Paul SomeoneElse

I like bicycles
I'm some form of socialist/anarchist and pro-labor / unions.

I like all of the programming languages and switch too often between them.
vi not vim, but emacs is ok too especially when doing lisp stuff.

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be taken as personal. My attention span is not consistent.

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2026-08-24 04:06:48 UTC

https://github.com/thentenaar/motif
Look a maintained Motif :)
I don't see an AGENTS file or a CLAUDE file in the source so far ...
:P

2026-07-30 02:53:13 UTC

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I wish I could see likely outcomes from this, but it's too confusing.
Like how would a crash play out?
Or how can they not crash?
It's hard for me because the more we have hyper rich people, the
more I see money as not real.
CC: @nprofile…vx79

2026-07-02 17:40:19 UTC

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I think the real point is that there is no policy.
I read Theo's reply on the mailing list.
It wasn't a policy, (even though it's kinda the closest thing there
is to one).
It was merely a reply to someone.
Maybe it should be broached again.
Who's up for it? :)
I'm kinda afraid to.

2026-07-02 16:37:59 UTC

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I don't see your reasoning. Because OpenBSD already contains
LLM code it's OK to put more in?
The first thing you do when the sink is overflowing is to
turn off the water. (Getting a mop is second.)
Theo is just a man after all, I'm not into cult of personalities.

2026-07-01 19:38:22 UTC

OpenBSD ports mailing list is talking about importing
claude and anthropic and other crap.
I'm dissapointed at the lack of pushback.
I like OpenBSD but not that much.
#uncool #openbsd
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=178286673648679&w=2
I guess it's just ports so it's all optional, but i still don't have to like it.
Also these are not "development" tools.

2026-06-27 19:37:42 UTC

OpenBSD
#openbsd
https://snac.d34d.net/pkw/s/post-0858d75a4ff3b5b8c437baaa233ded5c.png

2026-06-14 20:02:18 UTC

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nice bike, especially the lack of disk brakes, and the multiple
rear facing red lights. :)

2026-05-10 17:42:33 UTC

Messenger bag?
I was looking to get a larger messenger bag.
I have the generic and also pretty big timbuk2 bag
from ~20 years ago. Who makes a current good
super heavy duty bags now? (like the older timbuk2)
Like I DON'T want a laptop sleeve, that makes
me think it's probably not a good bag.

2026-04-19 16:31:15 UTC

Communication can be seen as a dialectic process
where ideas go from context and nuance to category.
I tell you about my day.
To you that becomes "the story of a mans day".
I think part of my problem with current culture
and I do think it is a part of what we call capitalism.
That flow of context -> category, is "optimized" into
category -> category.
Capitalism as we are experiencing it is blowing away
nuance for ideals and categories. "The poor" not people
that need to eat. "The war", not the profoundly
more import "nuance" that innocent people are
willfully bombed and starved.
This is brought to you by mostly white men arguing
for LLM. They think that they have the right to
engage in a purely category ->category rhetoric.
That is what western capitalism teaches white men.
#llm #ai #capitalism

2026-03-21 19:34:40 UTC

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:02 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
To: Renaud Allard <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
Renaud Allard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only
> allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more
> requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.
Yes.
#openbsd

2026-01-27 01:00:08 UTC

I came up with a new saying WRT programming and computers:
"There are no silver bullets.".
The astute among you will know that I did not come up with that
saying about computers and programming.

2026-01-19 01:50:58 UTC

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o fak i guess i don't read this person anymore O_o effin
CC: @nprofile…kuhh

2026-01-07 13:08:43 UTC

I am glad I (mostly) own my house, and that I don't need to
purchase any ram or computers that need ram.
I do realize that makes me lucky, it's timing that separates me
from the person 10 or more years younger than me that doesn't
own a house or excess computers.
I used to complain that I don't have a super nice house like
the people 10 years older than me. But seeing what ppl
are having to pay for rent has cured me of that.
My point is that I know I didn't "earn" being 10 years older.
I didn't earn being a straight white male born in the US.
I might even be glad that I'm fat and have social issues, because
if I didn't I wouldn't know what "no" sounds like, and I'd
probably feel like I am special and earned my privileges.

2025-12-28 17:53:22 UTC

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oh cool thx, that might explain some things

2025-12-28 17:43:37 UTC

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Thanks! I'm using gajim and profanity on OpenBSD myself.
My friend is using Conversations on android.
I haven't tried to convince an iphone person to try it yet.
i am: [email protected]

2025-12-28 13:48:25 UTC

#xmpp is fun!
it's just what i wanted and remember from using AIM (and friends like , pidgin, icq ...)

