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2026-10-01T13:28:47Z

cloud in a shoe box (my size) is my future vision of computering ;)

what inspired me this week: ...

2026-10-01T13:19:16Z

what inspired me this week: [@littlefedi_official](https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official )

I LOVE smol, frugal and tiny computing.

pretty sure hardware will stay outrageously expensive so I've ...

2026-09-16T09:06:12Z

pretty sure hardware will stay outrageously expensive so I've started running some platforming experiments at home, on htpcs and old laptops.

what's a htpc/laptop-equivalent sized ARM thing I could get for more experiments in "frugal computing"? (does it even do anything for using less "resources"?)

is there a data center vendor offering "smol" already?

susi versus LLM ends with a land slide for susi who found the ...

2026-09-09T10:18:18Z

susi versus LLM ends with a land slide for susi who found the issue with ONE look at logs within 5 seconds and notified the respective teams to fix their stuff

logs ppl. so awesome. and sometimes knowing your own platform helps too 😂

so why I still/again use #slackware is the excellent base ...

2026-09-05T07:30:43Z

so why I still/again use #slackware is the excellent base collection of packages, the recent versions, no systemd and it's design focused on leaving every piece of software "as is", super simple packaging I can easily add, absolutely ZERO fluff added, absolutely super stable, you can still understand the whole system, no snapflataptpackyum and almost "complete" for my personal taste.

I usually just add some of my fancy CLI tools I like and the container bla and I'm done.

there's a post going around with somebody trying to convince ...

2026-08-30T09:10:02Z

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there's a post going around with somebody trying to convince people to look into kernel/systems open source stuff because they need skilled devs by first claiming UI is easy and then literally calling people webshits.

not that I had any illusion that this area of computing changed their attitude...

looking down on UI development and calling web devs ...

2026-08-30T08:59:44Z

looking down on UI development and calling web devs "webshits" is not really a convincing argument to convince anyone to dive into kernel/systems programming.

possibly it's this attitude and horrible culture which made many developers avoid this area of open source in the first place.

but what do I know as a former UI idiot, ex-webshit and dumb humanities major about REAL programming and REAL computers...

(I get this since 1994. nothing has changed apparently.)

(I'm kind of furious about discussions popping up again even ...

2026-08-29T14:55:28Z

(I'm kind of furious about discussions popping up again even though they were clear since the 1940ies)

you MUST NOT separate "the work" from "the man". (see violet blue's old essay "but he does such good work")

leni riefenstahl was NOT a great director no matter how innovative the camera because it was nazi propaganda.

pollock was NOT a great artist because he beat his wife and no level of artistry can erase that

so no piece of software can ever attain such greatness to erase public racism.

"prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated ...

2026-08-03T13:15:24Z

"prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code" is the most absurd headline I've seen this year

This implicit class-based thinking "my language is better ...

2026-07-29T10:33:28Z

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This implicit class-based thinking "my language is better than yours" "my area of computing is harder than yours" "I'm doing X therefore I'm the cooler hacker", "HTML isn't a real language", "web development isn't programming", "mysql isn't a real database" was already ridiculous in 1995 and is inacceptable and devastating to the ALL of us in 2026.

And people mean it even when pretending being coy about it "it's just a joke ha ha" and it's despicable.

On the subject of looking for a new job: I'm VERY put off by ...

2026-07-29T10:28:01Z

On the subject of looking for a new job:

I'm VERY put off by fedihire posts which go like "I want to do X (X usually being Rust) but I would EVEN do Y which I haven't done in 20 years ha ha" (Y usually being PHP or Java).

Are people actually still thinking this is a cool and acceptable attitude to belittle PHP (or Java or MySQL or..)??

This makes me so SO angry because we ARE DOING IT TO EACH OTHER. Like the software industry as a whole doesn't have enough problems already...

I've also changed my mind what I advise "beginners": ...

2026-07-20T20:44:01Z

I've also changed my mind what I advise "beginners":

I've realized that - looking at the (partially really smart) shell usage of harnesses/LLMs - I'm back favoring the old hardcore sysadmin of olden days approach: learn the technology up and down, the applications, learn one programming language really well (maybe even still C?) but most importantly: get really really good at "shell" and you'll still beat the LLM usage of your coworkers BY FAR

with the modern addition of e.g. jq

I'm certainly at a loss how to argue for the VERY steep and ...

2026-07-16T09:54:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…wa34
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I'm certainly at a loss how to argue for the VERY steep and thorny learning curve for "actually learning computering" and then having to be honest and say "it takes a decade"

So I've had two tiny mini micro successes with teaching to ...

