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  Really feeling lately like people (especially Red Hat, Canonical etc.) use the term "community" the way that the Regional Manager at Papa John's uses the word "family", and that both are red flags about how you're about to be treated by someone who considers you a captive audience and extraction-ready labor resource. I like the way @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space defines community (https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista/statuses/01M6YE9SP2BYVT463H4JR4BQPH), and I think wh...

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  Before LLMs, the greatest, most widespread pollutant of the software development psychosphere was "rewrite it in Rust." I have explained this enough times while sober that I shouldn't have to defend it to some drive-by rando while full of Steel Reserve. And yet!

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  Systems programming software: (is mostly written in well-specified, simple languages for which multiple implementations exist, allowing you to pivot from one vendor to another if needed) Software industry: (is pivoting hard to the destruction of the commons through matrix multiplication) Certain people who end up in my mentions: "HURRY, GUYS! We need to rewrite everything in a complex incompletely-specified language with one viable implementation/package ecosystem, controlled by a single...

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  god imagine though, if instead of building Void Staff last, mages built Freud Staff. "Ah, magic resist. Vas your mother also a magic user, such as yourself?" /sucks pipe

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  One of the things really causing trouble for the Prone project (but great for my journey as a programmer, in C and in general) is that it's been helpful for refining my idea of what I want to make and how I want to make it. Which has led to me redoing work a few times in order to change the architecture. I really don't mind doing that. Redoing work isn't something I consider a failure mode, I actually think it's really important for the health and quality of a software project....

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  People who know that the "M4" in my screen name is (among a few other things) a wink at the existence of the M4 macro processor, may be amused to hear how utterly fucking devastated I am that I have to learn autoconf for something today.

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  Yesterday I finally got a message about my referral to a sleep lab! In Oregon. From over a year ago, on insurance from the job I lost before I moved. But spooooky single payer has wait lists 😂

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  I am, personally, very good at telling malignant men to fuck off. The trick is to not make that an exercise in ladder-pulling. There are a lot of different types of women in the world. Most of them would not feel comfortable approaching the problem of male toxicity with my attitude, which is, "I've pegged tougher men than you and half of them were little babies about it." Critically, *those women shouldn't have to.* That should not be the cover charge for participating in soci...

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  God, next time I get out to the army surplus place, aside from that shirt, I really need to buy one of those separatory funnels for coffee reasons. And also clean the crap out of it, because leftover glassware from gov stuff out here, you got *no* idea what was in there except it wasn't food safe. There's a reason labs still use glass! At least you *can* get it pristine, but you might need to use some other spicy chemicals to do it.

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  One annoying thing about only getting weekend time to work on Moonshine lately is that my Fedi experience is a much faster-moving target than my development pace can be. A few weeks ago I didn't desperately need notification pagination. Some sort of threshold ticked over since then and it's just a flood, which actually would benefit MORE from my grouping rules over the full set of unread notifs... but I can't see anything after the first page, can't tell the end of the page from...

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  This is a bit of a subtoot, but really my goal in saying this is a bit more: "if you also feel this way, now's your chance to privately examine your beliefs in the quiet inside voice of your own heart, so you can handle it there instead of my mentions. I believe in you." So. If your position is "I punch nazis, but also LLMs are inevitable," that is not antifascism. That is "how do you do fellow kids" shit. I'm glad you punch nazis, big if true. But these ar...

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  Slop will not always be popular, and when the bloom is off the rose, I think it should be very difficult to repair your reputation if you embraced them in ways that aren't "my job had an AI mandate and I didn't want to lose my house" type stuff. Boosters have sold out our communities, they have crossed the labor picket line, they have demonstrated a willingness to categorize the environment and art as acceptable losses in the name of personal convenience. They do not have our...

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  Maybe with Sam Altman saying it in a mask-off moment, I can finally stop hearing from well-intentioned queer people how much more efficient it is to put your compute in a datacenter.

