Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.

No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.

But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.

Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.

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Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.

*braces for backlash*

#AI #LLMs

#AI #LLMs

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you forgot “99.99% of the people doing it don’t need to, are only doing it because of peer pressure, would be better served by literally any other tool, are setting enormous piles of current and future money on fire for a capability they have next to no need for, don’t know how to use, and that in the infinitesimally unlikely event they run into a situation that actually requires it will fail them spectacularly, while (relatively) vastly under-resourced people operating (relatively) antiquated equipment but with skill, experience and care will, ironically, leave them far behind and accelerate away from something that barely registered as a pothole compared to the terrain they’ve spent a lifetime learning to navigate”

And a bit of a #sewing update

The three initial cockades have been actually finished, and I still want to make another couple to write instructions for two more centrepiece variants. Technically I could just make the centrepieces, since they are the only pictures I need, but completionist, I guess?

Meanwhile, I've picked back up the victorian vampire shirt, and it's closer to being finished than I remembered. These couple of days I've made all of the buttonholes (just 7) and finished the sleeves, and now the only things missing are attaching the sleeves to the body, and hemming half of the bottom edge (which I'll either do during my next confcall, or at the very end of the project, whichever comes first).

And I've also done some flossing on one (1) boning channel on the corset. That corset that has been worn a few times already.

And I've found at least one new sewing project I want to make (for which I already have almost all materials (I need to check if I have suitable sewing thread).

I was in the living room, putting back the (black) cover on the couch, I thought “I could do with a bit more light”, so I went to the office, opened a shell, run mosquitto_pub with a bit of json, and then back to the living room to see the LED bars turn from cycling rainbow to full white

and then when I finished doing stuff on the couch I went back to the office, and set the LED bars back to cycling rainbow

that's the normal way to deal with smart home stuff, right?

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@cate la maggior parte dei miei device sono degli ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo con attaccati dei sensori, che mandano i valori via mqtt in modo abbastanza grezzo e vengono letti da uno script python tenuto assieme con la duct tape che li salva in un rrd e genera dei grafici (visualizzati in una pagina html statico).

poi c'è la barra a LED RGB + W¹, controllata da un altro ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo che riceve comandi in un json custom, e ho intenzione di metterne in giro almeno un altra

poi abbiamo due (2) prese smart che inviano i dati di consumo in un formato compatibile con HA, ma ancora non ho avuto tempo di leggerli e farci cose, e una non è ancora neanche stata attaccata (sono state comprate per decidere quale sia il primo frigo da cambiare, poi non so se le useremo ancora)

prima o poi ho intenzione di cambiare il modo in cui gli ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo mandano i dati, per renderlo compatibile con HA e tutto il resto del mondo, e di scrivere qualcosa per leggerli che abbia un po' meno duct tape.

¹ nel senso che sono una striscia RGB e una strisca W comprate separatamente, incollate sulla stessa base di alluminio e controllate dallo stesso device

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Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

If you are using Arch Linux and aur, here is a list of malicious packages found until now: md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA

#archlinux #cachyos #manjaro

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I will post on the blog about it later in the month (hopefully), but if anybody has a pressing need to make a cockade with multiple colours, say with a deadline in June, I've just published my instructions

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

(they do look finished in the pictures, dont' they? yeah, they aren't. I'm still sewing the backs, but nobody needs to know about it :D )

#sewing #pride

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"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.

To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."

This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.

lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

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#TIL

"… languages were written on a tablet of stone using a chisel. Since most people are naturally right-handed, they would hold a hammer with the right hand and a chisel with the left. … That’s why you find most older languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi) written from right to left.

When ink was invented, … writing from left to right became more preferable in many parts of the world since this method avoided smudging ink."

Source: writingbeginner.com/are-arabic…

#TIL
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@Deborah Preuss, pcc that phrase feels off

the oldest writing system, cuneiform, was written first and foremost by pressing a stylus on clay, with carving in stone reserved for exceptionally important documents.

Hieroglyphs followed soon afterwards, and indeed some of the earliest examples are carved in stone, but they are also small bits of text in the middle of a decorative design, and there are also similar examples that are painted on pottery, which would only require one hand.

Chinese oracle bone script were, like the name says, carved in softer material (bone).

And I don't know whether we know on what surface Maya script started, and I suspect that if it was done on perishable materials we'll never know, because the climate there is quite different from that of Egypt.

And the direction of writing of those early examples varied wildly, even in the same script, with left to right, right to left, top to bottom and even boustrophedon.

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@valhalla @deborahh

The Sumerians, then the Egyptians, but it's the Phoenicians or the Etruscans who first had an alphabet* as we know it, and they wrote right to left. Then the Greeks adopted the letters but wrote them backwards, left to right.

superprof.com/blog/why-are-sem…

Romans (much later) also wrote on wax tablets for everyday notes. I mean, who had time to carve everything in stone?

