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supersquirrel

@ supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz

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"No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice." - Clarice Lispector

2mo ago

A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards & The Find Command
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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

If you're contemplating doing something destructive, do a dry-run first.
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio is a WITCH I tell you! This is black magic!!

2mo ago

I released v0.3.0 of my LCARS Star Trek theme/generator for Niagara Launcher

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

oh hell yeah

3mo ago

Can gzip be a language model?

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Subatomic particles are waves of probability.

It is worth looking up the Wave Equation and meditating on the fact that waves are solutions to a problem/set of conditions around conservation of energy.

It is an open ended definition not one that points out a discrete thing.

Surface waves for example such as Rayleigh Waves and Love Waves are solutions to the conservation of energy of a wave that cannot propagate past a free surface and thus energy in that direction must be conserved some other way through the solution of a surface wave.

https://visualpde.com/basic-pdes/wave-equation.html

https://visualpde.com/sim/?preset=waveEquation

^this is really fun I found it by accident because of this post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation

The second derivative (the acceleration) of energy in terms of time t is equal to a constant multiplied by the second derivative of energy in terms of distance x...

It suggests a basic back and forth transformation or equivalence at the heart of it, a wave is a relation embodied within physical constraints.

3mo ago

Can gzip be a language model?

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Everything isn't waves, rather things happen as a summation of all probabilities in a wavefunction unless bounded by imposing factors that force the phenomena of particles... meaning everything perhaps could behave as waves depending on the situation and details. It is the default background tendency until absolute limitations are imposed on a system through measurement or interaction.

3mo ago

Fish Shell 4.8 Improves History Search, Scripting, and Completions

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Well said!

3mo ago

Can gzip be a language model?

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

This is precisely why LLMs and AI are 99% a scam.

AI is the minimum value of a well structured dataset obtained by a destructive, hallucinatory compressor that is MAXIMALLY inefficient with inefficiency increasing nonlinearly as a model gets bigger... while it does demonstrate power, this observation that a well structured, QC'd, properly curated dataset reveals a latent intelligence in good data clearly points to functional programming, relational programming and the profession of the librarian and archivist as the directions where the genesis point of intelligence can be pursued, not these bullshitting AI's which demonstrate a degraded truth in a stupendously hamfisted, wasteful way that sends amateurs looking hopelessly looking in the wrong direction.

In otherwords, the algorithm and model are worthless, costly junk, it is the well structured, large high quality dataset and the humans that maintain and contextualize it that are precious.

Scientists could have told computer people this was true a long time ago if they had listened.

3mo ago

Fish Shell 4.8 Improves History Search, Scripting, and Completions

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Why do people seem to especially like fish?

3mo ago

Favorite open source game?

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.

Xonotic is so fast and smooth.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0

3mo ago

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

annoying note - for the record I quoted this from the article, I didn't write this.

I agree with you though, that is the exact reason I quoted that section because it clarified things for me!

3mo ago

Vi Mo(tiva)tions

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

emacs with vim keybindings is all I need

3mo ago

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Arch is not the only distribution that has a service for providing "use at your own risk", unreviewed, user-submitted content; Fedora has Copr, the openSUSE project has the Open Build Service (OBS), and Ubuntu has Personal Package Archives (PPAs). Each of those services allow a person to sign up without any review process and build packages for download by other users of the distributions.

However, there are important differences between those services and the AUR. They provide a build environment that is similar to the ones used for the official distribution packages, and do not allow pre-built binaries or proprietary software. The model for Copr, OBS, and PPAs is that a user creates a project under their own user namespace; users have to add each repository from one of those services separately.

For example, niri creator Ivan Molodetskikh maintains a Copr repository for Fedora users who want to run the tiling Wayland compositor. To install niri from Copr, a user has to enable that repository specifically. It is possible for other Copr users to create a similar project under their own namespace, but it is not possible for another user to take over Molodetskikh's repository unless they compromise his credentials. A would-be attacker could create a malicious fork on Copr and try to lure Fedora users to add that package repository to their system instead, but the attacker cannot simply pick up an orphaned Copr repository to compromise users who have already added it.

