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  • Movim 0.33 "Halley" is Out! ✨

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  • I run it from systemd, the upgrade script is a 3 liner bash file calling composer. It uses my server's PG cluster. Seems less hassle and waste than dealing with docker.

  • Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026)

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  • +1 on babybuddy, I've only good things to say about it and its community. Also, it's a Django app, so the bar to tweak it exactly the way you want is very very low.

  • The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

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  • Is that another overpowered smartphone SoC running a wasteful android with a thin UI and dumbed-down music player? If so, let me just repurpose an old smartphone and save the planet from some e-waste. If not, kudos.

  • The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

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  • Maybe I'm the weird one here, but when I look at fiio, and they are essentially smartphones (beefy Exynos or Qualcomm SoCs, running a bloated Android), minus some connectivity apps and a mobile antenna, I'd rather just use a phone, thanks. Most portable music players have this minimalistic appeal of devices that were engineered for just one single purpose and to do it well, and fiio certainly isn't having that vibe.

  • This AI open-source cloning software shows the gaping hole in code copyright

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  • They may or may not, what makes it relevant nonetheless is the real loophole and the ethical/legal questions that ensue.

  • Navidrome release v0.61.0

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  • Pretty bad release it appears, album art melts CPU and causes 500 errors, rolled back.

  • Spaces has landed on Element X!

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  • Indeed, entire space programs were developed in less time than it took to backport from a version of their own client to the next.

  • The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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  • Perhaps that's why I don't work in marketing, but that would buy so much goodwill and interest from the early fans if they were just embracing it. The first game is very lovable, and people loving it would probably have a look at the new one and that's essentially free advertising. The only reason I see them doing this is because they know already that it's bad, like, very bad.

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    IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2026.1 Is Out! | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2026/03/23/intellij-scala-plugin-2026-1-is-out/

  • Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude

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  • Yes, the point is LLMs are AI.

    So, we've gone full circle. LLMs is a sub-category within the collection of ML techniques within the collection of AI techniques. Point is, AI is just a term here. A label, that indicates nothing about the abilities of LLMs to exert any form of intelligence or reasoning. In other words, the whole field of AI could (should?) have been named "computational statistics" or "mathematics applied to numerical datasets" (or whatever else you want, really…), and LLMs would absolutely belong to "CoStats"/"MAND" fields, for the same reason we say they relate to "AI" today, it's just that nobody would be silly enough to call them "artificially intelligent".

    ML is AI too. But sales didn’t call it that because AI had the reputation of “just brute force with some heuristics”.

    What sales are you even thinking about? What do even presume the market for ML algorithms to be? Nobody was shopping for support vector machines as a service, or spending tokens on linear regression, or using convolutional neural networks via API before the current LLM craze. What the field is experiencing right now is unheard of. Never before did the private sector jump gun on a niche technique and spent trillions to package, anthropomorphise and market it as if "AI has finally been figured out, and we happen not only to own it, but also to sell it to you". This deceptive rhetoric would be a much tougher sell if some early computer scientists hadn't happened to name their field "AI".

  • Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude

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  • Was there even a point you wanted to make? I'm not sure exactly where you are heading with all this.

    I mean, “machine learning” was a marketing term invented exactly to avoid the A in AI.

    No, it's not. ML is a sub-category within the collection of AI techniques that describes those algorithms whose behaviour is the result of fitting a training data-set to a pre-defined model by minimising an agreed-upon error function. For the longest of times, we were just calling that "statistics", and many ML techniques and algorithms predate computers by centuries. Your mean-squares curve fitting? …qualifies as ML. That is to say, ML is all AI, but not all AI is ML.

    LLMs are no different than function fitting with mean-squares. They are not magical, they are not black-boxes: they are fully described and completely predictable.

  • Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude

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  • I mean, have fun re-defining artificial intelligence to suit your narrative. Here's what the scientific consensus stands at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

    It's also no secret that the companies involved in the LLM craze (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, …) diligently muddy the waters as a marketing trick to sell their product for more than what it is, that's precisely what I'm calling out here: we can collectively do better/know better than that.

  • Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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  • Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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  • ok, but there's not much substance to your comment besides unsubstantiated "zealotry" towards obsidian and some general hot takes against lemmy and the FOSS community through which it emerged.