*The word 'alphabet' is from their first two letters, aleph or alif (cow), and beth (house)

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@CelloMom On Cars @Deborah Preuss, pcc afaik the proto-sinaitic script was still written in both directions (including changing direction on alternate lines), and so were the early greek and italic (including etruscan) texts, settling on a standard direction happened a bit later, and it ended up being the opposite direction between Semitic languages and Greek + the linguistic mess that was Italy.

I'm not sure whether there has been any research on why it happened this way, or if it was a random chance (which sounds pretty likely, considering that the writing mediums were pretty similar in both places).

boustrophedic and right-to-left inscriptions from the pre-roman iron age are quite common in the museums of northern Italy, even if the alphabet they were using was definitely derived from the Greek one (probably after going through the Etruscans, as they were the local prestige civilization at the time)

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@CelloMom On Cars @Deborah Preuss, pcc also, wikipedia tells me that the oldest find of a probably-wax-tablet was in a shipwreck of the coast of contemporary Turkey from the 14th century BC, which is pretty cool!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun…

(probably. after a few millennia in the sea I think there was no wax left on the tablet, and I have no access to the article to read the details and see how confident they are that it was actually one)

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"Hello, requesting donation for cover cost of previous AI agent use in dn42. aws bill 6531,30$. pls send donation to ethereum 0xABC (masked) for refund. thank you"

lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-…

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From the WTAF dept:

Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.

tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.

"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."

socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulu…

IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.

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CERCO COINQUILIN3 IN AREA URBANA DI BOLOGNA DA AGOSTI 2026 A NOVEMBRE 2027

La casa è del tutto arredata, collegata coi mezzi, illuminata benissimo e ha un cappotto termico che funziona, la stanza è abbastanza grande e senza il caos radioattivo di coinquimerda pure carina, l'affitto è 300 euro al mese a testa più bollette variabili ma comunque basse, il proprietario non sa fare il suo lavoro e vorrei abitare con gente che non maltratta la mia gatta e non è transfobica dunque ci provo io

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Nelle ultime settimane mi è venuta la scimmia per il cucito! Lo scopo finale sarebbe riuscire a sviluppare competenze tali da permettermi di creare costumi e vestiti.
Ora, essendo io un totale neofita, se qualcuno se ne intendesse abbastanza da darmi indicazioni, da cosa dovrei partire?

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People have strange heroic ideas about the Viking Period. The reason is that they specifically read *heroic* literature, much of it written as historical semi-fiction hundreds of years later. It's like basing your ideas about the 1100s on Walter Scott.

Viking Period archaeology in Scandinavia is deeply unheroic. It concerns itself overwhelmingly with the non-Viking activities of farmers.

Most runestones deal with modest land inheritance.

#viking #history

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If somebody else is stuck cursing the syntax change in .screenrc, this is a guide to the new colours:

pingle.org/2026/04/26/screen-5…

#GnuScreen

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The teacher said "In English a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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SFC announced today a multi-pronged, comprehensive initiative to deal with Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 copyleft violations, and with software right to repair for 3D printer users generally.

sfconservancy.org/news/2026/ma…

The initial plan includes forks, reverse engineering, and further investigation. As always, litigation remains a last resort.

Donate now to help SFC continue this work: sfconservancy.org/sustainer

#SFC #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Bambu #BambuLab #BambuStudio #AGPLv3 #AGPL #copyleft

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This kickstarter may be of interest to a few on fedi. Youtube poledancing archer who makes videos about historical archery, fantasy combat, & um... pole dancing, is doing a crowd funder to get hold of a properly fitting set of plate armour to do experiments in what it's possible to do in full armour. Is about 70% funded with 10 days to go.

If the project is funded we can finally answer the important historical question. Is it possible to pole dance in full plate armour?

kickstarter.com/projects/blumi…

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prepariamoci a settimane di calamità naturali: finirà la benzina. Scoppieranno gli pneumatici. Non avremo i soldi per il taxi! I nostri abiti non arriveranno in tempo dalla tintoria! Verrà a trovarci da lontano un amico che non vediamo da anni! Ci ruberanno la macchina! Ci sarà IL terremoto! Una tremenda inondazione! l'INVASIONE DI CAVALLETTE!

dream

His Grace (#notOurCat) was inside our home, on the couch with us, and we had a window open so he was joined by the Lady (who in reality is quite afraid of us).

Outside we could see a few wild mid-sized big cats, and then one of them got close to the window and he wanted to enter too. I closed the window, and he remained outside, looking at us with an Innocent Cat Look, asking us why we were so cruel and we didn't allow him on the couch too!

