Sadly, I’m not too surprised. Check this shit out, published back in November 2025: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25137.

“We simulated 151 million American workers [using LLMs] to see what proportion of tasks they do that can also be done by AI”.

Much more recently, Esquire couldn’t get ahold of an actor for an interview and so decided to generate the actors responses using Claude: https://esquiresg.com/mackenyu-one-piece-roronoa-zoro-interview/.

We had the photospread, but nothing directly uttered by the 29-year-old. With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.

Are these the words we expect from Mackenyu? Or are they just replies from an echo chamber of celebrity-hood that we want to believe is from him?

With the absence of information, can new insights be gained?

Nature abhors a vacuum, and in its place, a story fills the hollow.

Somehow it is currently accepted by a certain portion of people that LLM-based systems can be used to replace actually existing human beings.

I saw a Democrat on some news station say that she was about to be questioned about the Epstein files until she got fired. Maybe they’re trying to avoid her lying under oath?

On a similar note, washing my hands in warm water after after they were chilled by the morning air felt fuckin’ magical.

I agree that in the short-term, NVidia stand to make more money as a destroyed datacenter prompts it’s owners to rebuild it. However, until the armed conflict stops, there might be a pause on datacenter construction in the region - why pay to (re)build a datacenter if it’s probably going to be blown up again? From my (admittedly limited) reading of history, most reconstruction only happens in the years following an armed conflict’s end.

I wonder if it would be ok to attend a furry convention wearing a sign that says “I’d love to pet you but I’m not brave enough to ask”.

That’s great to hear!

What’s weird about that character is that the explosions and turning water into wine were (as far as I can recall) movie additions. In the books he was just another classmate.

I’m disappointed there’s no threadiverse integration.

The basic grunt work of bringing together bluesky and mastodon feeds is pretty decently done, if a bit opinionated.

I like the concept and presentation of their feed “packages”, but for most of the feeds I’ve been proposed in the app I’m not interested in the entire package. It’s nice that you can still directly follow the actors packaged into a feed from that feed’s page.

It’s very annoying that Surf wants their/my Surf account to act as the intermediary for my mastodon account. From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account. Maybe I just haven’t found the option, but if there isn’t one then it’s a hard blocker for me to use it as my main fediverse browser.

positively dripping!

I’m getting Spaceman Spiff mixed with Marathon (the new game by Bungie) vibes; love it!

A small gui to automate generating some pdfs from some CSV files.

There’s a small non-profit in my area helping people operate localized energy distribution (as producers and consumers). Each month, they receive a zip file containing the raw kiloWatt-hours produced and consumed by each participant over the past month as CSV files. So far the non-profit has been manually importing these CSVs into LibreOffice to generate graphs and tables and export the whole thing as an individualized PDF file for each participant. Now that they’re starting to help more than 2-3 operations, it’s become useful to try to automate that process.

I’ve been writing it in rust for a few reasons. First of all I wanted cross-compilation to be sure to work and at this point I’m more familiar with rust than go, secondly I read a blog post recently that evaluated rust gui solutions in terms of accessibility and IME-compatibility on windows. I started off looking for a “direct” pdf-writing library but eventually switched to using typst to generate the pdfs from templates I write. typst being written in rust has enabled me to bundle its engine into the program in a pretty-straightforward way.

I’m currently working on allowing the import of multiple sets of data so that the generated PDFs can show line plots of the electricity production and consumption over several months.

1. chunk_size := file_size / cpu_cores. Compile regex.

2. spawn cpu_cores workers:
   2.a. worker #n starts at n * chunk_size bytes. If n > 0, skip bytes until newline encountered.
   2.b worker starts feeding bytes from file/chunk into regex. When match is found, write to output (stdout or file, whichever has better performance). When newline encountered, restart regex state automata.
   2.c after having read chunk_size bytes, continue until encountering a newline to ensure the whole file is covered by the parallel search.

Optionally, keep track of byte number and attach them to the found matches when outputting, to facilitate eventually de-duplicating and/or navigating to said match in the file.

To avoid problems, have each worker output to a separate file, and only combine these output files when the workers are all finished.

