Nick Watts (fatalglory)

@craptain @LundukeJournal I’m in the same boat, but hoping Ubuntu can be salvaged. ubuntulionheart.org

@LundukeJournal My servers currently run Ubuntu. What do I switch to?

It looks like the Debian Linux project will soon have a new Leader focused on having fewer "(cis)male" contributors to Debian Linux. Nominations are closed for the new Debian Project Leader... and the election period is underway. Voters have exactly 1 (one) candidate to choose from when they vote. That's right. The Debian Project is giving their members only one option. That person, Sruthi Chandran, describes herself as a "librarian turned Free Software enthusiast and Debian Developer from India". She is focused on what she calls the "skewed gender ratios within the Free Software community", saying, "how many times did we have a non-(cis)male candidate for [Debian Project Leader]?" Sruthi says that diversity should "come up for discussion in each and every aspect of the project," adding the goal is to have "more women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people." Voting officially begins on April 4th. lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a…

@BobMurphyEcon @zeroshotnothing Straight to my listen queue!

In the latest Bob Murphy Show, I have Michael Fraser @zeroshotnothing on to discuss the Pentagon's decision to dump Claude. This isn't an ideological discussion at all. (Link next.)

@SallyMayweather @WallStreetMav @chiproytx @SteveDeaceShow You’re right to rebuke him, he was understating the history.

@WallStreetMav @chiproytx @SteveDeaceShow This is just Zionist propaganda. Ppl have a right to resist foreign occupation & a moral duty to resist a genocidal foreign occupation by any means necessary.

Turns out mass importation of Muslims was a bad idea. Shocker.

Going from manual coding to vibe coding is a lot like going from C to PHP/Ruby/Python. It helps you get common tasks done a lot faster. But it doesn't take away the need to understand what's happening at the lower level when things go wrong or need detailed customization.

@ThomasEWoods @WellsJorda89710 Big fan of yours @ThomasEWoods, therefore compelled to point out that Irenaeus believed in a literal rebuilt temple in which a future Antichrist would sit. That was back in 180AD. Against Heresies V.25.2 Fun fact: I referenced both you and Irenaeus in my own book 😄

@WellsJorda89710 Reverend, you are not better and more learned than Martin Luther. You are not better and more learned than John Calvin. You are not better and more learned than every single theologian of the first 1900 years of Christianity. They did not share your views on what Israel means.

Someone just told me: “Pastor, you REALLY need to look into the modern state of Israel.” Bro… I have TWO seminary degrees from top Bible schools. Ordained minister. Thousands of hours in the Word. Read the Bible cover-to-cover multiple times. Devoured ~10,000 theology books. I didn’t get my view on Israel from CNN, TikTok, or some “enlightened” podcast. My source? THE BIBLE. And it’s crystal clear. 2/4 The Bible says: ✅ The Jews would return to THEIR land in the last days (Ezek 37, Isa 11:11-12, Jer 31) ✅ Jerusalem would become a global flashpoint (Zech 12:3) ✅ ALL nations would eventually turn against Israel (Zech 14:2) ✅ Jesus Himself will return to ISRAEL — feet on the Mount of Olives (Zech 14:4, Acts 1:11) ✅ The eternal capital of King Jesus will be JERUSALEM — not Dubai, not NYC, not heaven (Rev 20-21, Zech 14) 3/4 The Bible literally says “ALL ISRAEL will be saved” (Rom 11:26). God didn’t replace Israel. He didn’t transfer the promises. He didn’t change His mind. If you think the church “replaced” Israel, you’re arguing with God’s unbroken covenant — and you’re gonna lose that debate. 4/4 So nah… I don’t need your YouTube documentaries, Al-Jazeera clips, or “demonic propaganda.” I’ll stick with the most accurate book in history — the one that’s been 100% right on every prophecy so far. God’s not done with Israel. In fact, He’s just getting started. Drop a 🇮🇱 if you stand with God’s Word over the world’s noise. #Israel #BibleProphecy #EndTimes #JesusIsComing

@CyberRacheal This was true 10-15 years ago. Now when I go back to Windows I am appalled at how much stuff doesn’t “just work”. Today I can play what were once “Windows only” games on Steam without even having to install Wine.

Linux is "free" if your time has no exchange rate.  In terms of cash, yes, it’s 100% free. No $100 Windows license, no forced subscriptions, and no "Pro" versions. You can download the most powerful operating systems in the world for the price of a coffee (well, the electricity to download it).  On Windows or Mac, you’re a passenger. On Linux, you’re the mechanic. If your Wi-Fi driver decides to go on strike after an update, you’re the one who has to open the "hood" (the terminal) and fix it. You might spend three hours trying to get a specific game or a piece of Adobe software to run because it wasn't built for Linux. That’s three hours of your life you aren't getting back. The reason people love it despite the stress is Ownership. Windows is like a rental apartment where you can't paint the walls, and the landlord (Microsoft) checks in on you constantly to see what you're doing. Linux is a plot of land where have to build the walls yourself, and the plumbing might leak at first, but nobody is watching you, and you own every single nail.

@levelsio Somewhere, @unclebobmartin is feeling a disturbance in the force 😂

photoai.com is a 40,870 line file called index.php $105,000/mo revenue $80,000/mo profit

@crystal_mcvay @SallyMayweather @RonDeSantis @RobertoSanMigu9 This is referring to the Mosaic covenant with its animal sacrifices for sin. It’s not about the covenant with David that his seed would reign, it’s not referring to the covenant with Noah that God wouldn’t flood the earth again. And it’s not abolishing the covenant with Abraham.

@cryptodeepthink @SallyMayweather @RonDeSantis @RobertoSanMigu9 In that He saith “a new covenant,” He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

A candidate for statewide office in Texas claiming God is “nonbinary”? That dog won’t hunt.

