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David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!)

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I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.

I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.

Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated.

Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.

No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)21m ago

Kevin Beaumont 53m ago

Microsoft Copilot terms of service have been updated to include this gem: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service/

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

: Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

The Register

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)22m ago

I sat facing a television in a pub yesterday and broadcast TV is weird:

As far as I could tell (with the sound off), the main show was Lex Luthor interviewing a hipster and a gormster and deciding which one he should murder first. There was an ominous threat in the background that someone was going to be coaching some sportsball team no matter what (piles of skulls and rivers of blood were implied).

This was interspersed by things I eventually determined were adverts. It wasn’t obvious what they were advertising but they seemed to have bee made by giving someone a lot of LSD and told them to write a 30-second screenplay.

Apparently people pay money for this.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)26m ago

Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱12h ago

Do you have a fun and simultaneously useless autism skill? I sure do. My record is 14 in one summer. They are literally neon lights to my brain.

@autistics

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Brian Vastag 11h ago

Good news!

Data centers are being cancelled.

https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

Futurism

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)5h ago

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)13h ago

Artemis flight has some tough deprivations ahead. Here's to a successful trip. Also enjoying the fact I get to pull out all my space memes.

#Artemis #ArtemisII #Moon #meme #funny #Aliens #SciFi

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)5h ago

DocAtCDI 6h ago

Whenever I'm in trouble, I think, 'What would Jesus do?'

Then I pretend to be dead and disappear for 3 days.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)5h ago

Kim 11h ago

In honour of the day you all did those despicable things to Jesus I am posting my favourite @warandpeas comic

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)5h ago

Lori Emerson 19h ago

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)5h ago

Baldur Bjarnason 1d ago

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)6h ago

Seán!11h ago

Putting this out there again, because I'm unsure how reach works in the Fediverse and how I can connect to the people I want to find:

Any SFF/horror writers out there writing in unorthodox styles, formats, or mediums? Mild or extreme, books with other stories in the footnotes, flash fiction universes, or stories told via geocache, doesn't matter. I wanna connect!

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Indie #IndieAuthor #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Horror #HorrorCommunity #FlashFiction #Microfiction