After removing one of two water tanks from my water system, the leak seems to be about 7 gallons a day. It was 15/day before.

So possibly both tanks are equally leaky? But I have not been able to rule out a leak in the buried water line due to a bad valve.

seeming very possible I have both a leaking water tank *and* a leaking buried water line. aaaaagh

I should probably not be able to dig sand out from under my water tank and make a sand ball it's so wet, huh

Confirmed my water system is leaking. 10 to 15 gallons per day, which is eating through my water reserves pretty quick.

I've turned off the valve to the underground pipe to check if the leak is in the 550 gallon water tanks or the pipe. I'm pretty sure it's one of the tanks, which has noticably damper ground around it than the other.

contemplating bisecting a problem... but the problem is possible water leak in my water system

AI generated make uninstall target guy has made a blog post about it, so I guess I'll stop obscuring his identity. https://therealtruex.com/posts/Dont-use-make-uninstall

(the blog post was almost certainly composed with AI and is likely incoherent)

What could possibly go wrong

firewood delivery day!

wood guy complimented my solar fence and I told him about offgrid EV charging

My guess is that's a case of is people badly explaining things on social media and not very accurate.

The Author's guild describes the reason for needing registration as this being a statutory damage award (since this is a class action), and the Copyright act only allowing that for registered works. https://authorsguild.org/news/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

copyright question: Apparently the Anthropic book piracy settlement only applies to books whose copyright has been registered with the copyright office. And I've seen that explained as copyright registration being required in order to bring any court action against infringers.

AFAIK most free software copyrights are the automatic kind, not registered. Which would be a problem if this were true wouldn't it?

"I will talk to the grass and the rock. They stopped here too." - JS

I'm 99% sure that the script he used to do it was generated with AI. It was buggy as well.

astonishingly, the AI spammer guy then proceeded to add me to his mailing list

domain killfiled

I've been checking github to see how other projects reacted to the LLM generated Makefile uninstall targets.

2 projects rejected the patches so far.

One of the patches was merged so far out of the 16 I found. Rest TBD.

33% success rate spamming unreviewed code that deletes whatever random files a LLM hallucinates is pretty good odds I guess if your goal is to get your name out there.

wrote back linking to my update to my global gitattributes file, which will now flag every commit from this person as likely LLM slop no matter where I stumble over them

For what it's worth, the make uninstall target is unncessary in any project that supports DESTDIR in its Makefile. Even w/o a package manager, you can use `make install DESTDIR=foo` and then list the files in foo, and delete the same files from the root filesystem. This could be automated by a small shell script. (And then you have a package manager.)

I would refuse to add such a target on that basis alone, since it adds extra maintenance burden.

received 4 different versions of a patch by email adding an uninstall target to the same Makefile.

When I wrote back, it became clear they were polishing their response via a LLM. And at the end, they outright admitted this:

> I used AI to automate adding the uninstall targets for hundreds of repos. So sorry about the problem and extra email.

went to put on my boots and there was something in one

shook it out, and out came an hourglass

message received!

CW 11

I like to wake up early and listen to the crickets out my window

I relish the silence, even the sound of a car going by seems somehow natural

at this time of day. People may be rushing to get started but the sounds

feel more calm but still electric in their exciting possibility.

The air smells crisper.

It is during this time when I like to sit and write.

How is the meaning of Contemplative Writing different for me this morning?

The sense of wonder is alive.

Knowing I don’t know, but wonder means I still pursue the wisdom.

CW is meaning the process for me.

It finally sinks in that it is not a style of writing but a way.

oh bother, little bobby tables vibe coded a git clone again

The mountain came to me, not reading HN tho. Going to a mountain!

spent my saturday building this screen door

... now my throne has a view

Although I do have a strong policy against writing throwaway prompt garbage for anything (one of the several reasons I have never actually interacted with any LLM), so if I used something like this, I'd omit the guide and it would need to work on the basis of actually generally usable information. Which this can do.

Literally the first time I've seen a use of LLMs for programming which I could imagine using. (Given a sufficiently libre LLM.) Not that I've been spending any time looking for such things.

Typed hole filling plugin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0axmFH1j8

How does a bird view the shoreline?

Little zipper he follows

because from breakers fish rise.

How does the fish see the trough beak,

of a gliding pelican?

Scooped up in a bucket

then black.

And how does the night see the day?

Estranged friend, political opposite,

unknown, unimagined,

never touched,

except two brief moments

at dusk and twilight,

sunset and sunrise

when the light and dark mingle,

and world’s spheres pull closer

for such a fleeting short time.

But noon will never know midnight.

Noon will never reach out to midnight

to comb her soft hair

or invite him to dinner

with no one else there.

