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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org certainly some strong evidence that your "No GenAI" stance got some good attention. 👍
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Tim Chase
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon 4.7.3Christian, husband, father, geek, dork behind @ed1conf
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some days it feels like this
Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au
I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:
$ rm code.rs
It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:
$ rm -rf project/
Boosted by @nixCraft@mastodon.social
xorg: 13MB
fluxbox: 40MB
xterm: 30MB each
mutt: 9MB
tmux: 9MB
ssh: 4MB
cmus: 11MB
firefox: 6.022×10²³GB
weechat: 13MB
remind: 13MB on-demand
I can't figure out where all my RAM is going…
thought of @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe when I saw this 😆
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@maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza
look at the map and see if any off-ramps are coming up
eloquently put. As much as I like FreeBSD & OpenBSD, and haven't tinkered much with NetBSD, the latter's notably-stronger stand against LLM-generated code looks more enticing each day.
(pilfered from the book-of-face quoting something from Xitter)
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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org
Any chance the installer gets updated to handle the root-on-ZFS dance documented here?
https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/
@analog_feelings@tech.lgbt
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social
• Calendar: remind(1)
• Personal finances: hledger 1.x (there's some LLM-generated code in the 2.x branch)
• Music: cmus(1) AFAICT
• Scripting/programming: shell, #awk, C
Do you happen to know the slopification-status of mutt/neomutt for mail or lynx for web-browsing?
Also, as I was typing this reply, @joel@gts.tumfatig.net shared https://noailist.org/social-networking-and-messaging/ in my feed
are your builds taking too long? Try this one simple hack:
$ CC=true make
😉
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@lpl@metalhead.club
The system is down…down under!
😆
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Ah, that satisfying feeling of cleaning up a picayune issue that has bugged you for years, and it just took editing a couple lines to smoothe out.
Today it was my remind(1) files. It defaults to putting a blank line after each reminder, but it can be suppressed with
SET $AddBlankLines 0
so I had several-but-not-all of my scripts selectively opting in to blank-line suppression. But I did want the blanks in the output that cron(8) emailed to me daily because it didn't have all my usual coloration, so the blank lines made it more readable.
Additionally, I had a msgsuffix() function that conditionally appended things like relevant context and various INFO fragments in my no-blank-lines version, but they weren't added in my emailed version. Adding it in (so my emails have that extra context/INFO) resulted in the msgsuffix() context getting added *after* the added-blank-line which meant weird line-breaks.
So about 10 minutes of cleanup, now *everything* defaults to AddBlankLines=0 and the msgsuffix() conditionally adds a newline based on that one cron-job specifying -iSEPARATE=1 which puts the newline at the place I actually want it.
remind(1) is so freaking flexible in giving me control over what I want. 🤩
If you are fast and furious at editing text in the terminal, you might be Vim Diesel.
If you are fast and furious at processing streams of text in the terminal, you might be Dwayne "The Awk" Johnson
If you are fast and furious using a command-line in general, you might be My Shell Rodriguez.
If you are fast and furious at trying to determine the attributes of a JavaScript datafile, you might be JSON stat(2)ham
If you are fast and furious about showing today's date in context, you might be cal(1) Gadot.
$DAYJOB frustrations
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe adding my voice to the chorus of thanks for keeping it a friendly place!
got this in my feed this morning and it felt just a bit too close to reality
dumb¹-but-appreciative-thanks to you…
popping around your blog, it has the bog-standard hyperlink and :visited coloration so it was easy to tell which links in an article I'd already read (or opened in another tab) vs those I hadn't.
So thanks!
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¹ "dumb" because it's the default behavior of browsers, but too many sites override that default in the name of style/visual-aesthetics
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Seconding @drscriptt@oldbytes.space's suggestion here. But running with @bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org's, the #awk syntax would be similar:
awk '/-A/,/^$/'
or
awk '/-A/,!length'
@jpaskaruk@growers.social
Huzzah! I've been slowly moving my #plaintextaccounting workflow from the appears-to-be-sloppifying ledger(1) to hledger(1) which @simonmic@fosstodon.org seems to lovingly maintain by hand.
One of the reports I've run on occasion is a monthly (-M) or weekly (-W) breakdown of average-spending in particular categories¹. But there were some quirky edges in ledger(1) that meant that running the report for a parent category didn't roll up all the child-categories under it (so using the "-3"-style depth-limiting ended up only printing things at that level, excluding deeper child postings). So my saved command was a convoluted pipeline like
$ ledger print $PARENT_CATEGORY | sed 'substitution that strips off the child-categories with duplicated strings from $PARENT_CATEGORY' | ledger -f - reg -AM
It was a pain to play around with exploration because I had to update the parent and child-parent-stripping parts of the thing rather than just update it once.
I went to run the same report in hledger and tested the naïve command that I'd originally wanted, and it worked like a charm:
$ hledger -f wrapper.txt register Expenses:Household:Food -AM -3
Want to check average grocery-spend for each week?
$ hledger -f wrapper.txt register Expenses:Household:Food:Grocery -AW -4
compared with takeout?
$ hledger -f wrapper.txt register Expenses:Household:Food:Takeout -AW -4
And it delightfully answers the "How much does our household spend on food per month/weekly?" with much less effort than before. 🤗
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¹ In case you're curious, it works out to ~$145/wk for groceries and $54/wk for takeout, or just a little over $200/wk average to feed our family of four (or about $2.40/person/meal).
