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Getting my pinhole camera ready for the solar eclipse. Two pinholes of different sizes, so two Suns on the screen (unfortunately, I can't afford a trip to a dual solar system). #solareclipse #pinhole #pinholecamera

@BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza @dbattistella@mstdn.ca we also don't know how many of them get destroyed before scanning, so completely lost even for a digital copy.

@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social @JuniPers@mastodon.art @LisaSaarloos@mastodon.art @bert_hubert@mastodon.nl @brmkstr@mastodon.nl Why do you need to seek for an excuse here? The admins are clearly in the wrong here.

@never_released@mastodon.social has anyone seen an itanium server in the wild?

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social did they even have sex back then?

@ammaratef45@social.coop I've got another account @clackups@social.noleron.com where I put all my experiments in accessibility. For example, I modified a keyboard firmware to be usable with one hand (but there's an option to do the remapping in the OS, so you don't really have to buy the new hardware). So, tell us more about your needs and we will figure something out. What's your primary OS? What do you do mostly, is it typing, or mouse work, like CAD? Will you continue working at your desk, or we need to think about a different workplace? There are also good Reddit communities. I like the disabledgamers the most.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it kinda only works in rare cases when your job allows it. Even a cashier in the supermarket needs an email, as most of billing and purchasing is now online :)

@mntmn@mastodon.social @holo_memory@mastodon.gamedev.place sweet. Does it have a way to attach a stand for a phone or a small screen device, like one of these, for example? https://github.com/clackups/draftling/tree/main/images

@mntmn@mastodon.social @holo_memory@mastodon.gamedev.place Also, posted on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/s/prLKrF5lTB #writerdeck #cyberdeck

@EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie @torf@c.im oh shit, I didn't know this crap is as popular as Peppa Pig. Makes me sad.

@TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt @nixCraft@mastodon.social hold on, how did he login to the clanker without an email address?

@saddestrobots@jorts.horse @EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie she's literally wearing a KGB uniform hat.

@kwahoo@101010.pl @rc2014@oldbytes.space @concretedog@mastodon.social aha, good spotting. Also, those small draft repos where I was lazy to put any license.

@JennyList@mastodon.social@mntmn@mastodon.social are you hiring?

@catmisgivings@stranger.social @ammaratef45@social.coop @clackups@social.noleron.com with Cyrillic or Asian languages, it's more difficult, as the standard keyboard HID interface sends physical key positions from an ANSI keyboard, not utf-8 characters. We're basically using the IBM PC keyboard standard from 40+ years ago.

@catmisgivings@stranger.social @ammaratef45@social.coop @clackups@social.noleron.com Yes, but it would only work for English. Anyone using other languages has to stick to QWERTY.

@littlealex@infosec.exchange leider, die Realität ist ganz anders. Niemand in Russland will die Verantwortung.

@glyph@mastodon.social I agree it's a dilemma, and I hope that the bubble bursts soon. Also, if I had to pay the full price of LLM, I'd refrain from using it at all. In my defense, these are nonprofit projects for the public good. They can easily be continued without the slop engine.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social you Americans are funny. We use round USB sockets. Much more practical.

@ricci@discuss.systems @phairupegiont@mastodon.social how about heating up the rocks instead of the air? It's about +20C inside the mountain, and nobody would complain if you make it warmer.

@concretedog@mastodon.social @libreoffice@fosstodon.org well, I verified the images before using them :)

@concretedog@mastodon.social @libreoffice@fosstodon.org awesome. Indeed it took a while last time I needed to generate one. I found a website that didn't ask for registration or anything.

@dev@discuss.systems in the meantime, undervalued male goose:

@baibold@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social you're just being lazy. Everyone can become a tenured professor if they want to.

@saddestrobots@jorts.horse @EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie you're either illiterate, or a pro-russia troll, which is even worse.

@saddestrobots@jorts.horse @EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie and it takes 30 second to find out about May 8/9 celebrations in different countries and what the difference is.

