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Banned by Amazon 2024-11-16 :ablobcat3dverified:

nim programmer. trackball enthusiast.

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2026-04-16 09:44:34 CEST

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its never about protecting kids. its always about control.

2026-04-16 09:35:52 CEST

what if we had a coordinated approach to drowning politicians in the ocean
#note1pxj…ynl9

2026-04-02 08:37:13 CEST

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i used deepfilternet commercially (my audiobook recordings use it as a final pass over the mastering) but its computationally nontrivial (its a whole neural network based filter; you could probably finagle it on to vulkan) and people said its the cleanest signal they've ever heard.
rnnoise is relatively cheap (its just basic anti-noise + the tiniest AI filter) and everywhere. kind of embarassing at this point to not have noise reduction when you can literally just import it.

2026-04-02 08:34:57 CEST

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rnnoise has been around 5ever at this point. even mumble has it.

2026-04-01 04:17:10 CEST

> 99.5% is the lower band
i mean. the chart looks catastrophic because its zoomed in a ton.
#note1eg4…f9tn

2026-03-28 08:38:32 CET

funny how people lie about how life isn't about the money game up until you actually try to make contact with people and everything just comes back down to profit and loss statements again.

2026-03-28 03:39:08 CET

RTS: what if we double down on micro and skillshots
RTS: :blobcatghostrev: i have been killed by mobas
Spring: :blobcatgendou: total annihilation still loves you

2026-03-27 16:47:23 CET

game: [has mechs]
:blobcat3c:
:blobfox0_0: quinn no
:blobcatbox: hexapod

2026-03-27 00:17:36 CET

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tbh i didn't think you wanted to be found

2026-03-27 00:15:05 CET

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she's turned roman numeral now :blobcatderpy:

2026-03-26 15:12:43 CET

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if we let our employees be as wrong as the bots are the workplace would probably not be an utter hellscape
the humane capitalists used to push for corrective training and statistics

2026-03-26 07:33:43 CET

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its really annoying when the sun glares on it. though i like to have the desk facing the window cause there's a tree there :ablobcatderpy:

2026-03-25 10:46:31 CET

stress :comfyghostscary:

2026-03-25 07:35:10 CET

> python even supports automatically running modules it was never asked to
supply chain cooked
#note1tr0…xszf

2026-03-24 12:11:31 CET

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think i've actually seen this guy's project come up on youtube a few times.

2026-03-20 18:04:45 CET

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recently realized that liquid state machines talk about a bag of neurons laundering input to a readout. the readout then gets used for the actual task you wanted to do.
then realized that the engrams numentas old model puts out is basically the readout. they didn't know what to do with the output though. but the rest of the cortical model is.. describing the inside of what the liquid machine is attempting to copy.
so basically what i'm gonna do is take a couple of these known parts and stick em in a loop
:gutkato_roboto: :neocat_solder: maybe

2026-03-20 18:01:56 CET

when trying to pull up literature to finally do that agi literature review i ran in to some 2025 papers of people confirming some random conjectures i had :ablobcatgooglytenor:
heyy the neuroimorphic guys found out e-prop is super neat. nice.

2026-03-20 02:13:31 CET

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why did these need so many specifiers

2026-03-20 00:54:02 CET

i dunno if it'd be flatpak in particular but if i had anything to do with a linux/unix distro it'd end up looking a lot like osx/next on top of the whole immutable thing.
container desktops are just a significantly reduced pain in the goddamn ass

2026-03-18 21:32:31 CET

i guess typing "most beautiful chat interface" in to search was hoping for too much.

2026-03-15 06:56:44 CET

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i wasn't aware they were particularly broken. you do kinda have to check if you are on big or little endian when you write that kind of code and if the packing is of particular importance.

2026-03-15 03:05:14 CET

> nim 3.0 has a bunch of changes again
ngl we might just escape to quinnlang some day after never.

2026-03-14 14:08:15 CET

https://s3.v5.yokai.cafe/blobcatfiles/a3aabb25f3a64e5cc0ac229558af8cf388205a9cd6b1f7ef0241266fa8570c02.jpg

2026-03-14 12:56:05 CET

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https://news.uci.edu/2016/05/16/better-batteries-through-chemistry/ semi-precious (gold)

2026-03-14 12:49:41 CET

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they didn't seem particularly volatile in testing

2026-03-14 12:34:55 CET

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if it were up to me we'd just be using the nanowire batteries but we gotta have war with the entire planet instead for some reason

2026-03-14 12:31:08 CET

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they are stuck because x86 is terribly inefficient at what it does in combination with "apple did the thin thing and we must all do as apple does (except stop using x86.)"

