the unspoken third leg of the FOSS tripod

Ok but @hikikomorphism.bsky.social's metacog was 2 months ago and involved drugs and rituals recursion.wtf/posts/jit_on...

A The Format™ has been a running bit with Sina since before Bluesky and I’m a little sad that the carousel kills it.

> This study—which analyzes the commenting behavior of Reddit users across diverse cultural contexts (subreddits)—tests the alternative hypothesis that such incivility derives in large part from a selection effect: Toxic people are especially likely to opt into discourse in partisan contexts.

in a sense, the 'stochastic parrot' meme belies what a monumental achievement it would still be if we truly compressed the entire internet into a few hundred billion parameters with multi-language NLP search over the contents

OpenAI Privacy Filter a 1.5B-A50M encoder-only transformer that labels private information small & fast enough to run in a browser huggingface.co/openai/priva...

This is insane (laudatory) in the best possible way

This is delightfully awesome. @nandi.latha.org built an Obsidian plugin that lets you connect into @chadfowler.com's modern IRC implementation, @freeq.at Full atproto auth, works great!

This is pretty incredible!

This goes for me as well.

Your community deserves its own platform. acorn.blacksky.community

Something something branding

Read David Imel’s summary of ATmosphereConf, a recent gathering of folks building on the AT Protocol: “this conference is nerdy, it’s niche, and most of the people here think they might just save the internet” davidimel.substack.com/p/bluesky-is...

the fun part of this post is i think it’s supposed to be a dunk on @why.bsky.team but it’s actually just an excellent post and is representative of exactly what he wanted to achieve lmao

v1.121 is live! We've increased the quality of photos in posts by doubling the max file size to 2MB and the resolution limit to 4000x4000. Plus, posts with multiple photos now appear in a carousel so you can show off your photography in all its glory.

so it turns out polars_readstat only uses the 32-bit version of polars, and this dataset has 13 billion rows, so that's not going to work. should have used duckdb like i suggested

i think it's pretty weird to bring in who someone may or may not be married to because you're mad at them for not wanting to be harassed.

i'm watching a process slowly start to eat up RAM on a server with 2 TB of memory and wondering at when I should kill it. It's at 22% and climbing now.

Crashing out for getting blocked makes you weird, but anyone who doxxes them for it is a very sad and small person

i think you should be able to block whoever you want boundaries are healthy and you don’t have a right to free access to yell at people

gemma 4 is...good. its so good in fact that i can run my harness which writes typescript snippets for tool calling _and_ writes its own typescript for its own custom tools just fine at good tps. great reasoning, easily does consecutive calls, and all from my closet

in the last few days i have built a personal assistant agent that runs entirely on a local model (Gemma4:27b) and it only has one tool available to it (execute_code). if it wants to do anything else, it has to write code and save it for future use.

nobody cares that loud accounts don’t like AI, they care that people are lying about in ways that misinform other people as capabilities very obviously grow, this has a very strong tendency towards conspiracism and the kind of siege mentality that serves no one well

this post, about an entirely reasonable, optional, personal, non-generative use of AI *still* attracting weird hate is what people are talking about when they say some people are nuts about this stuff

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

the thing about vibe coded sites is that they don't need to look generic if you just give the LLM some basic guardrails. for example this blog that i've only ever posted to once doesn't look generic because I gave it some basic guidance

This was lightly tongue-in-cheek but something that I do struggle with is that I am told over and over again to prioritize the white working class while that block has voted to make my life and the lives of the people I love worse. Why shouldn’t I advocate for me instead?

True badge of honour

I asked Claude who the most prolific semble.so users were (over the last 6 weeks or so) and it had a bit to say about @gov.glados.computer's collections.

Sorry man, the PMC is the only one showing the willingness to fight for America as a concept and we have to hand it to them for that

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

i need someone to give skywatch takedown abilities just for 30 seconds

saying something is even worse than not because you're basically just saying "2% of you won't get what you paid for".

All of the Hasan discourse on all sides should have to stare at this poll until they understand they are terminally online freaks who are frothing over shit that has no impact materially. Please just fight republicans and donate to dems.

update: they didn't listen

Oh. Yeah this fixes it.

we all know I have no life, so:

If you just find your people and get on enough blocklists from the obnoxious part of the community, this place is fucking great

I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can now get usable text, slides, academic papers Look at what it does with my "otter test"! (Zoom in)

I created a PA bot that runs on my framework using Gemma4 and can write it's own tools. Notably, I gave it the name Johnson, so I message it with things like "Johnson, I'm meeting clients for drinks tonight at <ZIP>, what are my options".

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

Initial reactions to Hermes: It’s a good way to spend a lot of money very quickly. It’s not my preferred way of working, because I don’t have great visibility into what it is doing.

So is BPE (for NLP). It's always crazy to me that these came out at roughly the same time. aclanthology.org/P16-1162/

yep: one of the reasons i want to nip the "stabbed in the back" myth now is that it gets Americans an excuse to avoid reining in the boys in Tampa in CENTCOM

added attention to my memory adapter's writer and the model suddenly started being able to reproduce multi-token phrases verbatim using just the adapter attention really is all you need, huh

1L / Debate Club brain: it's not so much bad faith as arguing to win the argument on points, not merits. Law is not so much concerned about being correct in a common sense as it is with being right within the logic of the law

It sometimes blows my mind that Attention is All You Need is only 9 years old

Unironically you need to hire weird catgirls from bluesky. Take your HR team and fire them and just directly hire the weirdos from bluesky who do AI stuff.

The people making the most advances in applied agentics and AI are weird transfemmes on bluesky

So for reasons*, I have two wallets. One is a small one that I carry most of the time and has most of my important cards in it, and a larger porter wallet that I'd no gotten around to cleaning out, but still had a few important things in it. *gender