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My first ever little web app is live!

Trackmbta.app is a web app that can be "installed" on mobile devices. Like its name, it tracks MBTA trains so you can be smarter for your trips!

Features are:

- Live count down
- Live location of trains on the map (just in case you're curious where that damn train is that you're waiting forever...)
- Save your favorite stations locally for quick access

This web app cuts all the bullshit:

- No permission asked
- No data collected from you

If you are a red line commuter and see a ✨ on the app, you probably already know what it means! Those shiny new trains!

#mbta #boston #commute #webdev #dev #transit #devlog

Try it and let me know what you think!

https://trackmbta.app

#lispyGopherClimate #live #christmas #podcast https://archives.anonradio.net/202412250000_screwtape.mp3
@kentpitman #haiku + underannounced #AI climate costs

#commonlisp #lisp Exciting to have #gamedev #powerhouse @mdhughes https://gitlab.com/mdhughes/mcclim-console https://itch.io/profile/mdhughes
and #mcclim #dev @jackdaniel https://turtleware.eu/
intersecting.

I'm adopting this vintage game terminal + grid for my lisp packages (around my own https://codeberg.org/tfw/lispmoo2 ). Also #Sandewall's #beliefDesireIntent in my own #lispmoo2.

#unix_surrealism

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Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.

#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity

Microsoft Copilot putting ads in pull requests on Microsoft Github is expected behavior.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #github #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment

I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.

In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.

If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.

It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #programming #nihilism #LinkedIn

I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.

At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility

Nowadays programming in a programming language I don't use daily seems to always require an upgrade cascade of editors, tools, plugins, dependencies, libraries, my DNA, ??? I put some effort into keeping my environment static but all it takes is one autoupgrading thing I missed to kick off one of these cascades, and it feels like whack-a-mole trying to find and lock down every possible cause. This time it looks like a newer version of scala metals might have stopped supporting Java 11 and somehow got updated without my knowledge (maybe? I'm guessing).

P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.

#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming

🚀 Mastodon Alt-Text generator

Important improvements to the script! 📸

1️⃣ Replaced status and media_ids[] with a more robust update function.
2️⃣ Improved HTML tag handling with smart cleaning to preserve line breaks.
3️⃣ Added an infinite loop with a 60s delay to continuously analyze images in posts.
4️⃣ Enhanced error handling, with specific exceptions for redirects and other request issues.

For those who missed the project: https://github.com/matlfb/mastodon-alt-text-generator

#dev #mastodev #mastodon #alttext

J'hésite sur la couleur de fond pour l'action d'édition ... gris ou orange 🤔
#iOS #Dev #UI

"Cloud" is an appropriate metaphor for that kind of computing. From a distance it can appear solid. Up close, it's a fog, with nothing clear and with none of the apparent solidity visible.

#tech #dev #cloud #CloudComputing

What they don't tell you, what you have to figure out for yourself, is that the "things" in the slogan "move fast and break things" is us. It's people.

#tech #dev #SiliconValley #SocialMedia #AI #GenAI #etc

I'm tinkering with an argument based on algorithmic complexity that if it were possible to make something like an "automated mathematician" or "automated scientist", then these would be expected to eventually produce outputs that we humans would be unable to distinguish from random noise.

Getting the whole argument just right is fiddly, but the basic idea is this. You feed some kind of theory into the AM/AS, which is a black box. It churns on this and spits out a result, which is added to the theory (I'm neglecting the case that the result is inconsistent with the theory). It can now churn on theory + result 1. For any given and potentially very large N, after doing this long enough, it's churning on theory + result 1 + result 2 + ... + result N. Whatever it spits out will be dependent in particular on results 1 - N. When N is large enough, unless you know these results you will not be able to understand what it outputs because the output will almost surely depend critically on one or more of results 1 - N. In other words, the output will look like noise to you. If the AM/AS is appreciably faster at producing results than people are at understanding them, there will be an N beyond which no one can understand the output up to that point. It'll become indistinguishable (unable to be distinguished) from random noise.

If you're into software development, this would be analogous to a software system that generates syntactically-correct code and then adds that code as a new call in a growing software library. If you were to run this long enough, virtually all the programs it generated that were short enough for human beings to have any hope of reading and understanding would consist almost entirely of library calls to code generated by the system. You'd have no idea what any of this code did unless you studied the library calls, which you wouldn't be able to do beyond a certain scale. If the system were expanding the library faster than you could read and understand it, there'd be no hope at all.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether this is a desirable thing to do and whether it's happened yet. I would offer, though, a question to ponder: what reason is there to believe that a random number generator hooked up to an inscrutable interpreter produces human flourishing, for any given meaning of "human flourishing" you care to use?

#tech #dev #mathematics #AutomatedMathematician #AutomatedScientist #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #ThoughtExperiment

🚀 New Project Release: misskey-blog Turn your Fediverse timeline into a stunning Cyberpunk personal blog in seconds! 把你的联邦宇宙动态，瞬间变成酷炫的赛博朋克个人博客！

✨ Features / 核心特性:

⚡ One-Click Deploy: No coding required! Run on Cloudflare for free. (无需代码，一键免费部署！)

🌐 Fediverse Nexus: Supports Misskey, Firefish & Mastodon perfectly. (完美支持长毛象和 Misskey)

🛡️ Hybrid Fetch: Innovative engine to bypass instance API blocks. (独家双路抓取引擎)

🎨 Cyberpunk UI: Glassmorphism & Glitch effects. (赛博朋克毛玻璃特效)

👀 Live Demo / 演示: https://blog.sshup.com/
📦 Get it now / 源码: https://github.com/Ghfftn/misskey-blog

#Misskey #Mastodon #Fediverse #Blog #Astro #OpenSource #Dev

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#PHP #Recrutement #Opensource

One of the things I'm finding stunning about the Vercel breach is how many people are saying "I had $VERY_LARGE_NUMBER of OAuth apps authorized to my $VERY_IMPORTANT_ACCOUNT and had to go through them all". I have like 2 OAuth apps authorized on any account that matters to me, and I review them fairly regularly and remove ones I don't use or don't remember. I also never accept "allow all" for any app. Apparently I'm weird in this way? I just feel like not doing this is akin to using "password" for all your passwords.

#tech #dev #security #cybersecurity #InfoSec #Vercel #breach #OAuth #AI

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It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics

Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.

From “LYING IN POLITICS”: HANNAH ARENDT’S ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY DESPAIR https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/

I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.

While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.

This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.

Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.

#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM

Is there an open source software license that forbids using LLMs to extend the code?

#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #tech #dev #SoftwareLicensing

Enfim, pela primeira vez, consegui fazer funcionar, no meu repositório clone do #snac, o mecanismo de integração contínua com Forgejo Actions para construir imagens de contêiner e disponibilizá-las no registro do próprio #Codeberg.

Até então, realizava isso com um script que já tinha contribuído ao projeto e que executava manualmente quando queria atualizar a imagem que depois usaria neste servidor.

Outra novidade é uma variação "full" da imagem de contêiner que acrescenta os pacotes ffmpeg e imagemagick. Eles, recentemente, podem ser usados pelo snac, se isso for definido no server.json, para remover metadados EXIF de arquivos de imagens e vídeos enviados. O porém é que isso a torna praticamente 10 vezes maior: 60MB, em vez dos menos de 7MB da imagem padrão. Custo-benefício depende do gosto do freguês.

#FediAdminBR #dev #blambers

let me get right on that…:/

#dev #aws #bezos #verification