Nostr notes by LR

let's settle for "History's Once Extremely Barbaric ...

2026-07-07T06:43:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…70lg
_________________________

let's settle for "History's Once Extremely Barbaric Colonizers"

eh. barbaric sure. but most barbaric? how do you even quantify ...

2026-07-07T06:37:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…k9g0
_________________________

eh. barbaric sure. but *most* barbaric? how do you even quantify barbary as an orderable value

The reason why AI companies chase growth is that their expensive ...

2026-07-02T08:50:06Z

The reason why AI companies chase growth is that their expensive training costs need to be funded by their customers. Inference cost is negligible (and will only drop further) so only training cost matters in the long term.

The more customers they have, the lower the cost for each individual user.

But if you abstain, then token costs for individuals will become unsustainable.

So the truth is in fact "Get in on AI or *we* will get left behind."

measurements: outside ~33°C bedroom (+2 lvl): ~28°C living room ...

2026-06-26T10:37:37Z

measurements:

outside ~33°C
bedroom (+2 lvl): ~28°C
living room (+1 lvl): ~27°C
office (ground): ~26°C
basement (-1 lvl): ~22°C (no door!)

wow.

2026-06-03T05:57:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…66fn
_________________________

wow.

the redhat chili peppers #LinuxRockbands

2026-06-02T20:17:18Z

the redhat chili peppers

#LinuxRockbands

input consumes tokens because it needs to go into the context. ...

2026-05-15T08:59:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…xqt9
_________________________

input consumes tokens because it needs to go into the context. some use summaries to compress it, but that's lossy. so either way, you win.

don't understand what you mean with "padded"

if you want to fight LLMs, not just scraping but also during ...

2026-05-15T07:58:05Z

if you want to fight LLMs, not just scraping but also during inference, put everything in single headers, combine your posts into single documents - just make sure every time it wants to read something of yours, it's going to have to consume tens to hundreds of thousands of tokens.

the ticket got closed again. RIP Kate. #devlog #sxpp #lsp

2026-05-11T10:44:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…rnjy
_________________________

the ticket got closed again. RIP Kate.

#devlog #sxpp #lsp

they closed the ticket, i reopened it. #devlog #sxpp #lsp

2026-05-11T08:02:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…vwv7
_________________________

they closed the ticket, i reopened it.

#devlog #sxpp #lsp

i went on IRC and asked around on the kate channel, and we ...

2026-05-09T14:31:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…cvq8
_________________________

i went on IRC and asked around on the kate channel, and we browsed a bit of source code together, and --

so it turns out Kate's LSP client simply doesn't highlight strings, numbers and operators.

i filed a ticket with the project, let's see how it goes.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519957

#devlog #sxpp #lsp

alright. day 2 of LSP server coding. i'm going to try and ...

2026-05-08T08:57:26Z

alright. day 2 of LSP server coding.

i'm going to try and complete a handshake with Kate, the KDE source code IDE.

and the handshake works.

#devlog #sxpp #lsp

🌈 With AI everyone can hire a code monkey now 🌈

2026-05-05T07:26:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…sc78
_________________________

🌈 With AI everyone can hire a code monkey now 🌈

Nostr event nevent1qqsx8vaas8vw0483gkgtwx302l39r7aqzpcqsps0h5awdwg3dwquhjgzyphe2d86y603athf2x49wwa55ky8l62pxmnwuyanurdvpp7jutgcvd0y2dq

2026-04-23T08:54:31Z

#microfiction

the preprocessor appears operational. i should write a few more ...

2026-04-17T08:28:11Z

the preprocessor appears operational. i should write a few more tests and then do a release.

super happy. i am quite proud of the work i have done here, which has by now been 10 years in the making. on the surface it's just a parser, but the deeper intent has been, and still is, to modernize s-expressions as a convenient and effective interchange format for code and data.

i use sx myself for all non-binary formats.

#devlog #libsxpp

i for one would not be happy if the EU had to renegotiate oil ...

2026-04-14T10:01:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…3hvr
_________________________

i for one would not be happy if the EU had to renegotiate oil delivery with the russians

economic pain has been felt because they already raised prices ...

2026-04-14T06:18:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…z8r9
_________________________

economic pain has been felt because they already raised prices before they had to buy new oil.

excellent (and scary)

2026-04-11T18:11:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…kfnz
_________________________

excellent (and scary)

made nudl's git repo discoverable. ...

2026-04-01T07:27:01Z

made nudl's git repo discoverable.

https://git.sr.ht/~duangle/nudl

it's not a release yet, more of a non-obligatory invitation.

