A married and happy geek living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist. My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp. Pro-European right-centrist. Technical progress must not be stoppable. #AI is our assistant, not our replacement nor our enemy. Pagan, worshipper of Scandinavian gods. This account is multilingual. Posts may contain strong language, not always behind a content warning, and personal opinions. No alt text, no boost.
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Last Notes npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…gflg I also use Windows and hate Linux Desktop. More than that, I believe Linux is good for servers, but not for desktop usage. npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine A post I've recently boosted starts with: "I know #Mastodon hates LLMs and AI." and unfortunately, it's very true. Although #Fediverse apologists keep saying it's "for everyone", it's actually not. To be welcome on most Mastodon servers, you *ought* to love or hate someone and something you were told to love and hate by leftists de facto governing Mastodon. I won't go into details, but for example, if you don't hate so-called "big tech" and "tech bros", if you don't hate capitalism, if you don't hate AI, if you are not leftist (ideally far/extreme left), — you might have problems on this network. There are exceptions of course, most significant I know of being the #Blind community exiled from Twitter after Musk banned third-party clients, but again, most of the servers' signup forms say literally this: leftist, anti-AI, anticapitalist, anti-big-tech, pro-open-source (which is not bad per se, but often it drifts to "If you are not using Linux desktop and don't want to, you're evil"). And if you do not suit those standards, you are automatically stigmatized and treated… another way, let's put it like this. Why this rant? Just for people to understand that this network is also biased, like any other. Many times I heard things like "look, X/Twitter is biased, it's for conservatives", "TikTok and SnapChat are biased, it's for youngsters", and "Mastodon is not biased, it's for everyone". Nope, it is biased. It is. Like all other network. Except for YouTube probably (too many videos for every taste 😊). npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e swoosh? 😊 Хотя не, это не ножом, это мечом. npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Да, или белорусская, или вроде ещё что-то есть. Но даже если будешь пробовать (ЗАЧЭМ?), используй для этого какой-нибудь левый телефон. Потому что эта дрянь смотрит и слушает, даже когда ты не на звонке. npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine Программно устанавливается на телефоны и называется «мессенджер макс» #nevent1q…amve npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine I probably told you once I like 16th/17th century music, especially organ music, for work and meditation, and I remember quoting Claudio #Merulo. I found another composer that is ideal for me: Peeter #Cornet. Not many works survived, not much is known about his life, but his music is absolutely what I need to go deep into work or meditation. #Music #PipeOrgan #Renaissance npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Ну до скорости звука он недотянул, конечно. 675 км/ч это 187.5 м/с (мне в СИ привычнее), а скорость звука при нуле градусов — 332 м/с (это я даже не гуглил, так помню). Так что ему бы ещё ускориться) npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Офигеть, я не знал, что оно умеет Си-бемоль второй октавы) npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Фу блин, мерзость. И язык ещё… какая же разница с ивритом всё-таки на слух! npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine For some reason I cannot quote a post I saw recently and I don't want to boost it because I don't agree with it. Long story short, it was another post praising Mastodon over "big corp networks" and, as many of such posts, it had a gross comparison at the end, comparing "big corp networks" to a toilet and Mastodon to a flower. Anyway, here's my answer to that. All of this is just sweet words.Fediverse has lots of inconveniences and lots of drawbacks. It's not a flower, far from that. 1. If you are on an instance, and someone else posted something that didn't please a user from some other instance, your instance gets "defederated", without any possibility for you to impact that anyhow. So, you are normally posting on your instance, then some guy/girl from your instance says something that another user on another instance doesn't like, — boom, you lose part of your followers without even knowing it and without possibility to regain them. 2. If you want to migrate, you can, well, sort of, but you'll lose all of your posts. Which makes the process something between painful and useless. 3. If you host your instance on your own, see p. 1, some random dude can "defederate" you because he doesn't like your political views, or the fact you eat meat, or the fact you don't hate AI. I mean, I'm on Mastodon myself, I like the fact that it has open API for everyone to develop their clients, I like chronological timeline (the absence of which drives me nuts on Facebook), but other than that… it's not ideal, by far not. #Fediverse #Mastodon npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Да ладно, говори с латиноамериканским акцентом и не парься, там фонетику очень легко взять (ну кроме вот этого звука, который бета — между Б и В). npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…am5e Самый прикол, что я знаю людей, которые реально ВОТ ТАК разговаривают по-английски 😂 npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine #Claude Security enters public beta with #Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-claude-security-public-beta/ TL;DR: Claude Code will be able to patch security vulnerabilities in repos, directories, and branches. Available for enterprise users, access for Max and Team coming soon. #AI #AINews npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine Listening to a podcast about #AI. It's in Russian so I won't quote, just tell the main thought I found deep and true: most of the people claiming that LLM agents hallucinate all the time, don't do what they want and are a waste of time, — most of those people use default settings. No skills, no hooks, no custom prompts even, no subagents, — just "do something good", "write the whole project" or something like that. I confirmed it myself when I started using literally a couple skills and a couple customized, self-crafted agents: it was a mega boost straight away, and I'm by far not the most professional at it. The more I think about AI, the more I compare it to the industrial revolution in the 19th century. npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine @nprofile…gflg I hate Android Studio with passion, as all JetBrains inaccessible shit, so... console is better :) npub1jgx856dz7l8jzcjw0nk7qwjs2wjfmpd2rtmgwvu3ay5dlgpd3zfqq59c3y André Polykanine Finally! #Google (re)introduces #Android CLI, that facilitates Android apps development, especially with #AI assistance, but not only. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html