Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@serfdeweb @geekysteven I love Columbo, but there was one case where, while he did way better than most cops would, he still showed us ACAB. 😭

@hipsterelectron @mathew The thing I care about logs is that they only go to /dev/null 😂

@hipsterelectron @mathew I care about system logs but in totally the wrong way. 😂

@ska @navi I'm very much committed to the Linux model that these layers are separate things with stable public interface surface between them. The BSD model is very much like the systemd model, and it's not a direction I'm interested in pursuing myself (tho, since they're not exerting dominance to force others to adopt it, I'm not against them either).

Whatever happens with Linux, whether it's things being clean enough to fix once the bubble finishes bursting or needing forks or replacements with compatible factorization of components, I'm here with it, and will continue to value folks' work on this. Linus being a tool can't take that away.

@aren All of this makes me want to write up a document on the actually relevant interface surfaces of Linux. They're much smaller than folks realize especially if you're happy throwing out and replacing the parts that are about managing hardware and obscure networking things. The part relevant to ordinary user facing applications is on the order of just tens of syscalls.

@ashed @nixCraft @Ollivdb I could have sworn it at least dummies out GA and some common shit that causes sites to break when it's blocked.

@ashed @nixCraft @Ollivdb Doesn't UBO do this to some degree itself internally?

@Nickiquote See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster

@NaClKnight "Ashamed of the source material" is such a good observation explaining a huge number of awful movie productions.

@david_chisnall @regehr My objection to the premise: "modern microarchitectures" are bad. You have massive energy efficiency and safety/security advantage throwing them away and doing classical microarchitecture directly aligned with instruction set architecture.

@aeva @cwebber I don't get how that's not an obvious condition to everyone.

Like, if that happens, I don't know you. I don't know you're not acting on behalf of a state or criminal enterprise trying to slip in backdoors. I don't know you didn't take the code without permission from your employer. I don't know you're not a nazi who's going to turn my project into a nazi bar nobody else will want to contribute to or use once your stuff is ingrained.

If you're going to be trusted to make big contributions, you either need to be trusted by the community already, or we need to see the whole process of your contribution being developed in public so it's clear you actually did it and how you work with others.

@cwebber we direly need to flip the script: it's rude to submit slop. it's rude to not disclose your contribution is slop. it is not rude for the maintainer to ask. i am so done with people copying and pasting slop to answer questions instead of putting rigor to their work.

Faulty towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

Reflections on how and why the use of genAI tools pulls even those claiming they will be principled towards their use to withdrawing from their understanding and participation of the creative process

@mattblaze Some monster in the replies was asking for cw on cat pics. 🤬

@azonenberg I got major 🙄 from my kids for asking them what would happen if MLP got turned into skibidis...

@mallory @mos_8502 FSFE OTOH supposedly does useful stuff. They might be a good model for positive Free Software things to do.

@mallory @mos_8502 Nothing. It's the RMS fan club. That's all they do.

@ShadSterling @Sea1Am @jblue Not from the cost of a specialty product marketed to consumers but from the actual materials cost to manufacture it at scale, which is basically zero.

Passive venting is unlikely to get you significantly lower than just leaving windows cracked already does. Active venting with both intake and exhaust fans powered off of solar might do a decent job. But nothing short of RSC or a heat pump of some sort will get you down to even near much less below ambient outside air temperature.

@mhoye As a user, it's always felt like Mozilla prioritized wants of developers/site-owners (I see these as being same side of the conflict) over wants/needs/consent of users.

@mhoye Was this ever explicit with Mozilla? I don't think it was made clear externally, but maybe it was internally.

I never got a good explanation for why their (apparently) top-priority constituency has always been web publishers/advertisers except some hand-waving about how if they don't keep these parties sufficiently happy they'll just drop any pretense of adhering to standards and make Chrome-only shit.