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i've been told recently, that llms have become useful for code review, and after reading the whole thread here, i can't help but remain doubtful.

DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...
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mozilla: "we choose the path of the most capital intensive boondoggle we can't afford"
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Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web

As AI becomes a fundamental component of everything digital, it’s imperative that Mozilla steps in to shape where it goes.
Mark Surman (The Mozilla Blog)
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Glyph

lest we feel superior in *our* ability to clock LLM garbage, this disaster among elites is a microcosm of something even worse that LLMs and their sister technologies of shitcoins and spambots are harbingers of: we *all* have heuristics that we need to use to make sense of the world, and heuristics work because of an implicit presumption of good faith in many interactions. most presumptions can be hacked if some significant plurality of actors in a system are always seeking maximum advantage

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Thank you for your continued support!
Mona 7 will be available later this year as a new app.

Free features will include browsing timelines, posting with photos and videos, favoriting, reposting, and limited customization.

Premium feature pack (supports Family Sharing; works on iPhone/iPad/Mac) will be available for 3 USD per month or 20 USD per year.

If you have Mona Pro Max, the premium feature pack will also be available for just 20 USD as a one-time purchase (limited-time offer).

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Jonathan

Huh what? So now it's no longer one time purchase for features, I have to subscribe? IIRC I have Mona pro, I got the features, no idea how much it was back then but it was fine. But no way I'm subscribing just to use features of such an app. One time purchase, or even pay for big upgrades, fine. But USD per month to, browse Mastodon?
Thanks that I'm on Android at this point and Pachli is free and OSS.
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Už jsem tady psal o tomhle klenotu ve vedlejším městě přes který každý den jezdím do Londýna.
Napadla mě ještě jedna zajímavost.
Jak vidíte, té to vlastně jeden velký kruhový objezd vytvořený pěti malými kruháči.
Ale všimli jste si, že ačkoli ty krajní, malé objezdy jsou tradiční a jezdí se po směru hodinových ručiček, ten vnitřní je opačně - proti směru 😁
Už se vám točí šošolka?

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Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:

I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.

I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.

I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.

I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.

I'm a gamer: Bazzite.

I'm a Mac: Elementary.

I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.

I think rms made some good points: Debian.

I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.

I like South African billionaires: Ubuntu.

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Help to power the servers, tools, and communities making Mastodon a safe, independent home for free expression. ​

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Donate to Mastodon

Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!
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Some criticism of people using AI is just mean. Just saw a post that said:

> Instead of using AI images to illustrate your blogpost or presentation, why not go deep into the forest, lie down in a pile of autumn leaves and allow the earth to consume your body

Seriously? You know, not everyone is as immersed in all of the things that are wrong with AI as we are. Some people are just trying to get by in the system of incentives that they didn't create.

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Matt Campbell

@threlm4280 Yes, there are probably people who hate AI for the reason you described. I want to push back on this point though:

> I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it?

There are in fact better criticisms of current AI products. They're trained on basically all of the work of all humanity (or as much as the AI companies could get their hands on), without the consent of the people who did the work, for the explicit purpose of replacing labor. Worth thinking about.

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PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…

#gmail #AI


Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out | Malwarebytes

A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
#AI #GMail

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I can't believe I didn't share with you all about the hard slap I received few days ago.

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#Reaper #ReaperFM #Daw #Audio #Blogging #Learning


The Reaper Slap

Last night, a man named Justin Frankel walked into my living room. He came in uninvited and just slapped me hard.
Sharan
#audio #blogging #learning #reaper #daw #reaperfm

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The #chatmail #rust core is the base infrastructure library used by all apps and bots. It contains all networking, encryption, email processing and implements all the relevant IETF email standards. It's a single central development place with which the whole ecosystem of clients and bots can upgrade consistently.

We are constantly trying to remove code, and to cleanup things. That's a must to keep a 8-year long evolved code base agile and adaptable. Key insight: The best code is no code ;)

screenshot of Overview at https://github.com/chatmail/core/pulse 103 active pull requests, 63 active issues 90 merged pull requests, 13 open pull reqwuests 40 closed issues 23 new issues
"trade offer meme"| with a guy folding his hands, below the following text in two columns: i receive: PR review you receive: PR review
#rust #chatmail
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Delta Chat

two other things that can't be stressed enough for maintaining development long-term:

- Avoid superflous abstractions. Premature abstractions are the root of all ... complexity. If you have a second and third case, you can introduce an abstraction, but even then: don't over-abstract!

- write tests for everything, especially for the API that you want to guarantee to others. The chatmail core library just passed 1000 automated tests. The users of your API, and their users will thank you.

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Mikalai

But when your abstraction splits out part of the system, allowing richer life to it, while simplifying the rest, then entertain it.
Example, past delta's post talked about goodness and richness that little apps bring, versus monolith-style addition of features in signal, recent announcements. This is a good abstraction, even though many would've walked from it.
Food for thought.
Short haiku/koan doesn't replace wisdom and elaboration, it only highlights it.
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"The problem is, right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.

I spent a week with Copilot, asking it the same questions Microsoft has in its ads, and tried to get help with tasks I’d find useful. And time after time, Copilot got things wrong, made stuff up, and spoke to me like I was a child.

Copilot Vision scans what’s on your screen and tries to assist you with voice prompts. Invoking Copilot requires you to share your screen like you’re on a Teams call, by hitting okay Every. Single. Time. After it gets your permission, it’s excruciatingly slow to respond, and it addressed me by name every time I asked it anything. Like other AI assistants and LLMs, it’s here to please, even when it’s totally misguided."

theverge.com/report/822443/mic…

#AI #GenerativeAI #Microsoft #Windows11 #Copilot #CopilotAI #LLMs #AIAssistants


Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?
Antonio G. Di Benedetto (The Verge)
#Windows11 #microsoft #AI #copilot #generativeAI #LLMs #copilotai #aiassistants

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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork…

#InteractiveFiction #Zork

Zork is now open source

Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew up with the first home computers and fondly ...
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#interactivefiction #zork

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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

Link: malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out | Malwarebytes

A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
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