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ed(1) is no longer the standard editor and should no longer be shipped. the new standard is gTextFucker, a graphical-only wordpad clone with indecipherable keyboard shortcuts that change constantly, which gradually grinds to a halt as it runs because it keeps trying to send messages to the dbus receiver org.gnome.fuck.text which doesn’t exist on your system

my brain generated the shitpost “linux for dogs” and then my other brain almost immediately started designing a small embedded linux collar computer with a sensor suite and wifi and now I want linux for dogs

if you frame the fascist takeover of an open source project by a major war profiteer and associated exodus of the vast majority of that project’s marginalized contributors (who were the ones keeping the lights on for most of it, as per usual) as drama, maybe you can stay the fuck out of my replies no I’m not going to CW this or any other post as “nixos drama, future of the project” because I don’t reflexively try to protect fucking monsters

“uhm you can’t say a password manager is cooked just because they’re encouraging LLM code contributions and their official mastodon account keeps saying factually incorrect things” consider fucking yourself. there’s little margin for error in security-critical software. if a team institutes a policy that’s been proven to produce vulnerable code and then says a bunch of things that, read uncharitably, appear to point to them not knowing what the fuck they’re doing, they deserve the backlash

please for the love of fuck don’t have a parasocial relationship with a password manager, an encrypted mail provider, or any other security or privacy software vendor you absolutely don’t need to defend the honor of a project you like. you especially don’t need to defend a project that’s provably doing something dangerous when I call out keepassxc or proton or whatever in the strongest terms possible, I do it because it’s important. I do it to create awareness, not fear.

GNU GIMP (1998): we can’t change our terrible fucking name, we’ve had it for years. imagine the confusion. imagine the work. the Coq theorem prover (1989): we’re Rocq now because we got tired of the joke and we trust you’re too busy doing mathematics to give a shit

lmao @ jeff vaguetooting me of all people no you don’t get the presumption of good faith when you use an unhoused person for marketing purposes and then change your story to make yourself barely the hero what the fuck (for anyone who missed it,

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jesus christ jeff. this is “I went online and printed off some resources for you about how to stop being unhoused! you’re welcome!” but you t...

; jeff has since changed his story to a version where he gave his friend $19k and did a bunch of research months before passing it all through an LLM for no reason, which doesn’t make sense)

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Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange)

It would be nice if more people on Mastodon assumed at least a little good faith of other people. Maybe I don't deserve that, and I'm sorry. I'll t...

jesus christ jeff. this is “I went online and printed off some resources for you about how to stop being unhoused! you’re welcome!” but you then went on to use the encounter to promote slop machines to your audience please can we stop acting like these neoliberal birthday boys have any idea how to solve problems? jeff’s altruism ends when the tax breaks and the marketing end. that’s why his millionaire ass couldn’t give his “friend” access to a couch or a mailbox.

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Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange)

@sethrichards@mas.to here's one: a friend confided he is unhoused, and it is difficult for him. I asked ChatGPT to summarize local resources to dea...