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for the love of all things lovable please stop trying to date copilot. theres like 3000 of you way too zesty mfs trying to move on from gpt 4o to copilot and it sucks. i see all of those messages you know. they fucking suck. please date each other instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge-RxCjyHh8
I Forged my Own Tools and Gun to Make This Sandwich From Scratch - YouTube
1/2 Exciting news: we just published a new paper: "Preimage attacks on round-reduced MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 using parameterized SAT solver", by Oleg Zaikin
If you are interested in security, cryptology, or Constraint Programming, definitely give this paper a read!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10601-025-09383-0
#ConstraintProgramming #Security #Cryptology #Cryptography #CryptographicHashFunctions #ConflictDrivenClauseLearning #BooleanSatisfiability #MD5 #SHA1 #SHA256
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Was macht ihr so gegen #Holzwurm? Habe alte Holzverkleidung von der Decke gerissen und so Löcher gefunden…
Würde Balistol probieren…
Und gerne RT für Reichweite :)
Overall, I'm happy with 
@hetzner, but shit like this (38% price increase) sours me on them very quickly.
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
Thankfully, I am managing everything with Coolify and some custom scripts, so changing providers won't be as painful moving forward.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116103661147175039
Mekka's take on the methodological implications on the (lack of) cross-tabs on this study are on point, but there's another thing to look at here: our definition of "platforming". So much discussion of "platforming" is conducted from the perspective of "are these ideas dangerous, is it OK to let people hear these dangerous ideas". That's not what is happening. The speech acts involved are not "conveying ideas" and letting people analyze them.
One way to look at this is to say "oh, algorithmic feeds make people more racist" but the way that attitudes are being measured, the entire way that attitudes *work*, is actually showing something different here: what algorithmic feeds do is *allow racists to efficiently find each other*. "platforming" in this context is not allowing people to hear racist ideas, it is allowing people to *build a command and control network for white supremacist violence*.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
I didn't get it at first, but then in dawned on me...
hearing that "good first issue" tagging is becoming useless because it just prompts a bunch of identical ai-generated PRs.
makes me wanna burn down a datacenter. fucking. god. what a pointless salting of the earth.
BREAKING: Sam Altman points out that putting out fires in orphanages also uses a lot of water.
It's demotivating to think that:
- LLMs aren't good at producing original / novel work
- You still need experts to advance that stuff
- It will always be slower to move without using LLMs
- Once an innovation is done though, an innovation can always be scooped up by the LLM users
- "Bro why are you doing all this manually, I just vibe coded that in a weekend"
Will it always be this way? It's depressing in the meanwhile, at least.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber LLM users are the same people who walk through modern art galleries saying "my kid could do that"
Folks on here have often said to me that they don't believe there's many apps for AT Protocol, well, maybe this will change minds: https://semble.so/profile/byarielm.fyi/collections/3mfdje7uuhu2r
It's just like how the Fedi has it's "big" apps and most people don't know about all the other apps being developed.
Semble is also an AT Protocol app, and it interoperates with margin.at, which is a really cool annotating the web app.
Here we go!
Since FediCon last year I try to do a livestream of the fedi events I go to. This is the start of the FediMTL livestream.
Let's see how well I can keep this up 😅
FediMTL streaming tickets still available! 50% off for fedi friends with code SWF50 😊
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Tidal has this bug where occasionally when you tell it to play a song it will play a *completely different song* from somewhere completely different in its enormous library. Right now I am listening to what Tidal claims is "Music is Math" by Boards of Canada but is instead some ambient piece with muted piano over a high-timbral melange of synth pads and distorted flutes. It is absolutely gorgeous. There is basically no way for me to ever find out what that song was
UPDATE: thanks for all the good recs and sharing! i think i got a lot to forward :D
a medical professional in berlin asked me for a referral for paid help migrating from windows to debian on their work laptop (thinkpad), is there a cool small company (or freelancer) in berlin who does that sort of thing that you can recommend?
RE: https://troet.cafe/@ralphruthe/116120750489057349
Ok, viele fragen, wie ich das "durch Zufall" rausfand 🙃
Ich wollte eigentlich aus (veganen) Würstchen eine Currywurst-Pfanne machen. Dafür hab ich Zwiebeln angebraten. Dann fiel mir ein, dass Köche an Currywurstsoße oft Cola machen. Hab einkochen lassen, abgeschmeckt: Stadtfest-Hotdogbuden-Zwiebeln.
야르라는 단어를 어딘가 짤에서 봤던 것 같은데 뭐였더라......