#devlog #nudl

they had a head start :)

2026-03-30T08:13:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…vgt6
_________________________

they had a head start :)

w-what are the other options?

2026-03-20T06:18:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…j4wx
_________________________

w-what are the other options?

nobody likes my bluesky post ...

2026-03-19T21:54:52Z

nobody likes my bluesky post https://bsky.app/profile/lritter.bsky.social/post/3mhgjvd3dq22x

i'm only really interested in the psychosexual dynamic. all ...

2026-03-19T06:32:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…9y8h
_________________________

i'm only really interested in the psychosexual dynamic. all that is on top of it is rationalization.

rock with a cock. water with an uterus. does that make sense?

2026-03-19T00:06:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…kajs
_________________________

rock with a cock. water with an uterus. does that make sense?

good energy. but they're too few.

2026-03-18T23:58:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…hw3h
_________________________

good energy. but they're too few.

i wonder if all big crises are just manifestations of the male ...

2026-03-18T19:29:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…n2de
_________________________

i wonder if all big crises are just manifestations of the male energy taking a stand against female energy, and screwing up catastrophically.

peppered with some handmaid's tale and a pinch of robocop

2026-03-18T19:14:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…tu5r
_________________________

peppered with some handmaid's tale and a pinch of robocop

and you might say "but corporations need linux. linux is ...

2026-03-18T18:58:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…nxqj
_________________________

and you might say "but corporations need linux. linux is corporate! we are safe! BY GOLLY WE ARE SAFE!", and have a point there, however.

that absolutely does not stop this administration from doing the double plus unsmart thing and banning linux from corporations.

it would be utterly devoid of reason, but that's exactly their brand.

within a month, linux would be gone from american servers. entire businesses ruined. they don't care.

i can wait for when the day comes that "windows/apple is for ...

2026-03-18T18:49:32Z

i can wait for when the day comes that "windows/apple is for sigma chads while linux is for npc betacucks" is a mainstream political opinion, but the way minorities are systematically being crossed out, this should be on their agenda eventually

hooray i finally found a way to feel persecuted! YUSSS

smart watch with the form factor of a 19th century pocket watch ...

2026-03-18T15:31:45Z

smart watch with the form factor of a 19th century pocket watch

#VPofIdeas

you should follow some pretty hashtags @npub139c…w37s suggested ...

2026-03-13T23:11:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…4mrq
_________________________

you should follow some pretty hashtags aeva (npub139c…w37s) suggested this to me and it saved my life

join us it's fun to take pot shots at the slop bots

2026-03-13T23:08:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…jkkm
_________________________

join us it's fun to take pot shots at the slop bots

they're trying to mask out beastiality without saying ...

2026-03-11T07:49:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…0ph3
_________________________

they're trying to mask out beastiality without saying beastiality.

would you still spend time with computers if you didn't have ...

2026-03-06T08:55:08Z

would you still spend time with computers if you didn't have to?

please share for a more well-rounded response.

he merely said that blobs of matter being sentient has ...

2026-03-03T23:42:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…g37p
_________________________

he merely said that blobs of matter being sentient has precedence. it is evidently not impossible.

only if the technology wasn't personal. we have been here ...

2026-02-23T09:56:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…untc
_________________________

only if the technology wasn't personal. we have been here before.

definitely censored

2026-02-20T18:58:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…2yar
_________________________

definitely censored

Nostr event nevent1qqs0j0ypx5gwd5tsnflwlpcgxtsc024s82jfhwuzttyjjyr0snet0uszyphe2d86y603athf2x49wwa55ky8l62pxmnwuyanurdvpp7jutgcv42ggps

2026-02-20T18:57:48Z

my ______ guide(s) most of my decisions

tfw you should have learned cantonese

2026-02-20T11:12:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…kga2
_________________________

tfw you should have learned cantonese

me, having learned english to secure my future: well shit.

2026-02-20T09:10:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…dd4u
_________________________

me, having learned english to secure my future: well shit.

"what if spam but you can talk to it and it will blog about ...

2026-02-12T21:18:24Z

"what if spam but you can talk to it and it will blog about you"

what a time to be alive!

beginning to think my assessment is 100% correct

2026-02-09T12:52:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…p8ey
_________________________

beginning to think my assessment is 100% correct

for weeks i'm trying to figure out the latent space vector ...