@ricci@discuss.systems @phairupegiont@mastodon.social digging would be expensive, and of course the water is cheaper.

@ricci@discuss.systems @phairupegiont@mastodon.social rather, a joke. My point was rather, those who live there, and also the nature, don't have much influence on those decisions.

@ricci@discuss.systems @phairupegiont@mastodon.social it kinda doesn't belong to anyone...

@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot @dev@discuss.systems the future is now

@dalias@hachyderm.io @glyph@mastodon.social nope, it synthesizes a lot, but it's a new piece of software. The clankers have advanced pretty much in the past couple of years.

@juliehuz@mastodon.world @neatnik@social.lol well, but the baker made a significant effort in making a nice cake, knowing that it will be ruined and the customer will want the money back. I would just refuse to take the order instead.

@jonny@neuromatch.social which LLM engine was that? I vibecoded a few hobby projects in Claude, and the experience was much less frustrating than what you described. But yes, it kept forgetting things until I asked it to update agents.md, and there were a few moments, like, here's a set of methods that will implement what you want, but currently they're empty. So I had to ask the clanker explicitly to actually implement them. It's also inconsistent in structuring the code: sometimes it splits the code in files and components nicely, sometimes it just dumps everything in one file. Often it forgets to update the documentation until I ask it explicitly. So, it's really a junior on crack. The clanker is able to spew tons of code, but you need to actually check if it's worth anything.

@billgoats@bitbang.social @middaparka@godforsaken.website so it needs a special paper? Is it easy to buy?

@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange awesome. Check it out, there are already esp32-s3 with displays at about the same price. Much more memory, so more stuff could be made with them. Also, they can work as a USB device.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @glyph@mastodon.social here, you can try proving your claim yourself: https://github.com/clackups/draftling

@dalias@hachyderm.io I assume you didn't open my link

@dalias@hachyderm.io so, you made a bold claim, but you refuse to prove it on a rather limited code base. It just means that our discussion doesn't make any sense in the first place.

@glyph@mastodon.social @dalias@hachyderm.io I am not aware of this, and I'm trying to oppose the previous commenter's statement.

@dalias@hachyderm.io no, I'm just saying that it's a useful tool in an experienced engineer's hands. Everything else is your own assumption.

@glyph@mastodon.social I wouldn't have started those projects, as they need a lot of work. The clanker did the heavy lifting, so now we have the tools I wanted to create one day.

@dalias@hachyderm.io I made a useful product that I'd never make by myself, as it would take months to code. I reviewed the code and steered the clanker from its mistakes. It is a new piece of software. If anyone finds a plagiarized piece of code, I'll be glad to add the credits. I don't even need to defend myself, the code is free and there are users already.

@glyph@mastodon.social besides, Starlinks are the only reliable means of communication at the front lines in Ukraine. Even that they sponsor Musk, they're saving lives. The world is fucked, and we have to use a tool that works right now.

@dalias@hachyderm.io there's one significant difference from human written code: the amount of comments. Humans don't document as much as the machine. It helps the machine in adding more code and it helps a human understand the logic. So, my bald claim is that it's a useful tool that's not going away any time soon, so it's alright to utilize it if you know what you're doing.

@neatnik@social.lol but how are they even possible to make? Is the baker illiterate?

@glyph@mastodon.social (a software architect with 30 years in the industry here) I have also made a few prototypes that would take me forever to code by hand. Claude just made them in a few hours. Honestly, I wouldn't even have started most of them. My outcome is different from what Elissa says. It's been fun at first, as I didn't use LLM before, and it's still fun now, as one of the projects is production ready, and I'm actually using it. The others aren't ready, but only because the engineering task is difficult and I haven't figured out the solution yet. But it's still fun. Of course there are boring parts, like telling the clanker that it forgot to update the documentation, or other things, and please update your bloody agents.md so that you remember next time. So, overall, it's been a useful tool for me and it saved me tons of time. Awesome result for side projects that will never be commercialized.

@dalias@hachyderm.io so, another bold claim without any ground.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social also, people forget about remote backups