It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/

#winehq #wine11 #linuxgaming #technews

I have argued this point in the past, as I'm sure many others, but it's nice to have a term for this concept: hobbyless behavior.

https://www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii/810110535568949248/the-germans-really-cooked-making-hobbyless

#hobbyless #hobbylos #HobbylessBehavior #HobbylosesVerhalten

Today we celebrate four years since Apple pulled the ghost CVE prank on us:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/23/anatomy-of-a-ghost-cve/

#curl

""Our capacity to make memories is most affected by this kind of divided attention. We can - just about - attend to several things at once, but we do them badly. In the midst of all the overstimulation we are unable to lay down new memories, which means we don't remember much of what we are doing, either.

A new kind of human behaviour then emerges under this influence, a semi-automated for-profit personality which is being constantly nudged and notified and prompted; which is always seeking attention, always available, often anxious, often angry, afraid, jealous, paranoid, unsure of what of who to believe. The user cannot look up from the screen and notice their surroundings, because this personality, looped in a cycle of primitive fears and instincts, must always exist at peace with the algorithm. The information rewards supplant sensory attention to the actual physical body in the world. We are automating not just out actions, but also our personalities.""

— Julia Bell: Radical Attention, pp. 74-74

Police officers raided the
rapper Afroman's Ohio home,
... then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media
— but a jury just sided with the rapper.

In an unusual lawsuit members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department sued over songs and social media posts by Afroman
(Joseph Foreman)
that criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

The case claimed the videos were false and caused the officers "severe emotional distress".

But Afroman,
known for his 2000 hit “Because I Got High,”
testified at trial that he had a First Amendment right to mock the officers,
-- particularly after they smashed down his door for ultimately no reason:

“All of this is their fault, and they have the audacity to sue me"
https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Ik groeide op in een witte omgeving. De mannen die me lastig vielen, nafloten, vroegen hoeveel ik kostte toen ik op mijn 14e voor het eerst een kort rokje droeg, me in de disco in de billen knepen waren ook allemaal wit. Vertel me nog eens hoe het patriarchaat en seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag een importprobleem van asielzoekers is.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/03/18/weer-allemaal-mannen-en-toen-ze-over-vrouwen-spraken-heb-ik-de-tv-uitgezet-a4923325?gift_token=4923325~1774446090~1nqDyQczSVOWWQQCPdSf0w~YDJLl03KVjpmRK3eGJN_KE6FQNf9OZk_xHM7_nmltKI