Richard Carlsson

Ceiling of a shopping mall

Rare architectural abstract photo from me, I usually never see them but The Well in Toronto had a cool roof

A picture of an x-box game pad with buttons labeled: - A, B - constants - X, Y - variables - D-pad - direct sum - X-box button - cartesian product - left analog - function composition - right analog - product - menu button - identity - view button - injection - upload button - Knuth's up arrow

If you're new to x-box, you may find some of its buttons confusing, so I made this chart to help you figure it out

"Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s the reading. It’s the time it takes to load the […]

@juanfr Am in Uppsala - can confirm.

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

A sunny rooftop garden with trees and shrubbery. On a table in the foreground is a computer.

If you want a quiet spot to sit outside in the middle of a japanese city, the big department stores usually have a rooftop garden or similar, and they're often underused.

This is the roof of Palette Ryubo in Naha. There's a fair number of people around, but […]

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A gas station at night

Finally found one of those cliche liminal space gas stations.

Zork I-III now under MIT license! https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source #zork #textadventures #retrogaming

LLMs do not reason, and LLMs do not think, part eleventyseven:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/llms-medical-practice-look-out

#AI #LLMs #Medicine

@thanius @acb @ajsadauskas A lot of video game history is written from a US perspective.

The North American video game crash if the mid '80s didn't affect the rest of the world.

The Atari 2600 was around, but wasn't nearly as big.

In the UK, Europe, and Australia, the home microcomputers […]

A branch and a couple of small leaves lit up by the sun against an almost completely black jungle background.

A few leaves in #Urasoe castle park, #Okinawa .

#Photography #LowKey

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Engagement farming:

#Google sends an email, saying a maps location update I did has *40000* views! It's gaining traction!! I'm practically famous!!!

The location is a nondescript apartment building. The update fixed a minor error with the address. The only reason to care is if you happen to […]

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jannem/115505752310160301

Long-click on the "boost" button and you can choose "Quote", and quote a post like this one below.

In your posts you can choose who can quote you (everybody; your followers only; or nobody).

Double toast cut in half, with picked herring, boiled egg and chives visible in between. Not visible is the cream cheese and mayonnaise.

Pickled herring and egg sandwich for lunch! I'm a sucker for the finer, refined things in life.

#food #lunch #LuxuryLifestyle #RefinedElegance

In november 1985 #sinclairuser published an interview to Greg Follis and Royston Carter, from Gargoyle Games (Ad Astra, Tir Na Nog, Dun Darach, ...), to tell their story on programmimg that started 17 years before!

#zxspectrum #retrogaming

So I tried to upgrade my #Ubuntu 25.04 to 25.10 just now. The upgrade itself failed partway through, and now I have a messed up system, with 2100 "upates" but still on 24.04.

Anybody have advice on how to unbreak this? I'd be OK with staying on 24.04 until the next LTS is out (and do a clean […]

is everyone pumped for No-AI November

And that is why I DON‘T trust anything The AIs put out because what if the errors aren‘t that easily spotable. And what good is this for me if I can‘t use it anyway…

Vita huset med ett pågående byggnadsarbete som ser ut som en dödsstjärna.

"That's no ballroom"

Boris Johnson gushes over using ChatGPT while writing books: ‘I love that it calls me clever’ ‘I see great promise in this technology because we’re all simple. We’re human,’ says former prime minister Athena Stavrou Friday 17 October 2025 06:56 BST 0 Comments

Boris Johnson has admitted he “loves” AI and ChatGPT, and revealed that he uses it while writing his books. The former prime minister praised the AI platform for answering his questions, and said he appreciated it calling him “brilliant” and “excellent”. Mr Johnson has had a number of books published since 2001, including his most recent autobiography, Unleashed, which was released in 2024. Speaking to Al Arabiya English, he said: “One thing that really encourages me is AI. I love AI. I love ChatGPT. I love it. ChatGPT is frankly fantastic.” When asked what he uses it for, he said: “I’m writing various books. I just use it. I just ask questions. You know the answer, but ChatGPT always says, ‘Oh, your questions are clever. You’re brilliant. You’re excellent. You have such insight’. “I love it. I see great promise in this technology because we’re all simple. We’re human beings.”

we're in a cool time hey

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with […]

A royal gold medal _The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences_ (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl. This academy, established 1919 by the Swedish king Gustav V, has been awarding _great achievers_ for over one hundred years and the simple idea behind the awards is, as quoted from their website: > Gold medals are awarded every year to people who, through outstanding deeds, have contributed to creating a better society. I am of course humbled and greatly honored to have been selected as a receiver of said award this year. To be recognized as someone who **have contributed to creating a better society** , selected by top people in competition with persons of remarkable track records and achievements. Not too shabby for a wannabe-engineer like myself who did not even attend university. There have been several software and tech related awardees for this prize before, but from what I can tell I am the first Open Source person to receive this recognition by the academy. ## Justification The Academy’s justification is given in Swedish (see below) but it should be translated roughly like this: _System developer Daniel Stenberg is awarded the IVA Gold Medal for his contributions to software development, where he has been central to internet infrastructure and free software. Through his work with curl, the tool that is now used by billions of devices worldwide, he has enabled reliable and secure data transfer over the internet. Not just between programs in traditional computers, but everything from smartphones and cars, to satellites and spacecraft._ The original Swedish “motivering”: _Systemutvecklare Daniel Stenberg tilldelas IVAs Guldmedalj för sina insatser inom mjukvaruutveckling där han haft en central betydelse för internetinfrastruktur och fri programvara. Genom sitt arbete med curl, verktyget som i dag används av miljarder enheter världen över, har han möjliggjort tillförlitlig och säker dataöverföring över internet. Inte bara mellan program i traditionella datorer utan allt från smartphones och bilar, till satelliter och rymdfarkoster._ ## The ceremony The associated award ceremony when the physical medal is handed over happens this Friday at the Stockholm City Hall‘s Blue Hall, the same venue used for the annual Nobel Prize banquet. I have invited my wife and my two adult kids to participate in those festivities. ## A _second_ medal indeed Did I not already receive a gold medal? Why yes, I did eight years ago. Believe me, it does not _get old_. This is something I can get used to. But yes: it is beyond crazy to get one medal in your life. Getting _two_ is simply incomprehensible. This is also my _third_ award received within this calendar year so I completely understand if you already feel bored by my blog posts constantly banging my own drum. See European Open Source Achievement Award and Developer of the year for the two previous ones. ## The medal I wanted to include a fine high resolution image of the medal in this post, but I failed to fine one. I suppose I will just have to make a few shots by myself after Friday and do a follow-up post!

I am awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for my work on #curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/21/a-royal-gold-medal/

A phone, on a record, with a post "FYI, I'm posting this on the record."

FYI, I'm posting this on the record.

@davidho

TIL: These words have the same Proto-Indo-European root: Eng. join, yoke / Swe. ok (yoke), ök (draft animal), Sanskrit yoga (restraint, control)

Exterior wooden plank entrance with a view towards the ocean and other buildings. Except nothing is visible due to a wall of rain pouring down on everything. The tone is dark and washed-out.

"Scattered showers" they said. "It'll be fine" they said. "No need for an umbrella."

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

@dale I'm pretty happy with my Qnap TS-464. Use it mainly for storage and Plex server. Very little fiddling needed.