Caleb Maclennan

Recipient of Grace, child of God, student of the Word, ambassador of Christ, tentative wordsmith, dabbler in languages, regex aficionado. #nobot

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2026-08-19 15:37:40 UTC

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@nprofile…wwlr You should update the firmware on your #framework laptops. At least when you first get them, a bit after new ones come out, and maybe a bit before your warranty is up. Probably after that too.

2026-07-30 08:31:02 UTC

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@nprofile…jydu Thanks for all the research on this. I haven't done multi-seat stuff since before Xorg (XFree86). Now I want to again! My use case would be one small level up thought....
I use Deskflow (in the line of synergy/input leap/barrier/etc.) to use one set of inputs across a couple local devices, including sometimes ones that are also in use with their own devices. What would be amazing is if those could fire up a new seat on the remote devices instead of hijacking the existing local inputs.

2026-07-30 06:29:41 UTC

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@nprofile…jsss @nprofile…9uuc @nprofile…t0lt @nprofile…dygl I saw (and packaged) the 2.0 release of himalaya recently and left myself a tab open to review whether it is turning into slop too. Mind you I don't know that it is, I was just a bit suspicious of the size of the realease and some holes in the story for removed features. Did you put it though the paces yet?

2026-07-22 22:15:26 UTC

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@nprofile…fr02 I have a #framework 13
with 96 Gigs I scored last year just before RAM prices started to climb. Now I have regrets ... a kind of survivors remorse. Do I even want to know how much that would cost me today? Should I sell it off? These are questions I haven't answered.

2026-06-24 20:52:03 UTC

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@nprofile…awd8 Can you help us know about and mitigate the WSL pain points? I got a real Windows build working last week but haven't finished it. I haven't tried WSL. What did you run into?

2026-06-02 13:03:18 UTC

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@nprofile…v673
vim --cmd 'call zip#Browse("/full/path/to/file")'
Also why would you not have completion for that inside vim too? CTRL-X-F doesn't work to complete a path?

2026-05-26 18:24:05 UTC

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@nprofile…v673 give @nprofile…7eg3 a gander.

2026-04-09 18:56:41 UTC

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@nprofile…8d0p @nprofile…jckv @nprofile…40zt I think this completely missed the point of the question. The notification push service is irrelevant, this is about local notification caching on device. See recent iOS Signal message retrieval fiasco.

2026-04-07 10:18:07 UTC

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@nprofile…t0lt @nprofile…dygl My usual sarcasm aside, I've been messing with this one and I think I would actively recommend **AGAINST** using it or promoting it.
This is AI slop with a note of danger. The OP building it doesn't understand the Git reflog very well and isn't competent to notice when the AI generated code and documentation doesn't match. The UI and most of the actions are reasonable enough, but with easy recovery of states it also make it easy to LOOSE states.

2026-03-23 06:35:06 UTC

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@nprofile…lel8 From the earliest invention of the concept of Hypertext to now is about 90 years.
From the known widespread use of Cuneiform on clay tablets to the invention of Hypertext is at least 5200 years, possibly much longer to earliest invention.
You aren't even within two orders of magnitude.

2026-03-22 23:16:43 UTC

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@nprofile…lel8 What is “it” in that assertion?

2026-02-23 16:58:30 UTC

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@nprofile…v673 Doesn't `fd` do this?

2026-02-21 19:59:23 UTC

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@nprofile…t0lt @nprofile…dygl I'll bite the cheese when I can embed a Neovim instance as my editor widget.

2026-01-30 18:56:29 UTC

@nprofile…uyj9 Please stop spamming my feed with notices. I followed the new account already but want to keep the old handle too.
If you want to ping people about it make them private messages not public broadcasts with a mention.

2026-01-27 22:57:39 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl @nprofile…v673 partially? This workflow is something I'd be interested in contributing to. Scanning receipts to an annex then generating or matching to ledger transactions would be something else...

2026-01-13 18:35:47 UTC

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@nprofile…v673 After years and years of using subrepos I ran across the signature stripping just a few months ago. Very uncool even if I understand why it happens.