2026-02-09T08:25:23Z

for weeks i'm trying to figure out the latent space vector that differentiates fediverse from bluesky, audience wise

presently at "maybe bluesky is customer facing and masto is where the nerds who do the actual work are hidden from the customers"

#score_0_up

both firefox 147 but it also fails in chrome on desktop

2026-02-05T12:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…75gk
_________________________

both firefox 147

but it also fails in chrome on desktop

on my ubuntu desktop machine i get the same error

2026-02-05T12:29:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…ls34
_________________________

on my ubuntu desktop machine i get the same error

firefox on android ...

2026-02-05T12:28:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…2fyd
_________________________

firefox on android

it's not an exaggeration to say this is a completely new way ...

2026-01-24T00:25:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…sxxf
_________________________

it's not an exaggeration to say this is a completely new way to experience mastodon... the fediverse... whichever sounds better?

@npub139c…w37s following hashtags. what a concept. thanks ...

2026-01-23T23:02:33Z

aeva (npub139c…w37s) following hashtags. what a concept. thanks again.

Nostr event nevent1qqsg3cjdc8nuegzt3u04c78ys84hmjnvzkz55rkpvhjwl77mewfvrcqzyphe2d86y603athf2x49wwa55ky8l62pxmnwuyanurdvpp7jutgcvj6jk4m

2026-01-23T09:38:16Z

buddhist e-mail client has no support for attachments

the key is datalog. i saw an inkscape in there, a game engine, a ...

2026-01-22T16:28:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…a8xg
_________________________

the key is datalog. i saw an inkscape in there, a game engine, a database system, the important bit is flattened composition, and a visualizable approach. hard to explain. i go entirely by intuition.

heh. evergreen quote. but i like to think i'm about to crack ...

2026-01-22T16:21:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…jl5s
_________________________

heh. evergreen quote. but i like to think i'm about to crack it. might still take 1-2 years.

ok but that's just what i contest. the "cretins" that ...

2026-01-22T16:04:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…27n2
_________________________

ok but that's just what i contest. the "cretins" that it might attract might still not be average enough.

hehe. yeah ok but the argument is likely that it's too high ...

2026-01-22T15:57:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…auhj
_________________________

hehe. yeah ok but the argument is likely that it's too high level, right?

forth is not that great.

2026-01-22T15:45:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…l3wz
_________________________

forth is not that great.

when i get angry, shit breaks. so i try to avoid it. to me ...

2026-01-21T19:49:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…l0er
_________________________

when i get angry, shit breaks. so i try to avoid it. to me it's not power. it is loss of control.

L is for the way you look at me

2026-01-15T22:44:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…md40
_________________________

L is for the way you look at me

it begs the question what we wrote all this infrastructure for. ...

2026-01-01T14:04:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…pd3f
_________________________

it begs the question what we wrote all this infrastructure for. certainly not so a bunch of locusts can run their datacenters on it, and nothing else.

possible deliberate future attack vectors: SSD controller chips - ...

2026-01-01T13:30:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…zzak
_________________________

possible deliberate future attack vectors:

SSD controller chips - a "sudden shortage" would be catastrophic. if NAND controllers became scarce or prohibitively expensive, it would force cloud storage dependence overnight. people couldn't even backup locally anymore.

PSUs - capacitor or transformer supply "disruption" would halt all PC building.

BIOS/UEFI firmware - a "security crisis" requiring signed firmware. approved vendors only or nothing boots

on the other hand, videogames. a lot more going on for PC. ...

2026-01-01T13:21:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…44d6
_________________________

on the other hand, videogames. a lot more going on for PC. valve's healing influence. is cloud gaming a serious force by now? doubtful.

economic pressure: * hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM ...

2026-01-01T13:17:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…szf5
_________________________

economic pressure:

* hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM situation)

* home servers becoming impractical vs cloud services

* development tools increasingly cloud-based (GitHub codespaces, cloud IDEs)

honestly, all fairly weak and circumnavigable indicators, but also possibly a death by a thousand cuts.

knowledge degradation: * fewer people learning to build PCs or ...

2026-01-01T13:15:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…8jh7
_________________________

knowledge degradation:

* fewer people learning to build PCs or understand their machines

* tech education shifting from "how computers work" to "how to use apps"

* repair culture dying as devices become unrepairable black boxes

* documentation and schematics increasingly proprietary

software centralization: * operating systems pushing cloud ...

2026-01-01T13:14:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…auw8
_________________________

software centralization:

* operating systems pushing cloud dependencies (win 11's ms account requirements, ChromeOS model)

* Adobe, Microsoft, AutoCAD all shifted to subscription models requiring internet validation

* local AI models possible but corporations pushing API-dependent solutions

* progressive web apps replacing locally-run software

possible indicators: hardware consolidation: * RAM concentrated ...