2025-11-05 15:26:36 UTC

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I appreciate that the election results can be good and also there is more work to do.
(as opposed to attacking mamdani from the left)

2025-10-16 18:30:44 UTC

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https://web.archive.org/web/20251016035600/https://defector.com/free-press-reporter-discovers-that-being-an-amoral-dickhead-can-cost-you-friends#expand
Oh jeeze that name "The Free Press". It's like a sneak attack.
No wonder no one likes people associated.

2025-08-20 15:03:45 UTC

#deltachat I think I should try delta chat.
I use #OpenBSD .
But also I want it to work for people that have android and IOS phones.
(I assume that is the easy part once I get it to work for myself.)
Which client should I use?
The python one that uses urwid looks not maintained.
And then I was just gonna choose one or both of the main
servers from the docs:
- https://chika.aangat.lahat.computer/
- https://nine.testrun.org/

2025-07-24 04:30:16 UTC

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I quit my high paying job mostly because I was pigeonholed into developing with
OpenAI/LLM/agents RAG and all of that. I was even good at it, but it is all so stupid to me.
Across the company they were starting to make us use copilot.
It got to the point that writing good code and developing cohesive systems
was not even on the radar. It was all just vibe code BS. I couldn't do it.
I guess I'm a luddite, but I don't care. I am one of those people that
thinks deleting code is usually of higher value than adding code.
I've always worked with mostly programmers that kinda just went along,
but usually the lead programmers were at least decent to good.
Not anymore at the job I was at. It was all hype, BS, and garbage code.
I worked for a while doing maintenance kind of work on large java projects.
I know how painful it is to fix code where people just added and added and added.
It's like the US tax code.
Anyways good luck :P

2025-05-19 17:09:26 UTC

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Great post.
I compare it to oil.
There is no "second dose".
It's basically been used up.
The first dose of content took "generations" of internet use.
They effectively used all of it. It won't just regrow like a crop.
It's also like oil in that they expend more resources to get
to lesser caches of it. Which is what they are doing now
because all of the big wells are dry.
Lesser input... I won't lament the loss of reddit or stack-overflow.
They are closer to walled gardens than open forums.
I have come to think corporate owned sites can never be
truly open. But the metrics and/or conclusions you are pulling
from them is still useful and valid.

2025-05-07 16:49:40 UTC

I feel like a Luddite talking about LLM/AI.
Luddite is not a bad word to me.
I want to be clear I do not have a problem with the technology
itself. Especially the underlying technology.
Neural nets, and fitness functions and genetic algorithm study
is all great. (to name a few areas of study)
I have a problem with taking this half baked thing (LLM) and pretending
it is something else. And then giving this half baked thing
unlimited resources to cook. And the unlimited resources are
not to improve it to be clear, but to run this half baked thing as is.
And then the audacity to say this half baked thing (LLM) now get's
to have a voice in society. These are not sentient robots.
When there are sentient robots I will fight for their rights.
LLM is more like mailmixer.
LLM is just enshittification manifest. It's the ultimate way
to do whatever you want and not take any responsibility.
It is like tarot cards. I like tarot cards. But I don't want to go to
the bank and have the loan office pull out tarot cards.
Or go in front of a judge and they pull out tarot cards.
#LLM

2025-04-08 14:33:27 UTC

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"The web dev industry is in ruins. Funding is gone for open source. Team sizes are collapsing. Everybody’s job is degrading into becoming the meat puppet for a stochastic parrot. The job market is a shambles. We’re fucked…"
Yeah that's me, I'm interested ...

2025-04-07 20:27:05 UTC

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THE LUV'D ONES- "UP DOWN SUE" ... O_o wow this is good

2025-03-15 15:58:39 UTC

https://youtu.be/MUISz2qA640?t=974
The biggest secret in tech.
I have come around to this point of view for a while now just
from lurking on the OpenBSD dev list.

2025-03-10 13:18:57 UTC

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I just watched Pantheon. It was good. Scavengers Reign was better.
Weirdly I need to consider shows parables sometimes to not be annoyed by
them. So Pantheon to me was not realistic, but Scavengers Reign was :)

2025-02-26 19:43:30 UTC

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Corollary Hot Take ?
If you are not afraid of kubernetes then you do not know enough about kubernetes.

2025-01-20 18:43:16 UTC

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snac is great. It's so refreshing to go slow and have full page loads.
And it runs on the cheapest openams vps for me.
CC: @nprofile…73zh

2025-01-16 15:26:43 UTC

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I love these prints.
What are the mediums used?

2025-01-07 02:06:57 UTC

#subtoot #techpost
The best thing about HTML syntax is that it is an example of how lisp parenthesis are really great.
This is a subtoot of at least two current and separate posts.

2024-12-30 01:19:30 UTC

https://bird.makeup/
#fediblock
It is suspicious that a very long post from here ends up on my TL.
https://r.town/@vincent
That's the author.
I'm blocking both of those domains.