(they were *wild*. not domestic. not even feral (or somewhat feral, like his Grace and the Lady). *wild*)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

Da domani e fino a domenica ci potete trovare ad imperia qui (43.8783,8.01522) ed il link per visualizzarlo su Openstreetmap è osm.org/go/xXaeH0kVd?m= . Un occasione buona per conoscerci e per scambiare due chiacchere linuxare :-)
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Circa un'anno fa mi sono fatta delle canottiere bianche nuove, in fretta e furia

Adesso ho bisogno di un paio di canottiere nere, e stanno iniziando ad essere abbastanza urgenti.

*Dove* ho infognato il cartamodello stampato???

(potrei stamparlo ancora, ho tutto ciò che mi serve, ma sarebbe uno spreco)

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Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

I totally agree.
The most important institutional websites I'm using have hours - or even days! - of planned downtimes.

Some customers, having a small institutional website visited by 3 persons (and 300 bots) per day: "We've been down for 20 seconds!!! We've been OFFLINE!!!"


I'd love to know why technologists are so obsessed with the N 9-nines of uptime when major institutions in my life have hour-long or even day-long outages regularly.

My bank (~$88b market cap)? I'm sorry, you can't log in to move money between your accounts because our system is down for the weekend.

My insurance company (~$65b market cap)? Yeah, you'd like to pay your bill, but it's Memorial Day weekend, so we'll accept your money on Tuesday when we're back online.

Both are already treading right around 99% (a mere two nines of) uptime without taking any of the other outages (past or future this year) into consideration.

While it would be nice if such businesses strived it's not particularly uncommon for such "professional" sites. The bar is set astoundingly low. 🤷


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I'd propose a coordinated, monthly maintenance window. That sends a combined signal "We are all down today because we make things better for you". With an online community of helpful admins helping their online neighbours to fix issues without being pressured to reduce downtime to absurd minimums. Would also give users a day to do other things, like going out and meet people :)

#DowntimeDay

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Hey, on saturday/sunday of this week (May 30th to 31th), I'll be at the "Torino Comics" festival in Italy, meeting the "Silly Studios" publisher on their booth (Zona Chiostro, Pagoda P10). If you are around, come to say a hello and get a signed and sketched copy of the paperback volumes of "Pepper & Carrot"!
See you in Turin!

official website: torinocomics.it/

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@LaVi LaVi! guarda! a furia di leggere cose in inglese¹ scritte da tedeschi ho trovato una cosa in italiano!

modarchive.unicatt.it/

“Il progetto FLATIF – Linguaggi e Terminologie della Moda tra Italiano e Francese: costruzione e disseminazione delle risorse nasce come un’iniziativa di ricerca multidisciplinare, interdisciplinare e plurilingue volta a indagare i linguaggi e le terminologie della moda nel periodo compreso tra il 1880 e il 1980.”

¹ pallia.net/blog/italian-and-fr…

@LaVi

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@Giorgia Mecojoni signora Presidente del Consiglio, volevo porre alla sua attenzione una conseguenza forse inaspettata delle continue proroghe degli sconti sulle accise, ovvero l'affollamento dei nostri distributori di benzina da parte di extracomunitari¹ con auto di grossa cilindrata che fanno rifornimento coi nostri carburanti.

Cosa che tra l'altro risulta essere un comportamento ancora più contro natura di una relazione amorosa omosessuale: da tempo immemore la tradizione era che fossimo noi a recarci da loro ad acquistare carburanti economici.

¹ residenti della Confederazione Elvetica, ovviamente

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@sans_serif_girl ebbasta co sto femminile che è come una nelle ferrovie che se fà chiamare capatrena

"Er presidento"

Daje che ce tengo ar punto de spiegarlo in parlamento!

youtu.be/6-IPW0iTNL4?si=dMFAOt…

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I keep seeing a lot of advice for writers saying "don't use this, don't use that" because it will show up as AI written.

I hate it. It makes me worried. A lot of the "AI" traits in writing overlap with storytelling language. Spoken language.

When I write, as a storyteller, I use em dash when I would take a breath or a pause on stage, instead of finishing a thought. I use triple adjectives because in spoken word they add to the rhythm.

1/2

#storytelling #AI #StorytellingPSA #writing

Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

Colgo l'occasione per ricordarvi che ci sono sempre più libri audio che potete ascoltare fuori dalle piattaforme come Audible e dalle gabbie come Spotify.

Ci sono le mie letture (Assalto alle piattaforme, Liberare il mio smartphone, etc): podcast.kenobit.it/@assaltoall…

E le letture di @savohead:
scalpocast.savohead.com/@SCALP…

Credo che tutto cambierà quando inizieremo a mettere le cose belle che facciamo direttamente sul Fediverso. E penso che i podcast siano un grande antidoto al doomscrolling.

