Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

With things generally moving off public mailing lists into "better" forums, GitHub, Discord, Zulip, whatever doesn't matter - it's just obvious we've collectively created a digital Dark Age. https://danielpocock.com/en/mailing-lists-vs-discourse-forums-open-source-community-or-commodity/

What about a shiny Crystal 1.19.0 release for the new year?

The compiler now uses execution contexts and parallel LLVM codegen on all targets (including Windows) a new Time::Instant type, compile time flags with values, and many runtime improvements and fixes.

See all the details in the release notes: https://crystal-lang.org/2026/01/15/1.19.0-released/

@corbet

When anyone with an @google.com address visits LWN, give them an HTTP redirect to https://news.google.com/search?q=slop+about+linux ?

(Alternatively, the editor of Housefresh wrote about their slop struggle, "If I had to guess why our site has recovered, I’d say it has more to do with our open letters to Google engineers, where we clearly outlined how their biased algorithm was leading searchers to bad products."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7416789486799552512-rZAY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAADA5AB-3AkcEQ3MbnZEay0KC4KhHZFy1Q

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So somebody took a couple of LWN's recent conference articles, threw them into an LLM blender with some other stuff, and produced ... this ...

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-kernels-future-tab-integrates-rust-navigates-ai-boosts-collaboration/

Google News propagates that stuff - something they have long refused to do with LWN's original material. But somehow we're supposed to continue to exist to feed material into that machine?

Sorry, having a grumpy day.

I'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". Imagine a source-available game mod of Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time made by forking code stolen from Nintendo servers. That wouldn't actually be "open source".

OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.

let's just agree to abolish copyright! ai companies can have all the data, and pirating is legally protected

Allow reviewing packages before installation

The recent commit below by @pkal makes me proud to be part of the #Emacs community. Part of what makes Emacs special is that not only it is distributed under a #FreeSoftware license, but it also works hard to make it easy for you to take advantage of that power, best evidenced by the way a simple mouse click after M-x describe-key puts you right there in the source code, ready to change the behavior of that key.

Now this is extended to encourage you to participate in code reviews of the packages you use. I hope you will make good use of it, both to get to know your tools better, and to participate more meaningfully in their evolution.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=881be95cddcab3cf37373678002c35334c177c97

🤖 AI reminds me of some people on the Torrent network: it leeches from the web at full speed, seeds back at 1kb/s, and only spreads malware torrents (AI content ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Downloading_and_sharing

#AI #Bittorrent #Torrent #web #internet #tech #humor #it #software #data #sharing #seeding #online #trend #p2p #filesharing #ki #artificial #artificialintelligence #joke #fun #funny #nerdy #nerd

@flypaper I have now, and I definitely don't want the crypto or LLM stuff. It's not enough that I could choose not to use those features. I drop software that supports them.

@caten

>I just want to be able to load a webpage from a bittorrent swarm

But how would you know its magnet link?

The p2p web also needs content discovery.

I never thought I'd ever write In Defense of Capitalism, but... here goes
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html

CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr @tetrislife@qoto.org

followup with further considerations at
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html

CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr, @tetrislife@qoto.org

@1a1nC You don’t argue with them. They’re trying to waste your time. Engaging at all is losing.

@nblr I can forgive the newline being required, but the failure being silent is unforgiveable.