"The #MAGA party is the last breath of the #confederacy and I’ll be happy to see #Millennials and #GenZ bury you all"

Do you like what he's saying?

Then you need to fucking #vote

Whining about perfection isn't going to cut it

(ps: his hat says " #Trump was wrong about everything")

1. Invent an illness;
2. Put up a couple of preprints about it;
3. See AI companies' web crawlers swallow it hook, line, and sinker whole;
4. LLMs start telling users that the condition is real. WTF.
5. See published papers cite them, likely from authors using LLMs to write them. WTAF.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

#LLMFail #LLMs #chatbots #Bixonimania

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116551337939174614

It makes perfect sense when you interpret "antisemitism" as "opposition to the Israeli government." Perhaps it's time to admit that the meaning of the word has shifted, and we're not getting the old meaning back, just like "hacker" before it.

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Will there be source code in the future? To wrestle with this, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/what-is-code.html

The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#technology #tech #sustainability

“This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.”
― Carl Sagan

#quotes

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.