch Micro$oft VS Code as well? It&#39;s not a hard requirement for TypeScript.<br/><br/>Trying out nvim+lazyvim setup. A friend recommended that I also try wezterm. So, learning Lua seems inevitable at this point. 2025-04-15T08:42:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs00y8fcgk0qyxymy7es5tnfzxyd7dqg6eexxeup0v8yjd2jnjr3fgzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm533zpmp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf07xnvc6ur2gdh4y49vmfssecyq0u9xfwz45nn76enx3scwmrqsg2wusnx'>nevent1q…usnx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I get fired for something, let it be for a mistake I actually did, not for something that&#39;s so stupid that it&#39;s unlikely for a human to do such a thing. 2025-04-12T06:25:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf07xnvc6ur2gdh4y49vmfssecyq0u9xfwz45nn76enx3scwmrqsgzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm50k8pe5 I started using GitHub Copilot for work to generate both test and production code in January.<br/><br/>Since the refactoring work it was generating for me was too much, I stopped using it for production code a month ago.<br/><br/>It keeps creating test files in the wrong directories and breaks half the scripts in the repository (not consistently though 🤦‍♂️). Yesterday, this got pushed to the main branch and broke scripts for everybody.<br/><br/>The day has finally arrived! I&#39;ve completely given up on AI-generated code. 2025-04-12T06:23:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsduaq0csjj4pvxfe2gfhzl8sfh03z7vqhhqv257jecs8y3amvqekqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5sgyahh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9newlrcnjjx60qgg55q7p47xj5wzq8fhcpku38cdt6fwvcszjnxqwv47p0'>nevent1q…47p0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I still haven&#39;t learned how to do builds for my own Android devices. I should.<br/><br/>&#34;Your one maintainer stopped maintaining&#34; is such a general problem of free software in general.<br/><br/>Maybe getting some students with a lot of free time on their hands to do LineageOS builds for their own devices would work. Their devices would last a lot longer than the manufacturer&#39;s planned obsolescence.<br/><br/>I am thinking of using GadgetBridge as well. It will suffer from the same problem. 2025-04-08T13:10:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs99wul5gw4gj2ydktnxc0ljmjvh303yz8jrx5uktmtg87fzg4ldtgzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm549p2vz India’s repair culture gives new life to dead tech<br/><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops">https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops</a><br/><br/>&gt; Singh recalls a young engineering student who visited his shop last year, desperate for a laptop to complete his coursework. “He had saved up for months but was still short of money. I put together a machine for him from spare parts, and he left with tears in his eyes. That is when you know this work matters.”<br/><br/>#rightToRepair 2025-04-08T08:37:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9xhgk2rah320ty2m8zy6g4qh6gvhy8nrgl28zj8nfxvae3nugsdqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5s2gl2w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz0uzufvanz929tce2mglus2r98dhyxae27m69h5033qzm2uyluucxzaggm'>nevent1q…aggm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There is no good technical reason why the community version of Synapse should not include the worker implemented in Rust. A smaller, resource constrained server, such as a single board computer with 2 GB memory would benefit from a more efficient implementation.<br/><br/>Element seems to be adopting the open-core business model like GitLab. I don&#39;t blame them for this; they did mention funding problems recently, but the arguments and analogies in the article don&#39;t make sense. 2025-01-18T21:55:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpcjde8pry5pjuty04ek0dg2wsf9qlc620zr94r066kfnllqypqszypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5gz2n4h A journalist (Ed Zitron) purchased the bestselling laptop from Amazon — a $238 Acer Aspire 1 and wrote about his experience using it.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/</a><br/><br/>(If you reply with &#34;they should&#39;ve just installed &lt;my favorite Linux distro&gt; on it&#34;, I will assume that you didn&#39;t read the article.<br/><br/>The average person doesn&#39;t know how to install a Linux distro, or even applications for that matter, for the same reason that I don&#39;t know how to convert a diesel car to CNG.) 2024-12-17T03:22:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs266xn897km7m2yj2xcz63295l3nx3gx5hhgu3y2pq72r5aavhdeczypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5rjq78w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx4wjgfsm4rm7z2zxhj0q987a7sqwpsyees93zk4emwa3a0plvzhgvsj3hl'>nevent1q…j3hl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>3. &#34;When the LLM made up some stuff you didn&#39;t like, it was a hallucination&#34; - Sam Altman probably?<br/><br/>LLMs cannot think. Also, they had no sense organs until they recently became multi-modal. They have no sense of right/wrong/meaning/nonsense etc. All of that comes from the human interpreting the signals coming from the LLM. Does this make their users computer astrologers? It doesn&#39;t matter. Like a stopped clock, they are sometimes right and can do novel things so people keep using them. <br/><br/>(3/3) 2024-12-13T03:15:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx4wjgfsm4rm7z2zxhj0q987a7sqwpsyees93zk4emwa3a0plvzhgzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm52zk0aq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsylyjf356vpfj3cx52am0epld8l4ysrffk6dk0euje63zctdq8vcqygy95e'>nevent1q…y95e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>2. &#34;The ability to speak doesn&#39;t make you intelligent&#34; - from a recently popular toot.