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i do not want to get into the business of posting LLM takes but very briefly:

It feels clear to me that some people* are getting value out of using LLMs for programming. Basically see simonwillison.net/'s whole blog. If I think about it purely on the basis of "in a vacuum, can this help me write programs", it seems like an exciting technology.

BUT...

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(* it also feels clear that some people are NOT getting value out of LLMs, hoping to avoid flamewars about that please)

@b0rkJulia Evans I think there is a jagged edge - on one side are tasks that benefit from LLMs (new standalone codebases, particularly in dynamic languages, creating written drafts, planning), and a group of people for whom they are useful (people working alone, the very senior who know exactly how to evaluate outputs), and on the other side are places they fall apart, and we (the industry as a whole) don’t spend nearly enough time examining the differences because of the hype

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北島三郎の与作、ヘイヘイホーって言ってるだけでなんか売れてたの意味がわからないという話をした。田舎ソングなら吉幾三の「おら東京さ行ぐだ」はまあホントかどうかはともかくリアリティはあって共感ポイントあるけど、与作はあんなライフスタイルが存在したためしないしみんな木こりに共感するのか?1978年に?とかそんな話。

見ると日本列島改造論が1972年で、全国を交通網通して風景を変えていった時期なんだろう。ほんで、もう一方ではディスカバージャパンキャンペーンで、謎の地方ノスタルジックなイメージが流布される。たぶん、失われつつある風景があり、他方で捏造された風景があり、そこで木こりだったときのわたしたちの暮らしという存在しない過去が生成された。それが与作なのではないか。

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I'm really looking forward to having a call with @taye to bring their amazing Miru editor to Loops and Pixelfed.

You should check it out, it's pretty powerful and leverages several new technologies to bring rich photo/video editing to the web.

github.com/miru-media/miru

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北島三郎の与作、ヘイヘイホーって言ってるだけでなんか売れてたの意味がわからないという話をした。田舎ソングなら吉幾三の「おら東京さ行ぐだ」はまあホントかどうかはともかくリアリティはあって共感ポイントあるけど、与作はあんなライフスタイルが存在したためしないしみんな木こりに共感するのか?1978年に?とかそんな話。

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+++++ NEOCAT NEWS +++++

IN A SECRET REPORT THERE ARE HINTS THAT NEOCAT NITROGLYCERIN FILLING ISN'T FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES!

Apparently exploding neocats have a really high fallout in dangerous and toxic materials. We reached out to Volpeon but didn't get a response yet.

FNR - All the Fedi News you need!

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In the spirit of the snow/wind storm that I am currently experiencing here in SE Massachusetts, I am sharing some pics from last week’s hike in the White , NH illustrating the large amount of snow that was there. (Upper left) trail junction 2/3 up the mountain; (Upper right) same spot last June; (Lower left) alpine zone near final ascent; (Lower right) halfway down.

Photo of trail signs in snowy forest. The snow is up to the bottom of the signs.Same signs as in upper left photo as seen in June, 2025. Green foliage surrounds the sign. The signs are mounted on a post that is about five feet long, suggesting that there was 4-5 feet deep snow in the winter picture. Trail in snowy forest. The short green trees are heavily covered with large clumps of snow and bending over from the weight of the snow. I had to lean over to make it through this trail. Isolated small evergreen tree with very large clump of snow on top. The clump is larger than the exposed part of the tree.
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@b0rkJulia Evans The origin of writing dustycloud.org/blog/a-letter-f is my bitterness that a decade ago, we heard a lot of promises that "don't worry, we'll automate away the boring stuff, you can focus on being creative!" and now people seem resigned to "well, all that creative stuff, I don't do it anymore"

Honestly, for me, not doing the creative stuff is giving up on the things that bring me the most happiness in life. And we know that what LLMs are bad at right now is anything that is genuinely new... they're very good at doing things that have been done before.

So, celebrate those who continue to be creative, I think. Because ultimately, even the vibecoders / vibeartists rely on their work to advance things.

But it's depressing to me to see the promises of what life would be like vs what it's now like.

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옛날에 본 건데 젊은 남성이 한복 입고 댕기머리 하고 전철을 타니까 할아버지가 무슨 사내놈이 댕기야! 하고 소리쳐 적반하장(?)으로 그럼 장가도 못 갔는데 상투를 틀어요?! 하니까 그건 그렇지 하고 수그리고 갔단 썰 좋아한다......ㅋㅋㅋ꼰대에는 더꼰대로!ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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北島三郎の与作、ヘイヘイホーって言ってるだけでなんか売れてたの意味がわからないという話をした。田舎ソングなら吉幾三の「おら東京さ行ぐだ」はまあホントかどうかはともかくリアリティはあって共感ポイントあるけど、与作はあんなライフスタイルが存在したためしないしみんな木こりに共感するのか?1978年に?とかそんな話。

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北島三郎の与作、ヘイヘイホーって言ってるだけでなんか売れてたの意味がわからないという話をした。田舎ソングなら吉幾三の「おら東京さ行ぐだ」はまあホントかどうかはともかくリアリティはあって共感ポイントあるけど、与作はあんなライフスタイルが存在したためしないしみんな木こりに共感するのか?1978年に?とかそんな話。

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In the past half hour, two things happened that made me raise an eyebrow.

The first: a developer, who uses Docker on both a dev and a prod server, asked me to install a huge number of dependencies (on the host) to test a workload. When I hesitated and suggested using a container instead, he replied that this way he "keeps the containers clean, since they’re what run in production, and if the host gets dirty it doesn’t matter, it only has to run the containers".

I tried to explain, but... no, we're not getting anywhere. My brain is short circuiting.

The second will follow later.

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Really enjoyed this scoop from the Financial Times, where a team of reporters identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The kicker: The network was discovered because they all share a single private email server.

From the (paywalled) story:

"The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, “mx.phoenixtrading.ltd”, showing that they share back-office functions."

"The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil."

"For example, Foxton FZCO, a Dubai-based entity listed as the buyer of $5.6bn of oil in Russian export filings, matches “foxton-fzco.com”. Similarly, Advan Alliance, an entity listed in Indian filings as having sold $1.5bn of Russian oil into the country, can be linked to “advanalliance.ltd”. "

"Filings linked by the FT to the domain list show oil exports from Russia amounting to more than $90bn."

ft.com/content/4310f010-2b3c-4

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@eyeinthesky @smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @evanEvan Prodromou To be clear, I think json-ld has a lot of great ideas in it, and it's the extensibility and linked data compatibility (which was a strong group requirement) story we had at the time.

"JSON-LD is bad" doesn't really capture my views. "JSON-LD turned out to be too complicated for the majority of the ecosystem to work with, particularly when we gave the view that you could ignore it, except it creates a rift of interoperability between those who ignore it and those who don't and puts a burden on the latter who are doing their best to behave well" does match my views.

There are paths out of the situation, but I'm not confident in the discourse around them right now, and hesitant about how much I want to engage with it.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @eyeinthesky @smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @evanEvan Prodromou Apart from the fact that I would prefer turtle, I am very happy that AP ‘prescribes’ json-ld. This opens the door to many of my ideas. It makes possible what would be very complicated without . It's about time that the AP developers got to grips with it! rdf-pub.org/#rdf

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