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ho letto Assalto alle piattaforme e ho deciso di fare il salto: dopo anni di iphone mi sono preso un pixel usato e ci ho piazzato Graphene. Come sospettavo: un po' complicato per chi come me arriva da apple, ma ne vale la pena. Domandona: tu usi o conosci un modo sensato per utilizzare pagamenti cardless con graphene? Per me è lo scoglio principale: non trovassi un modo mi rassegnerò a tornare alle carte fisiche, ma sono certo che hai cose da insegnarmi in merito. Grazie!
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#Conversations_im is currently in the Top 50 most download apps on @fdroidorg.
In the messaging category it ranks fairly close to #Element X and has almost 3x the downloads of #DeltaChat. Just to give you a perspective on loudness on social media vs reality.

grote.gitlab.io/fdroid-metrics…

#XMPP #Jabber #FDroid

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Hi Daniel Delta chat is my primary IM. Conversations is my important backup.
reasons I choose to use DC as first choice:
1, DC works throughout multiple platforms like iOS and even windows store. Not all of us can embrace decentralized Foss fully. There are limits from employers or university system.
2, DC developer is working on one project to make it simple and quick. Xmpp has many clients but not all of them feel consistent.
SoBoth great. don't argue which has more users.

@Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo , per caso vi è arrivato un pacco per me? da DHL? (visto? so persino da che corriere arriva!)

qui dicono di essere passati a consegnare mercoledì scorso senza trovare nessuno (in un orario in cui c'erano tre persone in casa), per cui sto cercando il pacco nei punti di consegna, e sicuramente potrebbe essere arrivato da voi :D

(non è vero, l'assistenza del negozio da cui ho ordinato è riuscita a dirmi in che punto ritiro era finito, all'ultimo giorno prima che il pacco tornasse indietro. grumble. grumble.)

(però ho ritirato, e tutto è bene quel che finisce bene)

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@Whiskey a gogo @Vespa cartolaia in questi giorni mi è venuta una curiosità (se potete dirlo senza violare NDA o simili): i punti di ritiro dei vari corrieri in generale sono pagati un fisso, oppure c'è (anche) un tot per ogni pacco gestito?

(me lo stavo chiedendo pensando a quanti incentivi hanno le aziende per far scaricare i pacchi al punto ritiro e fregarsene anziché fare il servizio per cui vengono pagati)

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in realtà no, non c'è un fisso, ma veniamo pagati a cottimo.
Ogni pacco viene risarcito (il prezzo dipende dal corriere e dal servizio) anzi, spesso il fisso c'è, ma è per noi; ovvero dobbiamo pagare un fisso annuale per poter avere il servizio.
Ovviamente ai corrieri conviene perché recapitare quanti più pacchi possibili ai punti di ritiro, per loro è un risparmio di tempo, chilometri e logistica. Quindi posso abbassare i prezzi al pubblico. @rapitadaglialieni
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Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.

First of all, *most* of FOSS security reports nowadays (that I see in #curl and #apache httpd) are non-threatening.

They are edge cases under highly constructed preconditions. Yes, not impossible, but unlikely to be ever encountered.

Before LLMs, no researcher would have invested the time to explore those scenarios. my guess.

Yes, we fix them. But, they could also have been a bug report.💁🏻‍♂️

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I wrote something: blog.sergiodj.net/posts/fixing…

This was a nice problem to investigate, study and solve. Involves symbol versioning and Debian packaging decisions from two decades ago.

#debian #curl

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# Even if today the weather has been cloudy for most of the day, we still produced more energy than we used, even with two washing machines (a lighter program for cushions, but still), three dishwasher loads (one is still running) and a long shower with hot water from the resistive heater. Batteries are 99% full and we still have one hour of production.
# Some of the kitchen things I brought here yesterday from the old home have been washed and are ready for me to find a place for them
# dinner for tomorrow is almost ready (and that's more electricity used today that won't need to be used tomorrow)

#ThreeGoodThings

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# Anche se oggi il meteo è stato coperto per la maggior parte della giornata abbiamo comunque prodotto più di quanto abbiamo consumato, anche con due lavatrici (un programma leggero per i cuscini del divano, ma comunque), tre lavastoviglie (una sta ancora andando) e una doccia lunga con l'acqua scaldata dal boiler elettrico (resistivo, non pompa di calore). Le batterie sono al 99% e abbiamo ancora un'oretta di produzione.
# Un po' delle cose da cucina che ho portato qui ieri dalla casa vecchia sono lavate e pronte per trovare loro un posto
# la cena di domani è quasi pronta (e anche quella è elettricità che è stata usata oggi e non servirà usare domani)

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