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RE: https://grrl.me/@soph/116586772000163018

I’ve had a similar awakening a few months when realising that GitHub shows you the cost of free-for-open-source Actions usage. On of my decidedly low-traffic but big test suite (173 checks) would cost thousands of dollars per month.

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that they’ve played us all for fools. We all have infinitely fast dev machines, but we need to rent a dev machine’s worth of servers every month to run an open source project?

Absolutely not.

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 2h ago

Jorge Castro 2h ago

I had an amazing time at the #linux app summijt, here's my talk on GNOME OS and KDE Linux.

It's awesome to see the energy around buildstream, and I'd like to thank all the people who helped put Dakotaraptor together.

Sometimes as a builder, you just know when you've made something special. And it feels even better when you know you've picked a kickass tech stack.

#linux #gnome #kde

https://www.youtube.com/live/1AXBfsiaQNk?si=zZhC54qSKICv0Vbz&t=26434

Linux App Summit 2026 - Day 2

YouTube

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 2h ago

Did changing my display name in Matrix just cause every channel/message to be marked "read"? Aaah... xD

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 2h ago

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Jonathan Hogg Feb 18

I will say one thing for generative AI: since these tools function by remixing/translating existing information, that vibe programming is so popular demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of our industry in not making this stuff easier. If a giant ball of statistics can mostly knock up a working app in minutes, this shows not that gen-AI is insanely clever, but that most of the work in making an app has always been stupid. We have gatekeeped programming behind vast walls of nonsense.

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bondolo 5d ago

@robpike Will who builds software and what gets built change? Yes, in ways we can't even imagine. Just like all the past cycles.

I keep thinking about this toot: https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg/116091870281045546 and the truth of it continues to make me angry. We have done a very bad job with gatekeeping who can contribute. Expecting every person to write C code with vi in a bash ssh window is extreme, but not far off. The "every person will be be a programmer someday" wish is a good one, but not like this.

cont./

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 2h ago

In my profile picture, you see Minerva, the goddess of craft, poetry and wisdom, among many other things; she stands supportive with people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva

It's a statue in Stuttgart, which lost its raised hand, so I put mine there, waving a friendly 'helllo' to you. 👋

The new first name I took, 지지 (Jiji), also means support; I find joy in helping and connecting people. 🤝

Minerva - Wikipedia

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 3h ago

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116590476981111832

Here is another example of my little rant on Unix style multi-output (stdout, stderr) text (that requires parsing) + status code (requiring extra handling) interfaces.

We should get past this and have either APIs or at least a marshalled format like JSON for sensible further processing when chaining up tools.

I'm so happy that LLVM's readobj supports JSON output. However, that is just a partial thing. It's only for valid output, not error handling at this point, AFAICT. There is more to do!

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 3h ago

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Zack Weinberg 5h ago

@whitequark that error message is papering over a segfault. Seriously. There's a SIGSEGV handler that all it does is check whether a global "code has provoked at least one syntax error" flag is set, and if so it turns the crash into an unsuccessful exit with that message.

This was a project management decision made circa 2003 on the explicit grounds "we don't want any more bug reports about crashes on invalid code, there's just too many ways they can happen".

지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel), 黄法官 4h ago