“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
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Programming@programming.dev•Open source is a thankless job and I think we've lost the plot on how we treat maintainers
12·1 month agoOpen source development/maintenance is not a thankless job, it is a job that society has not committed to normalizing materially supporting. Those might feel the same, but they are not and it is childish to pretend they are.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzto
Linux@programming.dev•A Surprisingly Common Mistake Involving Wildcards & The Find Command
1·2 months agoIf you’re contemplating doing something destructive, do a dry-run first.
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio is a WITCH I tell you! This is black magic!!
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.
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.
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.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzto
Linux@programming.dev•Fish Shell 4.8 Improves History Search, Scripting, and Completions
112·2 months agoWhy do people seem to especially like fish?
Remember in Reaper you can change the theme and menus around all you want, so you can make it look and behave however you want if certain things annoy you.
FL Studio is great, it isn’t fair to compare other audio software to Reaper lol.
Sytrus is an amazing design for a synthesizer and Harmor is fascinating too.
Reaper works great on linux.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzto
Linux@programming.dev•AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks
4·2 months agoannoying 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!
emacs with vim keybindings is all I need
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Linux@programming.dev•AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks
36·2 months agoArch 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
PKGBUILDfiles 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.
I think double entry accounting is FAR closer to relational programming than the concept of redundancy in checks.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps
31·2 months agoIn both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.
We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.







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