Posts by lhp@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AdUzrutqlE3cqMqSQ4 by lhp@mastodon.social
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Whoops.
(DIR) Post #AfA4PwTfoSgCgHxBvE by lhp@mastodon.social
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BTW, just created an IRC channel for my projects: # lhp on libera (without the space, of course). Hopefully this reduces off-topic traffic on # river a tiny bit :]
(DIR) Post #Ak3j9X82zMIC1CFDuK by lhp@mastodon.social
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Generative models and similar machine learning abominations are a crime against sentience.
(DIR) Post #B4DqwmzEhucz08OiLw by lhp@mastodon.social
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@xgranade it's incredibly disheartening to see how many core parts have been infected. My enthusiasm for software is being strongly eroded. And the people who are responsible for bringing this blight into our ecosystem will never face any repercussions.
(DIR) Post #B4HzjB3g5aKvp7to6i by lhp@mastodon.social
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This last weeks has been pretty bad for my mood. I am very pessimistic about the free software desktop right now. A lot of irreplaceable projects have eagerly adopted LLMs in their development. People who really should know better. The FOSS desktop is very dear to me and I have been enthusiastic about it for a long time. So this has been exceptionally hard to watch and I am not sure how much of my enthusiasm has survived.
(DIR) Post #B4HzjBZw9e8nRAzZOC by lhp@mastodon.social
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Effectively all relevant code I have ever written depends, either directly or indirectly, on projects that have adopted LLMs. And those are hard to replace dependencies, like font drawing or the kernel itself. The laptop I am typing this on probably already has LLM generated code on it, without my knowledge or consent.I am effectively forced to unwillingly support rent-seeking fascists with every line of code I write, every time I turn on my computer, even if I don't use any of it directly.
(DIR) Post #B4HzjC4QKIWkxjFuuO by lhp@mastodon.social
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I am currently investigating whether it's viable to run a desktop operating system fully free of LLM generated output, either by just sticking to older versions or perhaps even switching to the BSDs.Either way, FOSS isn't fun anymore. I think part of my bad mood is that my subconscious has already started grieving the loss of programming and FOSS as an interest. I am currently unsure if I will continue to engage with FOSS in the future or if I'll continue contributing to it in any capacity.
(DIR) Post #B4essEkRVe8kpWLxRI by lhp@mastodon.social
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@neauoire are the fonts in the turye git repo also under the MIT license? I am using the UF2 format for a project, bundling a modified version of one of them as the default font and I want to do the attribution correctly
(DIR) Post #B6OPQawZTne5xfAJN2 by lhp@mastodon.social
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@hyc @mirabilos @dalias @nxadm "status changed to unfortunate" would be a tremendously funny group chat sticker / response-thingy
(DIR) Post #B6OXEXKlsEr4vNFIgq by lhp@mastodon.social
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are there any good link aggregators out there? I want to read about real projects (both big and small, hard- and software) by real people, but all the ones I know are full of slop, irrelevant corpo-boredom and "how I configured $TOOL for more productivity".My current approach is to click through web rings until I find something neat.
(DIR) Post #B8vYaCmqVlX2CSXjbU by lhp@mastodon.social
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@ariadne both at once: I spend days planning everything, but all in my head, nothing written down. Then I quickly do the slides in the bus on my way to uni.
(DIR) Post #B9cuEYLb2cJYPrnJXE by lhp@mastodon.social
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@mntmn Over the last few months I have come around on this and now believe a lot of the core parts of the FOSS desktop ecosystem are actually replaceable after all.It'll take some time, but we can totally rebuild. This time it'll be openly political and hopefully not so linux-focused.In the grand scheme of things, this will be a minor set back.
(DIR) Post #B9hkp2mxJLV3VB9WVs by lhp@mastodon.social
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@mntmn The webcam thing? Unless I need to capture video files, I use mpv for webcams (mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0). You can take screenshots with 's'. It is a bit slow though, but at least it doesn't seem to crash.
(DIR) Post #B9jyqDHFaTh3znh6hc by lhp@mastodon.social
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@mntmn there is gcc's new -fanalyzer which I like a lot, but it's also sloooow (over 6min for a 12k lines C file) and from what I can tell seems to ignore function attributs (unlike ASan and UBSan). Also it still has false positives around realloc() which is annoying
(DIR) Post #B9lfpHrhXCKT7eVay0 by lhp@mastodon.social
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@mntmn netbook (or smaller) form-factor canon cat!Just a text editor, just a single large text file. Instantly powers on, remembers your last cursor position. Auto-saves.Had that idea for a while. My ideal note-taking device. Optional encryption would be nice.
(DIR) Post #B9qo0Ym38ZqvIOjfY8 by lhp@mastodon.social
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@mntmn killjoys got way to stuck in its own mythology towards the end IMO
(DIR) Post #B9sYUPoBpERxE7s2ue by lhp@mastodon.social
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@stux I've seen a few tetris videos in recent weeks and what impresses me most is how great their sportsmanship is. That's not something you'd normally expect from video game competitions.
(DIR) Post #BAJJaVyzH2dqvSWFF2 by lhp@mastodon.social
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@ariadne very early in waylands development there was the idea of a "system compositor". Something like that could absolutely allow a desktops display server to run in user space without privileged API access. Wlroots already supports rendering to a window. Mutter does too, but I am not sure that still works if you load the entirey of gnome shell.