Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Obsession towards a person is scary

    Hey bartender I would like uh one of those peach vodka or a peach crush that I remember having the other day but would like to experience it again. I think that would hit the spot

    Sometimes human connection can be really weird and off, but thats alright. That's just part of human nature. Now throw in anonymity and....yeah a lot of things get thrown out the window like basic decency.

    I had to kinda detach myself from someone a couple weeks ago. Ever since I did that they disappeared, like they were never there. Really strange honestly but not the first time someone has done that as i find that now a lot of people who had a falling out with me this year tend to just disappear from my radar all together or just end up being there but never interacting. *sigh*

• Technology and Free Software

  • Roko's dancing basilisk

    I came across a reference to DeepWiki [4], a site that will generate “documentation” for any Github repository [5]. I can't say I've been impressed with LLM (Large Language Model)s generating code, but what about documentation? I haven't tried that yet. Let's see how well Roko's basilisk dances!

    Intially, I started with mod_blog [6]. I've been working with the codebase now for 26 years so it should be easy for me to spot inaccuracies in the “documentation.” Even better—there's no interaction with a sycophantic chat bot; just plop in the URL for the repo, supply an email for notification when it's done and as the Brits say, “Bob's your uncle!”

    Anyway, email came. I checked, and I was quickly amazed! Nearly 30 pages of documentation, and the overview [7] was impressive. It picked up on tumblers [8], the storage layout, the typical flows in adding a new entry. It even got the fact that cmd_cgi_get_today() returns all the entries for a given day of the month throughout the years. But there was one bit that was just a tad bit off. It stated “[t]he system consists of three primary layers” but the following diagram showed five layers, which no indication of what three were the “primary layers.”

  • Canonical Launches Certified Ubuntu Images for Qualcomm's Edge AI Dragonwing IQ-9075

    Canonical has announced that the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 system-on-chip has been added to the growing number of devices officially supported by its Ubuntu Linux distribution — offering "optimized images" of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in both Ubuntu Server and Desktop variants.

    “We are delighted to deepen our collaboration with Canonical by bringing certified Ubuntu support to the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 processor," says Qualcomm's Laxmi Rayapudi of its partnership with Canonical. "The IQ-9075 is designed for the most compute-intensive industrial tasks. Providing certified Ubuntu images – optimized and supported by Canonical – gives our ODMs [Original Design Manufacturers] and customers an essential, trusted software layer to deliver security-focused, high-performance edge solutions to market faster."

  • Programming

    • Scheme Do

      I thought the do in in Scheme was a li’l hard to learn since the examples I could find was a li’l too fancy and clever. Just like a lot of my own documentation often is; sorry about that.

      [...]

      The first argument is a list of bindings like a let. But if you put in three things they will be rebind every round. Like in the above example, a will be rebound to (add1 a), and s will be rebound to (sub1 s). And you can also put in just one thing like the example here just binds e to 13 and then it just stays that.

      The second argument is a list that starts with the ending condition and the rest of the list are statements that will be evaled after.

      And then all the remaining arguments are evaled every round.

      Yes, this is backwards that the ending stuff comes before the main progn body.