Noon and midnight are as distant as

opposite ends

so they dream and envision

and write poems

imaging their counterpoint

has a wild side.

Maybe noon sees midnight as risky and loud

when in a peaceful place

it’s just not true.

Maybe midnight sees noon as too hot

when in a temperate winter

noon can be icy...

Back from a 815 mile EV road trip mostly done in 1 day. Some fun stuff but the only real reason for the trip was a disfunctional US system that made us have to do like this tree.

2010

I remember conflict between me and other students, because of how I approached the world then. I remember a young woman named Brittany who was a Quaker who argued with me a lot. I remember arguing with Adam even though I wanted to be his friend, both of their friends.

Experiences that stand out

Folding a paper crane at Snug Hollow bed and breakfast

How everyone interacted in that moment

How I felt separate from others then especially but still was somehow glad and grateful for the experience.

Walking on the snow down to the sport fields on day one

Coming back and making a haiku

Feeling emboldened because you kept encouraging my abilities

I felt zero apprehension about whether or not I could do contemplative writing for the first time

I just remembered a guy named Michael Huckstickler. Was he in that class? If so I remember him much more clearly in my peace and justice class. I barely remember him in CW.

I remember a really nice short haired woman whose name I have forgotten. She was from Knoxville. She was very encouraging. She told me if I’m afraid of the end, know there will always be a next chapter.

I remember Rachael from Dominican Republic and how there was a terrible storm affecting her family while we were in Loretto.

So these impressions of people have specific places and memories too. The woman from Knoxville, I remember she saw a deer and Rachael Parker referred to it as God’s Creation. I wasn’t with the others on the walk where they saw the deer, echoing my thing I said earlier about being separate. I was in the gift shop or outside it I think the whole walking time because I didn’t feel like walking much. I am certain it would have been a wonderful walk. I remember the smell of intense because a monk was having his funeral.

I remember different things about writing too, but the major first memory for me now is people. I was living in Beth Curlin’s spare room and I was trying to think up what to write about on the first day. I called my friend Lauren and asked her for her writers opinion, and I think it was around that time that I came up with the word ritual.

What I meant was routine, unless it was a Freudian slip where I was trying to expand my knowledge my using the wrong word.

Basically my first idea was to think about routines, like drinking tea, and routines within the writing process like keeping a notebook of ideas or drafting incredible first lines or having a writing practice of an hour in the morning before anything. I think the last one may have been what I really had in mind.

I wrote a lot back then. Maybe more than I do now but I really am not sure about that. I think it was the same amount, just more compared with peers. There were differences regarding how I wrote between now and then, in terms of how I loved to write on paper if I was in a coffee shop or getting ready for a class or sitting in a lecture before it started. That is the one and only thing I don’t do as much of now. The reason is because I am more social now. So I would talk with my friends and socialize if I was at a concert or even a cafe, and that preempts writing to a point.

But I have a time and place for writing now and I do it abundantly. I write also in a group that I am part of and I write and read regularly in it. We were reading a bell hooks poem just yesterday. My writing group is very interested in African American writers especially poets like Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. We read a lot of classical poems but mostly we just write and share our writing together.

….

Note that I will block microsoft apologists in this thread without further engagement.

Imagining the alternate universe where chiark.greenend.org.uk/~bruce/debian/ftp/ is in all our sources.lists

(not directed at the putty devs at all, but it is like the existence proof that users will use any crazy cool url even in the kind of situations where people tend to use putty)

top level domains for free software projects are a trap. use any nice deep url structure you like as long as you can ensure your cool url doesn't break

https://donotsta.re/notice/Ax9dEIy1HzYtqRgWG0

What gets me, as a local software developer is there is probably some useful medical recovery idea under all this. Just tech has laid this poisoned path that guarantees a certain type of result.

that one cursed coffee shop conversation I can't quite manage to tune out has this morning gone something llke

"the professor has developed the algorithm already.. I just need to put it into an app"
"you can outsource development. like to fivr. ... um, probably not fivr but something like that"
"or could I find a local software developer around here somehow?"
"android or IOS? electron?"
"SAAS?"
"exercising.. full range of movement ... recovery ... patients ... zero gravity support"
"will this need FDA approval?"
"ya know, investers are gonna want AI in it"
"maybe have it like, coach them?"
"turn on the camera ... process the images"
"I have a bunch of articles I found that support the idea. I keep getting into rabbitholes prompting AI"
"board ... supermajority ... investers... 51% ... $1 million revenue"

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a/

What a neat talk. If I had been there I would have asked: Since the Arch wiki is generally applicable to #Debian except for some arch-specific parts, and is under a free license, why not just port it to the Debian wiki?

(Pity that we all got stuck on wikis that don't natively support forking and merging.)