Paul Merlin 🍿

@eskatos
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Software Artisan
CurrentlyGradle Build Tool Team
FormerlyQi4j / Apache Polygene
GitHubhttps://github.com/eskatos
Born at337 PPM
  • Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
  • people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
  • now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

Wow:

arxiv.org preprint: "The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world".

Excerpt: "We estimate that the land
surface temperature increases by 2°C on average after the start of operations of an AI data centre, inducing local microclimate zones, which we call the data heat island effect."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20897

"AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C. Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

Intellij 2026.1 now ships inspections for Gradle best practices that I helped create!

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/#:~:text=Gradle%20best%20practices%20for%20humans%20and%20agents

#gradle

What's New in IntelliJ IDEA

Discover IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 with support for more AI agents and ACP, Java 26 and Kotlin 2.3.20, Spring insights, and productivity boosts.

JetBrains

The third article in this (horrible) series of articles I've co-authored is now out. https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938

A million satellites of the size required for "AI data centers" would mean that everyone in the world would have more visible satellites than stars for most of the night and most of the year.

But don't worry, we'll be in Kessler Syndrome WAY before we get to a million satellites!

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.

The Conversation

Check out a sample server using wasi-http built with our early #WebAssembly Component Model support in @Kotlin! 🤩

https://github.com/Kotlin/sample-wasi-http-kotlin/

Still early, but very satisfying to see it working ✨

Give it a spin and share what you build 🚀

#Wasm #Kotlin #ComponentModel

1/2 👇

Breaking news : the Kotlin/Wasm team has just shared the very first incarnation of their server-side wasi-http support based on the Wasm Component Model. https://github.com/Kotlin/sample-wasi-http-kotlin/

#wasm #webassembly #wasi #kotlin

Twitter, Discord illustrent que, oui, vous allez à un moment être forcé de partir.

Alors écoutez ceux qui vous préviennent depuis des années parce que mieux vaut partir selon votre propre rhythme.

Au plus tard vous partez, au plus vous allez accepter des conditions de pire en pire. Et au plus vous retardez la migration des autres.

Car si vous restez sur MACHIN parce que "tout le monde y est", tout le monde y est justement parce que vous y êtes en premier lieu.

LLMs exaggerate and exacerbate existing market and industry dysfunctions. They've hastened media's descent into fabrications and clickbait, accelerated the devaluation of writing and illustration. And in software it has fuelled an existing crisis and exposed a divide at the core of the industry

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.