In-reply-to » Oh boy... Eugene Rochko's status. And what a flashy name, "Social Web Foundation". See the "industry support" header on that page. Don't like it one bit.

It comes across as the beginning of a ā€œcorporate sell outā€. Also, links to X, and Threads, but the Fediverse link doesnā€™t work. Really? Overall, it doesnā€™t seem right (at least to me). Oh, also Meta on that list: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/. Nope. Pass.

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In-reply-to » Yeah.. it is very similar to salty.im a smp is a relay queue for messages. You can self host one if you choose. They also have something called xftp for data storage and device state transfer. You can also self host one.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt salty.im needs a lot more work šŸ¤žit is however designed to be 1000% decentralized šŸ‘Œ

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In-reply-to » (#eqgicaq) @3r1c I think Iā€™m gonna like that blog. šŸ˜… https://unixdigest.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html

I am reminded of this when I look at entire forks of vscode just to add a LLM code completion assistant.

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In-reply-to » Awesome, "unable to open database file: out of memory (14)" actually means that the SQLite file cannot be created, because the parent directory does not exist. Bonus points for Open(ā€¦) being successful and only executing the first command giving me that error. Meh.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, thatā€™s just a general SQLite thing: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/issues/102 But, mkdir -p $dir and just retrying the command works.

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Going through some old CDs.

Jam & Spoon - Angel (DJ Misjah Remix)

Iā€™ve always liked this track, but ~30 years ago I didnā€™t have good headphones. Now I do and only now do I realize how ā€œdenseā€ the atmosphere of this track is. šŸ˜³ Guess my speakers back then simply didnā€™t render most of the bass ā€¦ šŸ¤¦

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In-reply-to » Awesome, "unable to open database file: out of memory (14)" actually means that the SQLite file cannot be created, because the parent directory does not exist. Bonus points for Open(ā€¦) being successful and only executing the first command giving me that error. Meh.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Did someone call perror() after something that does not change errno? šŸ„“

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Awesome, ā€œunable to open database file: out of memory (14)ā€ actually means that the SQLite file cannot be created, because the parent directory does not exist. Bonus points for Open(ā€¦) being successful and only executing the first command giving me that error. Meh.

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In-reply-to » Is anyone here on simplex? https://sour.is/simplex

Yeah.. it is very similar to salty.im a smp is a relay queue for messages. You can self host one if you choose. They also have something called xftp for data storage and device state transfer. You can also self host one.

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Time for the annual profile picture change. šŸ˜…
Second pixelart I drew this year, expecting my least active artist award soon! šŸ’ŖšŸ†

Download

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In-reply-to » Wouldnā€™t this also apply to C, and Assembler, to mention two? https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/glad-i-did-it-in-go

@bender@twtxt.net As for stability, yes. As for ā€œeasy to understandā€: Probably depends on how well you hide things like lists or hash maps behind library functions. šŸ„“

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In-reply-to » @prologic Iā€™m sure you can somehow install something that calculates blake2b on OpenBSD. But itā€™s not part of the base system as a standalone CLI tool, there only appear to be Perl modules for it. The other SHA tools do exist.

@xuu Yes, of course. This has been blown out of proportion anyway. All I originally wanted to say is that the b2sum program isnā€™t very widely available.

It would help to know how many different clients there actually are. I suspect that number is very close to 3.

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In-reply-to » @bender Over here, people can put red ribbons on their fruit trees to signal that they are free to use for everyone. That's an effort to minimize the giant food waste. Meadow orchard owners who do not have the time or energy anymore to harvest themselves (I reckon a lot of them are of age nowadays), can ensure that the tasty things do not simply rot away. Also, the town hangs those ribbons on trees on municipal properties.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org forgot to add that this:

people can put red ribbons on their fruit trees to signal that they are free to use for everyone.

Is mighty awesome, and gives a sense of small community. Thatā€™s why I asked how big, or small, your town was. šŸ˜Š

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In-reply-to » Made the first apple sauce of the season in around three to four hours of work. Pretty cool, very, very little waste. The jars are currently cooking.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wow, thank you for explaining the process so conscientiously. If I ever come across an apple tree, I now know (or have the text to read and follow) how to make some mean apple sauce. I can tell, though, without a doubt, nothing I can buy off the shelves here would even get close.

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In-reply-to » Made the first apple sauce of the season in around three to four hours of work. Pretty cool, very, very little waste. The jars are currently cooking.

@bender@twtxt.net Over here, people can put red ribbons on their fruit trees to signal that they are free to use for everyone. Thatā€™s an effort to minimize the giant food waste. Meadow orchard owners who do not have the time or energy anymore to harvest themselves (I reckon a lot of them are of age nowadays), can ensure that the tasty things do not simply rot away. Also, the town hangs those ribbons on trees on municipal properties.

