I do wish to feel the wind in my gills. Oh what a wish. What a wish I have.
Rbowen
@rbowen
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Open source opinionator at AWS, but opinions are all mine.
It’s not that I’m worried about AI taking *jobs*. It’s that it’s taking *paychecks*. The entire promise of Azimov and Star Trek was that AI would take jobs, but that I can still feed and clothe my family, and spend my now-enlarged free time to do the things I actually *want* to spend my time on.
This week's ASF community highlights: https://boxofclue.com/apache-highlights/apache_highlights_2026-04-13.html
Code is at https://github.com/rbowen/asf-highlights
This week's ASF community highlights: https://boxofclue.com/apache-highlights/apache_highlights_2026-04-06.html
Code is at https://github.com/rbowen/asf-highlights
Happy 18th birthday to Apache CXF! https://community.apache.org/blog/2026_04_birthdays.html
ASF Project Birthdays, April 2026
The following Apache projects are celebrating their birthdays in April. Apache DataFusion (2 years) ¶ Established: 2024-04 Description: The mission of Apache DataFusion is the creation and maintenance of software related to an extensible query engine Project Homepage: https://datafusion.apache.org Apache SDAP (2 years) ¶ Established: 2024-04 Description: The mission of Apache SDAP is the creation and maintenance of software related to an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems Project Homepage: https://sdap.apache.org Apache ShardingSphere (6 years) ¶ Established: 2020-04
I know this will come across as naive, but the notion that we resolve international conflicts by killing one another's children has always struck me as incredibly stupid.
This week's ASF community highlights: https://boxofclue.com/apache-highlights/apache_highlights_2026-03-30.html
Code is at https://github.com/rbowen/asf-highlights
Can you imagine being the most powerful person in the world and not having any friends to share the experience with? I mean, sure, on the one hand it's almost impossible to feel any sympathy for a situation he's created for himself, and amplifies daily. But also it's just so sad. In spite of it all, he's just such a loser, surrounded by people who are only motivated by how they can benefit from the association. And what's even sadder is that nobody reading this is unsure who I'm talking about.
elilla&, autostopowiczka"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"
then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.
some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.
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