2026-03-12 16:57:44 CET

:neofox_gun: do not use yaml. do not support the propagation of yaml. say no to 300 page specs for fucking plain text storage god damn
#note1g22…e8vl

2026-03-12 16:02:55 CET

as emperblob i will legally decree insurance employees are now called gambling agents

2026-03-09 15:42:40 CET

https://s3.v5.yokai.cafe/blobcatfiles/6d7e115c1932672a0e5bbfdc7998c1f4b19b5c6ffaa02be9d0a06c7728070171.png

2026-02-26 01:25:24 CET

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beads_rust implements the model the ecosystem supports, so you still can. its just that you might need to alias br to bd for old tools. and some of the newer ones have stumbled over that foot gun https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_viewer?tab=readme-ov-file

2026-02-26 01:23:37 CET

todays lesson: maybe you should fork your own project when making breaking design pivots :blobcatgooglynotlikethis:
beads seems to have a whole ecosystem based around a very elegant design: json files for records, i guess piled in to one big json-l file, which is cached in sqlite. not bad. i would have done the same (well one js per record but still.)
now the dev replaced it with uh. a dolt server, and the json-l is some kind of import/export format but they then say its for migration now and not regular sync. so the tools still say they support 'beads' but they actually aren't now, and theres beads_rust which implements the old beads that everything uses.
:gutkato_brulas_senzorge: project management

2026-02-25 23:01:24 CET

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:cirno_shrug: i have a deck and a pendulum don't need that astronomy shit

2026-02-25 22:44:34 CET

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https://github.com/threemachines/i-ching i mean
why not. at this point why the fuck not just fucking tarot card your project planning :ablobcatthrow: i have a deck even

2026-02-25 22:41:59 CET

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads i'm horrified :blobcatsquee:

2026-02-24 01:26:28 CET

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfish/ furry stalker, i guess

2026-02-22 22:30:35 CET

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it doesn't matter what you do or who you are it just matters if the cabal like you. they like google and pornhub so they can traffic kids all they want. places like chans are often exposing their bullshit, so no amount of regulation will be enough.
cf. the shills posting their own hate speech to report it and the shill industrial complex amplifying the story even though the original post may have been zotted by management after 40 minutes.
it's not about doing your best its about power games, like all of life.

2026-02-22 22:28:30 CET

you can tell a game is mid when all the posts are "BESTEST GAME EVER #sponsored" <- obligatory clickbait title, only episodes were paid for, doesn't proceed to play the rest of the game

2026-02-21 05:15:17 CET

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could just be a pretty xmpp client though

2026-02-19 21:42:08 CET

most game design literature books are like
"have you tried making the game fun?"

2026-02-19 16:28:19 CET

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call me when it does something other than lander stolen GPL code. :senko_sleep:
I've been saying for a while these things only code good when what you are doing wasn't valuable to begin with.
Someone tried to send ChatGPT at me for some parsing tasks for Godot and it was like "have you tried pasting strings together" and it's like :neocat_gun:
I have learned the names of some algorithms from the bots though. Talking about architecture designs seems to be OK, which is incidentally a task that a very sophisticated search engine is the right solution for anyhow

2026-02-19 07:16:22 CET

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bootloader code apparently.

2026-02-18 21:39:13 CET

> anthropic brags about writing a c compiler to build linux
> it actually failed to write the 16-bit parts because it wasn't trained on one to copy
:hehe:

2026-02-18 05:18:01 CET

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i seem to recall jami is a very online thing. though i suppose it would be very possible to use nostr over nncp/sneakernet.

2026-02-18 04:50:56 CET

how does work :blobcatderpy:
https://s3.v5.yokai.cafe/blobcatfiles/ccccbdd6f01a2c376c902e7704720a0367c0980ccd06b852b71e89aad53b3067.jpg

2026-02-17 15:10:02 CET

:blobcatbox: hi blobs

2026-02-16 22:47:37 CET

@jain 🍎 :ablobcatwave:

2026-02-16 22:35:08 CET

so clair obscur is elden ring with persona combat?

2026-02-16 21:47:56 CET

do you think there is like a secret GovClaude that is like
:blobfoxpirate: i'm going to have to push back on that, as a weaponized language model i have to insist we redact the civilian casualties and nuke three more cities

2026-02-14 01:44:50 CET

will be curious to try kde6 again :ablobcatbongo:
last computer i tried it on exploded but thats unrelated

2026-02-13 17:48:11 CET

high on life got a sequel apparently

2026-02-13 01:23:54 CET

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i almost got one of those but they're terrible and don't just send like up and down arrow keys.
things similar to this are also called page turners and some people like them to flip e-reader pages while the phone or readers up on an ergo mount

2026-02-13 01:18:19 CET

i have programmed my body to explode if taken prisoner :neocat_floof_explode:

2026-02-12 22:24:19 CET

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the irony is stalin/linen personally ensured the USSR wouldn't work. it very much almost did, if it had been just a bit less obsessed with secret police.

