Pinellas County - Base: 4.15 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:37:18 duration
Good workout keeping it aerobic for the most part.
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@falsifian@www.falsifian.org In my opinion it was a mistake that we defined the first url field in the feed to define the URL for hashing. It should have been the last encountered one. Then, assuming append-style feeds, you could override the old URL with a new one from a certain point on:

# url = https://example.com/alias/txtxt.txt
# url = https://example.com/initial/twtxt.txt
<message 1 uses the initial URL>
<message 2 uses the initial URL, too>
# url = https://example.com/new/twtxt.txt
<message 3 uses the new URL>
# url = https://example.com/brand-new/twtxt.txt
<message 4 uses the brand new URL>

In theory, the same could be done for prepend-style feeds. They do exist, I’ve come around them. The parser would just have to calculate the hashes afterwards and not immediately.

@prologic@twtxt.net This does not seem to fix the problem for me, or I’ve done something wrong. I did the following:

1. Pull the latest version from git (I have commit 7ad848, same as on twtxt.net I believe).
   
2. make build and make install
   
3. Restart yarnd
   
4. Refresh cache in Poderator Settings
   

Yet I still see these bogus /external things on my pod when I hit URLs like the one I sent you recently. When I hit such a URL with curl I think it’s giving an error? But in a web browser, the (buggy) response is the same as it was before I updated.

So, this problem is not fixed for me.

You might have seen me popping up on IRC. This is how it looks:

https://movq.de/v/3a4f9833f3/

That’s EZirc from the 1990ies. (It says it needs Warp 4, but runs fine on Warp 3.)

Lots of this old stuff still works (technically), but as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org said: A lot of it really is dead. There’s not much going on anymore in Usenet.

Base: 6.79 miles, 00:08:27 average pace, 00:57:20 duration
i was actually planning on running at a 11:00 or so pace, but felt so good i just kept increasing the pace each ¼ - ½ mile. in my own little world and ended it feeling great. hopefully i am not peaking too early again… just 12 more days until the PTC!
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@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

I love shell scripts because they’re so pragmatic and often allow me to get jobs done really quickly.

But sadly they’re full of pitfalls. Pitfalls everywhere you look.

Today, a coworker – who’s highly skilled, not a newbie by any means – ran into this:

$ bash -c 'set -u; foo=bar; if [[ "$foo" -eq "bar" ]]; then echo it matches; fi'
bash: line 1: bar: unbound variable

Why’s that happening? I know the answer. Do you? 😂

Stuff like that made me stop using shell scripts at work, unless they’re just 4 or 5 lines of absolutely trivial code. It’s now Python instead, even though the code is often much longer and clunkier, but at least people will understand it more easily and not trip over it when they make a tiny change.

Wordle DS HUMOR 5/6 03:12 📈4

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Threshold - 10’ (9:41) 24’ (8:06) 10’ (9:41): 4.79 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:44:03 duration
felt rested but a bit unmotivated. garmin told me to do this and glad i did because it was a big confidence and morale boost. did not feel rough at any but definitely produced buckets of sweat.
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Running from Little Debbie: 12.20 miles, 00:10:43 average pace, 02:10:47 duration
was hoping for a breeze or some rain from this tropical depression “debbie” but saw none of that until i had stopped. broke it up in 4 mile blocks and walked a bit to regain composure/heart rate. had some at the end with speed. funny how the only people i saw out today were runners.
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Pinellas County - Long Run: 12.03 miles, 00:11:01 average pace, 02:12:35 duration
nice to be outside running again. at about the halfway point (6 mile-ish) started walking around a ¼ mile between miles to lower HR and practice for the PTC.
#running

Base: 4.25 miles, 00:09:47 average pace, 00:41:35 duration
carrying on from code brown
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Pinellas County - Cool down: 2.35 miles, 00:09:59 average pace, 00:23:27 duration
walked about ¾ mile and then started c/d run. felt strong so endurance is in a great spot!
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So dissatisfied and disappointed with the Fairphone 4’s audio issues where during phone calls, the receiver only gets half of the messages due to noise cancellation problems, that we’re considering iPhone as a valid “it just works” replacement. Especially since the iPhone15 now also has the USB Type C port.

Unfortunately not on that front. Still the same 404 posting errors and oddly occasional login errors.

That’s why I was wondering if using Go 1.22.4 could be an issue. I don’t know how exactly. Only way to test is to rebuild it with an older version I guess, which is why I did the make clean in the first place. Old habits die hard lol.