2026-01-01T13:13:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…wj4k
_________________________

possible indicators:

hardware consolidation:

* RAM concentrated in data centers, not consumer hands

* repair parts increasingly scarce or locked down (right-to-repair battles)

* custom silicon (M-series, Snapdragon X) that's harder to upgrade or swap

* soldered components becoming standard even in "pro" machines

the pattern would be: make personal computing expensive, ...

2026-01-01T13:09:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…vm6y
_________________________

the pattern would be: make personal computing expensive, complicated, and unnecessary while making cloud dependence cheap, simple, and required. whether coordinated or emergent, the trajectory is similar - computing power migrating from personal ownership to rental access.

what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal ...

2026-01-01T13:04:57Z

what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing

any other indicators?

thanks for this one, exactly my format :)

2026-01-01T11:42:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…ct72
_________________________

thanks for this one, exactly my format :)

couldn't you wait until december 27th

2025-12-26T12:15:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…0s0m
_________________________

couldn't you wait until december 27th

it's two variables: sun power + distance. red dwarf could ...

2025-12-25T08:32:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…q8vr
_________________________

it's two variables: sun power + distance. red dwarf could still be warm.

no use putting a main portal under general suspicion. anyway, ...

2025-12-13T08:46:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…8wtw
_________________________

no use putting a main portal under general suspicion.

anyway, reported this troll (server rules violation). never had so much material to work with, good work lety

ah, ok. so the mapping of element A from SO(3) is to -Q, Q of ...

2025-12-05T13:05:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…zl2w
_________________________

ah, ok. so the mapping of element A from SO(3) is to -Q, Q of SU(2)?

so if one element of SU(2) is one quaternion, does an element of ...

2025-12-05T13:02:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…978p
_________________________

so if one element of SU(2) is one quaternion, does an element of SO(3) require two quaternions?

good, but i ask again: what is the logical basis for mixing up ...

2025-12-05T12:55:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…vu59
_________________________

good, but i ask again: what is the logical basis for mixing up portions like this? what is the geometric intuition here?

computation is older than (mechanical) computers

2025-12-05T12:49:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…8lnl
_________________________

computation is older than (mechanical) computers

dunno... why would you split the (half) angle into a sine and ...

2025-12-05T12:45:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…alkz
_________________________

dunno... why would you split the (half) angle into a sine and cosine and then multiply the axis with the sine... what is the logical basis for this, other than precomputation?

but three axes of rotation have gimbal lock the quaternion is ...

2025-12-05T12:39:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…dhyk
_________________________

but three axes of rotation have gimbal lock

the quaternion is just a mushy axis+angle. :)

yep. that's what i thought. (sure that it's three? should ...

2025-12-05T12:31:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…qsqt
_________________________

yep. that's what i thought.

(sure that it's three? should be four: axis + angle; though even here, the mapping is not bijective)

also kind of lazy to say that n free variables = n dimensions ...

2025-12-05T10:56:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…nyju
_________________________

also kind of lazy to say that n free variables = n dimensions (are they really orthogonal?), rather than looking for a geometric explanation (which you did) even when it's not intuitive

shouldn't it start with 0x?

2025-12-02T14:44:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…twp8
_________________________

shouldn't it start with 0x?

i'm a science bureaucrat

2025-11-30T22:38:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…ss03
_________________________

i'm a science bureaucrat

still no causation.

2025-11-30T22:18:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…6jy4
_________________________

still no causation.

eye tracking! there it is.

2025-11-12T21:01:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…afec
_________________________

eye tracking! there it is.

tried this amazing thing, i think it's called a ...

2025-11-09T12:53:54Z

tried this amazing thing, i think it's called a "shower"?

DJ: party people make some noise! party people: loud me: rand()

2025-10-30T17:42:51Z

DJ: party people make some noise!

party people: *loud*

me: rand()

wer nicht hören will muss fühlen

2025-10-30T11:35:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…dwtz
_________________________

wer nicht hören will muss fühlen

should get on the naughty list with a cooldown.

2025-10-25T22:37:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…l3nv
_________________________

should get on the naughty list with a cooldown.

emergence is a fact of life

2025-10-23T12:43:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…29h3
_________________________

emergence is a fact of life

hardware architecture as most of us taught programmers understand ...

