Sean doesn't want people to point out that he worked on Copilot. Here, the diagnostic question is something like, "Why do you think that the chatbots are good and capable?" The mental-health stuff is a distraction; he wasn't melted by chatbot memes, he took a paycheck.

The overuse of generative chatbots is certainly one of the big reasons that I decided to not continue working with Raku. I also sensed an inability to appreciate semantics without aesthetics, and to focus on presentation over substance; to me, this goes hand-in-hand with e.g. an inability to condemn DHH as an ethnonationalist, and there's philosophical reasons for that. Concretely, when I gifted a blog post to the Raku community, the published version includes a chatbot-generated hero image which has nothing to do with the topic and was generated by an LLM-addicted community member without my input or knowledge; ironically, that post was part of a challenge issued to vibecoders to demonstrate that chatbots are bad at writing code and no chatbot was able to actually generate the code in question.

What's your threat model? No matter what, hole-punching will require some sort of relay. Yggdrasil's likelier than Iroh to have available community servers if you need a hole punched in an adversarial context.

This is a System 3 engine, as are all chatbots, with no sign of System 1 anywhere.

Given that you've been spouting bigoted and cryptofascist viewpoints ever since you joined this server, I'm not surprised that you're defending DHH and trying to apologize for him by attacking anybody who points out DHH's actual views. Additionally, as far as I can tell, you're not actually part of the Free Software community; why should we care about your milquetoast half-assed apology when you're not actually one of the people doing the daily work to maintain our space and community?

The bill only covers operating systems which integrate with cloud services. The bill is designed to target what it calls "addictive" feeds and services. Linux distros don't appear to be in scope. Yet again cm0002 is demonstrating an inability to read the actual sources.

Discussed previously (here, there).

I like to think of myself as the kind of person that, given enough time and documentation, can maintain anything; I think it’d still take three of me to do Ronald’s job. (Well, “job.” I think he technically works for Red Hat or something?)

Iroh has servers too. NAT punching always requires some third party; it's not magic that can be performed from behind the NAT unilaterally by a client. Iroh's third-party servers are provided by n0, the corporation behind the protocol; Magic Wormhole's servers are provided by the developers and funded via donations.

I only happen to save ISOs if I find them on old drives during cleanup. Despite this, I do have 49 Linux ISOs and one FreeNAS ISO too. I don't have a reason to delete them; I am not short of space.

A better justification would have helped. I removed Bibles and other religious content from my setup with the justification that we don't spread ethnonationalism and the Bible is an ethnonationalist artifact.

Lojban is so much easier to speak than Esperanto! We actually recently talked in #lojban on Libera about how to pronounce the word in question and our answer is something like {fordzeiio} if one likes the slinkuui semantics or {fordzei'o} otherwise.

Don't over-focus on chess. The Lesson is that if you take two identical machine-learning labs which currently have a working model today, and ask them to come back and show you how much they improved in a year or so, the lab which forward-ports the model to newer hardware will tend to outperform the lab which tries to tweak the model to fit the problem domain more precisely. Sheer amounts of compute dominate any sort of domain-specific (here, chess-specific) knowledge. Further, there's a suggested mechanism, Moore's Law, which is tapering off now but used to be exponential; how could a polynomial amount of effort ever compete with exponentially-better new hardware?

Google's employees mostly use Linux desktops; also, Google's Chromebooks run on Linux. If you have trouble believing that GSoC exists, you'll really have trouble believing that Google's got an internal Linux kernel team as well as a team for important userland components. There are so many problems with Google but this ain't one of them. Yet another silly cm0002 nothing-post.

That's the part of this performance art which makes me cringe the hardest; however, I think it's a Nathan Fielder sort of performance which is intentionally dumb. Ben's basically showing what the average American can get done by appeal to the First and Fourth Amendments, and his audience is rightly outraged at the bad behavior of the government which he can predictably provoke with his playing-dumb routine.

At the same time, I think that the sorts of leverage that he can create are fundamentally not credible if he were an attorney or receiving good legal advice regularly; a judo flip requires your opponent to be much taller than you, after all. If we think of Ben as a First Amendment auditor then this particular audit has put at least two municipalities on the Monell hook, by which he may still be compensated for his time and effort, and also has doomed a shady pawn-shop franchise via sheer sunlight.

It doesn't say anything good about you that you can't smell fascists.

So, first, it's important to know that monitoring is not the same thing as measuring service levels to adhere to some SLA (service-level agreement, a promise to some customer). We have jargon for the latter; we say that we are measuring SLIs (service-level indicators) and checking them against SLOs (service-level objectives). An SLA is kind of like a set of SLOs.

For monitoring, in general, I recommend Prometheus-style metrics. I do not recommend OpenTelemetry in any encoding; it is far too complex compared to one metric per line of plain text. To keep metrics private, you can either scrape over SSH, scrape over an admin interface, scrape over LAN, or scrape over localhost-only listeners; read the documentation for your service's metrics-exporting tool. AlertManager, from the reference Prometheus suite, is a great way to get pinged on SMS/Pushover/Signal/etc. when something is down or broken.

For SLAs, I just set up an Uptime Kuma for a small business. It's a pretty good tool for SLAs and basic notifications in Slack/Mattermost/IRC/etc. but not capable of doing much more than uptime/ping checks.

I can't recommend any hosted service in good faith. You're not going to ever be able to price-justify it; self-hosting will always be more cost-effective. And since the hosted service isn't going to have your runbook or credentials or experience, what can they really do besides ping you? Pay $5/mo to your cloud provider instead of over $20/mo to a hosted metrics scraper or dashboard host.

The author's relevant experience is in developing Copilot, not in information theory or statistics. So, when they say:

Unlike image and video watermarks, text watermarks will always be trivial to remove.

This is wrong; image and video watermarks are also trivial to destroy. In general, watermarking only works for physical objects and fails for information-theoretic objects.

CppNix isn't slow because of C++, it's slow because its evaluation strategy (tree-walking an AST without any optimizations) is slow. Rewriting in Zig or Rust will not necessarily help; the structure of the compiler needs to be better. That said, Tvix is a Rust rewrite which uses a bytecode interpreter, and it is faster, but it's not a drop-in replacement like Lix. I prototyped a faster evaluator in RPython; see this LixCon 2026 video for my summarized notes to the Lix community.

Nix store transactions will never be instant. You've probably never thought about atomicity and durability for your configuration-file edits, but it's a desirable thing, right? Nix writes to a SQLite database for every transaction. This is not going to be a big part of your runtime as long as CppNix is so slow at evaluation, but it's the reason why trivial builds, like your derivations that merely copy text to the Nix store, take so long.

Clearly @Sxan@piefed.zip is a yinglet.

This is some preach-the-controversy bullshit. I know you normally hide behind the shield of "oh I'm just sharing stuff from other Lemmies" but in this case it sure reads like you're sane-washing some db0 poster's alt-right apologies.