Neirac

Software engineer

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2025-07-06

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.

#AI #AIHype

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This year I noticed for the first time that lambs ear flowers have a pyramidal structure. And let me tell you, it is not easy to get an iPhone camera to focus on the tip! But I finally managed, so I can show you how cool it is.
#bloomscrolling #LambsEar #NaturesGeometry

Looking straight down at the top of a lambs ear flower. It has a pyramidal shape, with four sides tapering to the top. It has fuzzy gray-green leaves with bright little purple flowers peeking out.
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Brett HodnettCyclesoc@c.im
2025-07-04
A hard dirt path with parallel rows of conifers lined tightly on either side.
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2025-07-03

And after all this frustration, at least I’m almost done with my opinion on how Neovim and nix-shell should integrate 🙂

Neirac boosted:
2025-06-17

I might've posted the pic below here earlier, but honestly it bears a repost. Some context:

On BSky @bcantrill said, 'OH: "As it turns out, X.509 stands for the number of milliseconds it takes to process these things."'.

I replied there: "The year before I went to grad school, my future-advisor gave a talk in Ann Arbor about his work. He lead with a slide featuring this picture (shown on a T-shirt here) illustrating the whole OSI/ISO mess (of which X.509 was a very late entry) in protocols:"

An elephant with the "ISO" globe logo for a body, standing on top of telephone wires between two bending poles.  The caption below reads: "OSI: Same day service in a nanosecond world."

This picture is no more recent than early 1991, possibly even 1990. It was drawn during the early days of the OSI vs. TCP/IP protocol standards wars.
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2025-06-16
Fiori gialli

#flowers
Una foto a colori, in formato verticale (3:4), che ritrae tanti steli verticali che hanno all'apice altrettanti fiori gialli, simili a quelli del tarassaco, davanti a uno sfondo completamente fuori fuoco, molto scuro, di vegetazione in ombra.
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2025-06-15
Green on green with green.

#green #tree #trees #nature
a tree against the background of more trees
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Peter Goulbornsarble@gram.social
2025-06-15
Photo of many small four-petalled, mostly out of focus, mostly pale pink-white, other than four which are darker pink, one closed, two half-open, one fully open, but with six petals.
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2025-06-15
Lake, #sunset, mountains and an approaching thunderstorm. What else do you need to be happy? Confidence that I took a raincoat, I think!
Sunset on the lake, a thunderstorm is approaching
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2025-06-15

#Wildflowers #Iowa #Milkweed #Spanish

Milkweed/Algodoncillo.
This is the first Common Milkweed that I’ve seen blooming this year.

In English, the milkweed is named for the plant’s milky sap.

In Spanish, the plant is named for the fluff that helps the wind disperse the seeds: Algodoncillo (from algodón “cotton” plus a diminutive suffix). So its name is roughly “little cottony thing.”

The top portion of s single-stemmed, green plant with large leaves with wavy edges.  One spherical cluster of tiny blossoms is showing pink and a few flowers are blooming.  Above, are other less mature clusters showing just a hint of pink.
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2025-06-15
Picture of Dan holding a sign saying, "Unpaid Protester".
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Tom Lyon ✅aka_pugs
2025-06-15
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2025-06-15

Holy cow this was 20 years ago folks!!!
techhub.social/@SolarisDiaspor

Neirac boosted:
2025-06-15

Here's my OpenSolaris release day blog post from 20 years ago.

kebe.com/blog/?p=405

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Alan Coopersmithalanc@hachyderm.io
2025-06-15

20 years ago today, I joined in the #OpenSolaris opening day blog circus by posting why the X11 & Desktop sources were not yet posted to opensolaris.org but would be coming later:
blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/

and about what new desktop features were in the first #Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) release that went out at the same time:
blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/

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Peter Tribbleptribble
2025-06-15

Here we are faced with an ever increasing mountain of e-waste, and RHEL and Rocky go and render even more perfectly viable computers obsolete by requiring x86-64-v3 (Alma, is slightly better, because you can optionally run that on x86-64-v2).

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