Oh I’m not complaining that action was taken. The issue is that the tools available to us are antithetical to copyleft. All the takedown means is that nobody gets access to this code, whereas what we need is for everyone to get access to it under the proper license.

We really need a better answer to stuff like this than DMCA takedowns. They make sense for someone who doesn’t want their stuff made available at all, but it’s kinda the opposite of what’s needed for copyleft violations.

I once had an interviewer ask me what happens when you type a domain into your browser and hit enter. “Use as much detail as you want.”

Well, I did…

“For the sake of brevity, I’ll start when the user presses the Enter key. As the key goes down, it makes two contacts connect, passing a current…”

To be fair, Windows has had standby issues forever, so the only thing that’s different here from 20 years ago is that Linux does it reliably.

Doubly evil given that GPU prices are still ridiculous.

Daily driving Kubuntu 26.04

I was once on a video call with my sister, walking around the house and getting more and more frustrated as I did so. Eventually she asked me what I was looking for.

“I CAN’T FIND MY GODDAMN PHONE!”

She burst out laughing.

Services I know that have both HTTPS and SSH access have seen all sorts of weird stuff seemingly related to LLM bot scraping over the past few months. Enough to bring down some git servers.

Yummy!

Discourse, not Discord. The accounts are managed through the same SSO that manages Launchpad accounts, so the devs who will use this already have an account.

One of the biggest downsides of the fact that my social circle is mostly techies is that I can no longer get free 3-4 year old “junk” computers.

Yes.

I’m just enjoying how much Ubuntu’s decision to experiment with a different coreutils has resulted in people paying attention to all the stuff the FSF does.

Yeah I’ve got an e-bike and there’s no way those motorcycles belong in the bike lane. If the motor can send you that fast, it’s no longer a bicycle…

A coochie Moya. We are far from the boners of my people…

Because it gets out of my way and lets me focus on the things I really want to do.

I very intentionally have all my code in Personal Projects 🥰 and Work Projects 🏦 directories so I can find bugs in the handling of file paths.

Google were literally one of the three organisations who worked on the standard, and the top contributor to the reference implementation works there.

The best use I have for LLMs is to copy those entire comments into one with a prompt to respond to them in complete disagreement, and then say “really? When I asked ChatGPT it said this” and paste the response in.

The original Sudo is licensed under a complex web of MIT-like licenses. sudo-rs is dual-licensed under the MIT license and Apache 2.