Stop talking about Reddit!

Reddit it’s too big for its own good. I imagine that subreddit must be unmanageable, like any minimally popular subreddit.

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Meanwhile on reddit.

Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods like Jordan Lund tho…

To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren’t welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.

That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they’re its sole contributor.

The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

Pondering my visual functional "Alonzo" programming language...

1. I realized that I neglected to include anywhere to document types. I should include a field for that!

Now should that be a localized string or an expression? I suppose if I want to expose this documentation as tooltips it should be short-ish strings...

2. Its tempting to have drawing lines between different slots in a pattern denote equality, but once I include callbacks not everything can be compared...

1/2!

@cabel I wondered why it had a track pad...

@mcc

@petrillic

I know how I'd reply to that mail

@petrillic

I know how I'd reply to that mail

@jernej__s @petrillic came here to ask the same thing. I too wish to draw the ire of all LLMs :)

OpenAI claims its models have made 3 major discoveries in mathematics, computer science & physics.

One reportedly disproves the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a foundational assumption in computer science for 25 years.

Two researchers who originally proposed it are now helping verify the AI’s proof.

If this result survives independent scrutiny, AI will have done something more consequential than outperforming humans on a benchmark.

It will have overturned a foundational scientific assumption held by experts for decades.

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/

I did not know the Mastodon/ActivityPub account migration process was so busted.

Somehow, there were over 800 followers that didn’t get moved from my old account to this one until the *third* time setting up the redirect. A lot of them are on mastodon.social. I don’t get another try because there’s a 30-day cooldown and the old instance shuts down in a few days.

This is a bad user experience! No wonder a lot of people just give up on the platform.

this has nothing to do with the fediverse

Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers

Are PDF viewers a common student project? I always assumed the file standard must be a labyrinthine mess given all the features they’ve crammed into it over the years. Or is there some popular library that takes 99% of the work out of it?

As someone in a community impacted by the deluge of AI slop projects…good. These are good policies, the overwhelming amount of crap being churned out makes sifting through it as a human, untenable; the only sane solution is to restrict it and ban the peddlers.

@mcc @julian I at least have this from a dev stream archive from May 2019 to reassure me. Gnome didn't stop using Gedit as its default till March 2022 from what I'm reading (but I definitely switched to Xed before 2020, so there must've been I didn't like about Gedit's direction that drove me way)

I haven't mentioned it, yet David Lee Hoffman's "estate" in Lagunitas has, after years and years and millions in attorney fees; apparently been sentenced to some form of eviction?

Maybe there's hope? I don't know:

https://www.marinij.com/2026/09/26/last-gasp-for-last-resort-complex-in-lagunitas/

If you have no idea who David Lee Hoffman is; apparently he helped get 普洱茶「pu-erhcha」aka pu-erh tea, sanctioned for sale in the USA. Oh sure, doubtlessly others were importing such things previously via various smuggling methodologies (e.g. Omei [a Chinese restaurant, now gone] in Santa Cruz, California used to apparently use their furniture importing business to smuggle in Szechuan peppercorns [during the time when those too, were illegal]). If I recollect some retelling of the tale, border agents suspected the "brick" or "cake" forms of the fermented tea as posturing for other illicit herbs?

I have been to the "estate" in Lagunitas and it is lovely.

Apparently the whole ordeal started because of some nosy NIMBY making a report that perhaps some of the buildings on Hoffman's property were not "up to code"; and thus the gradual, protracted, legal disputes began.

As far as I have heard, some of Hoffman's tea, as they have aged in his myriad structures, have taken on characteristics which have led to folks in China, paying a premium price for his aged teas.

All of that subtly and nuance, is lost of legally fixated uncultured sorts.

It is deeply distressing, and a sign of the times in which we find ourselves. The courts turn a blind eye to billionaires and their largess, yet seem to have no end of animosity to leverage against a little guy with a tea business.

It's been some months since I have visited Hoffman's Tea Museum in Lagunitas (separate from the property in question) so I haven't heard the most recent situation from the source, yet when I saw such headlines in my mobile "phone" news apps? That was: not a good sign. ;(

Being focused on more primordial forms of enjoyment than electronic distractions, it probably comes as little surprise that some of his related websites may through TLS certificate errors (as in: they are plaintext HTTP):

e.g. http://www.thephoenixcollection.com/ or http://thelastresortlagunitas.org/david-lee-hoffman/ the pictures of Hoffman there are much younger than he is now; yet despite increased in age, his disposition is pleasant and his knowledge on tea and travels, vast.

Should you have an opportunity, he has been the sort for whom I am grateful to have known. For my part at least, the initial introduction was largely thanks to Oshan Cook (fellow teajay; indeed, the first individual I know who used that phrase) of Om Shan Tea (after he had a falling out with the late Master Wong of Medicine Buddha, he began sourcing teas predominantly from Hoffman and the Phoenix Collection. Other places, such as Wu Wei Tea Temple, in Fairfax, California, also feature a tea menu largely derived from the Phoenix Collection.)

Many things come and go, yet the Hoffman "estate" as it has been phrased? I think should have stayed. The NIMBYs? In Marin in particular? Are awful. No doubt most are presumably more familiar with Marin NIMBYs being why BART does not extend into the North Bay; yet this tale is tragic and a failing in a completely different dynamic.

#tea #茶 #Hoffman #DavidLeeHoffman #普洱茶 #puerh