They introduced these ribbons a few years back. Itā€™s a really cool system. The colors of the ribbons vary from town to town. It seems most actually use yellow ribbons. The rules are to be respectful, only take what you really need (common household amounts) and be careful not to break branches, not to trample down higher grass, watch out for pants and animals, etc. Sometimes, a tree owner only grants access to a few trees. So, youā€™re only allowed to take from the explicitly marked ones. I mean, common sense really, donā€™t be an asshole. :-)

We just pick up what has fallen down. Youā€™re also allowed to pick directly from the tree, but the apples on the ground are already fully ripe. Or bad, but you can typically distinguish between the two rather easily. The apples that fall down early are usually full of worms. Later on, itā€™s the ripe ones. Yeah, if a ripe one lands in a patch of spoiled ones, itā€™s also going bad fairly quickly. So, it pays off to visit regularly and check.

Not all apples are equal, though. Itā€™s important to check the variety before gathering them. Cider apples are worthless to us. They just taste awful. Typically, these are the tiny ones, but there are also some tiny ones which are actually very delicious. So, a taste test is mandatory.

Then for apple sauce we just wash off the occasional dirt on the apples at home. Typically, you can get rid of the worst already by wiping it on the grass when picking. We simply cut them in quarters, bigger apples also in eights. Bad spots and the cores are removed. To avoid oxidation, we throw them in a bowl of water with citric acid. Once that bowl is full, we transfer them into a big pot. Rinse and repeat.

The pot has some water in it, so the apples do not scorch. Shortly before we finish cutting the apples, the stove is heated. Then, we just let the whole mass heat up. Donā€™t forget to stir every now and then. The longer it simmers, the easier it gets to actually stir the now softer mass. It also sinks down a bit. You can also use a potato masher to help get some sort of a pulp.

When the pulp is fairly soft itā€™s pressed through a strainer. People here call the food mill ā€œFlotte Lotteā€ (quick Charlotte) after a brand name. We use the tiniest sieve with 1mm holes. Unfortunately, thereā€™s no smaller one. But it gets 99.99% of the junk out, skin, missed seeds, all the coarse stuff. After each load the food mill has to be cleared from pomance, so it doesnā€™t plug up all the holes or worse, the coarse crap is pressed through.

For some strange reason we have not figured out, we got quite a bunch of skin pieces in the apple sauce on Wednesday. Somehow they managed to get through. Very strange, this has never happened before. To filter them out, we just passed the whole thing through the Flotte Lotte a second time.

Around 10% sugar by weight is added to help preservation. A pinch of cinnamon and then itā€™s basically ready when mixed up properly.

Fill the apple sauce is in jars and make sure to leave enough space for some expansion when getting cooked in a moment. Wipe any spilled sauce form the glas rims, close the lids with a rubber seal and clamp ā€˜em shut. The jars are placed in a big pot or ā€œEinkochautomatā€ (translates roughly to preserving machine). Itā€™s a large pot that is electrically heated and automatically maintains the temperature using a thermostat. The water level has to be about 2/3 of the top layer of the jars (they can be stacked). Any higher is unnecessary and just wastes water. The jars get cooked for half an hour at 90Ā°C. Then, they can be lifted out with a pairs of jar tongs. After cooling down, the clamps are removed. If a jar hasnā€™t sealed properly, you notice it right away.

The last thing is to label and store them in the cellar or somewhere.

Eventually, pull on the rubber sealā€™s tab to open a jar, put the apple sauce on a waffle or something else and enjoy the blast of taste in your mouth. :-)

Oh, that text got a wee bit longer than anticipated. 8-)

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In-reply-to » Thereā€™s a lot more activity in Geminispace than I realized: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de there is much more activity in USENET. šŸ¤­

Joke aside, if anyone using a sane protocol (sorry, sorry, no more jokes!) wants to see whatā€™s been referred about here, without leaving the browser, head over.

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In-reply-to » Over the past few days I've been playing around with the latest Chat-GPT, I think the model is called o1-preview. I've used it for various tasks from writing documentation, specs, shell scripts, to code (in Go).

@bender@twtxt.net Yes. I think as a fancy autocomplete ā€œtoolā€ itā€™s not too shabby. Beyond that Iā€™m not convinced it saves you time at all.

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In-reply-to » Over the past few days I've been playing around with the latest Chat-GPT, I think the model is called o1-preview. I've used it for various tasks from writing documentation, specs, shell scripts, to code (in Go).

@prologic@twtxt.net quoting a friend of mine, C# developer of 25 years now converted to DevOP:

ā€œIf you are not using AI everyday, youā€™re working too muchā€, and ā€œcompletely worth it [referring to the use of ChatGPT], no question. Same work output, in less of my time. More breaks for me.ā€

It is not to rely on it 100%. Itā€™s just a tool.

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In-reply-to » When you thought he couldn't be more foolish, he proves you wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726197

@prologic@twtxt.net exactly! Supposedly this engagement of his is ā€œblessedā€ by his lawyers. šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø He might need better lawyers too!

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ā€œYou have reached a non-working number at UPS [ā€¦]ā€ says the recording. If it is a non-working number, it wouldnā€™t even ring, right? It should have said ā€œYou have reached an outgoing calls only number at UPS [ā€¦]ā€, or better yet, route outgoing call only numbers to the one we should be calling instead. Problem resolved.

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In-reply-to » When you thought he couldn't be more foolish, he proves you wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726197

Wow! šŸ˜® He seems to be digging himself into a hole there right? šŸ¤£

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