Funny to spend your dying days like this thinkin your legacy will be a sanctions package that got cancelled before they were even in effect :)

And even then, it appears that the bombing had limited impact - trees 100m from the impact site were still standing, and they still had to send in special forces later only to have them die to friendly fire.

lmfao they’re trying to restart the “antifa civil war launching in november” shit from like… 9 years ago? yall remember that on r/cth?

British Army accepts 227 AJAX IFV into service despite that thing where it makes all its occupants vomit. It will still take another 3 years for the General Dynamics factory in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to fulfill the initial order of 589 vehicles.

anthropic is one of the bigger advocates for this sorta stuff - humanising the computer is exactly what they’re building their strategy around

Fair points.

Wales is unique in being a region occupied by the English state before its development of colonialism. What Wales experienced historically was the experimentation that eventually became the hardened imperial blade that was forged with Welsh steel, iron, and muscle.

It benefits, even today, from its proximity to the imperial core, which has granted Wales some autonomy and funding to develop in ways would never be granted to the periphery, though of course directed by the pivot from manual to informational labour.

That closeness is not only geographical but temporal in nature - Wales has been occupied longer than Ireland, yet the scale of violence to do so has always been much lower. The slow burn of this domination has shaped our class struggle in ways unique to the rest of the imperial periphery, but not alien to it. Which is why I get icky about some folks declaring Wales a colony, but also why often I agree with comparisons of Wales to other colonies.

Redox! That was the one I was trying to remember as I wrote this comment. Especially cool as it has some System76 engineers working on it and porting some of their cosmic desktop iirc

the most nieche youtube rec i will ever make with confidence you will love it: writing a forth-style language compiler in python by a russian programming nerd

There was a social movement aspect to Linux in its earliest days, as in, the days before kernel 1.0. Hell, before he got the big bux to finally unshackle himself from Finland (and his communist father) to heartland of fascism, paedophilia, and capital itself.

Linux is still tiny versus Windows on desktop. Steam still shows it around 3% - a big improvement, but even Firefox is more popular. Perhaps that will change more as governments seek to leave Windows following the shitshows of migrating from XP, 7, and 10, but right now the market is undoutably locked down by Windows.

No doubt steam isn’t the best metric but it’s not likely to be far off that number. The kernel is only dominant due to servers (license free and its early adopters being UNIX sysadmins) and embedded/mobile (configurability letting it run on anything capable of conducting electricity) - the rest have never been central to Linux’s success, nor the reason why massive datacenter stakeholders pay inordinate sums of money to the Linux foundation.

Oh my christ this is even worse than year or two ago, when he lamented the lack of new talent and burnout of full time maintainers. He’s finally grown out of neoliberal pseudo-socialism inherited from his father and embraced the paedo-affiliates of meta and sex tourist industry plants of linus tech shits. He has gone total reactionary on anyone calling out how unsustainable this project is becoming.

Linux will outlive this husk of a developer.

And a lot of that from

1. Proprietary and predatory corporation that sees ARM as a way to lock down end user hardware

2. Thankless work of contributors reverse engineering said hardware, only to be bullied mercilessly by the old guard of the Linux kernel - the same old guard now embracing LLMs to keep them relevant.

Ding ding ding. When an AI is spitting out code like a tutorial yet the contributor doesnt know that the comments are unhelpful (or worse, they havent read it at all)

What I hate about the review vs generation disparity is that there’s suddenly pressure on the reviewer (the one gatekeeping poor quality work) to work faster under a greater workload.

If I don’t review it quickly, someone who doesnt give a shit will, and they’ll hit approve on slop and get a gold star for doing it fast. If you make a comment, the contributor suddenly spams 5 commits with loads of changes which need reviewing - all while that same contributor gets to work on (ruin) other shit while you’re stuck with their mess.

In my last job, I could work through a problem with someone to get a good submission, with compromise of course. Since then, I work with someone who swears by AI depsite barely having a grasp of programming and I straight up want to reject half of his PRs. But can I? No, because I’m at the same level as him and get given less respect by management because I’m not churning out slop so I can be free to get invites to other meetings for technical commentary. It’s a pisstake.

If the code is good enough you wouldn’t know, but then it’s likely the LLM code was audited and fixed by a skilled human so 🤷‍♂️.

In my experience there are smells:

• Comments are oddly explanatory of basic concepts.
• Making an unusually large number of changes in a single commit (specifically, changes that arent related to the goal of the commit)
• Writing new infrastructure code that duplicates the work of old code for no reason.
• Using old library or language conventions unexpectedly.

Most importantly:

• A contributor who has no idea what their code does.

A lot of it you learn from using AI yourself. I use it for inline hints, and i see what goes wrong in that and from testing agentic crap - the stuff that stinks of bad AI use that you can then see in the work of colleagues.

No way he’s still polling ahead what the hell lmao

The capital is behind Linux, and as long as it fills their use cases theyll keep putting their engineers on it no matter the slop. Though the same was once said of Unix and Windows, and one day Linux plopped up and got big because it solved the problems that they couldn’t.

It could end up being BSD, or some ABI-compatible kernel like Asternias. My money is on something that lets users and devs run their software and drivers without complex setup - like what WINE & Proton did for Linux desktop, but even more impactful because the server software that runs the backbone of the internet is where the money is.

They only used that acronym so they could call it mother of all bombs like the bloons tower defence enemy

inb4 long drawn legal battles against random civilians over whether a politician they called racist was actually being racist for voting for the racism law

who’s gonna tell our comrade here that this didn’t end after a week

Neoliberal realism really infects your guts until they turn necrotic. It’s the ultimate self defense to absolve yourself of moral duty to do anything because that’s just how it is and how it will be forever.

It’s why Marx’s tombstone is engraved:

Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

If Marx’s influence on the proletarian cause could be summed up in one utterance, it’s that. Nothing else before or after him is as influential but the idea that we can shape and influence the superstructure, not just be observers to it.