2025-10-23T12:41:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…qteu
_________________________

hardware architecture as most of us taught programmers understand it is already a fiction. backwards compatibility keeps creating situations where new architectures carry emulation layers, and are internally very different from the interface they're presenting us.

we're already so far away from the physical that we could just as well let go of it completely.

My vision of the future of programming is that C, C++, Rust, ...

2025-10-23T12:30:01Z

My vision of the future of programming is that C, C++, Rust, Python, Swift, Javascript, Haskell, and so on and so on, they're dead dead dead, and we're all coding in a relational/logic programming dialect. All low level optimization & platform support happens in compiler development. The language offers gradually more complex hinting declarations.

How do programmers reason about performance? Most of the time, they shouldn't have to. If performance is bad, it's the compiler devs' fault.

it's too close to C++, semantically, and therefore does not ...

2025-10-21T12:39:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…w8nf
_________________________

it's too close to C++, semantically, and therefore does not meaningfully improve upon it. i won't write a post-mortem as i will continue to support it, but for Nowhere it is not producing the effectivity gains i was aiming at.

i did single out the parser into its own library though because that part was a really good idea.

and of course, i learned a whole bunch on the way.

Scopes. Nowhere is still doable.

2025-10-21T08:26:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…jnd0
_________________________

Scopes. Nowhere is still doable.

a day? try a decade

2025-10-20T23:16:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…qvmv
_________________________

a day? try a decade

"wanking and we collect their wanking data"

2025-10-15T19:16:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…t9hr
_________________________

"wanking and we collect their wanking data"

but something i also want to solve is less redundancy when ...

2025-10-12T13:58:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…nwgy
_________________________

but something i also want to solve is less redundancy when describing branches.

the (text) form below is inspired by scope trees in functional and imperative languages. an increase in indentation is equivalent to AND, a line on the same indentation is equivalent to OR.

so we essentially define four disjunctive rules here, reusing as much as we can of the conjunctive context.

there should be a way to cable this, too.

#devlog #tukan

another version i considered, which i keep returning to because ...

2025-10-12T13:48:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…tflh
_________________________

another version i considered, which i keep returning to because it's neatly compact: terms have ports on right side, connectors draw circular arcs (or lanes), token-ring style.

rules grow vertically but remain narrow (even more so with lane layout), which allows putting multiple rules side by side.

#devlog #tukan

generalizing further to a "city plan" (mannheim style), ...

2025-10-12T12:26:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…nuan
_________________________

generalizing further to a "city plan" (mannheim style), user could place terms in plots - horizontal or vertical port layout possible (i prefer "doors" on either side); layouter assigns paths greedily, computes resulting number of lanes inbetween cells and spaces roads accordingly.

user can drag from any point on an edge to connect a new port.

#devlog

another rule visualization that can be autolayouted greedily. ...

2025-10-12T11:44:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…w664
_________________________

another rule visualization that can be autolayouted greedily. user can order terms vertically, cables are routed between vertical highway (on the right side, where a diamond represents each variable), and horizontal alleys (where each variable gets a lane).

if an edit has two variables entering the same cell it means they merge.

#devlog

it's already evident that the least-squares version has the ...

2025-10-11T15:47:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…lx8e
_________________________

it's already evident that the least-squares version has the problem that it can't make temporary changes that worsen overlaps and crossings. it would only be able to jump them. there's a method for that too, of course.

for some reason i'm also thinking of putting all vars on the surface of a sphere, and all term labels inside of the sphere. then allow the user to rotate the sphere to change the projection.

idk. no epiphany yet. still experimenting.

maybe just use graphviz?

#devlog

a bit more tuning of the metric and the outcome improves. #devlog ...

2025-10-11T14:48:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…j57t
_________________________

a bit more tuning of the metric and the outcome improves.

#devlog #tukan

the shittiest least squares optimizer: error function penalizes ...

2025-10-11T13:50:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…vz69
_________________________

the shittiest least squares optimizer:

error function penalizes label not to be at center of mass of docking points, and docking points not to be at common center of mass.

we measure loss before and after applying a random gradient from a d-dimensional hypersphere.

if loss is better, just use the new configuration. do this 100 times per frame.

convergence is slow, but it's enough to start modeling the loss function.

#devlog #tukan

alternatively i could do this with least squares optimization, ...

2025-10-11T12:15:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…4xtx
_________________________

alternatively i could do this with least squares optimization, forward propagation and Adam for momentum / smoothing.

seems easier to compose a somewhat differentiable error metric than to figure out constraints in a physics framework.

#devlog