Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Open source projects will tell you they have no choice but to allow slop, because doing anything else is a form of gatekeeping that will exclude too many potential contributors.

Nothing could be further than the truth, though. When the review queue is a non-stop machine gun of giant, bogus drive-by patches, the good contributions will inevitably fall through the cracks.

Eventually, the contributors you actually want—those who care about the long-term health of the code base, building institutional knowledge, improving their craft, mentorship—will simply leave, because they will realize their limited time and energy is better spent elsewhere.

A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical—it's just common sense.

The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.

...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...

@andrewrk send patches via email as torvalds intended you to do

I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom.

In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote:

These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit.

Make your own recommendations at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

culture of heroics (noun)

An organizational norm that forces employees to go above and beyond for customers, because the company lacks sufficient processes and systems for support.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/working-definitions/what-is-culture-heroics

@jon @Boosh22 @Vivaldi > There is a reason why nobody has done that for more than 25 years.

From what I've heard Igalia is making good progress with Servo. Would love to see a collab there.

My first company, Opera, was built on word of mouth. The same applies to my 2nd company, @Vivaldi. We have never had the means that Big Tech has. In the case of Vivaldi, we have even avoided investors, to not end up like Opera.

We have also made it harder for our selves. We likely could have generated more funds through adding stuff like Crypto, AI or just plain old data collection in the browser, but we choose not to. We are also not an Ad company like most of our larger competitors. Instead we have added a wealth of features and customization.

Now people are starting to understand that just going with Big Tech may be easy to start with, but ends up not being worth it. In fact we now have governments and companies thinking that they need to move away from Big Tech and quickly.

We welcome you all.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #Apple #Google #Microsoft

https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-can-a-dugnad-save-the-web/

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser"

No, sorry, what you meant to say was:

"It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

@argv_minus_one @d1 Delta Chat also supports sync over USB, (just go to Settings > Chats > backup) the QR/wifi transfer is just an easy way to transfer the backup without needing an USB etc. which is not so easy when you are transferring from a phone

manual backup file transfer was there even years before the automatic QR transfer

I've been slowly working my way through _Behave_ by Robert M. Sapolsky, a fascinating book on how our brains work. Just hit this quote:

"This recalls a remarkable finding — stick subjects in a room with a smelly garbage can, and they become more socially conservative. If your insula is gagging from the smell of dead fish, you're more likely to decide that a social practice of an Other that is merely different is, instead, just plain wrong."

Life in this part of the world in the last decade has been like having several reeking dumpsters in the room. Perhaps this is not accidental.

@glyph I do understand the point being made and personally I'd much rather have software written without AI.

But. It's their project. Stop yelling at people for projects they make in their spare time. If you're mad, don't depend on FOSS, pay for your software.

No amount of good-intent behaviour, even if the outcome may not be great, in a FOSS software project justifies this sort of harassment.

The Plan 9 Foundation has announced that we will not be accepting AI submissions for IWP9 2027.

https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T457223967f7e60a2-Md481fa7774176bb0e7840c33/no-ai-at-iwp9-2027

#plan9 #iwp9

@lunareclipse @ludicity I think that the "won't make fun of you for asking" thing, along with the additional ego-boosting sycophancy for some users, may be key, thank you for that observation...

@GossiTheDog mythos has found at least one critical vulnerability: the infosec industry is utterly vulnerable to hype, and extremely unlikely to examine the origins or methodology behind vulnerability disclosures that authorities (regardless of their poor reputation) claim are earth-shatteringly critical