oh my god it just said "but it's the assistant's job to respond truthfully." it's gotten into some kind of debate with itself over whether or not it's ethical to call the service multiple times even though the system prompt says not to? I think there *is* some kind of limit on how much text it's allowed to generate but it's, uhh, somewhere north of 7 minutes

There are those moments in life you know already from the start are going to be the rare once in a lifetime events. This evening was one of those times. On a dark and wet autumn Friday afternoon my entire family and me dressed up to the most fancy level you can expect and took at taxi to the Stockholm City Hall. Anja my wife and my kids Agnes and Rex. Rex, Agnes, Daniel, Anja. The Stenberg family. This was the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Science’s (IVA) 106th _Högtidssammankomst_ (“festive gathering”) since its founding in 1919. Being one the four gold medal recipients of the night our family got a special dedicated person assigned to us who would help us “maneuver” the venue and agenda. Thanks Linus! In the _golden hall_ me and Anja took a seat in our reserved seats in the front row as the almost 700 other guests slowly entered and filled up every last available chair. The other guests were members of the Academy or special invitees, ministers, the speaker of the parliament etc. All in tail coats, evening dresses and the likes to conform with the dress code of the night. The Golden Hall before people arrived The golden hall is named after its golden colored walls, all filled up with paintings of Swedish historic figures contributing to a pompous and important atmosphere and spirit. _This is the kind of room you want to get awards in._ Part of the program in this golden hall was the gold medal awards ceremony. After having showed short two-minute videos of each of the awardees and our respective deeds and accomplishments on the giant screen in the front of the room, us awardees were called to the stage. The video shown about me and curl. Swedish with subtitles Three gold medals and one large gold medal were handed out to my fellow awardees and myself this year. Carl-Henric Svanberg received the _large_ gold medal. Mats Danielsson and Helena Hedblom were awarded the gold medal. The same as I. The medals were handed to us one by one by Marcus Wallenberg. Photographer: Erik Cronberg. Marcus and me shaking hands. with Helena Hedblom on the right. Photographer: Erik Cronberg. Marcus on the left, me in the middle and Mats Danielsson behind me. In one of the agenda items in the golden hall,IVA’s CEO _Sylvia Schwaag Serger_ did a much inspiring talk about Swedish Engineering and mentioned an amazing list of feats and accomplishments done over the last year and with hope and anticipation for the future. I and curl were also mentioned in her speech. Even more humbled. The audience here were some of the top minds and Engineering brains in Sweden. Achievers and great minds. The kind of people you want appreciation from because they know a thing or two. ## Intermission A small break followed. We strolled down to the giant main hall for some drinks. The blue hall, which is somewhat famous to anyone who ever watched the Nobel Prize banquets. Several people told me the story that the original intent was for the walls to be blue, but… The blue hall that isn’t very blue Projecting patterns on the walls ## Banquet At about 19:00, me and Anja had to sneak up a floor again together with crowd of others who were seated on that main long table you can see on the photo above. Table 1. On the balcony someone mentioned I should wear the prize. So with some help I managed to get it around my neck. It’s not a bad feeling I can tell you. Daniel, wearing the IVA gold medal. As everyone else in the hall had found their ways to their seats, we got to do a slow procession walking down the big wide stairs down into the main hall and find our ways to our seats. Then followed a most wonderful three-course meal. I had excellent table neighbor company and we had a lively and interesting conversation all through the dinner. There were a few welcome short interruptions in the form of speeches and music performances. A most delightful dinner. After the final apple tart was finished, there was coffee and more drinks served upstairs again, as the golden hall had apparently managed to transition while we ate downstairs. Disco(?) in the golden hall When the clock eventually approached midnight the entire Stenberg family walked off into the night and went home. A completely magical night was over but it will live on in my mind and head for a long time. Thank you to every single one involved. ## The medal The medal has an image of Prometus on the front side, and _Daniel Stenberg 2025_ engraved on the back side. On the back it also says the name of the Academy and _för framstående gärning_ , for outstanding achievement. A medal to be proud of. In the box Front side Back side Of course I figured this moment in time also called for a graph. Gold medals for curl over time

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DHH and the fascists taking over Nix being in league might seem too convenient to be true, so here's some links. these are just analysis, but if you click through to Twitter you're going to get hit in the face with bare bigotry so fair warning: https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6AHA0BNBBX616JGDJHYET36 https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6E3G2Z19M82BWRB3SPADHP9 https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115286316219357517 the tactics the fascists used to take over nixpkgs and RubyGems are old, and they worked. now that they know their tactics work, they'll be coming for other projects. 2/

Games on Linux might see your Framework Laptop 16’s keyboards as gamepads. This is because the QMK-based firmware1 running on them includes the a HID descriptor that reports the System Controls usage2. Linux uses the contents of that usage to fill out things like the absolute coordinate range and button set. Now, udev classifies a device as a joystick if it has absolute coordinates and joystick buttons. This is understandable, because joysticks have those things.

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