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Big Data, Open Source, Privacy, Photography, Anarchism. View my blog: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/

For the first time since the ‘90s, my home box is a highly personalized, custom Linux desktop. Not because GNOME got worse, but because I had an idea *and* an LLM helped me actually *use* the freedom of FOSS to make the idea real. https://mastodon.social/@webchick/117067256281834909

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“THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION, NOW WE’RE STEALING IT BACK.” @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer argues from the “origin story” of the free software movement that there are uses of LLMs as tools to solve th...

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To learn new things, maintain an emotional connection with code, and keep an ownership, I write code by hand. For personal projects ~70-80% by hand, for work projects ~15-20%. To not loose the "AI productivity boost," I made a SKILL that generates an "onboarding ticket" instead of code.

I'm experimenting with out-of-core graph algorithms, such as finding all the connected components of a 2B-edge graph with a memory limit of 7 GB, etc. I'm starting to worry that it may just kill my disk — can it do that? Would it be better to use an AWS instance?

Disk consumption by algorithm over time.

I would say open-code-review from Alibaba is really cool. Paired with GLM-5.2 it catches things Claude cannot. Does not replace a human review but a very solid "starting point" especially for big pull-requests.

Let me know if this is just me: Noticed someone I know who is very "AI-pilled" and uses agents 24/7 to... start to talk IRL noticeably more like these LLMs write. Eg more heavily using adjectives like "geniune", frequently terms like "the shape of" and many more examples

1/ Having read an article on Rabkor (“Worker Correspondent,” a Russian ultra-left online outlet) about the campism of part of Russian liberal society, I thought that I had seen a very similar criticism directed at part of the American left.