rogersm

kommen, 11 days ago to emacs German

:emacs: for a while running a part of Germany’s Air Traffic Control system after the country’s reunification is what sweetend my breakfast today.

Plus, this is the plain truth: «In Germany, a Herr Doktor is always right»

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsStories#h5o-3

(via https://irreal.org/)

#Emacs #Lisp

amoroso, 22 days ago to random

Rate my Lisp Machine setup and share yours.

Medley Online session on an Intel i7 1.8 GHz ASUS Chromebox 3 with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.

#interlisp #LispMachine #ChromeOS

A wooden desk with a black keyboard, a black mouse, and a flat LCD monitor with a black webcam on top, The screen shows the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and some windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. At the left of the desk can be partly seen a wooden bookcase with two shelves. On the bottom shelf are a black computer with a mini PC form factor and a white and gray smart speaker.

bagder, 25 days ago to random

In the #curl project, being written in C, we always work on simplifying the code. One way is to use more internal helper functions and avoid direct use of some functions that are often involved in C mistakes/vulnerabilities.

To measure how this develops, we count number of these function calls used per every thousand lines of code. Over time.
In a graph.

jpmens, 1 month ago to random

@iscdotorg is the authors[] array in bin/named/builtin.c actually maintained / up-to-date? 🙂

rogersm, 30 days ago to random

I really liked this post from @reidrac on Corporate Open Source:

More GPL and less CLAs

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/more-gpl-and-less-clas/

grumpygamer, 1 month ago to random

AI has uses in games, generating mindless lazy content is not one of them.

/cc @simon

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

jpmens, 1 month ago to random

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amoroso, 1 month ago to Lisp

Are you going to European Lisp Symposium 2024?

I have a favor to ask you. Please tell the Lispers there if any of them writes a Common Lisp book I'll be more than happy to buy it, back a kickstarter, spread the voice, and support the author any way I can.

This is just one data point but my hunch is many Lispers are like me.

#els2024 #els #CommonLisp #lisp

jpmens, 1 month ago to random

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glennf, 1 month ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

I am down to 28 copies (as of May 28) of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a letterpress-printed book in an edition of 425. The book traces printing with type before Gutenberg through the present day across all technological developments. Typeset in hot metal in North Yorkshire, printed in London, bound in Germany, the hardcover book is covered in green cloth and comes in a slipcase of the same fabric. https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Some copies remain with Tiny Type Museum slipcase stamping.

wingo, 1 month ago to random

fascinating look into the guts of the publishing industry https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

burgerbecky, 1 month ago to random

Time for the Z80 CPU to be released as open source

jackdaniel, 1 month ago to random

Very well-put rationale against LLM

[gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html

jpmens, 2 months ago to random

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vga256, 2 months ago to gamedev

for years i've dreamt of having my own tile-based RPG engine that would make lo-fi win95/macOS 9 spiderweb software style games like Realmz or Exile or Avernum

after so much hand-wringing about being unsure about the feasibility of building one from the ground up (the ground in this case being the love2d framework), i started yesterday. a couple hours later i've got the beginnings of a 2d tile editor. scrolling tiles, random terrain generation, drag and drop all work.

this is something that took me months to mould AGS into doing using a bunch of hacks and various script modules. there is no doubt now that i was trying to build a house by swinging a screwdriver at nails.

there's this theme in game development i've heard over and over: "if you want to make a game, never ever build your own engine." i've even given people that advice over the years. and after 12+ years of doing this stuff, i realize that i gave some terrible advice.

#indieGameDev #gameDev

amoroso, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

In a retrocomputing newsletter I subscribe to I read this announcement of a new community resource:

"I’ve created a new FaceBook group ..."

My heart sank at the thought of freely shared knowledge buried in increasingly locked silos. I prefer resources like Retrocomputing Forum which I recently joined:

https://retrocomputingforum.com

It's on the open web and runs an open source platform. But aside from the tech stack it's a great community with great discussions.

#retrocomputing #community

dfeldman, 2 months ago to random

If there were another binary backdoor similar to the xz attack that was found today... how would you find it?

(The xz attack was found by chance and some trivial issues that caused performance degradation)

axbom, 7 months ago to random

Here's what happens when machine learning needs vast amounts of data to build statistical models for responses. Historical, debunked data makes it into the models and is preferred by the model output. There is much more outdated, harmful information published than there is updated, correct information. Hence statistically more viable.

"In some cases, they appeared to reinforce long-held false beliefs about biological differences between Black and white people that experts have spent years trying to eradicate from medical institutions."

In this regard the tools don't take us to the future, but to the past.

No, you should never use language models for health advice. But there are many people arguing for exactly this to happen. I also believe these types of harmful biases make it into more machine learning applications than language models specifically.

In libraries across the world using the Dewey Decimal System (138 countries), LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) topics have throughout the 20th century variously been assigned to categories such as Abnormal Psychology, Perversion, Derangement, as a Social Problem and even as Medical Disorders.

Of course many of these historical biases are part of the source material used to make today's "intelligent" machines - bringing with them the risk of eradicating decades of progress.

It's important to understand how large language models work if you are going to use them. The way they have been released into the world means there are many people (including powerful decision-makers) with faulty expectations and a poor understanding of what they are using.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00939-z

#DigitalEthics #AIEthics