2026-03-19T07:44:49Z https://yabu.me leah & flutters & nose, oh my! https://yabu.me/npub1dx9hm5h8r8vnpcz8frll3zyj3lcmys74nzy7p383ew4hc38tlzgq4l0s5v https://medias.meow.social/accounts/avatars/115/225/737/057/146/309/original/367dbcd30ab83557.png https://medias.meow.social/accounts/avatars/115/225/737/057/146/309/original/367dbcd30ab83557.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspwdpu7cyh6a94jslgqp7t99c4staz8nz8del2m8dfmg2qrm58qmszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqzzt39k using an LLM to code isn&#39;t &#34;democratising coding&#34; - any more than handing each new voter a magic 8 ball that can automatically fill out their vote based on what they ask it would be. 2026-04-18T15:19:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs00ufvr7w36g56w3zx7qlyt3vk2w67aln5a7t4dad8c22dgu6p2xgzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq45rd2t of course, the crux of all complaints about UBI is &#34;how can we persuade people to let us exploit them if we can&#39;t threaten them with destitution if they don&#39;t?&#34;<br/><br/>you have to listen for that theme, though, because it&#39;s usually mixed into the background - but you really don&#39;t have to listen *hard* 2026-04-13T00:30:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp6802h79t0qqn0sven5spsypcv4d7ur6sn2vaj3u6mzmtxv3xaeqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq9xv904 so can we all call it Clod Cod for the rest of its life? 2026-04-03T02:33:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx7659j4e0jm2wjc8mx2fkud3q5hhrmvhrln3jwzajzve5v3mh7dszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq7nxqjm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfn0cl96k4732uaen8r9zgrhtvg5l6rexw7tq24ymzt7ectj9jtyc680azv'>nevent1q…0azv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i actually used NT4 for work, and it was fine. though Windows 2000 was better. 2026-04-02T21:39:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9wpre3wp7nrpmxzdsva8usegaylpankulm0w3r7g7muw8z8vyfxczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqm5ppau remember those few years in the 90s when every version of Windows was actually better than the one before it? 2026-04-02T21:35:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9pv7kyesp78xx3xetad9mjjrqy6wt3204cvnl6jgyqnhdngnslwczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq5gjwk9 if it doesn&#39;t cost *you* anything, it&#39;s not a sacrifice. if it costs *someone else* something, it&#39;s just a theft. 2026-03-30T20:37:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw463tdtl6l8jml2f9kcu8cq4qrzc28e2skl9f6ha76adrjksufjczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqm8x02k i think we need to coin the phrase &#34;Linux helpful&#34;, along the same lines as &#34;Minnesota nice&#34;, to cover that range of responses that certain Linux boys will give instead of *just answering the damn question that was asked*... 2026-03-25T22:56:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lkgqhcp70a5a0j6p0uvwpddgyx7rk45lnue7xx689x02ndq8xwgzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqdq0lsy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrcvah9t97taezt349xh9qgpkd3s9fyad2699vjjs934gr99rwwlqca5g25'>nevent1q…5g25</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>for genuinely compute-intensive tasks like weather forecasting (or fluid dynamics, or... basically anything someone wrote a lot of Fortran for), then newer is probably better, to a point - because generally speaking the deadline dictates the performance required, and what matters is getting that level of performance at the minimum environmental cost. and in general, newer computers deliver a given level of performance at a lower power consumption than older computers. (though the cost of creating those newer machines is a confounding factor.)<br/><br/>build farms, though? surely they are only really necessary because programming languages, and programming as a whole, have departed so far from the whole idea of frugality! they&#39;re more or less the poster child for solving a problem that should never have come into existence in the first place 2026-03-24T14:23:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs88ms2mjupxycz2w7xep0ruvm7ey7gsvnwjp5qjeyh2nuszy5aeugzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqstqjhn the answer to &#34;why can&#39;t we have nice things?&#34; is always the same.<br/><br/>Capitalism.<br/><br/>Capitalism is why we can&#39;t have nice things. 