Counting to 1023 in binary on your hands, using emoji:
0) ✊
1) 👍
2) ☝️
3) 👆
4) 🖕
⋮
6) ✌️
⋮
17) 🤙
18) 🤘
19) 🤟
⋮
31) 🖐️
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1023) 👐
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online
Sometimes the only way to learn the dangers is to get burned. Despite countless people warning "fire is hot and will hurt you" (or "trusting LLMs with untrusted data/sources is dangerous"), playing with fire is the slippery slope.
"pRoMpT eNgInEeRiNg" is a myth. Nothing about capital-E-Engineering applies to the process of crafting prompts. A prompt that works on one LLM might fail on another. Or might fail if the same LLM upgrades its model. Or even if it happens to run at a different time of day. It shares more resemblance with alchemy or astrology than Engineering.
Occasionally I wonder whether the band Sabaton really just started as an attempt to learn history for school, but the group project got out of hand. 🤔
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Perhaps track the "used genAI" as a package attribute, much like the license, allowing people to instruct the package manager to only install from packages with allowed terms (e.g. "no AGPL" or "no genAI")?
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@jpaskaruk@growers.social
Hah, I'd wondered about that, so if you're grepping for "jpaskaruk" and want that variable-after, you could either
… | sed -n '/jpaskaruk/,/^$/p'
or
… | awk '/jpaskaruk/,/^$/'
@drscriptt@oldbytes.space @bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online
You know that part in horror movies where the teens start dabbling in the dark arts, messing with powers they don't comprehend, under the guise of fulfilling their selfish desires…only to end up opening a portal and summoning destructive evil upon our realm?
Yeah, I'm largely fine with the a few of those teens getting self-inflicted injuries if they attempt to dabble in the dark arts. 🤷
looking over the lad's HS physics notes and free-body diagrams, I see the force of gravity (Fg), the force of friction (Ffric), the normal force (Fn), and the applied force (Fap). The junior-high boy in me can't help but snicker with puerile amusement.
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@jtheo@hachyderm.io
bahahahaa…
Wait, let me check my Feel-Sorry-For-Them-o'meter:
0% 🮇🮇▐░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 100%
Okay, yeah, pretty sure I can laugh about it. Bahahahahahaha… 😆
Ah, the trustworthiness of modern LLMs…
Oh, learned a lovely little Firefox+uBlock trick today.
Apparently, if an HTML element has a shared name="…" value across multiple , they act as an accordion…opening one will close all the others.
This drives me bonkers. If I wanted to close a element, I'd click on it and close it.
So in your uBlock settings, you can add the following rule
*##details[name]:remove-attr(name)
and it will remove the "name" attribute from all elements on every site and I never have to deal with accordioning again. 🎉
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
# Email from US parcel delivery company:
Your parcel has left the distributor on the east cost. Your parcel has arrived at our warehouse on the west coast. Your parcel has arrived at our shipping facility in the center of the US. Your parcel is out for delivery near your home on the east coast. We've delivered your package, and here's photo proof of the package on a front stoop that isn't your house.
😑
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@mboelen@mastodon.social
I find them fun.
Choosing a dialect can be a challenge, but if using a site like regex101.com, you can choose the engine per-challenge.
But I'd stick to grep's BRE or ERE, or possibly Perl's PCRE2 for broadest applicability.
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@golemwire
it's crossed my FB feed from three different sources and I've seen several copies of it on Reddit beyond the text-only version I shared. Not sure where else it has traveled, but it certainly had legs.
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I'm not quite sure what I think about implementing Doom in a regular-expression.
https://4rh1t3ct0r7.github.io/doom-regex/
There's something unholy about the mere concept.
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@mwl@io.mwl.io
"…and if you want to avoid me, and you're in Seattle, this is your chance to go somewhere else."
Happy 15th birthday to my daily-driver laptop. still ticking away. Hard-drive upgraded to an SSD, RAM upgraded, but otherwise, still running FreeBSD well.
World Cup COL vs SUI for those who understand these things?
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
wait, "follow a group"? I must have missed something here. What are groups? How are they created/managed?
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services this is such an obviously-useful feature…I remember struggling with "I like what this person personally posts but they retweet too much stuff I don't care a whit for" over on :birdsite:
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange
Please take care of yourself…this document is liable to inflict mental damage on readers 😆
It's like the authors haven't ever read an actual proper RFC-formatted document. Definition-lists where there's no visual delineation between the term and the definition. And it all seems like a roundabout way of just accessing /.well-known/agent-card.json via HTTP(S) 😑
It's been a while since I've read an RFC this…unfortunate.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange I love how the draft-sources and issues can be tracked at a proprietary site (GitHub) under /USER/REPO and contacts are at example.com
The whole thing feels lacking in attention-to-detail which makes it a bit disgraceful for an official RFC proposal. 😑
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems
while not blind here, I use remind(1), a command-line application for my calendar and occasionally use it within a screen reader (last time I tested, I used yasr+flite in a console). A few of the remind features I appreciate in a screen-reader:
• the ability to customize reminder output makes a world of difference. Even simple things like ordinal determination ("John's 21st birthday" rather than "John's birthday, born 2005")
• the ability to use any text-editor to edit the calendar, whether vi/vim, emacs, ed, nano, or something in the GUI
• the ability to separate reminders from their metadata presentation. I can make my reminders more terse depending on context. I can include certain calendars ("I just want my personal calendar, birthdays/anniversaries, work, and my family members' calendars, not finances, chores, etc")
• and because it's all text, I can pipe output to other programs to mail my agenda to my phone or grep it, or use the machine-readable output format to pipe to grep or other programs to ingest it
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space
Do your options improve if you use UTF-16 or UTF-32 (whether BE or LE) encoding of the emoji?