Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I still remember trying to sell people on Erlang back at an old job and it went something like “think of it as concurrent functional lisp” and they were like “Lisp’s syntax is terrible” and I was like “then good news because this is Prolog syntax” and that wasn’t better.

#erlang #programming

@cliffle @b0rk A bit of advice I was given long ago when someone proposes doing something apparently dumb and which has been tried before is never to say "that doesn't work" or "we've tried" but to always say "This is what we couldn't figure out last time"

They now know where you came unstuck and can see if they have answers, they know what to think about if they've not got that far, and you've not stopped them if they actually do have the answer.

When I discover that AI can produce this type of OCaml code https://github.com/mtelvers/ocaml-smtpd, which probably comes from what I have been writing for several years, and that investigators ultimately do not take the time to look at what the community can produce... This heralds a bright future for open source where people no longer form a community. I hate AI.

@garius That reason why? One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

there are two kinds of people in human society: grifting parasites and people who mistakenly tried to do something else (which will now be coopted by grifting parasites.)

> we're on codeberg
great. another fucking account

something ironic about posting about adding AI coding tool agents to your workflow at the same time you evacuate github to codeberg. slightly schizophrenic tbh

something funny about radicle being decentralized github yet they use zulip to organize it

zulip is a fine choice but its neither federated nor distributed.

@Distante #DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc

there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as #sovereign
@leanderlindahl

I'm sitting in a webinar on generative AI and academic integrity. When the topic came to transparency and citing generative AI tools, a colleague raised her hand and said something fantastic:

"AI is a process, not a source. I cannot cite a process"

I love this reframing, and it rhymes with my own conclusion that by definition any output by generative AI is useless slop unless someone gives it meaning and takes responsibility for it.

I'm presenting #crystallang at #fosdem2026 in Brussels.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N3AFSF-crystal/

See you Sunday, 2026-02-01 at 09:00 in room UB4.136.
I'm bringing merch.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115938663174490825

Fifth Generation Computer Systems ➝ Quintus Prolog: get it?

#prolog #interlisp #ai #retrocomputing

As of the last count, @lwn has been hit by 1.6 million unique IP addresses since yesterday morning. We have managed to stabilize the site against that level of attack, but it is still annoying.

If only we could get them all to subscribe.

I do find myself wondering if there isn't material for a good class-action lawsuit here. We are far from the only ones having to cope with this crap. I'm not normally much of a fan of the US class-action lawsuit machine, but extracting money from the Bright Datas of the world to make some lawyers richer doesn't sound like an entirely bad proposition.