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Wrote a little #haskell quiz https://doscienceto.it/extension-or-imitation/ Can you tell the valid Haskell Language Extensions (based on the GHC docs), from the Impostors?

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@nprofile1q... uuuh wow rejected proposals as impostors?! I thought the impostors would be all actually completely made up..

Joe · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqz30c48s54zag95mucqk9dwz93uzq0upj3ptrn5hsd4h37vww4klq87w7qn I guess I should have been clearer about that, "Real" is "anything that's in the docs as of now"

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! · 8w

Newsflash: Just because someone doesn't have the precise exact same set of beliefs as you, and doesn't act precisely according to your precise set of moral values, doesn't give you license to attack t...

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@nprofile1q... "trained on ethical data running on any cpu" well that doesn't really sound Large. that's just LM without the first L

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqz30c48s54zag95mucqk9dwz93uzq0upj3ptrn5hsd4h37vww4klq87w7qn Opinions differ on whether that's called an SLM or not but as I said, nuance is lost on people way too often.

Manawyrm · 9w

Imagine if the Linux kernel could output warnings in dmesg going "PCIe device xx:yy.z has insufficient timing margin, please clean connectors."

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@nprofile1q... good luck getting hardware vendors to stop being fanatical about presenting a "magically just works" interface and hiding all detected errors in firmware.. x_x

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TIL: USB-C analog audio didn't just start to disappear to sell you more DACs, it was "deprecated in October 2024, with the Type‑C Cable and Connector Specification version 2.3, to allow for the new Liquid Corrosion Mitigation Mode" (using the same SBU pins) which "aims to reduces the risk of corrosion within the Type-C port by driving voltages down as close as possible to 0V" (wikipedia)

Well shit, real world / physics / chemistry stuff strikes again and apparently has ruined enough ports to make this a thing

Manawyrm · 10w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq57k5y42m5mh9v84xeeyefcrhm8yss0ydtmdy3tj56hufhr3yq90qy64wfp For actual voice calls? Voice-over-LTE/VoLTE support is kinda hit-or-miss even on p...

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... volte is only necessary if your carrier/country is unhinged enough to drop 3g tho.. otherwise why even worry about volte

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lmao I popped out the rustweek stream into picture-in-picture in firefox and it just showed this subtitle (it doesn't update, as it's not even from the stream, but what video would it even be from lmao??)

hexa- · 10w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqz30c48s54zag95mucqk9dwz93uzq0upj3ptrn5hsd4h37vww4klq87w7qn Firefox on Wayland has issues updating the Subtitles in Picture-in-Picture, when Firefox itself is not on the current desktop. At least on Sway that is the case for me.

My programming is always O(n) point · 10w

Do any of my dear friends here have any recommendations for doing proper skin care? Like… I’m fifty-eight now and I haven’t had a routine in years, and so the skin on my legs and butt is kinda b...

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@nprofile1q... match the products to the skin type (roughly, water based only for oily skin, thicc creamy ones for dry skin) (one person can have different types in various locations)

don't expect big magical changes overnight?

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lmao

Wesley Moore · 11w

How is this an actual UI in an operating system shipped to millions of people‽ If anyone knows how to turn off the stupid banana when viewing images in the Messages app on Android I'd love to know....

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@nprofile1q... Fossify is a really good replacement for the stock "basics" like messages, contacts, calendar, gallery. (But also getting away from Android is even better :p)

Wesley Moore · 15w

I cleaned up mini computer corner yesterday. Morefine mini PC, loongarch64 running Chimera Linux Windows Dev Kit 2023, aarch64 running Arch Linux Raspberry Pi 4, aarch64 running Chimera Linux Rock64,...

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@nprofile1q... tfw loongarch pc is square, does not even have a loong side

Wesley Moore · 15w

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! · 20w

This is, quite frankly, the same problem LLM agents are causing in software engineering and such, just way worse. Because with CTFs, there is no "quality metric". Once you get the flag you get the fla...

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@nprofile1q... "you can't ban LLMs in CTFs" is like "you can't ban Stockfish in chess" and "you can't ban aimbot in Counter-Strike" and "you can't ban splicing and subtle covert mods/tools in speedrunning". It's always gonna be an arms race of cheating vs detection, but if you don't do anything you just make it worse. One measure I can think of is requiring progress screenshots/screencasts to validate.

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! · 20w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqz30c48s54zag95mucqk9dwz93uzq0upj3ptrn5hsd4h37vww4klq87w7qn See the replies for why this doesn't work. People will just use an LLM to solve it on another machine then parallel construct the solution (without the stumbling) on the machine being au...

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I guess #Servo is now the only serious browser engine taking a stand against slop, even mentioning ethical issues? (Despite one bronze sponsor listed on the homepage being "somethingsomething AI" heh)

We really need to get servo-gtk to a more serious state where epiphany could use it…