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  Okay. If the LibreOffice promotional posting about their "keep AI optional so people can do office stuff without it" stance was persuasive to you, and you gave them money, you have been defrauded. And you should demand your money back. And we should all be ever more skeptical of carefully-worded "nuanced stances." No money for quislings. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117510420175177743 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/

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  When I first started seeing millionaires talking about the "greedy" humans that need more water and electricity than agents, I wasn't just angry and a little scared, I was confused: how are we not bringing out the guillotines on the spot? But then I thought about the way that older generations have demonized gens Z and Alpha for killing off industries (which can't make a compelling case for themselves to young broke kids in a world that demands always-on grindset to survive, t...

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  If people contributed to a project with the understanding that it would contain LLM contributions, that's their prerogative, and some people are fine with that. But the reality is that most of these projects are older than that. People invested their effort on a different social contract, and it was changed out from under them. It's like relicensing but more consequential. I think that's a much bigger theft than scraping. Scraping doesn't steal our communities.

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  Wife: Me: "GPU ISAs would have prevented this ;)"

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  Well. I think I just figured out where the "Posted from ${appname}" bit at the bottom of toots come from. In fact, if this status actually submits properly, I think I'll have conclusive evidence that it's one of the most annoying (but, from Mastodon upstream perspectives, reasonable) answers possible. For the record, this status was posted without using madonctl at all.

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  The comedy of git-send-email.io advertising Sourcehut not requiring JS (legit feature that I love) while itself not working on Dillo for reasons that feel JS-implied.

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  It's funny, I know my decision to switch to Zen browser was - on the grand scale - a pretty recent one. Probably the last year. And for reasons that still feel pertinent to me! That Mozilla is a hostile entity, that to use vanilla Firefox is to be constantly holding my ear to the ground for rumors about what new fuckery to turn off until they change my permissions *again* in an emotional flashback to the warning days of Facebook, which I refuse to go back to, that for tasks which require a f...

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  "The Netherlands. Not to be confused with the Neth-Irelands, where you can order your potatoes with void butter." #thingsthatmademypartnerlaugh

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  If you give a mouse a cookie, you might be a browser fingerprinting mechanism.

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  Speaking of irrational negative associations that I have to be careful not to allow to influence me in meaningful ways, I can't see MIPS mentioned (like on a download page etc.) without remembering The MIPS Guy Who Tried To Get My Friends Banned From Tumblr. And every time, I still think, "wow. What a slimy little dickweasel." 1/n

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  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single distro in possession of a good live USB experience, must be in want of a homegrown and severely limited partition manager built into the install experience.

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  I can fly on one clipped wing. The air yet remembers my name.

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  Testing to see if creating a new post will now render that new post in #Moonshine immediately (side benefit of template refactor work going on right now)...

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  Ah, Mastodon changed the API for dismissing a single notification, and that broke a bit of `madonctl` for doing that operation. I'll need to contribute a fix upstream. I'll have to maintain a fork of `madonctl` with my fixes, so that people will be able to have a copy that works for the things #Moonshine depends on, until upstream is caught up.

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  I really won't have time to record a demo before I go to surgery, but I wrote a song last night while scrubbing up in the shower. My wife was like "awww, she's singing in the shower!" And I was like "Yeah! I'm COMPOSING!" Lyrics should fit in my instance's 1024 char limit based on the "950B written" reported by vim. Lots of optimistic feelings. It's good to finally feel like the last two years were short. I've certainly felt their length eno...

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  You know, I've been stressing about what my next phone OS is going to be, as Google tries to crack down on side loading. And considering I'm also trying to get onto a #NeverSlop (rather than merely #NoSlop) stack, and figure out what that stack even contains, I think Nura is gonna be the thing if I can get it on my phone. https://social.treehouse.systems/@cas/117347732017118902

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  You know, I've been reading the terms #NoSlop and #NeverSlop as pretty interchangeably so far, but I think my brain just clicked on the difference between them, which is clarifying my goals to someday run an explicitly and completely Never Slop software stack on my machines. The key word is "yet" - no slop *yet.* It's easier right now to run a fully No Slop system, because it's more permissive - it allows you to include software that doesn't have a policy about LLMs, o...