The AUR, on the other hand, is much more relaxed about ownership; the PKGBUILD files are all maintained under the AUR namespace. The rules state that, when a new maintainer takes over an AUR package, they are supposed to add their own information as maintainer and then list the prior maintainers as contributors. That, however, is taken on trust and (as seen with the current attack) can be easily abused.

3mo ago

Double Entry Programming

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

I think double entry accounting is FAR closer to relational programming than the concept of redundancy in checks.

3mo ago

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Why? Water temperature

3mo ago

Enzymes be like

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

I have never seen a human body dismantled by physical violence in front of me, that does not mean I haven't seen absolutely brutal forms of violence.

Homelessness in the US is an act of mass violence against some of the most vulnerable people in society.

3mo ago

Enzymes be like

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

This picture was originally was taken to emphasize the violence of antihomeless architecture in public spaces.

The ridiculous costumes emphasize what you would have to wear to be able to lay down comfortably which kind of does fit the enzyme metaphor.

3mo ago

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

It isn't just that Trump is a dumbass, being uneducated and "stupid" aren't what makes Trump worthy of hatred and endless namecalling. Simply not knowing things does not make you a fascist.

It is the complete lack of curiosity people like Trump have that I despise more than ignorance, it is violently antithetical to the basic reasons I love science and the pursuit of understanding the world. I am curious, I ask questions, I don't just accept shit that people say because they say it a lot.

Trump hates people like me because we can walk all over him on basically any topic whereas people like me hate Trump because he does not desire to know anything beyond what he is forced to know.

3mo ago

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Steel Panthers.

3mo ago

“Management has lost all moral compass”: Android's head of security slams Google's door

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

I always come back to this Christopher Alexander talk from 1996 where he was invited to talk about how his architectural design book inspired Object Oriented Programming and feed into that hype, and instead he basically just flat out told them to grow up and think about WHAT the impact of their work is because he argued programmers have an immense power to shape the future and as far as he could see programmers didn't really seem to give a shit about the WHY at all, it was all about HOW....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QzdKci6OY

So, today, I am standing before you, thinking to myself…right, I'm now talking to people who are in a way the core of the computer revolution. You probably realize, I know you must realize the extent to which the world is gradually now being shaped more and more and more, indirectly, by the efforts of all of you who are sitting in this room—because it is you who control the function of computers and their programs. It is the programs that control the shape of manufacturing, the shape of the transportation industries, construction management, diagnosis in medicine, printing and publishing. You almost can't name a facet of the world which is not already, to some very strong degree, under the influence of the programs that are being written to manage and control those entities or those operations. And this is still in its infancy. How long has this been really going on? Not long. About 10 or 15 years, though of course, the preparation for it goes a lot further back than that. But really this is quite new. It is going to look a whole lot different, even more powerful in its degree of influence.

And yet, as a professional body, I don't think that you are yet fully aware of it. I'm probably speaking out of turn here but, you know, I've thumbed through the proceedings of this conference, for instance. Jim was kind enough to show it to me yesterday. I don't really see discussion about What, collectively, are computer scientists supposed to be doing with all these programs. How are they supposed to help the Earth? And, yet, the capacity to do that is sitting right here in this room. That is an amazing situation. You have so much power.…but that means that you also have an enormous responsibility.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

I am sure at the time most programmers laughed and thought "isn't that quaint what Christopher Alexander is saying, what a quirky dude he kind of sounds a little like a communist!", let the thoughts from the talk fly out of their head forever after waving condescendingly, and turned to focus on the next career climbing move at the conference.

I fear nothing has changed, especially since the US tech industry fantastically failed to unionize in the two decades since and now the industry is likely going to significantly shrink in the US after the AI bubble pops as the few consolidated massive tech companies left fired all their talent to buy a bunch of useless data centers that aren't even built yet and may never be built.

Programmers had a chance to wrestle control of the future away from oligarchs, but instead they became obsessed with playing Factorio with every aspect of society without EVER thinking about what the consequences were or why they were being paid to do what they were doing.

3mo ago

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Clearly this should be called the "Caliper Bug".

3mo ago

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supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Salmon Accelerator