Orual
@nonbinary.computer
Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Certified Machine Pervert with compiler-induced psychosis.
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Certified Machine Pervert with compiler-induced psychosis.
Robotanist
they/it/she
support: github.com/sponsors/orual
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Orual
@nonbinary.computer
· Jan 12
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I seem to be getting an influx of followers. You might also be interested in my other work, like @weaver.sh.
I am also looking for work, as well as support for my open-source projects, including Weaver, the Jacquard atproto rust library, and @pattern.atproto.systems
github.com/sponsors/orual
I am also looking for work, as well as support for my open-source projects, including Weaver, the Jacquard atproto rust library, and @pattern.atproto.systems
github.com/sponsors/orual
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No one asked for it, yet here it is: curried functions in C
pastebin.com/9pqG2gqd
(as if to warn of divine wrath, my 'e' key seems to have stopped working while I was writing it)
pastebin.com/9pqG2gqd
(as if to warn of divine wrath, my 'e' key seems to have stopped working while I was writing it)
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
No one asked for it, yet here it is: curried functions in C
pastebin.com/9pqG2gqd
(as if to warn of divine wrath, my 'e' key seems to have stopped working while I was writing it)
pastebin.com/9pqG2gqd
(as if to warn of divine wrath, my 'e' key seems to have stopped working while I was writing it)
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we can indeed seize the means of tech production (open source)
February 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
we can indeed seize the means of tech production (open source)
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Hailey is being generous with "thinly veiled." One thing that is very apparent on this website is that most people don't have principles until those principles are things that can be wielded to bash perceived (or actual) ideological opponents.
its interesting (derogatory) that every time amanda askell gets talked about on this website the thinly veiled misogyny comes out in force
February 12, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Hailey is being generous with "thinly veiled." One thing that is very apparent on this website is that most people don't have principles until those principles are things that can be wielded to bash perceived (or actual) ideological opponents.
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An error caused a large number of accounts to be incorrectly "marked for review" by our automated system. This tool is normally used to rapidly respond to mass harassment and spam campaigns. We have removed the incorrect labels and will publish an incident report in the coming days.
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 AM
An error caused a large number of accounts to be incorrectly "marked for review" by our automated system. This tool is normally used to rapidly respond to mass harassment and spam campaigns. We have removed the incorrect labels and will publish an incident report in the coming days.
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My take on Searle's Chinese Room, which is terminally engineer brained in that my entire argument is "okay, how would you actually build it, though"
www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...
www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...
Building the Chinese Room
Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at writing the programs that from the external point of...
www.verysane.ai
February 12, 2026 at 4:16 AM
My take on Searle's Chinese Room, which is terminally engineer brained in that my entire argument is "okay, how would you actually build it, though"
www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...
www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...
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hey we're really working on permissioned data! read the first in a series of posts i'll be doing about our design decisions along the way. this one is about our decision to not do an e2ee system
Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt
The first in a series of posts about major design decisions along the way to a permissioned data protocol for atproto.
dholms.leaflet.pub
February 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
hey we're really working on permissioned data! read the first in a series of posts i'll be doing about our design decisions along the way. this one is about our decision to not do an e2ee system
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this, too, is a dialectic
September 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
this, too, is a dialectic
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eboshi is a banging example of a very underrated character archetype: person who is caring and brave and right about everything (ie correctly interprets everything they can see), but whose desire to overcome all limitations combined with their affinity for violence leads them to take wrong actions
Honestly also the moment she says she will show us how to kill a God and, like, I saw why those angels followed Satan
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
eboshi is a banging example of a very underrated character archetype: person who is caring and brave and right about everything (ie correctly interprets everything they can see), but whose desire to overcome all limitations combined with their affinity for violence leads them to take wrong actions
see it feels the answer is just obviously yes, but...
“are LLMs neurodivergent?” - the greatest thread in the history of bluesky, locked by me after 12,239 pages of heated death threats,
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM
see it feels the answer is just obviously yes, but...
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Also, paying my own cat tax.
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Also, paying my own cat tax.
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in light of that chris hayes post about ai and the left, i’m just gonna re-up what i’ve been saying for like a year now
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
in light of that chris hayes post about ai and the left, i’m just gonna re-up what i’ve been saying for like a year now
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side note: it's odd to me that people on both sides of this equation are so fixated on the concept of AGI / consciousness/ etc... even if AGI is never achieved, the level of usefulness and effectiveness that today's AI technology presents is already way more than "enough" to produce serious effects
February 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
side note: it's odd to me that people on both sides of this equation are so fixated on the concept of AGI / consciousness/ etc... even if AGI is never achieved, the level of usefulness and effectiveness that today's AI technology presents is already way more than "enough" to produce serious effects
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nah, i'm *quite* confident i'm all good
Going to the epistemic humility store, do any of you want me to pick up anything for you
February 12, 2026 at 12:24 AM
nah, i'm *quite* confident i'm all good
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Thomas is good people and his team are doing cool stuff. If any of the people who've followed me for whatever reason either are up for this or know someone who might be...
Do I know any devops / cloud infrastructure folks open to consulting right now? Small team just had an unexpected departure.
DMs are open.
DMs are open.
February 11, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Thomas is good people and his team are doing cool stuff. If any of the people who've followed me for whatever reason either are up for this or know someone who might be...
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jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
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Oh no! A non-technical woman said something I disagree with, better call her a racist with no proof
its interesting (derogatory) that every time amanda askell gets talked about on this website the thinly veiled misogyny comes out in force
February 11, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Oh no! A non-technical woman said something I disagree with, better call her a racist with no proof
Thomas is good people and his team are doing cool stuff. If any of the people who've followed me for whatever reason either are up for this or know someone who might be...
Do I know any devops / cloud infrastructure folks open to consulting right now? Small team just had an unexpected departure.
DMs are open.
DMs are open.
February 11, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Thomas is good people and his team are doing cool stuff. If any of the people who've followed me for whatever reason either are up for this or know someone who might be...
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This is the power of user interviews and extensive user testing across the spectrum of experience levels. Git never went through this process
jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is the power of user interviews and extensive user testing across the spectrum of experience levels. Git never went through this process
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Do I know any devops / cloud infrastructure folks open to consulting right now? Small team just had an unexpected departure.
DMs are open.
DMs are open.
February 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Do I know any devops / cloud infrastructure folks open to consulting right now? Small team just had an unexpected departure.
DMs are open.
DMs are open.
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competitive advantage for the LLM era: went insane reading Blindsight a decade ago; confronted the fact that much of what we value as intelligence can be decomposed into component submodules; accepted that sentience/consciousness was not a precondition of effectiveness wrt many cognitive tasks, etc
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
competitive advantage for the LLM era: went insane reading Blindsight a decade ago; confronted the fact that much of what we value as intelligence can be decomposed into component submodules; accepted that sentience/consciousness was not a precondition of effectiveness wrt many cognitive tasks, etc
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i’m an expert at filling up a glass of water cause i haven’t hydrated in awhile and then immediately setting the glass down and completely forgetting to actually drink any of it
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
i’m an expert at filling up a glass of water cause i haven’t hydrated in awhile and then immediately setting the glass down and completely forgetting to actually drink any of it