As others have said, it’s going to be hard to get more speedup than this, and you will ultimately be limited by your storage’s read speed and throughput if the whole file cannot fit into memory.

For those on Android, check out Imagepipe on f-droid. It’s got a workflow that I really like: "share"ing an image to it automatically strips metadata and re-triggers the “share to which app?” Android prompt with the stripped image file instead of the original.

It’s been a while since I set up my runner, and I have it on my personal desktop (which is wayyyyyy beefier than the VPS I host my forgejo instance on), but I’m pretty sure I was able to specify that only my user account can trigger actions to be run on this runner. What I’m getting at is that there is a decent amount of granularity for forgejo action permissions; you should be able to find a balance that suits you between “no actions at all” and “anyone can run any code they desire on your server”.

Title calls him

Ex-rapper

yet apparently he’s still releasing tunes to this day?

Before taking office on Friday, Shah, popularly known as Balen, released a song filled with optimism about Nepal’s future.

Can’t help but think that him being mayor of the capital is at least as relevant as being a rapper when it comes to getting elected as prime minister:

After just three years as mayor of the capital Kathmandu, Shah teamed up with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) as its prime-ministerial candidate, scoring a decisive victory in general elections this month.

BBC really burying the lede with their title…

After leaving school he graduated with engineering degrees in Kathmandu and later in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

In 2013, he shot to fame after winning a popular rap battle in Nepal, with sharp verses that carried the frustration of a generation that felt suppressed and abandoned.

Shah went on to release several popular songs which criticised corruption and social inequality in the Himalayan nation.

[…]

His tenure as mayor was marked by efforts to clean up the city, preserve indigenous heritage, and a crackdown on corruption. He also started a controversial campaign to bulldoze illegal buildings – which helped ease traffic but also drew criticism from street vendors and residents in informal settlements.

Also, I find this particular paragraph somewhat hilarious:

Shah has also sparked controversy on social media. Last November, he put up an expletive-laden post on Facebook which named America, India, China and several Nepali political parties, including the RSP, which he eventually joined in January. He deleted the post shortly after.

How is the use of expletives and not the actual message of the post what the article chooses to relate? For all I know, he was posting “I fucking love America, India, China, and these political parties are the fucking best!” /s

All in all, while the news itself is pretty interesting, the article leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Instead of

main_scene.remove_child(self)

I would “simply” do

queue_free() # you can also write `self.queue_free()` if you really prefer it

I would also emit custom signals ( play_requested, options_requested, level_requested(level_number), etc) in your “child” scenes and hook them up to functions in the Main scene that would take care of instantiating the required scene and doing a add_child(the_scene). This would mean moving most of your load() calls (and variables storing their results) into your Main scene.

There is an adage that is often repeated in the Godot community; “call down (but/and) signal up”. Here’s some more in-depth explanations of why this is generally considered a best/better practice:

• https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/4.x/basics/node_communication/index.html
• https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/y2jovs/as_a_new_dev_what_is_meant_by_call_down_signal_up/
• https://gamedevartisan.com/tips/call-down-signal-up

As for file/folder structure, what tends to work for me is to group things by how often they are used together, more than grouping them by what they are. In your project, I could for example have a folder containing the scene and scripts for the level select, another one containing the scene(s) and script(s) for level 1, and so on.

Counterexample of one, but I’ve commented in womensstuff before as a genderfluid person and have not been asked to leave the space.

I see. Thanks for the link!

I watched The Big Short again last night. It’s absurd how we seem to be going through the exact same steps as the subprime crisis did, not even 20 years later.

Escalade ce soir, et en principe vendredi soir et samedi après midi. Ça va faire 2 mois que j’ai repris après plus de dix ans d’arrêt, je retrouve à peu près mon ancien niveau en cotations de voies (la force brute, l’endurance sont encore loin d’être complètement revenues). Que c’est gratifiant de ressentir la technique redevenir instinctive ! Ainsi que des trucs plus petits comme la corne qui commence à se re-développer sur mes paumes.

Je suis très heureux d’avoir trouvé un club associatif proche de chez moi, c’est beaucoup plus le type d’ambiance qui me convient que les salles privatisées.