Last minute entry for #caturday (at least in this time zone)…
This is Shadow. He’s an incredibly sweet boy who likes long walks (on your shoulder), loving on his puppies, and laying in his bowl(s).
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Last minute entry for #caturday (at least in this time zone)…
This is Shadow. He’s an incredibly sweet boy who likes long walks (on your shoulder), loving on his puppies, and laying in his bowl(s).
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s OK, it’s still WIP. You’re just helping make it more robust. 😁
@arne@uplegger.eu I’m similar… I use “I” most of the time (mostly in planning or trying to focus, ex: “I’m going to do X, then Y”), but I also use “you” when fussing at myself for my perceived faults or mistakes (that’s my “lizard brain”, we don’t get along so well because he’s kind of a jerk).
@prologic@twtxt.net you went to sleep so early! It’s barely 14:19. 😂
Heading to bed 👋 Goodnight everyone! 💤
On the subject of debugging these so-called AI(s) / Black Boxes… the model is a black box sure, but that’s not really the problem. Everything around it — the inputs, the outputs, the decisions it makes — all of that can and should be fully logged, traced and replayed. The “program” isn’t the model, it’s the full context you feed it. That’s what you debug. It’s not so different from any other system really; if you’re running something in production with no logs, no structured outputs and no tests, you’d have the same problem. The model doesn’t change that discipline, it just makes it more important.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nature is cruel.
And the humidity sucks. It’s been a horrible day. 🥴
@prologic@twtxt.net my gosh, that’s some expensive lottery! I have the feeling I would win, but I never play. 🤭 Wife, on the other hand, does. East and west coast, with a bunch of her friends (a pool). They win nothing, for many years. 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net lol, well, better than nothing, eh? What did the tickets cost? 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I came across that in some of these threads, too. I should probably give OpenRsync a shot.
Oh boy, it was bloody humid this morning. Just around 20°C when we left, but climbing rapidly. The flow of air when walking was okay, but as soon as we stopped, streams of sweat were pouring down on us. Luckily, it was cloudy, but the lack of wind was bad. Now, the sun is out, 29°C will be reached in an hour and I’m glad that the house is still cool. It will be a different story in a few weeks or months. Not looking forward to that at ll.
On the bright side, we saw the first tadpoles of the year and an also first, but sadly dead slow worm that probably some bird dropped on a bench next to the fountain. The fly was stuck to its feast and also cactus. The municipality fixed the railing nicely and we came across a giant patch of great looking fire bugs on the summit.
All in all, a successful stroll through the woods but for the humid heat.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I’m not so lucky haha 🤣 Only won $32 AUD 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @tftp@tilde.town Someone has pointed out that there’s OpenRsync:
Since I run OpenBSD on my servers, I actually do use that and have never noticed any incompatibilities with the “normal” rsync.
These nicely lit jet trails are the work of the sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-05-22/
One and a half weeks ago, our sunset delivered strong colors: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-05-21/ Apologies for the damn fuzz in the optics.
@bender@twtxt.net I’ll think about it. :-)
I rode my bicyle to the scout flea market setup a few weeks ago when I had to stop to admire the morning sun lighting up the fields. https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2026-05-08/ Of course, these photos don’t do justice at all.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hah 😅 One thing I’ve learned in my life (as I’ve had many good manegers over the years teach me as much) is:
Strong opinions, held loosely.
I have my opinions too, but I also see positives and benefits and I am optimistic that we will collectively figure out a path forward.
Haha, someone had a similar idea … https://lpcvoid.com/blog/0018_why_i_am_against_genai/index.html
@prologic@twtxt.net You actually did? 😅 Good luck. 😅 I never dared to, I’d probably get addicted. 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yeah, same here. 😞 Let’s all just win the lottery and stop with this damn work thing. 🤣
@movq@www.uninformativ.de All good, I’m tired too. Work has been burning me out lately 🥵
@prologic@twtxt.net (I hope I’m not too incoherent. I didn’t sleep very well recently and have a lot of unrelated stuff on my mind. 🤣)
@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, so that’s what “Bob” is. I saw that popping up in email notifications. 😅
it’s “probabilistic” not “deterministic”
Yep, I know. And when I tell that to people and tell them “if we use AI here, we lose the ability to debug this stuff”, then all I get is: “But it’s good enough. We don’t need to debug this. Non-deterministic computing has its use cases.”
But that is just not how I’d like to model/implement our business processes. 🤔 I want something reliable, not “it mostly works”.
LIke with almost everything “big-tech” has done, it’s not the tech you should not trust, but the companies themselves. For example, accessing and using the models (because let’s face it, they have clusters of much larger and more powerful GPU clusters than we could ever afford to build and own ourselves, at least for now) is fine, but trusting their end-user products/services, not so much.
It’s one of the reasons in fact I’ve been working on bob so I have a very concrete and strong foundation for how these things work, how they behave and how bad or good they can be. I am on-purpose building bob to be not only a decent coding tool and general task completion tool, but with serious security boundaries, sanitation, auditing and compliance. If I’m going to succeed at building autoonmous agents that can cope with a wider array of varying inputs (mostly natural language, some structural language) then it needs to be both a) Safe and b) Robust
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m kind of flag you bring thi sup, because you simply can’t. You wouldn’t even be able to in an atypical neural network either (which is what ehse things are anyway). The problem here really isn’t the so-called “AI” (I wish we’d stop calling it AI), but the flawed usage(s) thereof. I believe I even stated earlier in this thread that sometimes it may not do what you expect, it’s “probabilistic” not “deterministic” – those pushing for greater use need to understand this, those not happy with the “push”, should educate the ignorant here (especailly managers pushing for weak, insecure and bad uses).