    Maybe you could start listing out a few aspects and features of obsidian that you deem so important and unique, and I'm sure that you may discover a few very compelling alternatives.

    As far as I'm concerned, I'm all set with https://triliumnotes.org/ . It's not just a more versatile and capable note taking app, it's also one that I can deploy simultaneously "local first" and "as a web service", so my notes are reachable everywhere (even where I'm not allowed to install the heavy client).

  • Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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  • Joplin is reasonably good as long as you don't use so much metadata to keep things organised. It's also pretty rigid, and hence limiting. If you want something with the superficial simplicity of joplin, but that would scale up to your needs, I recommend giving https://triliumnotes.org/ a good look.

  • Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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  • If you drop the plaintext requirement (which IMO is anachronistic, if not for the necessity to fend against a potentially turning hostile developer in a close-source set-up), you may find https://triliumnotes.org/ liberating.

    If you must stick to the "notes as plain text files" paradigm, siyuan is better than obsidian in about every aspect, and logseq in other, more niche ones. Trilium is better than them all (IMHO), being the only one that does "note as data" correctly and efficiently (you don't have the same data model divide like seen in notion between notes and databases).

  • Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory

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  • You could, I don't know, use an open source note taking app? I mean, it's not like obsidian has some unique and unmatched capabilities ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • Astral to Join OpenAI

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  • Add ty to the tally. Fuck.

  • Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude

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  • Also, LLMs are not AI (in the sense that most people would deem meaningful): there's no reasoning involved, just a convincing illusion of it, served by extensive knowledge compaction and next token prediction. That is not to say that LLMs are useless, or that the sort of all-powerful AI people fantasize about cannot exist (I really don't know, no people do). That is to say that it's not for now, and that before it happens, we will see another long AI winter before the emergence of something fundamentally more convincing than LLMs.

  • Local AI Companion for Radarr: Uses Ollama to Understand Your Taste (Vibe, Atmosphere, Mood), Auto-Complete Sagas, Explore Filmographies, and Add Movies Seamlessly

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  • LLMs are not the tool for a recommender job

  • Scala @programming.dev
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    sbt and the miners of the wild west · eed3si9n

    eed3si9n.com /sbt-and-the-miners-of-the-wild-west/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

    www.scala-lang.org /blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html
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    The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

    www.scala-lang.org /blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html
  • Scala @programming.dev
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    Scala 3.8 Support in the Scala Plugin | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2026/01/15/scala-38-support-in-the-scala-plugin/
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    IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2025.3 Is Out! | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2025/12/08/scala-plugin-2025-3-is-out/
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    Scala's Gamble with Direct Style

    alexn.org /blog/2025/08/29/scala-gamble-with-direct-style/
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    IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2025.2 Is Out! | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2025/07/31/scala-plugin-2025-2-is-out/
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    Scala Highlights from 2024

    scala-lang.org /highlights/2025/02/06/highlights-2024.html
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    Announcing Scala.js 1.17.0, with experimental WebAssembly support

    www.scala-js.org /news/2024/09/28/announcing-scalajs-1.17.0/
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    IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2024.2 Is Out! | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2024/08/07/intellij-scala-plugin-2024-1-is-out-2/
  • Scala @programming.dev
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    Metals v1.3.0 - Thallium | Metals

    scalameta.org /metals/blog/2024/04/15/thalium/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Creating the XMPP Network Graph

    discourse.igniterealtime.org /t/creating-the-xmpp-network-graph/93521
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    40% of US electricity is now emissions-free

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/
  • Scala @programming.dev
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    Metals v1.2.0 - Bismuth | Metals

    scalameta.org /metals/blog/2023/12/12/bismuth/
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    IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2023.3 Is Out! | The IntelliJ Scala Plugin Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com /scala/2023/12/07/intellij-scala-plugin-2023-3-is-out/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

    signal.org /blog/signal-is-expensive/
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    In Scala 3, Use 4 Spaces for Indentation

    alexn.org /blog/2023/11/08/in-scala-3-use-4-spaces-for-indentation/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft Threat Analysis Center shares report on Russian influence operations in Africa, focusing on the Niger coup

    blogs.microsoft.com /on-the-issues/2023/09/01/russias-african-coup-strategy/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader

    arstechnica.com /space/2023/08/putin-wanted-to-make-russia-great-again-in-space-heres-why-he-failed/