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Salut #Lyon tu cherches un buffet bas de couleur marron qui a bien vécu mais qui tient encore debout ?
Je pense qu’il se démonte vu que c’est du Ikea.
Si tu peux m’en débarrasser : je te le donne (mais je garde le merdier qui est dessus et les chaussures qui sont dessous).
When was the last time you used #curl to do telnet over an HTTPS proxy?
@bagder never and what did you do with Daniel?!
I (and we at https://deranged.dk) do not use LLMs for code generation, and LLMs have had very little impact on our day to day work.
Most posts on social media by software developers indicate the opposite.
Can we try to build a little trove of counter-examples?
Who else is out there doing professional software dev with no or minimal LLM usage and impact? If you can, tell me about your situation, I'd love to see if patterns emerge.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: But do you use keyboard shortcuts?; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/cult-taylorism/
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@silhouette sorry, but that's not true.
@azonenberg I need to try with bigger BGAs, my first attempt at using 0.4mm pitch had a bunch of bridges that limited the device functionality (but didn't completely prevent them from working)
@jpm 0.4mm is definitely not a good size to start with. I got started on 1mm Xilinx FTG256.
But with really fine pitch it's mostly about controlling paste volume to not be excessive, and getting alignment nice and tight. With a 1mm pitch part you can be almost half a millimeter out of alignment and still have it self-center. At finer pitches, the tolerance scales down accordingly.
@jpw_owl thank you! I typically start simple, with children's media (classic book characters, cartoons) and take it from there. so if you can recommend any German classics, I'm all ears :)
In early 2026 I started a RFC doc titled "FJORD: FreeBSD Jail Orchestration Runtime Descriptor": The pitch was a spec to for a container app-store. (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1716U54ZimcxgxHgmdH1Q3xNnbU-d6-NDW2EXFzFD12c/edit?tab=t.0)
9 months later: fjord 0.2.0 is out: an app store for FreeBSD containers.
Pick an app from 80+ daemonless images, answer a question or two, and it runs in a jail on podman or AppJail. Sane defauls, plain compose files on disk, one static binary.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: But do you use keyboard shortcuts?; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/cult-taylorism/
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Now it's official: On Thursday, the EU Commission will propose a new law they call the #KIDSAct. It will ban young people from a range of different online services and be enforced by the Commission themselves.
What a waste of political capital and legislative resources.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/
What’s so great about Gilbert and Sullivan?
@farah
They wrote a lot of comedic opera, in English, which wasn't terribly normal.
They spent some time making fun of people in powerful positions.
You can sing along with a lot of it.
Their piece from *The Pirates of Penzance*, "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General," has been used for filk, parody, and pastiche numerous times.
@Owen_G_Richards See also this lecture I delivered in 2023: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
Didn't do the whole document - didn't need to.
Not too surprised to see those names you listed, including the 'numb-nuts' in politics.
Those who want power - are not those who should have that power.
The hard part is de-indoctrinating the believers in the latest "holy-scriptures" of the Oligarchs and their cronies. This must be achieved before they can ever be stopped.
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