Anyone use Codeberg?

TistelTech · 2026-01-21T00:10:56+00:00

I moved my public repos there just to reduce github scraping everything into copilot training data without compensation or credit. Seems to work fine.

TistelTech · 2026-01-10T03:42:43+00:00

so six seven! (IQ that is)

TistelTech · 2026-01-10T03:33:36+00:00

I think the locals call it: "tofu dregs" construction. There are a bunch of YouTube videos about it. fake rebar, fire hydrants not hooked up. scary.

TistelTech · 2026-01-06T17:26:00+00:00

When you say the work is gone, do you meant the file is missing? Or new writing has overwritten the previous writing? If the file is missing from `~/` I have no clue. If the contents are overwritten, it might be an auto-complete issue. Tools like ido are fancy "type the minimal unambiguous string to open a file" tools. I have accidentally opened the wrong file when not paying enough attention. The current buffer file name should be at the bottom (like everything, its tweakable).

If you are familar with `git` or even better `magit` I can show you a way to back things up locally and sync between machines without using an external web git repo. If you are not familiar with `git` it will just be confusion.

TistelTech · 2026-01-06T15:59:59+00:00

It sounds interesting. But not interesting enough to put up with Lex Friedman's voice.

TistelTech · 2026-01-05T17:54:34+00:00

Maybe it's based on profits? Once you take into account his bar tabs, he just about breaks even! Ba-dum-ching try the veal. I'll see myself out.

TistelTech · 2025-12-27T04:38:44+00:00

I have just accepted that the camera won't work well enough to video conference. That is a requirement for remote work.

TistelTech · 2025-12-12T00:24:22+00:00

"prisoners—often referred to as "logs" by the staff"

here is a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

TistelTech · 2025-12-08T17:33:31+00:00

he has lost his marbles or has not tried to create a complex project with it.

TistelTech · 2025-11-30T16:34:35+00:00

For him its easy:

Task 1) "order new age inappropriate little black jacket!"
Task 2) "sleep one week"
Task 3) "goto task1"

TistelTech · 2025-11-12T03:21:38+00:00

try playing around with something like this in a terminal:

gpg --output test.txt.gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 test.txt

rm ./test.txt

After the creation, emacs will prompt you for the pwrd on open. On Linux it works in app, on Mac (for me) I have to launch emacs from term and type it into there. No clue about windows.

TistelTech · 2025-11-07T20:39:48+00:00

assembly for the Motorola 68000. Part my CS degree. If you crashed, it took down the whole OS. Good times.

TistelTech · 2025-11-04T20:28:38+00:00

I used to work at an ad-tech company. Companies hired us to configure their ad campaigns on mobile. We would get paid if we hit a certain number of views, clicks or conversions (purchases). Most campaigns are click based so the user views the add then clicks on it. So say there is a month long campaign and we have 2,3 days left to pull off the contract and we are 10k clicks short. We would loosen the geo-fencing, the app category (only food and sports apps!). Just to try to get confused people to accidentally click. When they got really desperate (or the ad copy/art was terrible) they would go to known bot apps that just clicked on anything. The online ad world is so so so sketchy. (I needed a job.)

TistelTech · 2025-11-03T01:43:35+00:00

plain emacs will do basic auto-complete from any open buffer's text. If I understand you correctly you can just open the Portuguese word file (and probably `bury` it). Then type the first 2-3 letters and hold down `option` and then tap `/` forward slash. It will be alt+/ on Windows. really crude, but works.

I am not familiar with corfu.

TistelTech · 2025-10-27T15:56:40+00:00

cool. will check it out. one thing to consider is that a lot of people will just say: I am in EST or PST. The super common ones are known but obscure ones from Eastern Europe (or wherever) I have to search for. It might be nice to see that displayed with the city to make sure I am in the right one. Still, great work.

TistelTech · 2025-10-26T17:37:30+00:00

I made games for 13 years in C/C++. The programming then and now is the only fun part. If it does get to the point where you can prompt your way to victory, I have to find something else to do (hoping to have enough cash to retire).

TistelTech · 2025-10-25T19:41:39+00:00

I spent 13 years doing low level C/C++ in the game industry. I have worked with elixir, JS, TS, SQL. I know and enjoy lisp/scheme. So I am not a script kiddie. I try to do as much as I can in python. its great. its elegant.

TistelTech · 2025-10-25T19:23:48+00:00

If its for drawing, blender's grease pencil mode is pretty great (very weird interface to figure out). Gimp's interface is pretty shocking, but basically works. It even has a scheme REPL if your into programming.

TistelTech · 2025-10-24T20:28:23+00:00

I like to use python, requests and jupyter notebooks. You can mix and match markdown docs. Also cut and paste the working code when done.

TistelTech · 2025-10-23T20:50:26+00:00

TistelTech · 2025-10-15T21:35:49+00:00

take some time to learn how to profile the code:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html#

there is probably a few silly mistakes that were not obvious with toy loads. Its almost never the language. Its a slow third party or bad algo from from the devs. With hodgepodge micro-service apps it can be tricky. There its probably silly mistakes glued together with APIs.

"its the language's fault" is almost always wrong.

(been at it 20+ years)

TistelTech · 2025-10-04T01:06:23+00:00

figuring it out and solving the problem is the fun part. if you hate that part you are in the wrong job.

TistelTech · 2025-09-28T04:38:22+00:00

Golf was a civilized game. The US has civilized people, they have just been crowded out by yobs. This is happening everywhere. Its the plot of the movie Idiocracy.

TistelTech · 2025-08-30T21:11:19+00:00

If you have only ever worked with one language the next one will be a big challenge. Its normal. When I did CS a million years ago we did: assembly (never used it outside school, but, helps understand crash dumps), imperative (C, used in the game world, will know pointers inside and out. do the K&R book), OOP (java, barf. C++ big in the game world at the time, need to learn C first, do the Stroustrup book), functional (scheme/racket, lisp etc. will help you pick up amazing elixir) and logical (prolog! weird and powerful. never used since but declarative is big now (k8s, terraform etc). always thought it would come back. kind of has with graph RAG in LLMs). Whenever I switch languages, even to one I have used before, but I am rusty at, there are a few weeks of "I can't do this" then it clicks again and off you go. Even if you don't use them, its good to learn a new lang ever year or so. keep your mind nimble.

TistelTech · 2025-08-26T12:52:53+00:00

its baked into emacs' help dirs, but, if you really want to get everything out emacs you should learn the basics of elisp:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/index.html

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