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I enjoyed reading this post by Marginalia "Your harddrive is probably full" You can construct an entropic argument that there are simply more ways for a harddrive to be full than ways in which it can be empty. Of course it made me check how full my laptop drive is, and indeed it was more than 75% full, as predicted. But, I almost never feel that my hard drive is full. I can very easily free up…
I've spent about 100 hours of work over the past month to make sure git-annex can build without dependencies that contain LLM generated code. At least so far. https://git-annex.branchable.com/no_llm_code/ Needing to review a program's whole dependency tree on an ongoing basis is apparently what programming has come to? I've found some real stinkers. Large LLM generated changes being reverted in…
No matter that the hype cycle wants you to think, the renewable energy transition is the biggest thing happening in tech and it's happening faster and faster. Despite being neck deep in it personally with offgrid solar projects, most recently solar hot water, increasingly it becomes clear I'm watching from the sidelines. In Australia, everyone gets 24 kwh of free daytime electric power now .…
This is somehow the featured website on https://earlyweblinks.com/ this week. Read all about my web site here! https://earlyweblinks.com/site-of-the-week/joey-hess Kind of reminds me of back in 1995 or so when my website would randomly end up picked by some best of the web list that I never heard of. The web is still a small place I guess. Maybe I should join a web ring or something?
Per my policies , I need to ban every employee and contractor of Anthropic Inc from ever contributing code to any of my projects. Anyone have a list? Any project that requires a Developer Certificate of Origin or similar should be doing this, because Anthropic is making tools that explicitly lie about the origin of patches to free software projects. UNDERCOVER MODE — CRITICAL You are operating…
Snow coming. I'm tuned into the local 24 hour slop weather stream. AI generated, narrated, up to the minute radar and forecast graphics. People popping up on the live weather map with questions "snow soon?" (They pay for the privilege.) LLM generating reply that riffs on their name. Tuned to keep the urgency up, something is always happening somewhere, scanners are pulling the police reports, live…
A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence . I'm revisiting it this Sun Day , to share the design, now that I have prooved it out. The solar fence and some other ground and pole mount solar panels, seen through leaves. Solar fencing manufacturers have some good simple designs, but it's hard to buy for a small installation. They are selling to utility scale solar mostly. And those are…
Eight months ago I came up my rocky driveway in an electric car, with the back full of solar panel mounting rails. I didn't know how I'd manage to keep it charged. I got the car earlier than planned, with my offgrid solar upgrade only beginning. There's no nearby EV charger, and winter was coming, less solar power every day. Still, it was the right time to take a leap to offgid EV life. My…
So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers. Maybe eventually someone will succeed and there will be 2 again. Best case. What a situation. So throw out all the web standards. Make a…
I've been lucky to be able to spend twenty! five! years! developing free software and making a living on it, and this was a banner year for that career. To start with, there was the Distribits conference. There's a big ecosystem of tools and projects that are based on git-annex, especially in scientific data management, and this was the first conference focused on that. Basically every talk…