Day #3 of making overlapping window widgets lol.

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO.

today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen.

it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

The cat is out of the box: @matrix is looking for a new Thib!

If you think you can be a good fit for the role, please send me an email explaining why and attach your CV.

If you tick most of the boxes but not all, please reach out nonetheless. It’s a tall order, but we have fantastic volunteers and a great handbook to help you settle into the role.

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#FediHire #DevRel

@wamserma i can consider, i'll check it, i'll be surprised if i release this within 6 months so there's time :-)

4️⃣ Here's the 4th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd

When running code from OS trees, for example in containers, or when booting a full OS in a VM or on bare-metal it's often very useful to put together the basic OS from multiple overlayfs-style layers (directory-backed or backed by DDIs), plus some additional bind mounts, and possibly a tmpfs or two mounted to the right places to get ephemeral or partially ephemeral behaviour.

@janantos Need to try that some day on my DE-10 Nano FPGA MiSTeR setup :-)

@lkundrak lol, in that case it is no wonder that Sibelius is part of Avid/ProTools mob, which is a business based on delivering bad user experiences to highest paying customers in the music and movie industry :-)

In 2024, Octamed 8 was released after 25 year break. It's pretty amazing, at least to me, that there can be 25 year gap, and still have a vibrant and loyal following and committed user base.

This my main UI reference or something I will taken now a lot of inspiration from at least because Octamed is superb and nice to use. And stands time just like Vim :-)

1. Octamed was made by a Finn Teijo Kinnunen.
2. Had major share on invention of such electronic music genres at their epoch such as breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass.
3. Still widely used as it does the job and has predictability unreachable on a signal chain with adaptive latency prevention algorithms, and especially with hardware samplers and such this makes ones life better.
4. I like it too a lot, it's great for what it does :-)

That is next 6 months at least because I want my tracker to level that I can do a full track with no other tools, and it is surprising how bottomless pit different usage patterns are (and not necessarily bugs, something just works or doesn't). And now that I actually have really good design and implementation for the engine it makes me less eager to less, it's fun to try things out :---)

#octamed #amiga

@pinkforest right https://github.com/chardet/chardet/commits/main/ lol

@pinkforest money lost, reputation lost (or hopefully gets uncovered) and could get sued for fines with a smoking gun at plain sight to everyone...

@pinkforest "An entity or group of entities" (zero idea) has spent also money on that. After some Claude replaces anyone news I took subscription for one month. Then I put it to do some analysis type of stuff and it always drained less 30 minutes 🤷 OK, it is targeted probably something more like "regular development work" but still must have had maybe few hundred bucks of cost. Smart investment :-) Doing worse than gambling with shitcoins is an achievement for sure...

@pinkforest This makes me sure that for my small DAW project GPLv3 is the only right choice :-) It's outside App Store exclusive...

I'm just about to release LGPL 2.1+ DSO but not sure should I put threats of legal action to README + some passive aggressive grin :D

And like even with Claude, I'm not going to blame the tech, could be useful for doing ports for simple projects that you (A) fully own rights to do that and (B) have ability to fully cross-examine the result. In order to act against bad actors I feel that balanced thinking of benefits and disadvantages and take legal action when require is way to go.

@pinkforest Given how "plain sight" that was perhaps LLM also told about clean room engineering. At least in my experience e.g., Gemini often describes and teaches stuff that is completely false it's like a thing with Google's AI how fucked up it is in its teachings :-) Very useful still for cross-checking specs etc. in "right hands" (apparently) :-)

@pinkforest ok, so i did put just in case https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/328.

Fucking scum tbh.

@Foxboron Like this https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/328

@Foxboron https://social.kernel.org/notice/B3vwLO7kTOKLjpxCee

@pinkforest i don't know the situation. if you have full copyright of all code you can relicense of course. Does not appear like that but dunno the context. I would contact legal entity e.g., https://www.fsf.org/licensing/team or legal@fsf.org.

I would also recommend to post issue to this MIT rewrite project to stamp this. Anyone can do this. Make it visibile.

E.g. my tracker project is good example of legit interop, which would stand any trial and even protected by e.g., EU laws so there's no need to. I'm not lawyer but for me that looks somewhat shady. These need to be really just brought more to the court. It's a new trend.