2026-03-21T23:49:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszpu7cr9a6hyf7ssszsjta0pdxuk38a3akpayhklrr5wq2eqp9erczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqvkxk94 my bottom line: if i have the freedom to smash it back into sand, there is literally no excuse for preventing me from doing whatever the fuck else i want with it. 2026-03-19T23:27:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqste46r80cu6wrqldl0xvmqarvuh68jaau7mzwz5u6qh34x0apfcaczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqk9grdl ****throws*** *something at the makko folks** for telling everyone how small their system is and how it&#39;ll run on anything and *then only supplying fucking 64 bit builds of it*<br/><br/>you fuckwits, if you&#39;d made 32-bit static builds, they&#39;d run just fine on 64-bit machines... but i can&#39;t do shit with an x64 binary :-( 2026-03-14T21:39:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx3dy9ves8ter272ewlrr39c6cy24luvjrv7m7633xt2c8v0q0rfqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq0gjla8 i have an extra loud, extra special FUCK YOU for websites that break *cursor keys* 2026-03-07T18:13:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs03cdsdra8gx2nt7p5q0dvlm2cvr6mqt5aw3myy5uxf5ndape4fwqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq03pdcf &gt; my life has been reduced from &gt; **being perhaps the best engineer in the world**&gt; to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library<br/>&gt; -- Kent Overstreet [&gt; *emphasis mine*&gt; ]<br/><br/>...wait, the what?! <br/><br/>....ahh. i think i might know what&#39;s happened here 2026-02-26T19:29:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf98mwcjad0w6e48vmfel9gaymdgp8h2alms9ttxsstk2dm3pnl6gzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqgnz5pk the irony is that a digital simulation of an analogue computer is much cheaper and more reliable than an analogue computer itself. that, after all, is why digital ended up ruling the roost in the first place.<br/><br/>that and memory. 2026-02-25T13:02:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8wxj0k8ue8ffrd6sacs2tvw4vkdqd5mcaq6w02f9fgx8x53ms99czyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqrtsg0s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq96aw5s9f4vu0pgpcfjyp240k54rzqpdcxr8uwt2a3llff5maj6qgtsh5t'>nevent1q…sh5t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s like seeing Jesus in a tortilla, i think, or a face in wallpaper stains - humans *desperately* want to see sapience in things, even things that can&#39;t possibly be sapient 2026-02-23T21:24:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszkvmkyfkuu2sj78246876cewald4f27uhmjx2d6707v9vhl8nnaszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqqqr3w2 the petrochemical industry regards solar panels as an existential threat. let&#39;s all, as a society, club together to prove them right.<br/><br/>the best place for a solar panel is literally anywhere there isn&#39;t already a solar panel. (except above croplands, and even then i&#39;m sure someone&#39;s working on / successfully solved that.) 2026-02-21T17:06:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfp5ush2rw3ugyyxp5z0kj5ntxzm7hjrc65ucwxwdkttsls6n5duszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqw32h59 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgftm060sxmhdmzunsn70tjzac5kv7hr634smuhfa3r97k8s07m3qsq0rjl'>nevent1q…0rjl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>on the bright side, when they all go bust at once in 18 months RAM is going to be *sooo fucking cheap* 2026-02-20T18:24:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfwt00v8d0mev5u6dnlpwfj39hlrsmufwtgyy9m08wspmcu9fpt4czyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqxaevlc i wish i could allow myself to be crap enough at something to learn to be good at it 2026-02-20T17:05:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8cvc5aufpry40h46wkfxn88phlkhsaxnn8tg33wydz99j06f5uczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqdr4ayy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqgqwn3lujhr6h7xusn9t4sesu6tmcm08lq25ufwpc0hhyxf7cvlqn9dk05'>nevent1q…dk05</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you probably know about these papers from Henry Baker, back in the day, but i&#39;ll leave them here in case others don&#39;t<br/><br/>where it started:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LinearLisp.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LinearLisp.html</a><br/><br/>some practical examples:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LQsort.