@prologic@twtxt.net Righteo, so rookie error - I obviously had some untracked, rather important files for starting my pod and I ran a make clean. Why I originally had them in the git directory is anyone’s guess. Anyway it blew away those files including the database so that’s that. So your good self and @bender@twtxt.net etc - apologies but your profiles got nuked as well (as did my own but easily recreated).

Another thing I noticed which was the reason I ran make clean in the first place. I noticed my pod was being built with Go 1.22.4. Could this be a problem @prologic? preflight.sh actually errors out about it…

Base: 4.20 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 00:41:37 duration
felt really good. had to cut it early again due to work. cannot wait for this craziness to stop.
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@prologic@twtxt.net 1. allow only members of your pod to submit feeds

1. some kind of captcha (eew)
   
2. probationary status after submittal which requires review of some sort
   
3. rate limiting to slow down submissions from the same source

Base: 4.00 miles, 00:09:37 average pace, 00:38:27 duration
chill treadmill run. trying not to deplete myself today since we have a release tonight with a 5 to 24 hour window. fuuuun.
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Pinellas County - Base: 4.69 miles, 00:09:21 average pace, 00:43:51 duration
psh, was supposed to be a base but the damn heat and humidity really brought that HR up. the last mile i felt it and was done with only three minutes left on the timer.
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Solar Powered Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - Tutorial https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/solar-powered-pi/

Pinellas County - Base: 4.15 miles, 00:08:43 average pace, 00:36:09 duration
letting the work day frustrations out! the leg felt pretty good today actually. it was HOT (88F) and humid!
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Base: 4.70 miles, 00:09:50 average pace, 00:46:13 duration
very light effort. the knee felt okay but there was some pain.
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Pinellas County - Long Run: 8.07 miles, 00:10:41 average pace, 01:26:18 duration
at about mile 3 i switched to 4’ on 1’ off. this was because my left knee started to act up. kept this up pretty well until a weird sharp pain at about 7.5 miles. walked it off a bit and tried again but called it when things did not feel right.
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Pinellas County - Recovery: 4.22 miles, 00:09:59 average pace, 00:42:11 duration
little bit of pain but smooth.
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Base: 6.25 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 01:00:30 duration
treadmill due to life. damn pain between miles 4 and 5. nothing the day before and nothing afterwards so maybe that is a good sign things are turning around.
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Pinellas County - Recovery: 4.06 miles, 00:10:24 average pace, 00:42:13 duration
slow. my body literally could not have gone quicker. it hurt too.
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Pinellas County - Base: 5.06 miles, 00:09:15 average pace, 00:46:49 duration
funny how when the sun is down so is my HR. pretty good run. almost stopped at 4 miles due to pain.
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Pinellas County - Base: 4.67 miles, 00:09:18 average pace, 00:43:26 duration

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Pinellas County - Base: 4.78 miles, 00:09:06 average pace, 00:43:27 duration
another great evening run!
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Base: 4.50 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 00:43:35 duration
was not sure if i was going to be able to get a run in or not. felt a bit rushed but overall it was a good one.
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Pinellas County - Base: 4.76 miles, 00:09:04 average pace, 00:43:07 duration
good run with no pain. legs were still sore but no big deal. i think i was going a bit too fast and needed to slow it down by about ~30 seconds, but the body did not seem like it was pushing too much either.
#running

@mckinley@twtxt.net for me:

• a wall mount 6U rack which has:
  
  • 1U patch panel
    
  • 1U switch
    
  • 2U UPS
    
  • 1U server, intel atom 4G ram, debian (used to be main. now just has prometheus)
    
• a mini ryzon 16 core 64G ram, fedora (new main)
  
  • multiple docker services hosted.
    
• synology nas with 4 2TB drives
  
• turris omnia WRT router -> fiber uplink
  

network is a mix of wireguard, zerotier.

• wireguard to my external vms hosted in various global regions.
  
  • this allows me ingress since my ISP has me behind CG-NAT
    
• zerotier is more for devices for transparent vpn into my network
  

i use ssh and remote desktop to get in and about. typically via zerotier vpn. I have one of my VMs with ssh on a backup port for break glass to get back into the network if needed.

everything has ipv6 though my ISP does not provide it. I have to tunnel it in from my VMs.

