Alt account of @Badabinski
Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.
Sold! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, and I love that the owner is on the fediverse. Thanks for the recommendation and little writeup.
EDIT: The site is also written and run without any use of LLMs or other gen AI whatsoever, so that’s a huge plus!
Having dealt with mountains of frontier-LLM-generated slop from once-good senior engineers, I’m feeling pretty competitive.
I have a friend who is absolutely obsessed with roller coasters, but many parks don’t allow you to wear a body camera (to say nothing of phones, you’re absolutely not allowed to hold a recording device). Like, this guy will ride the same coaster back to back for hours and will absolutely watch a recording. He bought a pair for this one purpose. I would not have bought them and he definitely felt extremely conflicted. I think he keeps them in a case at all times and only wears them when he’s about to get on a ride.
Basically, he only bought them as an action camera alternative. He doesn’t use any of their creepy social media features.
I use one of those every night and they’re awful. I buy them 5 at a time because they’re not very durable, and you end up with this especially irritating tangle of cables.
Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).
Should we?
These evil propane systems also attract many bugs from a wiiiide area, whereas the laser thing only kills bugs that happen to come by.
I still feel… very mixed about this thing. I’m not necessarily defending it, but if it actually works then it would be harm reduction.
If you want to use your own power and not give it to the grid, then don’t use a grid tie inverter. Get some batteries and only accept power from the grid, never feed back into it. If you’re feeding into the communal system, expect the rules to not always be exactly what you want. Don’t we all want people to use clean daytime solar power instead of dirty fossil fuel-based nighttime power?
When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said “scamsung.” That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.
McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I’m mature.
I will continue to pray for Slate to not completely suck. There’s a “smart” module that has a cellular modem, but it’s something you have to opt into and pay for it.
Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.
Try putting two spaces are the end of the line, or leave a blank line between each line.
two spaces at the end
of the line test.
blank line
test.
Man, they need to hold another vote to get the verbiage of this cleared up.
The title of this post is incorrect. They are not banning cryptocurrency projects. See this message for why: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19923979
edit: man, I have no idea anymore.
I’m anticipating that mixed-use data centers will have enough capacity to meet post-pop demand. The current ubiquity of LLMs will end once people are forced to pay the true cost. I don’t expect the technology to suddenly just vanish, but most people are not going to be willing to pay what it will cost to make inference profitable.
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Things need space to be built, but all of those other things you mentioned have value. It’s upsetting to cut down a shitload of trees for something that is going to be useless in 3 years when the AI bubble pops.
That’s neat!
I have everyone’s favorite thing; unsolicited advice! It’d be cool if it was easier to find the source code. I’m still waking up so maybe it’s obvious, but I ended up looking at the manual installation steps to get the link to https://codeberg.org/Valmond/Tenfingers
What do you mean? His hair is glorious, especially for someone who is 66 years old.
In the context of “upping the ante”, it’s been used since at least 1870: https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/up-the-ante/
I’m guessing that people took the phrase “ante up” and switched it around.
EDIT: I did check the source out a bit and they seem to be legitimate, not just LLM slop. They could still be wrong, but they do at least cite sources.
why not‽