2026-04-16T17:02:48Z https://yabu.me Cassandra is only carbon now https://yabu.me/npub1hzvzdrx8mnxqy9m4xupkce4krf564qac2yfpupw9w80r88z8zkxsw5lzy3 https://stockroom.wandering.shop/accounts/avatars/109/604/192/683/321/627/original/9b735fdf5d0b6834.png https://stockroom.wandering.shop/accounts/avatars/109/604/192/683/321/627/original/9b735fdf5d0b6834.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs20aapnq484lg424t06nasmyn5vyw94n7vnyg87cvtc8vl0dnp52szyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6ykvgaj No, opposing LLMs isn&#39;t &#34;purity culture.&#34; I&#39;ve seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying. 2026-02-20T22:08:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr7gkxu73hqd9a253qzfdlkcnfm8vf4kmt8ud5xyrdslr9cwftd0gzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6n3ep9z Had an interesting conversation about how to represent villains in media, partly prompted by a fictional story that wound up accidentally being about Charlie Kirk, despite having come out well before the shooting.<br/><br/>But still, it&#39;s an interesting thing to reflect on sometimes: how do you make a character so abjectly terrible that no one will root for them? 2025-09-22T03:32:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs03r42ra43frk8tyk933ftqfdlev5paaqhvcpcv6p5qd5llelhyqszyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6dykh4t Maybe one of these days I&#39;ll be foolish enough to write a longer post about it, but *wow* did the protocol discourse last month ever leave me still more sour on ATProto than I was before — and that was even before Bsky-the-company went to bat for Kirk.<br/><br/>Obviously, you do you, but I definitely came away from that discourse with the understanding that work on ATProto is, until something substantial changes, concentrating power in corporate hands. 2025-09-15T07:37:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9z22trph5gf8nyr4c8qcl38s4s6fhtqdtxqstzneuvcs8gackqpqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6cls4ex This is Bluesky&#39;s moderation policy, in case anyone is wondering why I want nothing to do with Bluesky PBLLC, ATProto, the whole mess.<br/><br/>(source: sent by someone I know via a private Discord server, shared with their permission)<br/> <img src="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/187/988/701/945/328/original/dad66c11ec341707.png"> <br/> 2025-09-11T22:21:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf5mj334w9wc2u4j2ardljjcqv4ndgw584t6cuz7grdy979wjswmgzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c63yuv08 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswlm3z5j8hsj2jp9hfjg4ha6t2557wn2uzmrmua72czpd0mh2pydg2q27ru'>nevent1q…27ru</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just fuck it. Fuck C, fuck C++, fuck that whole gatekeeping culture. 2025-08-18T23:18:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswxguraecka2uq2qfwuh0wmhnr8kttfu2lzn6xkvrqzw2c8wnkm4czyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6ymhyfw Of all things in fediverse culture, the one that will always get to me is that shitting on Rust is such a sure fire way of getting boosts. The tech gatekeeping on here is sadly very real. 2025-08-18T23:15:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxnf57ur02l4z4xy3zdjmpp29qh8zqe0s8kcyzcx78qtwelhgc64qzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c60cz946 I understand, but I don&#39;t understand, how approximately ten anti-feminist reactionary women can bring every major credit card company into line with their hatred of all things horny and/or queer. 2025-07-24T19:09:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2yl8srermy8kyjarpy9rs4pyfalp3dq89tw532q849c99fpmespczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6llcthn God damn it, why the fuck is Jupyter pulling this shit?<br/><br/><a href="https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/details.html#llm-suggestions">https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/details.html#llm-suggestions</a> 2025-07-15T23:35:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd9266tv6fa4fp2cnv2uqudzfqn5y35sg8drs56ewy2wrd4kfh0lczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6qg7wpc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstf8mz7kfz6cw5tm5ls3v5r8vzx8pzqhd40k74n22zyx7pcls5dnqlp363y'>nevent1q…363y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>uncertainty being epistemic: you don&#39;t know the truth about something, but there is a definite answer that you could in principle learn<br/><br/>uncertainty being ontic: the actual underlying truth is itself uncertain.