SwingTheVine
@swingthevine.bsky.social
Programmer of many things. I post about my programming adventures and repost stuff I find interesting. Creator of the template overlay "Blue Marble" on GitHub.
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last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking
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The internet infrastructure in a nutshell:
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The internet infrastructure in a nutshell:
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Been studying 3rd person camera and discovered a neat trick from Zelda
Walls blocking camera is commonly solved by moving the viewpoint closer. However when the wall is moved away, Link's camera doesn't immediately jump to its original position, instead only slowly recovers when there is user input.
Walls blocking camera is commonly solved by moving the viewpoint closer. However when the wall is moved away, Link's camera doesn't immediately jump to its original position, instead only slowly recovers when there is user input.
September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Been studying 3rd person camera and discovered a neat trick from Zelda
Walls blocking camera is commonly solved by moving the viewpoint closer. However when the wall is moved away, Link's camera doesn't immediately jump to its original position, instead only slowly recovers when there is user input.
Walls blocking camera is commonly solved by moving the viewpoint closer. However when the wall is moved away, Link's camera doesn't immediately jump to its original position, instead only slowly recovers when there is user input.
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Careful, Chiitan might get sued by Nintendo for summoning :(
September 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Careful, Chiitan might get sued by Nintendo for summoning :(
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be very careful about what you post online
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
be very careful about what you post online
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AirPod option to increase volume when someone talks to you
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
AirPod option to increase volume when someone talks to you
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Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us
September 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us
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but those early, "unbaked" language models were *basically* produced by applying math to various subsets of human generated data about humans. nobody was "designing them to fool people" because they weren't for public release or consumption, they were pure research products
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
but those early, "unbaked" language models were *basically* produced by applying math to various subsets of human generated data about humans. nobody was "designing them to fool people" because they weren't for public release or consumption, they were pure research products
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For the record, I do have enough technical knowledge to say that generative models neither contain nor reproduce their training data. I know a lot of people have anecdotes to the contrary, but they simply do not do that. You’re lying to yourself if you think they do.
August 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
For the record, I do have enough technical knowledge to say that generative models neither contain nor reproduce their training data. I know a lot of people have anecdotes to the contrary, but they simply do not do that. You’re lying to yourself if you think they do.
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to kind of sum this up, I think that the role of generative AI in the future is going to be for filling in elements that, for whatever reason, the creator wants to be in the work but does not feel the audience needs to feel were crafted by human hands
August 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
to kind of sum this up, I think that the role of generative AI in the future is going to be for filling in elements that, for whatever reason, the creator wants to be in the work but does not feel the audience needs to feel were crafted by human hands
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my conclusions here are in many ways bummers! here's the thing I was trying to say:
I think fewer people in the future are going to bother learning to make art,or write,or make music,or code,in traditional ways in the future because of generative work. this will make lots of stuff less interesting.
I think fewer people in the future are going to bother learning to make art,or write,or make music,or code,in traditional ways in the future because of generative work. this will make lots of stuff less interesting.
August 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
my conclusions here are in many ways bummers! here's the thing I was trying to say:
I think fewer people in the future are going to bother learning to make art,or write,or make music,or code,in traditional ways in the future because of generative work. this will make lots of stuff less interesting.
I think fewer people in the future are going to bother learning to make art,or write,or make music,or code,in traditional ways in the future because of generative work. this will make lots of stuff less interesting.
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the gist of what I said was that I think that, barring some kind of legal outcome that heavily restricts the availability of generative models, I think they will become extremely common as part of creative pipelines, and fewer people will learn skills they might otherwise have.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
the gist of what I said was that I think that, barring some kind of legal outcome that heavily restricts the availability of generative models, I think they will become extremely common as part of creative pipelines, and fewer people will learn skills they might otherwise have.
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The thing is that traditional troubleshooting skills still have to be learned with experience. LLMs definitely help, but can only complement real troubleshooting skills. If all you do is ask questions with insufficient context and can't use your brain to guide it toward a good result, it won't work
August 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The thing is that traditional troubleshooting skills still have to be learned with experience. LLMs definitely help, but can only complement real troubleshooting skills. If all you do is ask questions with insufficient context and can't use your brain to guide it toward a good result, it won't work
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I am proud to announce...
PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels
This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases.
A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this:
>> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<
PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels
This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases.
A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this:
>> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<
August 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I am proud to announce...
PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels
This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases.
A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this:
>> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<
PEP: Prediction-Encoded Pixels
This format is able to compress images (up to 256 colors) smaller than GIF, PNG, QOI, BMP, in almost all cases.
A lot of passion and research (and fixation) has gone into this:
>> github.com/ENDESGA/PEP <<
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There she is on #wplace! Standing Beautiful and Tall is the Statue of Friendship! Large thanks to @/fifteenai for helping greatly with the pixel placements and @swingthevine.bsky.social for Blue Marble! #MLP
August 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There she is on #wplace! Standing Beautiful and Tall is the Statue of Friendship! Large thanks to @/fifteenai for helping greatly with the pixel placements and @swingthevine.bsky.social for Blue Marble! #MLP
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I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
![6. The TXFC observed a post on the Bluesky account stating that his birthday was
June 15th. Additionally, the Bluesky account user self-identified as 38 years old, indicating a likely
date of birth (DOB) of
7. The Bluesky account user made additional posts about being in Cincinnati, Ohio.
8. The TXFC observed an additional post by the Bluesky account user regarding the
death of his on 2025, at the age of years old.
9. The TXFC conducted open-source queries of obituaries matching the date of death
of 2025, and likely location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and observed an obituary for
[REDACTED] with a date of death of 2025.
10. Kelly’s obituary was reviewed, which included a listing of all
grandchildren by name. The TXFC conducted Accurint searches for the last name [REDACTED], DOB of
and location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and returned a match of [REDACTED]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyqnubfj3qlho6psy6uvvt6u/bafkreibjdjnelpwwouimu63kvtyhi2g6g27brmlc55kcos6eppjvh6rwte@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
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one must imagine artists happy
a drawing of a man pushing a large ball with a ctrl button above him
ALT: a drawing of a man pushing a large ball with a ctrl button above him
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May 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
one must imagine artists happy
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Part of the job as a cybersecurity professional is in fact arguing to purge and not log information about your customers.
Data is not oil. It's risk.
Data is not oil. It's risk.
July 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Part of the job as a cybersecurity professional is in fact arguing to purge and not log information about your customers.
Data is not oil. It's risk.
Data is not oil. It's risk.
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In music they tell us that stealing is what makes you a great artist. Nobody is actually stealing anything, it’s all just about being deeply inspired. That has to be ok! How else will we make great new art?
July 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
In music they tell us that stealing is what makes you a great artist. Nobody is actually stealing anything, it’s all just about being deeply inspired. That has to be ok! How else will we make great new art?
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You need to know a certain amount about how the pieces fit together, but you often really don't need to know all that much about the arcane details to nail down quite precisely where a problem lies.
July 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
You need to know a certain amount about how the pieces fit together, but you often really don't need to know all that much about the arcane details to nail down quite precisely where a problem lies.