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  wtf ubuntu is refusing to just install a freakin stupid python module claiming it's "externally managed" blabla bla "make an env first" can the distribution please keep its grabby hands out of my programming languages stacks good thing I greatly dislike python and don't use it if I can avoid it.

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  and don't freakin' @ me I'm having this discussion LITERALLY since the dawn of time when you had to ask the system administrator of the web host to modernize a perl module for you...

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  things I want to do * micro/smol/tiny everything * frugal platforms and smol clouds * testing, checking, verifying tls out of things * do stuff with sqlite * make a kafka/nats lite? * make a nomad/k8s lite? * lite S3??? * align scheduling shit on linux AND bsd * ARM something something * refresh my C, improve my zig and my assembly is non-existent * guixify my slackware * scheme smthng smthng * netbsd's microvms * firecracker? * wissenswertes ueber erlang(en) * write a window manager

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  hm I guess k3s is already a very nice "kubernetes lite" so I can remove this from the list. Highly recommended - I'm using it for years with anything and everything - locally on my laptop as dev env, in CI/CD, for entire clusters "the big way", for mini-clusters with only 3-5 nodes... It's real nice.

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  kubernetes is one of those love/hate relationships but in the end the practicality and usefulness really wins for me over and over. it really clicked for me once I viewed it as a software developer's thing for software scheduling and there's some serious cool architecture hidden in it. k8s exposes "itself" in a manner only surpassed by databases it's exemplary with its meta-data (tagging, labeling is SO valuable) handling kubectl as a CLI is spectab...

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  I have a new book "Analog Computing" with cool pics and lots of math 😂

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  couldn't sleep tonight but now I know everything about classic scottish oat fermentation and found a really interesting miso shop and know about amazake which I didn't before.

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  #vegan (and other) cuisine maybe pretentious hipshit or extremely yummy (or both haha): fancy miso and shoju shop https://mimiferments.com/ (#berlin shop osramhoefe) my miso usage tip: miso glazes for grilled veggies. going to test shoju for bean chilies to improve the flavour.

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  eyeing for 20 hours now a plant milk maker I want to have but have absolutely no room for. but I love nutmilks :(

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  this is a pretty good article echoing a lot of my personal thoughts about how my UI should work and behave https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official I also want better project coordination of my apps, I hate my browser it's a sore thumb GUI app in my sea of fancy terminal apps - most of which can't display pics however and OMG can this please PLEASE be easier to configure. I also want a swatches/palette concept for my UI to reflect different behaviors because java...

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  so I like testing a lot I'm thinking a "mc/dc" (hipp's slqlite talk - testing) but in ac/dc style FOR THOSE ABOUT TO TEST WE SALUTE YOU ;)

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

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  what LLM usage drives home for me is giving a flying fuck about "but you have to do/use X, it's best practice/nobody knows Z/there a framework for it" and really go back to doing programming with programming like you know actually doing "the code" however I (we) think is right and good with whatever language I (we) think is nice and a pleasure to work with because it's my (our) freaking shit and I (we) can do whatever I (we) want prior art would be janestreet/tigerbe...

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  teleprompter is available as a job description maybe senior cyber teleprompter

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  Just so we're clear - before you think that the big re-hiring is about "AI doesn't work" - judging by job ads and offers I'm getting - it's "throwing more AI engineers onto AI" your old job won't come back in the next 5 years at least - if ever - and even if it's backfilled, it'll be "AI DevOps" or "AI Release Engineering" or "AI Engineering". If there's big hiring, it'll also be big re-shuffling.

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  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 alr...

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  I've learned over the last 2 weeks during my quest to teach people to use LLMs to not use LLMs ;) that a lot of people just don't know how they didn't know what a thing like shell one liners exists (and that there's a ton of websites about it) they didn't know that they can give it a name (alias) they didn't know that you can treat your computer like a database (osquery) they aren't even used to old school asking "I want to do this thing and then this and th...

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  spectacular AWS billing incident where people are seeing BILLION dollar high estimates omg https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_skyrocketed_from_around_5_cents_per/ edit: SEVEN TRILLION

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  I'm VERY curious (if you can tell me) if and how your company does local-and-smol models - did folks just get a chunk of openrouter (or equivalent) to try all the models or did folks just get a handful of GPUs and llama'd it all into place or... I'm particular interested in regular/small/average companies and their decision making process around this IF you decided to actually use LLMs

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  I have a feeling that it won't be "more Claude" that's deciding over whether or not LLMs are "here to stay" but DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Mistral etc etc Any regular, average company who actually WANTS to have LLMs is IMHO better off with the other models - or even chooses to go local-&-mini models, purpose-made which don't cost you an arm and a leg of qualified developer. Set aside the choice with whom to do business or run it yourself entirely. It seems Germ...

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  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 Lat...

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  isn't getting away from rms reason enough for human-emacs usage why wait for an AI policy

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  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

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  Thinking about harnesses (again): any language which has smooth and cheap spawning/forking/co-whatevering is awesomely suited for all the sub-agent concepts I know totally obvious but it made me realize (again) the power of shell'n'tools and how fast a harness in let's say erlang could actually scaffold something pretty big etc etc I also realize (again) how many things could be formalized in the harness without ever touching an LLM Really sharpens "timeless" programmin...

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  looking at the #cobol first person shooter and it's surprisingly readable https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/blob/main/fps.cob

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  me too donnie, me too... #donchonk #caturday

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  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.

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  @summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk Alcohol - we sell the rot in stylish bottles and raise a tax on it

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  As a Linux user for 30 years now, I'm available for somewhat opinionated advice if (in particular women) you have questions. emphasis on polical choices to the best of my best knowledge. advice strongly "it has to work for YOU and YOU have to like it" flavoured. AMA.

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  well my name isn't claudia but I am as capable as a large language model and have attracted men and women with my linguistic capabilities and made them fall in love also, my availability is still better.