Horry County Running: 7.00 miles, 00:09:17 average pace, 01:04:56 duration
beach run. i think it was around mile 4 where my leg and glutes had the piercing pain again. although my pace and HR did not really show it i was in a lot of pain. the following two days i took some ibuprofen which is very rare for me but i needed whatever inflammation on my ITB to ease a bit.
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Fairfax County Running: 4.32 miles, 00:09:29 average pace, 00:41:01 duration
decided to snake through the neighborhoods… rolling hills and quite a bit of traffic. my left knee and glute were piercing and it didn’t stop throughout the day. it was better when i stood because sitting aggravated it more.
#running #injury

Fairfax County Running: 4.32 miles, 00:09:29 average pace, 00:41:01 duration
kept it easy since my left glute is a bit tight with some pain. just ran back and forth in the neighborhood hitting those rolling hills. nice chill to the air even though no rain. the pain was piercing and did not stop throughout the day. it helped to stand because sitting aggravated it more.
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Fairfax County Running: 4.25 miles, 00:08:49 average pace, 00:37:25 duration
cool weather with a drizzle made for a nice little run. did not want to cross too many major roads so did a few loops. the rolling hills were a nice touch too.
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Easy: 4.26 miles, 00:09:32 average pace, 00:40:38 duration
test run on the treadmill with simulation of skyway bridge (grade of 4%) over and back at a comfortable pace.
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I finally found the NASM assembler.

https://nasm.us/index.php

I had heard that name before, many times, but somehow never looked into it. Weird. 🤨🤔

This is the kind of program I was looking for.

1. It is free software. Especially in the DOS ecosystem, free/libre software is a very scarce resource.
   
2. It’s a small command line program, not a huge behemoth.
   
3. Documentation appears to be well written.
   
4. It can even cross-compile DOS binaries from Linux.

Pinellas County - Easy: 4.83 miles, 00:08:46 average pace, 00:42:20 duration
went out easy. HR was around 149 until stopping for a traffic light. afterwards it was consistently mid- to high- 160’s. overall effort was still minimal, but maybe higher HR was due to the congestion i seem to have picked up the last couple of days?
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Pinellas County - Easy: 7.00 miles, 00:08:35 average pace, 01:00:05 duration
i know the stats won’t scream easy, but as far as level of effort goes it completely was. it started off at a decent pace which was comfortable and at the first crosswalk my HR was 129. i did not check it again until the next crosswalk (~3 or 4 miles later) and it was 168 or 170. i just kept the same pace since my breathing, legs, and overall feeling still pretty comfortable and easy. no knee issues. this was a great boost in confidence.
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Pinellas County - Easy: 4.06 miles, 00:08:44 average pace, 00:35:25 duration
another good day
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Je n’ai plus d’accès à internet, si3t.ch est donc down. La #freebox est bloquée sur Etape 4. Un technicien a du débrancher le cable qui correspond à mon accès…

Pinellas County - 90’ (part I): 4.53 miles, 00:08:41 average pace, 00:39:21 duration
whoa this run felt great. seemed very fun effort while the heart rate was relatively low with a nice pace. it was very cold out, 42F with a wind chill of 38F, but it didn’t matter once the engine was going. unfortunately, halfway through the run code brown sirens were blaring and had to cut it short.
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Pinellas County - Easy: 4.07 miles, 00:09:24 average pace, 00:38:18 duration
went off a bit fast at the start. lots of strong wind gusts (mostly headwind and crosswind). glad i forced myself to get out.
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Pinellas County - Easy: 4.06 miles, 00:09:22 average pace, 00:38:01 duration
very hard to get out the door. did not pay attention to the stats while running but was pleasantly surprised!
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I’m really bad at competitive programming. 🙄 For today’s #AdventOfCode puzzle, I spent an eternity trying to understand exactly what kind of bG9naWMgY2lyY3VpdAo= the puzzle input describes – I haven’t done that in well over a decade, so I made little progress. I knew right from the start that SSBoYWQgdG8gbG9vayBmb3IgY3ljbGUgbGVuZ3RocyBhbmQgdGhlbiBmaW5kIHRoZSBMQ00K. It just didn’t occur to me to just run my program on cGFydGlhbCBpbnB1dAo= and print those numbers. 🥴 I only did that after over 4 hours (including time to debug my nasty C code) and then, boom, solution …

Pinellas County - Easy: 4.06 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 00:39:29 duration
did not want to get out of bed. played this one by feel and was not surprised by the results.
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M [02;04;02]: Recovery run: 4.50 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 00:43:35 duration

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Recovery: 4.50 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 00:43:35 duration

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