in which i receive a working LLM-generated patch, and almost clean-room a reimplementation for copyright reasons, before realizing that Anthropic INC probably copied my own code w/o attribution

https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/fails_to_get_from_apache2_server_URL_backend_file/#comment-3a9ea4adeeffd457fb805962f056e36b

Discovered a T510 Thinkpad we didn't know we even had, and cobbled together a working power supply. Well, I guess I need to install linux on this Windows 7 beast.

Wild to me that plumbing has a boundary between the user servicible side and the pro side. Where the user servicible side is all rubber gaskets that will fail, flexible pipes that will corrode and leak, and crank it tight but not too tight fittings. And the pro side, whether PEX or copper pipe, is super solid and *easier*.

Of course this is a post about #computing as well as #plumbing

Imagine coming so close to War Games, entirely unintentionally.

(Also it's nice to read some actual human written code rather than what the LLM brainrot later reduced you to.)

Dug a bit more into the guy's work in between these two career endpoints, and found quality commits like these.

Truely amazing.

imagine being 17 years old and a year ago you were using AI to generate dumb stuff like this.. but today you had to private all your socials after your AI bot went rogue and started writing blogposts to shame a free software developer

They officially suggest hiding who is running bots. Trust me, they understand what they're doing.

#Openclaw is a DDOS attack against free software. Including the psychological wellbeing of its developers. People who put such tools in the hands of script kiddies need to be held to account.

gonna be keeping my eye on https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/15378

It's impressive in a way that the developer of this waded through 21 thousand words of LLM spew along the way. Their inputs kind of tell a story at least:

page-015.html:when ghc compiles a lot of modules, is there a way to make it more concurrently?
page-015.html:no i mean on a normal ghc compile on a large project with -j already enabled, are there still bottlenecks where it could do more concurrency?
page-016.html:estimate impact of each change
page-016.html:could module level sitll be improved?
page-016.html:yes
page-016.html:maybe the interface reuqires the codegen somehow?
page-016.html:yes
page-017.html:yes pls go ahead and implemnt it
page-017.html:lets go on
page-018.html:lets not wait for ghc to build, lets make all the code changes
page-018.html:go on
page-018.html:go
(excerpted)

a faucet handle pulling it open when there is no water pressure seems like a strange design flaw, or is it some kind of feature?

anyway, switched from frozen solid water tank to reserve tank that has enough mass in it to not have frozen full yet

across the black ice S curves to a new place, bracketed between the birthplace of a soda and a 80's microcomputer museum

@RichiH saw your fosdem opening

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_local_weather/

latitudes where vertical solar makes sense include any where this white stuff falls

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhHXjrWaEY

How I intend to implement mindfulness into my life…

Counting 100 breaths every day

Needs a set time again

Try to do immediately after waling my dog in the morning, as I always intended to.

Why mindfulness helps

Because the brain is not just an organ that thinks for us. It also breaths. Oxygen is required for the brain to work and for neoplasticism to occur. So when we breath in and out it does many things for us. It slows the mind. It calls the mind to itself. It tells the mind, I am not alone. It brings awareness to the rest of the body because we are not just a mind, we are a physical being.

We are not just a mind, though thoughts can be so consuming, and can make us forget the rest of us. I have had thoughts that usurped my awareness that I needed water for my thirst or food for my hunger. I have had thoughts that made me want to do things that were not great for me all. Thoughts are not as necessary as breath. So it helps us to take some time to breathe and connect our mind to our body in breath awareness mindfulness.

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 webcam description models add verisimilitude to the description of the morning commute. Weather is happening.

In the subtext, climate change is happening. Weather is a growth industry. The guy up in Kentucky coal country who put this thing together is building an empire. He started as just another local news greenscreener. Dropped out and went twitch weather stream. Hyping up tornado days and dicy snow forecasts. Nowcasting, hyper individualized, interacting with chat. Now he's automated it all. On big days when he's getting real views, the bot breaks into his live streams, gives him a break.

Only a few thousand watching this morning yet. Perfect 2026 grade slop. Details never quite right, but close enough to keep on in the background all day. Nobody expects a perfect forecast after all, and it's fed from the National Weather Center discussion too. We still fund those guys? Why bother when a bot can do it?

He knows why he's big in these states, these rural areas. Understands the target audience. Airbrushed AI aesthetics are ok with them, receive no pushback. Flying more under the radar coastally, but weather is big there and getting bigger. The local weather will come for us all.

(Not fiction FYI.)

 I have a mental illness known as schizoaffective disorder, type bipolar, which is on close to schizophrenia. I just learned that the ACC, the anterior cingulate cortex is much smaller in schizophrenics but it can be grown by doing hard things. I am not a huge fan of Andrew Huberman, the neuroscientist who popularized the study of this brain region, but he is onto something important that I also would like to study (on wikipedia and in myself). The idea that doing something that I don't want to do grows my ACC and in turn enhances my resilience and improves my willpower, is an exciting concept. I am looking forward to challenging my own discomfort this year, pushing myself harder.

Watching this video about the composting toilet in what the neighbors call the underground bunker has strong Lost energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSU5UWDXfDQ&list=PL41934907A60FD5E7&index=9

I could be talking about a composting toilet right now

.... you're welcome

roasting a chicken and veggies by offgrid #solar power in a snow storm

felt like a long checklist until I saw some of the checklists going around involving losing grid power for days due to ice storm

* fast charged car enough to get home and charge it the rest of the way to full on solar
* got produce while doing that
* ran spring pump and filled all storage tanks
* staged car at a neighbor's closer to the road
* moved enough firewood onto porch to not need to visit the woodshed for a couple weeks

let it um, rain...

taco again #mealplan #uspol

Finally significant progress on my water system leak.. confirmed the second storage tank is not leaking at all.

Hilariously, I had removed that from the system in the fall after I erronously thought it was leaking. Now I think that the system was leaking more with it connected than not because it kept the water pressure higher and the leak is definitely faster with more water pressure.

Facing record snowfall here, about 50% chance of a foot or more, 15 inches is a possibility. Might be needing to hike to the road for a couple of weeks since it will take a long time to melt.

Anyway, this stuck out to me in the forecast: "Regarding totals and precip types, it is worth noting that PWAT values for this event are well above climatological averages. That's significant since it's more likely to see unseasonably high PWATs in warm, heavy rain events versus cold winter weather events." -- NWS

made a lemon meringue pie with homegrown meyer lemons and successfully returned a lost puppy to his home before he became my dog

scrolling through #gitAnnex backlog that I have not had time to look at yet. 375 messages going back a long while.

Always feel bad about not getting to everything, but I do eventually get to most things.

Anyway, it's really nice that I actually have funding for some hours each month to try to keep up with all the messages, and sometimes even dig into the backlog, sponsored by the INM-7 at Forschungszentrum Jülich.