Chris Vogel shared 15 hours ago
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
The choice is yours.
Chris Vogel shared 15 hours ago
in other news, we released a #flohmarkt bugfix release 0.10.1 at https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt :)
Chris Vogel shared 3 days ago
You can now support #Phosh, the desktop for #MobileLinux with donations, because there is a formal organization:
#linux #phone #FOSS #opensource #DigitalSovereignty #BanBigTech
Chris Vogel shared 5 days ago
Uh, my Sensor Watch Pro just arrived. Now I'm waiting for a Casio FW-91WS to put the pcb into.
I'll try to put the spare original pcb into a 3d printed housing...
Hey Organizations out there! Look! This is how you provide changes to your terms of services in a simple and good way: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/60282 .
Thanks #sourcehut for the great work! 
Chris Vogel shared 16 days ago
…but happy the shell/console would just be a single touch away and that the system is introspectable without any hackery.
Chris Vogel shared 16 days agoAnother day out with #phosh and the #OP6
- Woke up with #gnomeClocks ⏰
- Looked up the address of the 🍟 via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to 🎵 via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen 📆 plugin backed by #eds
- Checked 💗 pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short 🚶
No console needed.
Chris Vogel shared 17 days ago
Wer Dänisch (übersetzen) kann, kann bei Wikipedia Hintergrund finden.
Das Telefon ist schwer. Ob es noch funktioniert ist unbekannt.
Es diente lange Zeit als Erkennungszeichen für ein Treffen im Umfeld der Mailbox Link-Goe.
Der Kaufpreis geht als Spende an einen gemeinnützigen Verein aus dem Umfeld von Open Source und Mobile Linux.
Ich werde den Preis gelegentlich reduzieren, bis sich ein Spender/Käufer findet.
Preis: 5000 € :: Dies ist ein Kleinanzeige auf dem Flohmarkt Weende. Der Inhaber kann per privater Direktnachricht im Fediverse erreicht werden.
Hey #yunohost admins 
! Just upgraded my #flohmarkt on yunohost to version 0.10.0. Are you running a #fediverse small ads service, too?
If not try flohmarkt and if you're already running version 0.8.0 look out for the upgrade being soon available on the yunohost app store.
Chris Vogel shared 20 days ago
Wheee, #flohmarkt 0.10.0 is out! 🎉
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/releases/tag/0.10.0
We're celebrating in https://meet.ffmuc.net/flohmarkt Come join us 🤓
Chris Vogel shared 23 days agotoday in #flohmarkt, we had a nice PR-merging session. the community provided many valuable contributions. among them most popular tags in the navbar, displaying other items of the same user at the bottom of each user's items and the option to enforce currencies as dropdowns with multipe options instead of free-text fields.
Chris Vogel shared 26 days ago
🇪🇺Calling all analog film photographers! 🎞️ I've been working on Filmbook, an open-source app to help you keep track of your film usage. It's built with Rust & GTK4/libadwaita for a smooth & modern experience – and it even runs on Linux phones like the Librem 5 and Pinephone Pro! 📱
The first version is ready for testing, and I'd love your input on what features would make it even better! Join the community & help shape Filmbook: https://codeberg.org/bjawebos/filmbook ✨ #filmphotography #analogphotography #rustlang #gtk #opensource #community #testing #featureideas #librem5 #pinephone #linuxphone
After some searching and reading I bought a heat gun to repair the damage I did to the modem of my #Librem5 when I changed its broken middle frame.
First tries tonight went well I think. I removed and re-soldered one of the antenna sockets of my unused redpine wifi/bt card for practicing.
First picture shows the socket removed and soldered to the pcb again without removing any solder or adding new one.
The second picture shows the socket after de-soldering the socket a second time, cleaning the pcb with some de-soldering braid applying some soldering paste and soldering it back on.
Thanks @z3r0fox@mastodon.social for the hot tip 
!
OTA updates over USB
Big smile when reading it here
Repairing my #Librem5 I found again a pogo pin that fell out of the middle frame and thought I'd offer them on my #flohmarkt - just in case someone lost one.
Just received a new middle frame for my Librem5. Now I can fix it. Very cool being able to order spare parts for my mobile phone.
Only drawback: DHL Express. Yes, fast, but that wouldn't have been necessary. And EXPENSIVE: Shipping fee above 40 US$ and another fee for handling import taxes of more than 14€ which can't be avoided (believe me I tried hard once).
I'd wish there'd be shipping with a simple carrier that falls under the Treaty of Bern. Would take longer (probably a lot longer), but I could fetch the stuff from my local customs office and just pay the import tax with no additional fees. And the shipping fee would be far less also I guess.
Chris Vogel shared a month ago
Blog post: A short overview how text auto correction and completion via the on screen keyboard can be configured in #Phosh and what the different options do: https://phosh.mobi/posts/osk-completion/
I suggest that we now face the moment in history when the elemental right to the future tense is endangered by a panvasive digital architecture of behavior modification owned and operated by surveillance capital, necessitated by its economic imperatives, and driven by its laws of motion, all for the sake of its guaranteed outcomes
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
Since I started to use the #debian kernel instead of an #armbian legacy kernel on my #RockPro64 I had a few crashes. Most of them seemed to have been related to #sata, because they stopped after I exchanged the sata pcie with another one of the same type.
I had another #oops afterwards and decided I should look for a #watchdog to reboot the system in case of trouble.
After reading a bit about watchdogd the most simple solution I found is:
root@TEST:~# cat /etc/cron.d/watchdog @reboot root wdctl -s 180 * * * * * root echo "1" > /dev/watchdog
I'm testing it on a non-productive board and it seems to be good. It works for a forced oops echo c > /dev/sysrq-trigger and if I stop cron.
But it doesn't work in the state after a simple halt: the system tries to start and hangs after showing the first line of u-boot output.