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LQsort.html</a><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LFrpoly.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LFrpoly.html</a><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LBoyer.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LBoyer.html</a><br/><br/>after corresponding with Chuck Moore:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/ForthStack.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/ForthStack.html</a><br/><br/>a proposal:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/Use1Var.html">https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/Use1Var.html</a> 2026-02-20T03:55:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsres8cm0faxhas4jy4qxw950tly90s44se8nqrflc4g9lzhdl0zhszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq9nhxpn oh dear.<br/><br/>Mullvad: &#34;hi British TV companies, please screen our ad&#34;<br/><br/>TV companies: &#34;you need to go through Clearcast&#34;<br/><br/>Mullvad: &#34;hi Clearcast, please vet our ad&#34;<br/><br/>Clearcast: &#34;it&#39;s a bit vague, isn&#39;t it? what&#39;s the point you&#39;re making ? and are you sure you want to reinforce the link between illegal activity and VPNs?&#34;<br/><br/>Mullvad: &#34;CENSORSHIP! WE&#39;VE BEEN CENSORED!&#34;<br/><br/>🤦‍♀️ 2026-02-18T18:29:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqy0dwczpssc73esm2hf22w8dycc0vg04qkmfafvrewmgqv3m6weszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq3fcvjg fascists always operate under the delusion that you can murder people into respecting you. 2026-02-17T18:12:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswer682mla5vdfl4k6lgy2dsjj7t55qtgk5mpl4nvgmt2xhz3l8uszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqnqge6x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx9mmg8s7a659dxkn7qn9chxcrpxum4zuh6yg4yfvgkt34tkdfflc8234yh'>nevent1q…34yh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>need to vent 2026-02-12T15:34:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstupppv9gmqter3ehsxxf4n4lv6e0s3dn0mrgl8q75ahwh7mdwa3czyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq0fzluj for what it&#39;s worth, i can see both sides of the command line vs gui argument. my preference is for a command line, but i wouldn&#39;t dream of forcing that on folk who prefer guis.<br/><br/>where i draw the line is having any - ANY - of my - OR ANYONE ELSE&#39;S - personal preferences described as &#34;creepy&#34; or &#34;fetish&#34;. THAT SHIT IS JUST HURTFUL. it&#39;s othering. it&#39;s schoolyard bullshit. and if you don&#39;t get that, you need to fuck off until you do.<br/><br/>but it&#39;s one thing to actually do that, and quite another to come white-knighting into an argument on the behalf of someone who did. in a way that really *is* fucking creepy. 2026-02-12T15:32:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqufpqajn3609zrzmcmlxqsh66rju0vaqqcqdswafr4wsy5uz4e2czyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqhlutyj i love the way mastodon and firefox have teamed up to ensure the standard interface has the *worst possible interactions* of both of their issues 2026-01-28T23:01:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv4l3aakcjdpffazxvypsvawd7lewkkk6nlprhpal84jrht82wauczyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqnqu9ga wh... what did i just watch 2026-01-21T02:45:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswg566rxwn270hljvapuuusu0my7tzc2d07wjuzyq56jfxcsa829szyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqc9e8kq ooh, earl grey tea is actually rather nice (when it&#39;s not too strong). i understand much more about TNG now 2026-01-17T21:36:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97mwyrmykef5xd3ned0at0t3rc27udd8gtmzam4l0l2tey3sv59szyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqheeerj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsysawp6tmt5h3wwdc6u2qrrhhuq667fxwglea3c2k05gyts9ye9vg2mvvnk'>nevent1q…vvnk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how about a bonfire? bonfires are warming and make nice crackling sounds 2026-01-16T19:39:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsteskwdqdza9y9u5sjedf2srah7ttltvlhuyrjstw0vsv3nh0ag7gzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqtds3pu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmwr43jy2p4fyvptwqadlgte8guhtcklkeauwdc28lyul34l6s6qtxqczx'>nevent1q…qczx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh, come