Notices by Jason Bowen 🇺🇦 (jbowen@mast.hpc.social)

@tooth @akamran @futurebird @paco
I also try to resist calling it "AI," as it gives them way more credit than is warranted. They're LLMs and they predict a probable sequence of tokens based on training data. Sometimes those sequences are true things, but that's a result of the training data and a bit of chance, not any "thinking" on their part.

@ai6yr metadata!

@sarahjamielewis
> I fear we have already lost

I tend to think we already have. What's needed is an independent browser not based on Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. I was initially excited about Ladybird, but they turned out to have weird right-wing leanings. So I'm just back to despair (which would be a fun name for a new browser engine...)

@almalinux

@izzy
> markov chain companies
Someone else calling them this! I feel like I've been shouting into the void for a few years.

@iro_miya @SuperDicq
They haven't discrete GPUs, but they've had integrated GPUs on CPUs for a very long time.

I've been out of the loop for a couple of years on Linux phones. I'm poking around on blogs and Mastodon posts, but I figured I'd just ask:

Whats currently (as of January 2026) the most functional, stable, boring phone + OS combination?

I have a PinePhone from a few years ago and a couple Pixels to play around with.

(If you're comfortable with it and feeling generous, I would appreciate a boost for visibility)

#linuxmobile #linuxphone

@thekerker @StillIRise1963
Sounds very much like what they were doing at the Broadview facility just outside Chicago. One of the tactics was to ask them to sign "court papers" written in English which were voluntary deportation forms. They wanted people to notice that the ones who signed the forms got to leave. Keeping them in squalor makes the situation more desperate.

Absolutely disgusting orcs. I want nothing non-negative to happen to them.

@ricci @heretical_i
Hehe, I was going to ask if you'd let the TUHS folks know, but was thrilled to see @robpike was on it.

TUHS mailing list thread about it: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-November/032758.html

Can't wait, @bitsavers!

#unix

@lanodan
> if contributions are licensed under AGPLv3 but not their commercial one (since they're not pointing to it in the document)… works for me :)

Totally fair, but how would things work in practice? (I'm genuinely ignorant on this.) If I contribute a feature under AGPLv3, I assume they would be able to sell Dendrite + myFeature to a customer under a commercial license, correct?

I really need to go do some more reading.

@lanodan
That's gross. I would like to be able to assume oversight with AGPLv2 vs 3, but I can't and so I assume it's intentionally misleading.

I feel it should also be mentioned that they sell commercial licenses, so outbound could be 'commercial,' and I wouldn't want a contribution I make to end up being sold to someone under commercial license terms.

@hipsterelectron @lynn
As a fat person, I tend to use "fat." I started doing it to be funny, but in casual conversation with friends/family I tend to say "fat."

If I'm talking to people I don't know, then I tend to say "bigger" or "larger" person.

@a1ba @jn @fossdd @famfo @lanodan
What OS do you run on it, out of curiosity?

@famfo @jn @fossdd Long live VLIW!

@a1ba @jn @fossdd @famfo I'm still signed up to receive updates, but I don't expect I'll be getting my Icepeak Elbrus board :(

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sra-centr8/icepeakitx-elbrus-8cb

@lanodan @ariadne
Looking for a microkernel?

@lanodan @ariadne
Breaking Nvidia sounds like a plus to me

@lanodan @ariadne
I read it as musl-based BSD

@dysfun @lanodan @ariadne
Yeah, I'm usually going for portability, so C99 is the most luxury I can usually have.

I do want to play with some of the C23 features after looking at them now, in particular stdbit.h.

#embed is also pretty neat; I've never had a use for it, but I enjoyed @thephd 's blog about getting it accepted into the standard: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23

@VeroniqueB99 I really don't want to live here any more