Mario Figueiredo

@fhinkel Didn't you write this exact nonsense just a few days ago? Why are you repeating it? "You are just not using it right" is the hallmark of a badly designed product. And your should be the one to admit it. Get off my fucking feed!

Think LLMs are unreliable? Maybe it's not the model. Maybe it's you. Most people blame the AI when their outputs fall apart. But they never audit their own prompts. They don't check if they gave enough context. They expect it to read their mind. You want better results? Start with better input. LLMs reflect your clarity. If you're vague, they will be too. The model isn't failing. Your process is.

@officialDannyT @chucknorris We still have you, legend.

My heart is heavy hearing about the passing of my friend the legendary Chuck Norris. He was truly one of a kind the real deal. I’ve never met a nicer person in my life. Not only was he a badass, but he was a good man through and through. One of the greats, without question. My thoughts are with the Norris family. 🙏

I was fine with Hyprland until very recently and I honestly can't say I understand the criticism it gets. The maintaners seems to be a bit of a douche, alright. But that's Linux for you. However he did decide recently he's going change the config to Lua. Screw that! I'm actually considering Niri and should test-drive it this weekend. But you guys are annoying as f. Doesn't bode well.

Arch + Hyprland is for the uneducated normie, Fedora + Niri is for the educated intellectual

@alcides The fact you did essentially something of absolute no value in 10 minutes isn't what's worrying. What is actually worrying is you also teach at college level.

Vibe-coded a port of z3 Python bindings to use z3-wasm in the browser in 10 minutes of my time: wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/z3-python…

Obligatory read.

Excellent work, Sam. What pisses me off the most is Poettering conflating Personal Data with the /home directory. This is how he tries to justify that it is ok for systemd to store DoB in a manner that is visible to any application that requests it, regardless of whether that application is actually engaged in an age verification process at that time or not. He never ceases to disappoint. Likewise, I find it extremely irritating how these people ignore the fact the OS is not being tasked with doing age verification, but only storing a data point. It would thus stand to reason that being this a sensitive data point, the PR feature should include audits of all accesses to that data point so an user could decide if they should take action against a product or company. Their ideological argument falls apart the moment the protection of the user is not being ensured.

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert after community outrage. Unpaid compliance simp. Link below...

Goodbye Legend! May you rest in peace.

@Runswit_scissor @ClownWorld What a legend! I wouldn't miss a single episode

I like her

@Hoopss The game is all effed up. I stopped watching... I think 5 yeas ago.

What is traveling in the NBA? 🤔

@vaxryy An open letter seems a better option than an X post

a lot of people mention "freedom of association" and stuff like that but miss the point. I don't give a rat's ass whom the devs there want to associate with or not - my problem is that we are making an (essentially) tyrannical platform the primary and only place for a lot of important development of the linux platform. There is no other space for many of the projects. With such a situation, if the "enforcement" deems - not even proves, just feels like you don't fit - you can't submit patches (meh), you can't ask questions (?), you can't report bugs (!!), or even security vulnerabilities (!!!!!). If someone banned from fdo finds an RCE in, say, pipewire, I guess the correct course of action is to abuse the RCE to hack the entirety of fdo developers so that one of them realizes there's a problem, or something. My favorite part is how bans are like, completely upside-down: - Metux: cited as a "far right nutjob" - banned permanently. How exactly does that matter? If Xorg devs didn't want his patches, there are 100 ways to do it differently than banning. Have you tried - I don't know - asking? Saying "hey respectfully we don't like this, please make a fork and do your stuff there" - outside of that one LKML thread I haven't seen the guy talk about his politics, like, anywhere linux-related. - Swick: actively hostile, aggressive and vulgar in his communications - temporary few months ban. *checks notes* aaahhh yes, because swick voted for the right party in the elections, riiight. My bad, how could I forget? Sometimes I wonder if some people there aren't paid to sabotage foss so that it doesn't get too good. It's probably not true - almost definitely, but it would be hilarious. These people do it for free, out of egoism, because they believe their opinion is the most important - and the only one that is correct. I guess I've talked to enough people to realize that no opinion is correct. They are all opinions and on any given topic, there are multiple correct ideas, most of which incompatible with each other. Life is about balancing those opinions and trying to make everyone as satisfied as possible, not about taking one opinion, killing everyone else, and claiming you've fixed the world. We've tried that already, many times. Did not work.

@SebAaltonen The video stops right before he is going to sell us a course.

This is a great advice. Don't buy a $100k car with your hard earned money and continue crunching. Instead, invest that money. If you have a dream product you want to build, then spend it on that and use the profits to buy the car when you can really afford it.

@neogoose_btw AI is not a bad product. It's the economy they are trying to create around it that is the most horrible thing I've seen happening in tech in my 60 years on this earth.

I just want to remind the rest of the world: every single AI company here in Silicon Valley get tokens for absolutely free rn It’s only you paying those 200$ for max plan

@iamdamianb As with many others before, both will win.

The Rust vs. Zig wars have officially begun!

@neogoose_btw Happy birthday, man! I won't star the thing (I don't use AI agents), but just saying I enjoy following you in here. Have a great day.

Today is my birthday and my wish is exactly 103 stars to github.com/dmtrKovalenko/… today

I feel your pain. I like Rust for what it can do, but it doesn't have a syntax and semantics I enjoy coding in. My "secret" to have a good time with it, is something I developed over the years working professionally on languages I hate (Java and C# sharing first place): Just take the good with the bad. I don't think I will ever get over things like double colons, labelled loops, traits syntax and a developer community bordering the sycophant. But Rust gives me a systems programming language like no other in my ability to easily and (more) safely write and maintain code at the level of performance of C.

@uthman_dev Can someone who loves rust explain the secret to enjoying it? I love writing guile, scheme, common lisp, C, C++, Haskell, ruby, crystal, even php and bash But rust... It feels like a Frankenstein brick wall. Its like going back to using MSVC in 2001, with longer build cycles

I wish I just knew Rust without having to learn it.

Let me add to that list: It was not necessary for the DoB to be accessible to any application who asked for it. An implementation could secure the Personal Data and only provide a calculated age data point, not the actual DoB. The pull request was so insane that not even this revert can excuse the fact it actually got merged. I do understand the California law requests for DoB, not age. But it does not describe any protocol. It is up to implementators to define one. If the objective of the owner of the PR was compliance, he should also have to come up with an age validation protocol for when applications ask for this information, and not just a lame free for all "here's my date of birth, thank you for asking". Instead, applications would have to be engaged in some sort of age verification process, and leave their own request footprint, so the user could sue in case the application wasn't required to ask the user for their age and was instead just illegally collecting that information. Is there anyone with any sense left? Fuck me!

I find these anti-visual studio code posts the most boring type of engagement bait. They don't even need an AI, so lame they are. This was the hotness in dev town not an year ago. Now, it looks like something out of the Epstein files and everyone is trying to pretend they never met it or had their hands all over it at one point or another.

I had to open this abomination today, holy fuck. How can anyone use this?????

@Geniustechw Age

What is preventing you from being able to do this?

@IroncladDev systemd

I'm moving off systemd what are y'all's recommendations for alternatives?

@nicbarkeragain Intent, and clarity. Write your code with these in mind and bugs will be easier to spot and harder to make. The terms in an equality and inequality should follow these principles, not a style. IIRC, Knuth had something to say about it.

Programmers: do you have a consistent preference for which side you put the literal on in a comparison? // Right-hand side if (someValue == 1) {} // Left-hand side if (1 == someValue) {}