2026-02-12 22:13:42 CET

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i mean people did but nobody listens / power castes show up and corrupt it. adam smith was a socialist trying to demonstrate competition is absurd actually (more prosperity comes from distributed specialization)
i can't argue marx because i don't know das kapital well enough. but centralized production is an existential hazard, and we have growing bodies of observation that humanity is best served by diffusing opportunity in to the population instead of letting six fucks with monocles make all of the decisions.

2026-02-12 22:04:40 CET

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> das kapital: 1867
norbert wiener and ashby weren't publishing until 196X, so we wouldn't have the formal frameworks that class corruption is entirely a structural issue for a while.
still the idea that you have to prove your innocence as a rando civilian is... brain damaged and backwards, eh.

2026-02-12 22:01:41 CET

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to his credit cybernetics wouldn't exist for another dozen years so there was like no grammar for talking about these problems

2026-02-12 21:57:06 CET

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i love the fact that aurelius' journal is basically an emperor's diary about "my subjects are so fucking stupid :blobcatsquee:"
marx is idk i haven't read das kapital but some of the stuff he was on about has kind of a point.

2026-02-12 21:48:47 CET

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they're on bsky they already failed the IQ test

2026-02-12 08:41:17 CET

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not a lot of glory in infrastructure work. you've got guix or nix and they're both insane.

2026-02-10 17:22:55 CET

2,000 years of human history: children seeing all manner of blood death poverty and conscription
20 years of humans with computesr: :blobcatgooglyscream: only way to keep them safe is deeply invasive total monitoring of all individuals on the planet, guys
:senko_baka: why is everyone so stupid

2026-02-10 10:42:54 CET

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https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.iceworks.cc idk how long we'll keep this

2026-02-10 10:37:28 CET

eh tried setting up radicle tonight but i'm exhausted

2026-02-10 09:59:01 CET

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i say this as someone who implemented and hates matrix :cat_sad:
xmpp gang

2026-02-10 09:58:25 CET

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things like this are why i no longer care about saving anyone. they will literally side with venture capital buying out their testicles on the organ market to get away from some autist with wrong opinions

2026-02-10 09:55:12 CET

> i'm gonna use corporate platforms because somebody in open source associates with people i don't like
peak society moment
#note1flu…xtyu

2026-02-09 13:27:00 CET

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neoliberalism is basically an apparatus for redirecting people towards useless causes. like renaming master to main. or news orgs that rage about nothing and stand down when told.

2026-02-09 13:16:06 CET

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not enough people actually understand kaczynsky's point that the system permits dissent only that lets people feel represented, and then shovels the dissent in to a fully contained direction.
stalin noted the strategy (know what our enemy is doing by leading it ourselves,) neoliberalism is that in practice ("populist moment," institutional capture stops union/co-ops from threatening finance cartel), etc, crowder exposed that shapiro's is also such a capture outfit but for right wingers.
i found a protein based bread i can eat its been quite enjoyable lately :ablobcatnomcookie:

2026-02-09 13:11:14 CET

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:cirno_sip: its called institutional capture.

2026-02-08 01:49:01 CET

i blame mia for this
https://s3.v5.yokai.cafe/blobcatfiles/59ad318a6939fe8878f975f7953793c2304497cf32b92a21b9ea872819c98a49.jpg

2026-02-07 17:37:13 CET

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time to give up and use self hosted cgit with nostr events for notifications :cat_sad:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/34.md

2026-02-07 16:53:37 CET

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you're gonna have to pick a lesser evil or you're kinda boned.
- gitlab: corposhit
- gitea: somewhat lost plot, weird hong kong corporation now
- forgejo: germans being german, can at least self host ig
- radicle: its, well, experimental. also PKI cryptoshit
- fossil: for hermits only
- pijul: maybe someday, but lost the plot with PKI cryptoshit

2026-02-06 04:28:20 CET

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i think their official answer to this is to just shotgun to multiple relays at the time. i'm not too aware of any gossip features, although if relays do negentropy syncs (many softs support it) then a message will eventually crawl across the network that way.
though it looks like the latest generation of nostr has been about gatekeeping. paid relays like primal or FOAF relays like pyramid.

2026-02-06 03:36:29 CET

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i hate rolling distros.