<br/><br/>Pretty much all uncertainty you will run into in your own personal life is of the first kind. There is an answer you could in principle know, but for whatever reason don&#39;t currently know. 2025-07-13T16:58:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstf8mz7kfz6cw5tm5ls3v5r8vzx8pzqhd40k74n22zyx7pcls5dnqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c690qwmk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgjj72z6gemllvequgeuymf9gdslugeachmqwnhyjzasv5xhngclc4xhw8u'>nevent1q…hw8u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am begging people to please find a second analogy for uncertainty.<br/><br/>(Setting aside that *the whole point* of Schrödinger&#39;s cat is that uncertainty in quantum measurements is ontic, not epistemic, a conclusion he found unpalatable and thus decided to mock.) 2025-07-13T16:53:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgjj72z6gemllvequgeuymf9gdslugeachmqwnhyjzasv5xhngclczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6fa4wfk No. Schrödinger&#39;s cat isn&#39;t a thought experiment that makes any goddamned sense. It was designed (by a serial pedophile, no less) to be confusing and ridiculous.<br/><br/>Just drop it. You do not need Schrödinger&#39;s cat to make sense of anything, not sexual assault (e.g. &#34;Schrödinger&#39;s rapist&#34;), not the genocide taking place in Gaza, not even quantum mechanics itself.<br/><br/>You will be better off just explaining what you mean than hanging onto a pedophile&#39;s shitpost. 2025-07-13T16:50:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswjxs0xwfsxksl5um25uh9r09h4aeu8vvcl0qp4y26spm392rnwuqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c68dr9jt Oh, fuck, Zoom updated. 2025-06-30T19:00:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8faw9cz5xgcv9jg2mvrva4mt2fh3gzuknf0s9utra0flkr0vjzuczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c678j5nh I&#39;ll never cease to be amazed and horrified at people who are more upset about a burning dumpster or a few burning robotaxis than sweeping someone&#39;s entire livelihood into the trash, disappearing and kidnapping people of color off the streets, or straight up murdering Black people. Property damage is not the same as violence against living, breathing people, and folks need to get some real perspective. Like yesterday. 2025-06-12T18:08:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2e94vaqjr0ygjqdq0l6k0g7r0a9hrm9f2qdrdcfwky7u4wtfsfaczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6rr5q9v Thesis: ChatGPT is destroying education, students keep using it to cheat on homework and exams.<br/>Antithesis: ChatGPT has no understanding of facts or semantics.<br/><br/>Synthesis: Homework and exams don&#39;t measure understanding of facts or semantics, and can be fooled by plausible-sounding bullshit. 2025-05-19T18:03:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhzkquch5gp27ks9m4xs4rg8fhqaw4w7spk5ymutwruxn3zmk82szyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6sm809e Why does Discord look entirely different again? 2025-04-10T22:41:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs99wzfqwr6qp4xxnz4h6wj5qlphq6thvj5xxvxwap8888dns5ye3qzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6rzavzh If you run a program that&#39;s deterministic, then by definition, your experiences with that program will be typical of its expected behavior. There&#39;s some important nuance there about making sure that the input you provide is the input you mean to provide, hence reproducible builds, containerization, etc.<br/><br/>But still, that&#39;s by contrast with programs whose behavior is inherently stochastic. There, it&#39;s easy to fool yourself into believing the program &#34;works&#34; when you just got lucky. 2025-03-25T06:51:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqmyhum466a6eq43evyurf8rejlkfjrzdu0asufujfhfwhp0snvjgzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c630m3u2 The English language can, at a rough cut, be divided into several groups of words:<br/><br/>• Those words I can spell correctly.<br/>• Those words I can spell surprisingly correctly.<br/>• Words I get about 50/50 on.<br/>• Words I can never spell right, but can always get close enough for spellcheck.<br/>• Words for which spellcheck completely gives up on me, and for which I need to find some Wikipedia page mentioning the word so that I can copy and paste it. 2025-03-16T02:15:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9phwsnpk53afvagrfg222l9qv3vw9v37qkup30knuja3txpgqnyszyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6s3qksy Because I&#39;m [REDACTED], instead of doing what I need to be doing, I just went down an almost hour-long rabbithole on Wikipedia about voting systems.<br/><br/>It really strikes me that the idea that voting systems should accurately represent the opinions of the majority is just taken as sacrosanct. 