choutos @choutos@qoto.org

Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!

(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

@EUCommission

While it's less bad than if all these new car sales were petrol or diesel, a "clean future" is one where trains cover most travel and bicycles, trams and electric buses cover all short distances.

Europe, with its compact geography and pre-existing railway lines, is ideally suited to swiftly transition to a largely car-free society. That is the future.

#Europe #TransportPolicy #EcosystemCollapse

Num mundo de Pedros Delgados, sé como Gary Lineker.
https://imginn.com/p/DOdqXOBCDVT/

Diego é o melhor desenhador galego da atualidade e a gente nem sabe que existe porque o consumo cultural de qualidade demanda um conhecimento além dos canais massivos, ou tempo para pesquisar fora de aqueles, que nom está ao alcance da maioria.
Este dia um colega do mundo da música falava-me com paixom da sua banda favorita de todos os tempos e eu nem a conhecia. É o mesmo.
Temos meios privados entregues à rotina e às grandes produtoras. Mas é pior os meios públicos nom cumprirem o seu papel.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Recordatorio amistoso de que en el largo plazo sólo las renovables correctamente desplegadas servirán para mitigar el cambio climático.

Ni la fisión ni la fusión serán convenientes por un hecho que ha entrado en el balance y que no he visto considerar en los debates: el calor residual.

Lo comentaba ya en la red del pajarraco y aquí el año pasado

https://mstdn.social/@ecosdelfuturo/110216121303753922

Y un hilo con más detalles

https://mstdn.social/@ecosdelfuturo/109564304818171724

#renovables #nuclear #CambioClimatico

@Rataunderground puede que odiemos snap, Gnome 3, Ubuntu, docker, flatpak, los drivers de Nvidia, PulseAudio, systemd, Emacs, y los portátiles con hardware no compatible. Pero jamás odiariamos Linux.

Some interesting insights into why people do or don't support climate change initiatives.

For example: "We found that people consistently underestimate how much others support climate action. This phenomenon is known as 'pluralistic ignorance'. On average, respondents underestimated support by 18%, and overestimated opposition by 16%. This creates a kind of shared illusion that climate policies are less popular than they actually are."

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-climate-policies-popular-psychologist.html

Wow ; "Let’s Encrypt ( @letsencrypt ) currently issues more publicly trusted certificates in a single day than existed in total during 2013."

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/14/rfc-6962-logs-eol.html

#geek #selfHosting

🇺🇸 📚 **Reading like it’s 1989**

_Not only do well-read people perform better on tests of general knowledge — but as early as elementary school, Snow said, “better readers are better at understanding the multiple points of view that might be held about a civic or a moral issue. They’re less likely to think that if you disagree with them, it’s because you’re stupid … I think that’s pretty important.”_

🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/08/reading-like-its-1989/.

#Reading #Literature #Culture #Education #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @literature

How should we respond when those in education, but not teaching, feel they don’t need courses in teaching in their studies?

@bibliolater @bookstodon

The novel promises: I will entertain you.

You say: Very well. In return I will give you my attention.

If the book does not fulfill its part of the bargain, you are automatically released from the contract.

Ponyo dobrada ao galego em Ferrol, Compostela e Vigo

FERROL

Duplex
🗓️ sexta-feira 1/8 🕢 19:30h
🗓️ sábado 2/8 🕢 19:55h
🗓️ domingo 3/8 🕢 19:55h
https://duplexcinema.com/gl/filmes/ponyo-no-acantilado

COMPOSTELA

Numax
🗓️ sexta-feira 1/8 🕓 16h
🗓️ sábado 2/8 🕓 16h
https://numax.org/cinema/ficha/ponyo

Multicines Compostela
🗓️ Da sexta-feira 1/8 à quinta-feira 7/8
🕠 17:40 h
https://multicinescompostela.com/proximos-estrenos-2-2/

VIGO

Multicines Norte
🗓️ quinta-feira 7/8 🕗 20:10h
https://multicinesnorte.eu/cartelera-2/

#anime #cine #galego #Ghibli

(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.

Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.

#USpolitics #trade #war #science

Say what you will about Trump, but you have to admit that the economy is doing great under his leadership if you just completely make up all the numbers.

Dear journalists writing about AI being the end of programming as a profession:

Programming has a long history of embracing tools that make things more productive. The manual for the STANTEC ZEBRA explains that a limitation of 150 instructions is not a practical problem because no one could possibly write a working program that complex. Today, we routinely write programs several three orders of magnitude more complex than that in an afternoon. Higher-level languages have increased programmer productivity by literal orders of magnitude. Things like integrated debugging environments, reliable autocompletion, higher-level type systems, and so on have all been embraced because they let you solve the problems faster.

Note that they don’t all let you write more code quickly. Most of the improvements in productivity have had the opposite impact. They don’t let you write code faster, they let you write less code to do the same things. This started with libraries of reusable code and simple abstractions like functions and has grown over time. I can write a simple dynamic web page in a couple of lines of PHP, where doing the same thing in the assembly languages that the ZEBRA folks were talking about would require me to write thousands of lines. The PHP version would be more portable and also vastly easier to adapt to changing requirements.

At the same time, there are far more problems that need programs to solve them than there are people who can write programs. If programmer productivity doubled tomorrow, there would not be enough programmers. If people who can’t program were all suddenly able to program at the level of a first-year undergraduate tomorrow, there would still not be enough programmers. And that’s why our industry puts so much effort into end-user programming languages. That’s why the most successful programming language, with over a billion users, is Microsoft Excel.

With all that in mind, don’t you think that the fact that most programmers need mandates from management to use bullshit generators to ‘help’ programming might be an indication that the hype isn’t all it claims to be?

https://osalto.gal/activismo/activistas-bloquean-unha-planta-altri-portugal-avisan-frearan-sua-expansion-galiza

#AltriNON

You can't do anything these days. Bloody woke brigade.