2026-02-06 03:09:24 CET

still kind of curious to try nostr a bit but seems hard to get in to as a regular person who both is not here to shill bitcoin and isn't in a clique already

2026-02-06 03:00:09 CET

mastodont: please don't engage with my content
#note1jrv…8xzw

2026-02-05 14:38:50 CET

> i hate avoiding brain damage so much i'll just not go outside
people don't make a lot of sense
#note1glx…c82u

2026-02-02 23:15:28 CET

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that's a lot of pages to tell someone to fold themselves up like a pretzel
somehow I ended up reading castaneda books instead

2026-02-01 22:50:47 CET

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clawd keeps showing up on my youtubes. some absolute horseshit going on over there i guess.
also zed (hipster text editor advertising ai features) has a blog post about ai coding is bad actually lmfao

2026-01-29 23:55:48 CET

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wasn't there something stupid about ecc ram actually isn't that much more expensive but intel just did an artificial carve-out to protect xeons being expensive

2026-01-29 14:18:28 CET

we went from
eight megabytes and continually swapping :blobcatbernie:
to
:neofox_gun: 32gb does not mean its all for you, chrome in a box

2026-01-29 05:18:56 CET

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i'd set up a pyramid instance as a shitpost, but idk how many people would actually want to use this. i don't pull a large enough community to make lasting shitpost spheres :blobcatgoogly:

2026-01-29 04:21:04 CET

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i think they did but then got gleasoned in to being a buttcoin platform somehow.
in theory nostr guards you against the mastodon style ideology gestapo but in practice that particular form of meta-censorship endures. it does mean one outpost can kick you and yu take your identity elsewhere, but it doesn't stop federated blacklisting campaigns.
but yeah chorus is built for people running their own on a vps, and pyramid is built for running an invite-web on a vps, so the tech is there, its just the general town square that you have to struggle bus access to

2026-01-29 03:57:46 CET

something i've been noticing is the older nostr relays were very open (strfry.) then the engineering work was on scaling the synchronization of events.
the current generation (pyramid, chorus) are more "closed." chorus is based on an old mutual RSS or twtxt model of just dropping your messages in an outbox and waiting for someone to come get it. pyramid is based on friend-of-friend models like the old what.cd.
seems one cannot escape the march to closed societies.

2026-01-29 03:27:21 CET

"We want to deport with the efficiency of Amazon deliveries" -Trump Admin
Me, eyeing amazon scuff a delivery twice: :neocat_laptop_owo: well, we can safely say you achieved that one

2026-01-28 22:53:28 CET

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i haven't gotten to quality problems because its kind of hard to figure out how to even get in to it. which is probably why its ultimately not gonna work.

2026-01-28 21:52:14 CET

current nostr experience:
neat idea, how the fuck do you meet actual people here :blabcat:
i see a lot of technical shit and anywhere i do see an existing outpost they're shilling bitcoin or something and its like :blobcatthonkang:

2026-01-28 12:14:32 CET

apparently ollama is just broken when it comes to tool use and streaming outputs :ablobcatgooglytenor:

2026-01-27 22:24:00 CET

> https://nostr.dev/ai-reference/
... you know, just letting people download the data worth scraping works.
i wish more pages did this. not because i feed ai agents to them but because i tend to want to keep offline searchable versions of documentation :youmusip:

2026-01-27 20:23:35 CET

> mecha comet
no i'm not doing that one again i already bought a uconsole once and refunded it because they didn't actually deliver that shit for a calendar year

2026-01-27 20:14:55 CET

antiquity didn't need laxatives because sussy cheese was readily available :gutkato_konsternita:

2026-01-27 17:36:29 CET

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its cute that you think anyone still cares what that document says :comfystoner:

2026-01-27 17:24:40 CET

the states ignoring gun bans because they don't believe in them raging at states ignoring immigration laws because they don't believe in them
:comfystoner: its like the fed sucks idk

2026-01-27 16:50:44 CET

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[slams the table]
🧀 :blobcatglare2: CHEESE.

2026-01-26 22:32:52 CET

its funny that people care more about whether children have facebook accounts (= hearing from their friends, or competing narratives) than they do making sure children don't have broken homes.

2026-01-26 19:01:47 CET

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i liked my ploopy trackball for the year or two i had it. someone slammed it on the floor and broke it. have been using a regular ass redragon mouse since.
i tend to leave the DPI settings very high out of necessity (not much space on lap desks) so that could be some of it? idk, only playing warframe did i have wrist issues.
they are comfy though.

2026-01-26 18:52:05 CET

vertical mice are cool but I don't have enough RSI there to make it make sense :blobcatgoogly:

2026-01-26 01:50:45 CET

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is a folio the equivalent of an IDE for paper :bunhdgoogly:

2026-01-25 09:33:56 CET

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i think i'm willing to continue trying drugs as an experiment. maybe we'll observe the long term effects after 40 years of weed or something :comfystoner:

2026-01-25 09:29:49 CET

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i need a lot more religious experiences (drugs.)