2026-07-16T09:48:55Z

So I've had two tiny mini micro successes with teaching to use LLMs much less in the sense of "only once instead of repeatedly" basically by teaching a mix of "automation - so useful!" and Alan Keys idea of writing more DSLs per project (which easily translates into Shell or Python scripts)

I couldn't convince any of the juniors however to really dig into shell scripting and spent the effort on learning it for real.

To them, it's like argueing that learning Latin from the ground up is useful.

your "good old times when the internet was awesome and great ...

2026-07-15T21:34:17Z

your "good old times when the internet was awesome and great code was written" are my "ultra-sexist assholes on the internet and being asked at great code events who my boyfriend is" times.

maybe a little less reminiscing and a bit more reflection

imagine a different trajectory of LLMs like in support of science ...

2026-06-21T14:36:07Z

imagine a different trajectory of LLMs like in support of science and with radical opt-in for all the training materials and using green data centers all the way and first have invested into local and small models and just a pinch of better critical thinking and god forbid maybe even international collaboration and just skipping repeating history...

this is a choice we didn't make and I'm sure the reason is the distinct anti-science and anti-intellectual direction countries are taking

let's assume for a second that LLMs will actually stay, get ...

2026-06-21T10:09:47Z

let's assume for a second that LLMs will actually stay, get good and turn out to be really useful and that this is the beginning of a next industrial revolution..

does anybody remember what the beginning of the first one had cost us? in nature destruction, pollution, in human death and sickness not to mention war?

and then it took 50 years to fight for basic labour regulation, for not sending children to the mines and another 150 years to come almost to our senses and start cleaning this up?

Here are two articles I think are reading-worthy if you are ...

2026-06-18T09:27:47Z

Here are two articles I think are reading-worthy if you are interested in some ideas where LLM things might be going:

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/

https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/

This somewhat aligns with the general vibe I'm getting from reading HN threads which are sounding distinctively "sobering up".

Haven't seen a hype thread in weeks.

some wise words about operations and reliability in this #haskell ...

2026-03-31T02:58:13Z

some wise words about operations and reliability in this #haskell https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/ article which basically isn't even really about haskell

(it's really good you know the stuff we liked before and then bookmarked it even)

set aside programming and local tasks like movie watching ...

2026-03-27T16:43:28Z

set aside programming and local tasks like movie watching I've moved everything onto "web" since 1995 when I wrote letters to my landlord in HTML formatted in TABLE and printed from the browser.

I 1000% declare "the web" a) my home, b) open and c) simple and for everybody because "a website" ("homepage") is still doable by hand in 15 minutes to publish information and LINK to other information so it turns into "a web".

The web is imho one of the most versatile things we have. I'll keep it.

#slackware is still without systemd. and "current" really ...

2026-03-21T09:52:01Z

#slackware is still without systemd. and "current" really is current.

when the software industry is swept away and all that's left ...

2026-03-14T21:30:55Z

when the software industry is swept away and all that's left actually IS "artisanal computing" I'm going back to my user interface experiments, finally write my own window manager and do squishy circuits and *gasp* what used to be media art in the late 90ies, toy with 2D javascript and lesser known programming languages and my website will use tables to arrange things again.

this is an interesting article about LLM generated code (an ...

2026-03-07T09:06:18Z

this is an interesting article about LLM generated code (an sqlite rewrite in rust) and the difference between "it works" and "it's good". also interesting database stuff :)

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

I'm still envisioning a federated kind of peer-to-peer search ...

2026-01-23T13:04:17Z

I'm still envisioning a federated kind of peer-to-peer search engine where we share quality information with each.

hm I see posts like `markdown` is already supported? foopost ...

2026-01-04T14:55:02Z

hm I see posts like `markdown` is already supported? *foopost* _bardown_?

I'm glad that you are here. I find the shrinking cosmos for ...

2025-12-11T12:06:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…vtg7
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I'm glad that you are here. I find the shrinking cosmos for all of us so horrible, I miss all my Internet friends and spontaneous travel dearly.

please don't go away (mentally) - I'll gladly look at a post equivalent of watching paint dry or old cardboard as long as you're all still here.

I don't have any capacity left for anything "interesting" either so I just say "look, a database!" three times a week, that'll have to do at the moment.

it somewhat recovered with strange new worlds - spok the early ...

2025-12-04T22:59:48Z

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it somewhat recovered with strange new worlds - spok the early years IS entertaining :)

I miss well designed villains like garak :)

what I really like about star trek TNG and DS9 is the effort they ...

2025-12-04T21:23:33Z

what I really like about star trek TNG and DS9 is the effort they put into fleshing out cultures. adding history and a proper back story.

obvious take, why didn't I think of this 😂 (source ...

2025-11-21T17:26:58Z

obvious take, why didn't I think of this 😂

(source unknown, let me know if you know :)

the chonk, groomed neatly #donchonk #caturday ...

2025-09-27T14:01:49Z

the chonk, groomed neatly #donchonk #caturday