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Writer (software and prose), epistemologist.
Fedi user since 2019 → fedi dev → quit fedi → [you are here].
I contribute (roughly at random, my brain is too ADHDified to stick with a software project for too long) to a lot of projects, and help upkeep some of the akkoma project's infrastructure (among others).
Besides that, I do some (interesting to me but probably not to you) CS research and make random things that I find useful/interesting.
I want software to be beautiful to read, and to spark joy at runtime, a bit like (some) writing (though my prose is not that).
Assigned "Tumblr Lesbian" by my gay wife, confirmed by fedi.
Sometimes my wife (Hélène) posts on my account.
If you want to know whose post a particular one is, you must pick up the honored internet tradition of identifying people by vernacular, punctuation, and way of thinking.
Old accounts: toa?sti?@mk.toast.cafe
Location: Alsace, France
Posts auto-delete after: 90 days
Contacts (ask in DM): Email, IRC, Telegram, Signal
Joined: 2026-07-23 02:49:30
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-17 04:52:33)
then for phones you either have iphone or fisher price. a google pixel is iphone. samsung is fisher price.
sailfish is fisher price, grapheneos is fisher price.
the nintendo switch 2 is iphone. switch 1 is fisher price. steam deck is fisher price.
a kindle is iphone. —helene
Reply to @eal@shinonome.technology
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-14 21:30:18)
@eal I’ve Seen Things with it
as for features it depends on what you do tbh, I particularly appreciate sub volumes
Reply to @eal@shinonome.technology
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-14 21:23:38)
@eal kind of? It’s just not very featureful for things I care about and fairly fragile because of how it works
Reply to @eal@shinonome.technology
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-14 21:20:28)
@eal mostly because ext4 sucks
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-12 17:05:01)
basically alone at the office so I can spend all day on my phone how’s everyone doing
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-09 19:42:41)
*sees a cop car and looks at the license plate*
“listen the license number starts with HH for a reason”
Reply to @sanek@outerheaven.club
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-09 17:22:15)
@sanek mello
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-08 17:17:47)
Me when my internal monologue is meowing
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-07 03:58:36)
just realized that to my brain the quintessential linux window manager is ratpoison
I associate the floating WMs more with the BSDs somehow
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 17:46:55)
when bob the builder said "can we fix it?" and I said "no we can't"
that is when the darkness inside of me began to grow
that is when I succumbed… to the BAD VIBES 😈
Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 17:46:14)
@cell @aetios you're cheating on claude??
Reply to @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 17:43:02)
@aetios I'm surprised by how many people are taking the meme format 100% seriously tbh, esp. given the original :^)
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 17:35:43)
All the people who are anti-coffee or want to slow caffeine progress, I have one question:
If caffeine disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without espresso, monster energy drinks, or any other source of caffeine?
Imagine caffeine was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 17:03:30)
@sun I do actually agree with this, my problem is kind of elsewhere. "Prompt engineering" is bs, but *everything* is a skill you can be better or worse at, including prompting.
The problem is that models work disparately, so things that improve semantic alignment in one might not in another (there's some research to suggest that embeddings are transferable spaces, which would imply that you could apply a mechanical transformation to the prompt to get the same result, but we don't have this yet).
On top of that, with most things, as you do the thing more you get better at doing the thing, but because of the sycophancy this is attenuated here: getting better at prompting by prompting more is inefficient.
Then you have all of the neurological issues that are associated with the entire category of technology, where as you get better at prompting (less quickly than at most other things) you also get worse at the actual things you're trying to do, at a greater rate than you improve at the prompting (for instance, persistence is greatly diminished even after 10m of usage, while being a huge predictor for outcomes, to the point that lately one of my focuses has been persistence).
So I do agree that you can be better at using these things, but there's so many attenuating factors to this that it doesn't feel like it would ever be worthwhile, at least to me, even if it was actually free (rather than exploding in costs as they try to burn money less quickly).
Reply to @cell@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 16:53:50)
@cell tragic…
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 16:52:36)
@sun I haven't really used it much? When I was new I made an account and posted answers (if you see any answers from deleted accounts with like 14k points there's a solid chance it's one of mine), but I quickly realized it's pointless.
The posters are not trying to help you learn something, they're pointfarming with the target audience being other pointfarmers. And even if they were trying to help you, it's just the blind leading the gullible.
Your post was a good insight though in that it's the same kind of failure category, just with a different modality, in that both SE and LLMs tend to produce poor quality answers with hidden faults that you need to already know about the thing to identify.
The difference is that LLMs will make things up wholesale or push towards sycophancy while SE will push towards "I know the answer but you haven't earned it" (they do not in fact know the answer).
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-06 16:48:03)
All the people that are anti-stackexchange, or want to slow stackexchange progress, I have one question:
If stackexchange disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser, or any other source of answers?
Imagine stackexchange was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-05 17:23:59)
@sun I'd think about it but I'm very deeply anti-gambling because of some personal history (reply in DMs if you want further deets)
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-05 17:22:09)
I love how prediction markets are a truth oracle, not because people are good at predicting or whatever, but because people with insider knowledge make huge bets, pretty consistently, and it's quite hard to prove what happened
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-05 14:17:36)
I am overheating
I am going to die
Goodbye cruel world
Reply to @lynn@smol.ch
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-03 22:10:33)
@lynn it's gotten surprisingly common
had a guy recently listening to ai slop on loop no headphones no nothing in a "shorts" form
he went through like 8 different "songs" that all sounded the same, basically word salad, repeating "love love hate love" or "light darkness pain sky" etc
Reply to @sun@shitposter.world
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-03 17:01:51)
@sun @lain the argument for that is pretty controversial, but well-established
in short, various knowledge paradigms require long-term commitment with worse results to get out of the local maximum, which is the only way it's really worked historically
Feyerabend wrote Against Method which is a case-study of how that worked out with Galileo (alongside the argument)
put differently, it's not that they're "comparable" it's that without putting as much effort into the former as you do into the latter, you can't truly know if it's a better baseline approach, unless you can get there through logic that does not require evidence (e.g. it is internally inconsistent); it's why in epistemic circles you'll more often hear "it's (un)interesting" than other things, because it's frankly a better metric
the generally proposed approach is to simply allow the sickos interested in african magic or any other alternate approach to push its state of the art (so long as it doesn't harm others in the process) and eventually everyone will see if it was a good idea or not
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-08-03 06:28:10)
there's still work to be done, but this now works and is my default bootloader now
https://git.toast.cafe/~toast/tub/ and https://github.com/CosmicToast/tub
enjoy! and mind some of the uh, not-yet-cleaned-up bits :)
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-31 20:05:49)
it's very convenient as a general server management framework if your ftpd is copyparty
https://github.com/9001/copyparty/security/advisories/GHSA-phv8-wgjp-g4p9
just don't update
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-31 20:04:53)
joining the war on ftp on the side of ftp
(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-31 03:59:09)
amazon e more like eat a da calzon e
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 20:01:46)
@sun honestly I do find it impressive; it's usually extremely obvious
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:54:31)
@sun holy shit a vibe-coded website that doesn't have the "designed by claude" look, what is this sorcery
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:43:44)
@sun @cell i always used them and it's always what i use... but you never know —helene
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(eval 'Toast)@toast@donotsta.re (2026-07-30 19:41:29)
@cell i understand him. let him cook —helene
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