2025-03-04T17:06:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstkxky7r3qnu7d8na7u4jatrvlc9sv5ah9j583n9h8cuk9fwr8n4gzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c68gzyc0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswuskgxsnyvwy808y9dtt2wlusfn97fcr0uza3f63zr8u2m7wc42gwytcnh'>nevent1q…tcnh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I could dissect why; perhaps the FOSS movement could have better prepared for this moment if the Right to Read had instead been the Right to Make Art, the Right to E-mail Your Friends, or the Right to Be Trans Online.<br/><br/>But ultimately, there&#39;s grief under it all. It&#39;s not praxis, it doesn&#39;t help us survive this moment, to reflect on what could have been. It is human, though, and I will posit that it&#39;s OK to grieve that. Perhaps I&#39;m just being selfish because I do grieve it. Still. 2025-02-08T20:48:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswuskgxsnyvwy808y9dtt2wlusfn97fcr0uza3f63zr8u2m7wc42gzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6mqhpdq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqk553lxufgvvaxduk7ehyeqq9fe9768xahfndplyjqpukl8rsfwsgxz30v'>nevent1q…z30v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I grieve it because what we lost is what we so desperately need right now, in this moment. A fascist movement has successfully compromised huge swaths of human communication, including both social media and person-to-person communications — but we&#39;ve lost so much of the resilience of the pre–Web 2.0 world. 2025-02-08T20:45:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqk553lxufgvvaxduk7ehyeqq9fe9768xahfndplyjqpukl8rsfwszyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6xs588c The internet has come so far and changed so much in my lifetime, but I also grieve almost every day for what we&#39;ve lost along that journey.<br/><br/>Decentralized networks used to be the default, from IRC to Usenet. When they were centralized, adversarial interop allowed things like Trillian and Pidgin to flourish. So much more used to be client-side, so that you owned your data in a meaningful way. Perhaps most importantly, it used to be much easier to put your stuff on the web. 2025-02-08T20:43:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspzdlhxg0jylews92j3h5n6qtdah5s72gyj2ul5h5tapamw7xrsrqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6t24zmg No messaging app on a phone can be more secure than the phone itself, so why bother with Signal?<br/><br/>This is why threat modelling is so important: there are absolutely a *lot* of threats that Signal protects you against, even on a phone that leaks too much data to Apple and Google.<br/><br/>It is both true that Signal is very worth it, *and* that to get the most out of it across the most threat models, your phone itself should be as secured as you reasonably can get it.<br/><br/> <a href="https://kind.social/@EnfysBook/113958146467673520">https://kind.social/@EnfysBook/113958146467673520</a> 2025-02-07T05:09:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw8q98830ywxm62wzengw448re8au4hruzz5yg9x8y5vspz3x9x0gzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6nmghls In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv2tm7tal5ew8rfuvhmjw5ec7ure0wme0l7trmwdf040a70axztzqzs8saj'>nevent1q…8saj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At the same time, it is still amusing and can, I argue, serve to inoculate people on the sidelines against some kinds of fascist rhetoric. Building morale and solidarity doesn&#39;t win arguments, and doesn&#39;t defeat fascists, but it&#39;s also not nothing. Pointing out absurdity is a tool, one that is wildly overestimated by liberals, but it is a tool nonetheless.<br/><br/>(2/2) 2025-01-31T20:04:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv2tm7tal5ew8rfuvhmjw5ec7ure0wme0l7trmwdf040a70axztzqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6vvpg9a Generalizing something I said in replies, but I have read many times and definitely understand why it&#39;s not effective to call out intellectual inconsistencies on the part of fascists.<br/><br/>As per Sartre, &#34;they know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.&#34;<br/><br/>(1/2) 2025-01-31T20:02:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg5ej9qau06ekepe0lvdjgv4xm5srfvg8rc33necqd5hwa52tl72gzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6r455gm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2kh36pf5r6c3pvrkwkqx7fgppk95wwmhlh9gtfa27m8haas023ls0d2f8r'>nevent1q…2f8r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It is, unfortunately, the best option I&#39;ve found so far. I share your sighs, in any case. 2025-01-23T02:22:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw5wxctv6wghn7e99cyuwm4ettuvgmrzyy4sun08ne6refhj56wdczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6dw5ds3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxyks9ehql0p243j0c0rwa76cg8cwzrhr4ang02dfegrxryv6nzvgeta49a'>nevent1q…a49a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like how do you go from &#34;here&#39;s why microbenchmarks are important for detecting performance regressions&#34; to &#34;yolo, lets add an ouija board to every node in our server farm&#34; in twelve months? 