Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
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Last Notes npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven OK. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Sorry to hear that! Should I ask? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I disagree on petty much all counts, but it's clear that you won't even entertain any interpretation except your own, so I see no point in continuing. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven You are misreading and misunderstanding both me *and* the post. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I disagree, or I wouldn't have posted it. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven It never was the stated goal. It was stated not to be a goal. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven What was Classic MacOS like? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven "DTs"? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/385/628/507/613/091/original/5c24f35c7e833a97.png npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How the AI bubble bursts npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Well, yes and no. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I Decompiled the White House's New App npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven "History repeats the old deceits" (by the Joy of Tech) npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How sports fans look to me (by Bizarro) npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Markdown Ate The World npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven You did notice who wrote the piece you're citing, right? Just checking... npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven EnKITTification npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The OVHcloud fire still smolders npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven "You don’t have to if you don’t want to." npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The Death of Curiosity npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Found this on Twitter. No idea if it's true, but I liked it.[email protected] npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord's classification of military officers: npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How Much of CP/M’s Design Ended Up in MS‑DOS? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven (AI) Slop Terrifies Me npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/019/223/964/799/633/original/f20594c79ee9acff.png npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven 'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Only 1 of my Macs can run macOS 26. I have chosen not to update, so far. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Is there anyone out there 3D printing spare parts for Polly Pocket toys for little kids? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Discord is running a survey about integrating generative "AI" into its service. Please do go tell them what you think. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The point here being... npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven An early hard disk, but yes, with removable media. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Oh yes, it was multi-user from the start. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115752573933914452 npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115714778648950997 npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven An open letter: stop spreading outdated advice about internet security npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven With Love to KDE: Take a Moment npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I think this #smbc_comics could be called... npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven > surface design that takes me back to the 1990s npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages: npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review) npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The Human Only Public License npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven A prophetic 1933 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Abort Retry Fail: The QNX Operating System npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Seen two people talking about a new, paid-for "AI" powered browser from "Norwegian browser company Opera" today. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven « npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven A months of ad-free OSNews: we’re closing in on the fundraising goal, and need your help to get there npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I clicked through. Can't reply directly though. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven No, I'm not going to waste my time chasing citations for all these. Yesterday I'd never heard of the scrote. Once I learned who and what he was, it took no time to decide the world was better off without him. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven In his own words... npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven As Chris Tregenza put it on Bluesky: npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Disclaimer: not read. Don't want to. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The differences between bogs, fens, swamps and marshes… npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I have tried several alternative phone OSes and de-Googled Androids, and written about some. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Just fucking use HTML npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Do I Need Kubernetes? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven There are 2 big snags with that. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Why do you say that? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven That is true but it's also endlessly adaptable. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven I disagree with all of these except C++. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Gadget geeks aghast at guru's geriatric GPU npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven If I may, I think you are missing things too. npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Wayback 0.1 debuts as early Wayland display server for X11 diehards npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven They're putting blue food coloring in everything npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven The price of software freedom is eternal politics npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven How and why to migrate your e-mail from KDE KMail to Mozilla Thunderbird npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Well who doesn't? npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um lproven Make Fun Of Them (Ed Zitron)
