Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

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.

These two @lwn articles are prime examples of why good journalism matters and why you should pay money to make sure it thrives:

They both look beyond the shiny statements from the different parties involved and outside commentators such as @torvalds in this case and explain just how it is from a mostly neutral[1] point of view so that you can make your own judgments.

* GPLv2 and installation requirements – https://lwn.net/Articles/1052842/

* SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL? – https://lwn.net/Articles/1052734/

[1] We are humans, and even if we try, we are never completely neutral – and a publication like #LWN that targets the FLOSS community obviously will somewhat look at things from the view of its target audience.

#gpl #Linux #kernel #VIZIO #sfc

@corbet @lwn despite the attack your site is blazingly fast. Kudos!

@Yendolosch @mkj @icing
Better still email the whole company with a warning. Then on receipt of such emails, reply-all telling everyone to stop emailing the whole company.

@tante @jollyorc Oh and regarding WP: pampering a stack of PHP, a database etc and keeping it updated requires more knowledge than a single-file binary and sftp or you use a hosted version. Which in turn makes you „a customer“ just like using a car and having to believe your workshop.
I don’t have the perfect answer, IMHO there’s a broad spectrum, but learning a bit to not having to rely on WP/PHP/MySQL is worth it.

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

)

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