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  oh god I posted about two gnu projects in one post and someone I’ve never talked to before decided to gnu at me in return please don’t gnu at me I realize I’m asking for it but we can computer better than this

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  if unicode is so good where’s multicode

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  when your government or enterprise consists entirely of virtual pets you raised yourself, that’s neopetism

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  “our discord full of the worst people you’ve ever met said we should go all in on slop and that means the community has spoken” yeah i see

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  every number is imaginary if you think hard enough

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  this is how it is

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  every CEO when they get on a podcast: “I have a problem with AI” CEO: “the problem is we’re not using enough of it and my employees aren’t taking enough personal responsibility for when it’s dangerously wrong”

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  I’m looking to add easy toy languages to my language workbench’s example set and on the wikipedia page for m-expressions (horrid things, but I’ll probably write a parser for them) I found “sweet” t-expressions from the 2013 Readable Lisp S-expressions Project and uhhhh https://readable.sourceforge.io/ of course they keep citing Paul Graham in this and their SRFI https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html the curly bracket infix notation is ok! the rest really hasn’t aged well here’s the...

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  can’t believe the K in KDE stands for klan

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  https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/aftermarket-driver-assist-under-federal-probe-following-fatal-crashes/ ahahahaha after that ass-clenching video where that one guy installed comma in his rivian and thought it was amazing because it hesitated less than the rivian self-driving and it was open source and he utterly disregarded that it blew through a stop sign and kept doing dangerous shit, it’s very satisfying that the fucking obvious consequences are coming for the horrid open source self driv...

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  things I learned: `named-let’ doesn’t appear in any emacs lisp documentation but it’s a port of the scheme construct, and it allows you to do clojure-style tail call recursion

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  “it’s opt in, what’s the problem” here it is: https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/ none of apple’s AI crap is actually opt-in, and the opt outs hide the UI for the AI anti-features but keep them running in the background, doing I/O and taking up cycles and claiming 22 gigs(!) of your boot SSD

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  no you don’t understand, we poured your donations into building a brain-melting lie machine powered by mashed-up children, but we swear this one’s powered by renewable puppies instead. anyway you’ll never guess what happened when we exposed a bunch of high school kids to the brain-melting lie machine

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  if you like lisp so much, where’s your IBM 704 vacuum tube mainframe?

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  the “crafted with ❤️ by PleaseFundUsCorp” to pure unfettered slopcode pipeline

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  remember: if you want to do something incredibly unpopular like use LLMs in your project, start a discussion thread and make sure to flood it with the most noxious pro-AI guys you can find. if some of them are racists, that’s perfect! then when the rest of the community reacts strongly to you wanting to do something horrid and the discussion thread about it being filled with horrid people, lock the thread because it’s “too heated”. then you can do whatever you want because the discussion has con...

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  commenting “if we ban LLMs in open source projects people will just lie about not using them” as if it’s not exactly the same thing as “open source software isn’t possible because people will just commit commercial code and lie about it” like, did we not learn a damn thing from when microsoft and SCO tried this exact shit?

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  blaming all the bad parts of my paper on “et al” like a producer blaming the movie being bad on Alan Smithee

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  the problem with chlamydia is it sounds wonderful it’s not, but it’s a beautiful name

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  so apple, the company that admitted out loud it needs people to opt into exfiltrating their data to train Siri AI (as much as you can call a “yes please” / “not now” prompt opt in) or it won’t work, simultaneously released an image tagging system that isn’t useful for identifying generative images in the wild (because it’s proprietary metadata that’ll get stripped as soon as the image is converted for use on the web) but is highly useful for identifying genuine images to train Siri AI on do I h...

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  it is 2026: - your imposter syndrome is dead, but so is your career. it was killed by the biggest imposters you’ve ever met, who very confidently used the imposter machine to prove they can do incredibly low quality work slightly faster than you can do high quality work - all the job listings are fake - nobody wants to hire “AI natives” because they’re awful. everyone wants to torment you into being an AI fanatic with a melted brain. - you found a real job listing! you aced the technical interv...

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  > Apple maintains that it "takes steps to ensure that personal data is not stored or used by Apple." But as Heise points out, and Apple has said in the terms of service for a few years now, the audio material may be listened to by Apple employees after anonymization. > >Currently, new feature is opt-in only. When iOS 27 rolls out on Monday, September 14, users will see a prompt that asks users to help improve the chatbot, with an agree or "not now" button. > >I...

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  imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to pretend you’re enabling LLM slop in your project because it’s what the community wants, and then pretend the backlash and maintainers leaving are somehow not representative of what the community wants

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  so do the new iOS and macOS do anything other than Siri AI, the thing where they listen to your audio all the time via your device’s microphone, the thing where they uniquely tag all your photos in a way that isn’t useful for journalists or stopping slop but is highly useful for cops wanting to arrest journalists, and probably 10 other forms of invasive spyware? is liquid glass still broken garbage?

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  I see no evidence that “germany” is real

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  horrors beyond comprehension yes I gave each brainfuck symbol a unique color just to show it off and the embedded language evals and templates into the quoted form!

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  is there a foss version of linux

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  https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/ this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy. anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a...

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  it must feel so good for the AI researcher when they pretend to be remotely as important as a nuclear physicist

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  every poll about AI usage looks like this (and this was my most popular poll on fedi by far)