There was a lot of laziness and crap practices before, but the advent of LLMs has resulted in new new realms of entitlement and 'let the maintainers do more work'.

It's a painful time to be a maintainer, and made more difficult in that a lot of these people are dishonest about their use of LLMs and just expect us to do (even) more work.

I think it's also time we all admitted that some people just shouldn't be trying to contribute to open source.

It sucks, it's painful, and there's a lot of denial around it, but there's a huge talent component in software development, and some people just can't do it + only cause a nuisance.

Except nowadays, wtih LLMs, they're a total menace.

We're stuck with those people + those who want the 'kudos' of kernel commits but are happy to cheat to get them, people under pressure at work (still not acceptable sorry), good people who got lazy, and any other set of other negative factors.

In the long run rules will have to change, but fuck you all really

the great thing about usb-c is you can use multiple power packs that are flaky, don't work or fail to negotiate with your gadget

e.g. my 120W phone charger here that refuses to talk to half my shit

also your fucking cables are also computers because nothing less can figure out usb-c

and it's still a vast improvement on previously

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement.

I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.

It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.

I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.

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❌ Keeping written records of your passwords is bad because someone might accidentally gain access to your passwords.

✅ Uploading biometric and national indentity data is good because this new VC-backed startup that no one knows anything about wants to harvest your very soul, and sell it to their 1138 advertising partners who have TOTALLY legitimate interests.

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