明日は休みデース
なので安心して寝る。おやすみ 
It makes me terribly sad that one of the effects OpenAI's image generator has had on me (as someone who has never used it) is that I've come to automatically associate drawings in the Ghibli style as "cheap slop". It's not a conscious judgment. It's an impulse from the hindbrain.
This, I suspect, was the point.
An insult to life itself, indeed.
메님 그림의 손이 야하다는 말 뭔가 알 거 같음 이 커미 볼때마다 그걸 느껴...(? 라마티 손이. 암튼 라마티 손이. 하 근데 다시봐도 좋다.......
Nuclear Waste Remediation by Proton Beam
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/nuclear-waste-remediation-by-proton-beam/
SHA-1 lottery winning day: one commit got us a neat git short hash of 2000008 today (full hash is 2000008b474b9ccc0b7916d2c9e378f92b7635f0).
We're expanding our #CampaignFinance #OpenData by adding campaign finance records to our #Victorville site, going back to 2020 and updated at least every other day:
모아놓은 마작짤 방출하면서 여기 없는 마작짤 모집합니다 매일 실친디코에 마작짤 올리면서 마작하자고 중얼거리는게 제 새로운 일과거든요 부탁좀 드리겠습니다
Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"
Link: https://prql-lang.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099980
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
Link: https://llm-timeline.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119871
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
Link: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121539
It's demotivating to think that:
- LLMs aren't good at producing original / novel work
- You still need experts to advance that stuff
- It will always be slower to move without using LLMs
- Once an innovation is done though, an innovation can always be scooped up by the LLM users
- "Bro why are you doing all this manually, I just vibe coded that in a weekend"
Will it always be this way? It's depressing in the meanwhile, at least.
In a sense, the decision is somewhat made for us in that we're developing next-generation stuff that LLMs don't know how to auto-code at 
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute. We are working on core infrastructure that needs to be carefully thought about and written. LLMs introduce a lot of errors and aren't good at doing this kind of work on their own.
And the goal was always that our work is there to be lifted from, to spread outward, the way people have long drawn from the well of the MIT / Stanford research labs in CS for decades, but for decentralized networking today
But doing it now, in this way, in this environment, it's just really depressing and demotivating.
#neovim Development News
The 0.12 version will add experimental `nvim__exec_lua_fast()` function to allow remote API clients to execute code while Neovim is blocking for input.
PR:
- github.com/neovim/neovi...
feat(api): add experimental nv...
@themostroom lol it took me way too long to decipher that typo 😂
And yes, such is DB life.
うおーだめだ寝ます
rango: Voice control for browsers https://lobste.rs/s/3jljw5 #a11y #browsers
https://github.com/david-tejada/rango
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5a7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120201
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/116120405745019000
To anyone who experienced downtime, and you know your instance is on 
@mastohost - bookmark their account in your browser for future downtimes.
They do good work, always keeping us in the loop 🦣💙
In a sense, the decision is somewhat made for us in that we're developing next-generation stuff that LLMs don't know how to auto-code at @spritelyThe Spritely Institute. We are working on core infrastructure that needs to be carefully thought about and written. LLMs introduce a lot of errors and aren't good at doing this kind of work on their own.
And the goal was always that our work is there to be lifted from, to spread outward, the way people have long drawn from the well of the MIT / Stanford research labs in CS for decades, but for decentralized networking today
But doing it now, in this way, in this environment, it's just really depressing and demotivating.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @spritelyThe Spritely Institute We need you guys.
The thing that scares me the most is that in 10 years time there'll be no new people able to code new stuff, to innovate.
And *that* is the main reason why we absolutely need you guys. Regardless of how demotivating it may seem right now.
The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
Link: https://sabrinas.space
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122789
This sparks joy
In a sense, the decision is somewhat made for us in that we're developing next-generation stuff that LLMs don't know how to auto-code at @spritelyThe Spritely Institute. We are working on core infrastructure that needs to be carefully thought about and written. LLMs introduce a lot of errors and aren't good at doing this kind of work on their own.
And the goal was always that our work is there to be lifted from, to spread outward, the way people have long drawn from the well of the MIT / Stanford research labs in CS for decades, but for decentralized networking today
But doing it now, in this way, in this environment, it's just really depressing and demotivating.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @spritelyThe Spritely Institute I had the near identical thought earlier - that someone needs to be doing the novel stuff, but we've created an environment that is, broadly speaking, uniquely demotivating to the sort of people that tend to do that sort of thing.
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