@SallyMayweather @RonDeSantis @RobertoSanMigu9 I’d be curious to hear what you think Genesis 15:18 means?

@RonDeSantis @RobertoSanMigu9 Honestly dude it’s just as batshit crazy as republicans claiming God gave the entire Middle East to Israel 3000 years ago…

@HabitualLinest @mikek55905054 @CalebCantu69327 @semibuttnoid Then by the same token we can say “you don’t have to interpret Scripture, you can just read it.”

@cryptodeepthink @mikek55905054 @CalebCantu69327 @semibuttnoid Your navel gazing is dumb You don't have to interpret the Church. You can just ask it

The Bible literally says the mother of James is the wife of Clopas 😂

@HabitualLinest @mikek55905054 @CalebCantu69327 @semibuttnoid If you don’t grant the basic intelligibility of language then you can’t know anything. You say the interpretation of “the church” is infallible? Is your interpretation of their interpretation infallible? If you can interpret them correctly, why can’t you interpret scripture?

@mikek55905054 @CalebCantu69327 @semibuttnoid And there it is! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Every single Protestant claims their interpretation of Scripture is infallible

@maietta @LundukeJournal @dhh @OmarchyLinux I want to love Omarchy, but I just can’t get there with the tiling window manager. I prefer to able to ad box position floating windows. If there was something as smooth and pretty as hyprland in that classic MATE/XFCE style floating paradigm I’d be all over it.

@LundukeJournal @dhh @OmarchyLinux Based AF! Who else here is team Omarchy? Been using it for a few months now.

“Omarchy has no plans to do anything in response to this retarded California law.” That is what @DHH told me when I asked him if @OmarchyLinux plans to implement age verification functionality to comply with the new California and Brazilian laws.

@mattpocockuk This is absolutely right. The more I use Claude and Opus to write code for me the more it feels like I’m managing a team of junior devs and reviewing their pull requests.

Something that I think goes under-emphasized is how much AI coding demands a 'lead dev' mentality. If you spent your pre-AI career trying to level up your teammates (through API design, feedback loops, architecture) Then working with AI will feel natural. If you only focused on your own output, it will feel super bad.

@EricTrump @Trump @TrumpHotels More than happy to have investment and development in this beautiful city. However, naming such a project after yourselves is a bit of a cultural fumble here. “Tall poppy syndrome”. Australians don’t take kindly to people tooting their own horn.

I am so proud to announce what will soon be the tallest building in Australia — Trump International Hotel & Tower Gold Coast. This marks our first venture into Australia — an extraordinary country in every respect — and I couldn’t be more excited to help shape its iconic skyline forever. More to come…

@rationalaussie Video itself looks like AI…

This is the tip of a very, very, very large iceberg.

@Catholic_bro @qumoporo No, not every verse. Matthew 2:15 - “out of Egypt I called my son” Hosea 11:1 (Hebrew) - “out of Egypt I called my son” Hosea 11:1 (LXX) - “out of Egypt I called his children” NT authors often quote the LXX but NOT exclusively.

It was the most used edition Also the it’s used over the Masoretic texts Was the messiah born of a virgin ? Yes Matthew 1:23 Isaiah 7:14 — “Virgin” Hebrew: almah (“young woman”)
Septuagint: parthenos (“virgin”) This is the case for every Old Testament verse quoted in the new

There are 73 books in the Bible. Not 66.

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

@esrtweet The solution is for project managers to get bitten a couple of times and then understand that they need to hire engineers who are great at giving the model initial context and great at spotting the unnecessary tech debt the model created (e.g. massive code duplication).

Briefly, after some recent positive experiences with Chat-GPT 5.2, I was bemusedly telling friends that at the micro-level it writes better code than I do. After a bit more experience I've realized that that's not true. It doesn't write better code than I do; what it does do is get to similarly good code much faster and with less debugging along the way. What it really excels at is not making mistakes in the fiddly bits. This morning I was able to tell it to parallelize two for-loops doing moderately tricky bashing of data structures, and it wrote all the required mutex locking correctly Could I have done that? Sure. Could I have gotten it exactly right the first time? Doubtful... There's a kind of ceiling implied by the fact that these models are prediction engines trained on large corpuses of human-generated code. They can't be better than the best human coders - they can only be consistently as good as the best humans. Which I think is what I'm seeing - not superhuman performance, but peak human performance. On one level this is reassuring; it suggests that us software engineers aren't about to be made instantly obsolete by transcendent god-minds. Not in the near term, anyway. But peak-human performance from the AIs can still be a subtle problem if you're not a near-peak human performer yourself. My workflow is usually 1. Think. 2. Issue a prompt. 3. Wait. 4. Review. 5. "Oh, yeah, that makes sense!" 6. Commit it. 7. Goto 1. But if you're an average programmer, step 5 might very well look like "Wut? I do not comprehend what it just did." I worry that pressure to ship and flinching away from the concentration cost of actually reviewing code will habituate average programmers to committing code they don't understand. Which would be a new, Singularity-era way of piling up technical debt that will eventually come back around and bite us on the ass. I don't have a solution for this problem. And it's certainly preferable to the problem of having unassisted human beings generate code with a much higher defect frequency. But it bears watching. With new tools come new challenges, and everything all over again at higher complexity levels. It was ever thus.

@thdxr Point 4 about demoralising the few good coders is deadly serious. Plenty of A-players quit because they were fed up with constantly reviewing trash code from offshore devs.

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

@david_seroy Fear porn. It will probably always work as a sales strategy. It’s just how humans are wired.

Why is everyone re-sharing this article? Nothing ground-breaking here unless you've been living under a rock.