now - is it even social media without the occasional dramatic flouncing out? ;-) 2026-01-15T01:51:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsynfwmt8kklf3nnq6rcazf50zyf86n062ksv7jld95rkpuumem24gzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq725dvk somehow i ended up with a Canadian dollar in my change in London... i have no idea where, how, or what coin it shoud have been 2026-01-06T04:12:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy4kv0x8arlmv2wth2arsfe8ufq8dsy6jhg7j9x07355xrfq00ksqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufq48a6sy companies sending spam emails on 25 December really need to re-examine their life choices 2025-12-25T17:18:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst8s9qysrufu06puzq7h3taqfvs73df7cx4djm0nrlg8ds0hw52qqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqlv32r0 &#34;Learning the fundamentals is a waste of time&#34; - um, no, it&#39;s not. unless you&#39;re ok with **waves hands around at everything** all *this*.<br/><br/>people writing software who don&#39;t know the fundamentals have no way of gauging how expensive anything is, or *why* it is that expensive. so they won&#39;t know how to optimise. and when their abstractions leak, as all abstractions inevitably do, they won&#39;t know why, or how to deal with that.<br/><br/>also, if you&#39;re driving at 200km/h, you had *better* understand the fundamentals of how cars work, at least. and yes, how engines, gears, etc work. otherwise you&#39;re an unsafe, irresponsible fool in danger of making a run for a Darwin award.<br/><br/>Jonathan Daniel, in short, is an asshat, and i want nothing to do with any product he has any involvement in. 2025-12-23T17:04:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvgdfl88hn6twzc2rxwg6rsz0q880esg4xcnvcv84qlfm4256x0aszyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqkgghaf and now Nigel Fascist is falling back on the &#34;it was just a joke!&#34; defence for being a hideous fucking racist literally his entire life<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-denies-saying-anything-racist-with-malice-as-he-attacks-bbc">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-denies-saying-anything-racist-with-malice-as-he-attacks-bbc</a> 2025-12-04T18:45:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsva0lk3ld5s3k0whmja3tgpcrd2pdyr6kxt9m04djz7prxyw3gm4qzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqsuumdy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyu2x0aedhngj33eu9vg0m4wct8rzwdpud7tjtjuj374mys6mkkes7rw04u'>nevent1q…w04u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; meow.social 69%<br/><br/>nice 2025-12-04T16:57:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0xu53997ksezumdvrdqzu3m486rnc93ta46g54kyxlpdg2tn53pgzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqz3ypwd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd7wvt9rk3ky2pajwx4u2utw3wgdwns9f9w5xfaft4ytaphx7675s82st20'>nevent1q…st20</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>6116? 2KB, under a buck on AliExpress (caveat emptor) 2025-12-04T01:40:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2edgy8t2hsm2hupqld6xsgpa947nvzu09ty4xud5d3e3w8m3mngqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqz7hy8j dear gcc, what the *fuck* is the point of puking out several hundred lines of errors, each with conveniently handy coloured pointers to the precise point on the line where you found the error, to stderr?!<br/><br/>you folks really do hate C coders, don&#39;t you...<br/><br/>just print the first error and then go &#34;yeah, there are other problems but fix that one first and see how you go&#34;, like you used to do. 2025-11-26T23:31:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx2gyq2kwude7r2xtsr8jcjp0vqg9h3078mfa3pe8nk0cjd8cdreqzyp5cklwjuuvajv8qgay0l7ygj28lrvjr6kvgncxy7896klzya0ufqcp3yzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszuxm0j3lvclvk3pxs65mhpjjvny9kyuplfum9huakf6z258rhu8q56hmdh'>nevent1q…hmdh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i dunno. last i heard they&#39;d added AI to Notepad, of all fucking things. but simply the fact that her word processor *keeps interrupting her* - or anyone&#39;s - does nobody at Microsoft USE these abominations they&#39;re foisting on everyone else? and what is this determination in the software industry that nobody should be permitted an attention span longer than that of a sugared-up toddler?! 2025-11-18T23:51:03Z