2025-01-20T06:03:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxyks9ehql0p243j0c0rwa76cg8cwzrhr4ang02dfegrxryv6nzvgzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6n3sp6r This is absolutely the least important thing about the whole AI fad, but it is very surreal watching the same software engineers who harped on about unit vs integration vs regression testing, TDD, matrix builds in CI, error telemetry, and everything else they said helped make reliable and correct software all collectively going &#34;ah, fuck it,&#34; and trusting everything to a broken game of Boggle. 2025-01-20T06:02:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyvczfskllw0zaqrgg0arsrtp3s3zl968xtkexcdr9twrqzkepzvczyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6rf79w8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyhzth4shyyfy33v0ec5zda6msf0wekj0uumajzkgc2ce6esctlysrses69'>nevent1q…es69</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s been a few days, with a lot of misunderstanding in replies. That&#39;s on me for not communicating my point effectively, so let me expand on and clarify.<br/><br/>Suppose you encounter &#34;HTML isn&#39;t a real programming language&#34; as an example of gatekeeping people out of tech. It&#39;s a real and really awful canard that techbros use, even now.<br/><br/>Very roughly, you can respond in one of two ways:<br/><br/>• Expand the definition of &#34;programming language&#34;<br/>• Challenge the idea that programming is necessary to be in tech 2025-01-17T17:45:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdcxe5pqnfzqk6yy40xz5xv2s4fu8q62yghsfugnppmjppd5yrcdqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6gkwp52 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstl43vpps8xtpaw2rxlq35pj6tevqtkpthmlp75sxrv58us0agexs3u5dmg'>nevent1q…5dmg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That also begs the question of *which* Portishead album? They&#39;re all very different from each other! 2025-01-16T00:40:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstl43vpps8xtpaw2rxlq35pj6tevqtkpthmlp75sxrv58us0agexszyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6lquh7f The Stranger is always there with the news you somehow never really needed to know, but also kind of did.<br/><br/>Never change, Stranger. Never change.<br/> <img src="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/835/236/213/120/381/original/d7482e673f715c91.png"> <br/> 2025-01-16T00:37:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsge5fuyq89nyjhlfl9jyu3etwse85p4t9sxc2jdnckamcjza9r2nqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c624n5r6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfvrs92mka7cwhgl0xunjcpq798h2scrxznzakhntgyexa75s2pkgtaxsa3'>nevent1q…xsa3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AI grifters have basically invented a new &#34;fact,&#34; that LLMs can be &#34;programmed,&#34; and built a whole epistemological chain to back that up. Where does that leave non-experts trying to critically evaluate AI claims?z 2025-01-15T22:29:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfvrs92mka7cwhgl0xunjcpq798h2scrxznzakhntgyexa75s2pkgzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6gnawrl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr0xh76s0l3xg9zfwqj5pjjem9700as6zjswky52lw9w4x2vrusdqkgfxrr'>nevent1q…fxrr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s another way that AI grifting is a bleak mirror of earlier &#34;intelligent design&#34; grifting. Academic publishing is a complete disaster, and at the same time, is held up by institutions like Wikipedia as a marker of scientific legitimacy — and to some degree, rightly so. After all, there&#39;s not a better system already out there that people outside of a field can use to evaluate knowledge within a field.<br/><br/>So we&#39;re left with a situation where someone can just piss in the knowledge pool. 2025-01-15T22:27:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr0xh76s0l3xg9zfwqj5pjjem9700as6zjswky52lw9w4x2vrusdqzyzufsf5vclwvcqshw5msxmrxkcdxn25rhpg3y8s9c4cauvuugu2c6dyq49x One more thought on the whole Wikipedia / &#34;prompt engineering&#34; thing: AI marketers have abused the absolute hell out of weaknesses in the academic publishing system in order to manufacture the idea that &#34;prompt engineering&#34; is real.<br/><br/>Namely, preprints exist due to extensive problems in peer review and for-profit publishing. It&#39;s become the standard in many nascent fields where for-profit publishing has less of a chokehold.<br/><br/>But then AI grifters capitalize on that to just say whatever they like. 2025-01-15T22:24:42Z