Notices by Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2026 23:42:50 JST 
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@EUCommission with all due respect: fuck off with that shit -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:14:36 JST
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Really feels like AIs are propaganda 2.0, and I'm not talking just about deepfakes.
First, to clear things up: when I say propaganda, I don't mean Stalinist propaganda (ie. gaslighting). I'm talking about Putinist propaganda: saying anything and everything from every direction. Propaganda designed not to make you believe, but to overwhelm you. To make it so hard to sift trough the junk and get the real thing that most people would rather just give up.
LLM code is basically that: as it floods every facet of the tech world, from commercial software to open source projects, you're left either accepting it, or constantly fleeing to a shrinking number of projects and communities that decided to not go down without a fight. And it's exhausting. Every day it feels like more and more projects are giving in, you become paranoid of every piece of software you've grown to rely on over the years, and sometimes you want to just give up. I know that's what it feels like for me sometimes.
But that's what they want. They want everyone to just give up and accept their role in the machine. It's not easy, but we have to resist it -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 00:00:11 JST
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@thomasfuchs I mean, yes, but it's fun in the same way that it's fun playing NES games with intentional memory corruption, or it's fun making stupid cars in Automation then trying to drive them in BeamNG Drive (emphasis on "trying") -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 23:18:24 JST
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@thomasfuchs and that's how you end up with a 2L VR4 engine placed right between the front seats of the car (with front wheel drive, or course) -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 01:19:02 JST
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@Suiseiseki ofc... was really hoping to avoid dbus -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:20:47 JST
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Does anyone know of an utility other than bluetoothctl for getting bluetooth device information on Linux? Specifically I need to know if there are connected bluetooth devices, and their names and device class -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:33:12 JST
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@dalias @mgorny @mirabilos @lispi314 ok but those come irregularly and months if not years apart. The constant updates on a (semi-)fixed schedule that we're so used to seeing have no technical reason to exist. -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 08:12:40 JST
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@lispi314 @dalias @mgorny @mirabilos There's absolutely no technical reason for software to be constantly changing, instead it's all just a byproduct of economic conditions. If your code is "finished", then there's no more need for you in the company, which means you get fired and fuck you for wanting to afford surviving. Or, on the flip side, if a company sells software, they need constant changes to justify charging for it over and over again with new editions (as was the case in the past) or SaaS subscriptions (as is mostly the case now), as well as to have "innovation" to show to investors so they keep pouring money in. Does software sometimes need to change for technical reasons? Sure, but not constantly like we're seeing, especially from corporate software. -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Monday, 02-Mar-2026 12:12:33 JST
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@imbl nah, no way, impossible. Are you saying the rich assholes who were friends with the pedophile who had a pedophilia island don't have the most bestest and purest intentions? -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 10:50:05 JST
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Recent things in Windows and other Microsoft products really make me wonder if Microsoft's developers aren't actually just actively sabotaging everything, cause there's really no other way to explain shit like RCE in Notepad
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841 -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 08:12:27 JST
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@inthehands Honestly the sad part is that you even need public pressure to defund the gestapo even after they started doing public executions. The Senators should just be acting on their own after shit like that. -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 17:30:57 JST
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@icedquinn I really hate how programming became one of those "everyone rushes to it because it pays well" jobs, making it all the harder for those who actually care about the craft -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 17:30:55 JST
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@icedquinn Well I learned it because I've been autistic about computers since I was like 5 and my family got our first computer, and ever since then, this is what I've been chasing and now that it's being outsourced to ShartGPT I'm left with nothing because I don't know how to do anything else that you can get paid for. -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 14:39:36 JST
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something that vibe coders should think about -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 07:17:38 JST
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@eunews if you try saying the US should be abolished so each state would be autonomous he'd call you an anti-american radical leftist -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 13:53:01 JST
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@aparrish I mean, we already saw this with cryptocurrency mining and GPUs -
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Reid ๐ค (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 23:00:18 JST
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All hail shitflare for breaking! (and also God bless the good kitty @gettie for not using it)
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