2026-01-13 13:58:32 UTC

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@nprofile…t0lt You need a TUI just to organize, find, and launch your #TUI collection.

2025-12-27 20:04:48 UTC

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@nprofile…p4a7 Sure. I've used it from git hooks for the last 5 years. That was the initial use case I conceived it for.
Depending on what workflows you use you might want to consider hooking in post-rewrite and/or post-merge in addition to post-checkout.

2025-12-27 19:53:59 UTC

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@nprofile…p4a7 If you want the local file system assets to have timestamps matching the last #vcs modification, then yes of course.
The GH repo works as a #Nix flake:
nix run github:alerque/git-warp-time
The version in #nixpkgs isn't 1-point-0 yet but as I said there are no major changes with that release. The 0.8.x series works just fine too ;-)

2025-12-27 19:39:27 UTC

I finally got annoyed enough with the #zerover limbo that I slapped on a v1.0.0 tag and switched to #semver for my #git utility that sets filesystem modification timestamps to the last commit that touched each file in a repository:
https://github.com/alerque/git-warp-time
No big changes, just an indication that the tool works and there is no need on the horizon to shake it up.
If you use a build system like #make that reacts to timestamps and are tired of wasted builds jump in; the water is clear of sharks.

2025-12-21 18:14:49 UTC

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@nprofile…4stm Why not just use your real editor and configs everywhere. If you are the admin then getting an nvim binary available shouldn't be a blocker.

2025-11-25 06:58:56 UTC

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@nprofile…0y34 And what about the left?

2025-11-07 23:30:37 UTC

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@nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…dcmd Arch Linux packager handling thousands of packages. We absolutely do check signatures on VCS tags when available and upstream has sane chain of custody handling. In most cases we prefer that to signed tarballs.

2025-10-22 02:53:57 UTC

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@nprofile…4t4s This is a terrible rant with little sound reasoning. You don't have to like modal editors (many people don't) but dismissing them without even touching on the main reasons for their existence is silly. Accusing Lua of having too much syntax is silly. Letting LLM agents run wild but sandboxing plugins is nonsense. Disqualifying Rust because you don't like the syntax is silly—not if you want to write your own editor but if you want to say what makes a good editor that's just orthagonal.

2025-06-15 07:17:14 UTC

When your GPT can generate multi-shot animated views from some scene that roughly resembles something you concocted in a prompt, but it can't `echo "Hello World!"`.
#ai #gpt #llm
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1933925865521598614
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/686/146/160/269/218/original/c2f25561a40edca8.png

2025-06-10 19:14:15 UTC

First they came for the em-dashes — soon after they revoked our right to thin spaces. Then they came for the ellipses… rumor even has it our so-called “curly” quotes (which in reality are just plain correct) are deemed uncouth.
Sometimes I lie awake and wonder: will they come for my beloved interobangs next‽
#typography #typesetting #llm #ai #satire

2025-05-28 15:08:28 UTC

Has anybody tried combining #gitannex with #paperless ngx? I use the former extensively for other purposes, but want some additional tooling to layer with it.
I have a genre of paper documents that I have had locked up in a proprietary app. I thought my use case was going to be short lived and at the time the tooling for managing scans was far superior in the free tier of a commercial solution, but I've definitely outgrown it and want to get this genre of my data under my own control again.

2025-04-07 18:40:26 UTC

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@nprofile…ss2n yes to dovecot. You'll need a cert for the domain the IMAP is reachable on to make client setup sane. Also pick your user authentication well because there are a plethora of methods but it isn't that easy to change later and managing users is be far the most hassle in self hosting even if it is for a handful of family members.

2025-03-26 14:07:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ssyg it is amusing and the test itself does help deflate hype. My comment was that the overwhelmingly positive way you talk about even obvious fails means for me it is *your* hype that gets deflated. I do appreciate the same tests across models and time since everybody else just posts random "wins" even if they took 100 false tries to get them.