<br/><br/>The main ability of LLMs is to place token after token (a token is a part of a word) very quickly. To speak is to transform your thoughts into a form that others can understand. LLMs have no thoughts. Heck, they don&#39;t even understand words because they deal in tokens. Jar Jar Binks actually meets this definition of intelligence.<br/><br/>(2/3) 2024-12-13T03:06:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsylyjf356vpfj3cx52am0epld8l4ysrffk6dk0euje63zctdq8vcqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5np3mfh Some thoughts about LLMs<br/><br/>1. &#34;LLMs confidently give wrong answers/lies&#34; - anybody who tried to get information from an LLM.<br/><br/>LLMs have no feelings or emotions. So, they cannot &#34;feel confident&#34;. We perceive their lack of doubt to be confidence.<br/><br/>(1/3) 2024-12-13T03:04:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrguk73u55vdaxz5yrmhnyuyzwfsravyyd35xywly4ukun9gxgjxqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5l8e0pk My livelihood as a software engineer depends on the existence of computers. <br/><br/>Semi-conductor manufacturing is the most complicated endeavor that humankind has ever undertaken (yes including the Mars missions, read the book Chip War) and it is mostly concentrated in one island nation. Also, it involves critical raw materials that are available in only one location on Earth. It doesn&#39;t get more fragile than this.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the &#34;Cloud&#34; is an illusion of infinite computers on a finite planet. 2024-11-04T02:18:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgus5uwdj5mre3n5yj2haat80sql5e0v7encq49qg23jk4hjzuwuszypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5chj7f5 If you ever wanted to write toots using the same UI as your git commit messages, there is a CLI app called &#34;toot&#34;.<br/><br/>#Mastodon 2024-10-20T13:31:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstwfu0ctl7vvd9eal6hkh86cxg9svf530p47k00e2wwf5v7ekulwgzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5qqv3qp I saw a thread of people recommending a note-taking app called anytype. Apparently it is technically quite good. It is even local-first.<br/><br/>I won&#39;t use it.<br/><br/>Because it is VC-funded.<br/><a href="https://anytype.io/who">https://anytype.io/who</a><br/><br/>I don&#39;t care if it is the best-in-class, revolutionary, most life-changing thing in its category. I don&#39;t care if it is even more versatile than Emacs. I won&#39;t use it.<br/><br/>It will be enshittified. The founders&#39; best intentions are irrelevant.<br/><br/>Never become dependent on a VC-funded thing. 2024-10-13T07:06:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9mywcqquszxjwrt4fae6rn0rqhsc6kr0f3pdztng29waw9r44hqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm55etqhv Raku can be a good replacement for AWK.<br/><br/>Example: Strip out the timestamps from a podcast transcript (or subtitles)<br/><br/>A file with lines like this<br/>&#34;[00:00:25.680 --&gt; 00:00:28.360] We hope you enjoy this conversation.&#34;<br/><br/>cut -d&#39;]&#39; -f2 transcript.txt | raku -pe &#39;.=trim&#39;<br/><br/>The same in AWK<br/><br/>cut -d&#39;]&#39; -f2 transcript.txt | awk &#39;{$1=$1;}1&#39;<br/><br/>The word &#39;trim&#39; is a lot easier to remember than GNU AWK&#39;s weird behavior with assignment. This is also easier than using `sed s/^\s*//`.<br/><br/>#RakuLang #awk 2024-10-08T23:36:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrf9977flxvhd3h4l6hk7w8enzwtnryk3afanpvm6dd4fm8hy7nqzypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5c3dgta &#34;We want to call work what is work so that eventually we might rediscover what is love.&#34;<br/><br/>- Silvia Federici<br/><br/>A quote from the conclusion of the book &#34;Work won&#39;t love you back&#34; by Sarah Jaffe.<br/><br/>#quotes #antiWork #feminism 2024-10-07T18:13:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0s885h2xrdmtkcgyeqrf0vw7lwzft8n8vuklau2gyp99yhlr5nzszypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm52pcvmh So much complaining on the fediverse about a Firefox Labs feature on a nightly build, when most Labs features don&#39;t make it into the final product. But I think the complaining is warranted to prevent the features from making it into the final product.<br/><br/>Also, from Mozilla&#39;s perspective this doesn&#39;t hurt their climate goals, since the carbon consumed by third-party servers won&#39;t go into their carbon accounting. Maybe if they offered a Llama 70B model like DuckDuckGo does, but they don&#39;t. 2024-09-09T07:03:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0cz4dd9xps74jdh8jf54jruwlzwk2efd4de50tfr4zprfvceeckszypahhfszg0ryyymahtp79s230ldpjvfmh3l80phap7r83qaqqwkm5jh803f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq7t665uvzdr6fzqudkgwqkxrkm3g449htclapcjea2w0a96jk28skuzw67'>nevent1q…zw67</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is there a reason why they are not using AGPLv3+ instead of GPLv3+?<br/><br/>It is software served over a network.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12r320mcnpx7hnsr9v8ydwdk9eyqrlpm8usvspwzpd4hw8g5l9rdscrzz58" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Forgejo</span> (<span class="italic">npub12r3…zz58</span>)</a></span> 2024-08-23T08:56:15Z