2025-03-26 11:48:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ssyg every time I see this test and overly positive evaluations of it it, everything else you say takes on a little less meaning. This is not a "pretty solid SVG" of anything.
If this is what "pretty solid X" looks like then by your own evaluation metrics the entire LLM / Generative ML space is rubbish.

2025-03-17 12:14:33 UTC

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@nprofile…ss2n should it also bake cakes and brew coffee? Joking side that it a pretty tall order considering the current build system landscape.

2025-02-27 12:16:44 UTC

You've got to love it when somebody tries to correct your grammar by citing a Google search. The search in question shows an AI generated "answer" that cites an unrelated part of a website as a reference, but the actual title of the cited website refutes the so-called answer.
#ai #fail
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2025-01-26 14:05:25 UTC

Hearing a human process something verbally is only sometimes useful. Having a LLM pretend to think out loud at me is just absurd. #deepsek-r1 is so full of balderdash and hot air I can't even evaluate it for any potential usefulness! #llvm #ml #ai
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2025-01-24 16:49:59 UTC

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@nprofile…ss2n Is there a tool to generate an AppImage from a Flake?

2025-01-07 22:00:05 UTC

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@nprofile…mjt5 So is Brill v4 the last version with any sort of non-commercial license option?

2024-11-30 17:40:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ssyg That doesn't make any sense. It sounds like the mistake was storing localized times *not* UTC --- the later would have been trivial to recompute from later knowing the DST windows.

2024-11-24 19:54:24 UTC

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@nprofile…7ur2 This is rubbish logic. Gender as an alias for specifically human sexuality is absolutely a binary, and manliness as an adjective can have degrees. You could even have a manly woman as a reference to some attribute typically associated with men. She would still be a woman because that is a binary type not a spectrum.
In programming terms integers can be sorted and ranked, and strings can be sorted and ranked, but as far as types go they are still one or the other, never both or between.

2024-11-21 21:17:05 UTC

Where can I find The Internet™ without any #AI nonsense? It is getting harder and harder to find something as basic as coloring pages for my kids that don't have crazy-pants artifact tell tales. I want search results prejudiced against #LLM generated fluff, social media feeds without bots, a YouTube filtered for only human creativity, images of natural beauty—the natural real world with all it's warts, not the matrix.

2024-10-13 12:17:22 UTC

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@npub16uz…xx07 Imagine if all open source projects had this option and we all agreed to pass along the proceeds. All is maintainers could all get our outstanding PRs merged!

2024-10-11 08:18:58 UTC

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@npub16mt…pnwy geeqie can be configured to keep a zoom and position across images but works on directories and its own filtering, not a glob from the CLI.
I think it was `feh` that I got to do this too, but I can't remember if it was out of the box or scipting it to foo. I sometimes use `magick` to preprocess a batch of images to a specific crop location for more robust previewing (and diffing) options.

2024-09-18 10:30:22 UTC

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@npub1g07…sh3v DM me your address, I have invites.

2024-08-31 18:02:54 UTC

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@npub16uz…xx07 I'm refactoring localization libraries to change the error types. Can we be friends?

2024-06-17 19:23:54 UTC

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@npub16mt…pnwy now? The `ip` command has had colorized output for at least 15 years, probably a lot longer.

2024-05-04 11:09:22 UTC

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@npub1vr4…92wq Nice. I wonder if I can get decasify (my more general purpose multi–case/multi–locale aware library that uses yours for English Titlecase) to compile to WASM too.

2024-05-01 08:07:11 UTC

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@npub16mt…pnwy Most GUIs I am aware of use libarchive under the hood which tends to be pretty solid. What did you try? I'm curious now what test case you've got going on...

2024-04-30 16:01:53 UTC

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@npub16mt…pnwy Use `7z` or `bsdtar` or some other working implementation that can make zip files. There are many actually but `zip` is not one of them.

2024-04-29 18:43:14 UTC

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@npub1pxy…htpa Where does one sign up? Some days I probably would.