dreamed I invented a new number called snezem

it was equal to slightly more than seven point two

(if you try this, note that ebay will try to trick you into buying a shitty T480s when you search for T480; do not be fooled! check the model number and don't assume that you're looking at what you actually want just because it showed up in the search results)

after reading about Linus's supervillain arc (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code) I decided to give NetBSD another go since my kiddo recently got a thinkpad upgrade; their cast-off T480 has a wrecked keyboard and flaky charging circuit, but I figured it'd be worth a shot to see if the basics worked on it

ran into a very annoying bug in the installer where the keyboard settings only affect the internal keyboard (which doesn't work) so I had to set a fully-numeric password so I could be sure I'd be able to type it, but other than that it was fairly smooth

imagine my surprise when I brought it up and both the wifi and suspend worked! a few months ago I tried netbsd on 5 different older thinkpad models and never came close to this level of functionality

now I've got ebay open and am scrolling thru the T480 offerings...

ok, at this point I'll bite: is Pocky hiring?

many of us have seen software projects that started out as little fun experiments and then grew into systems that many people ended up relying on, and did not stop to consider questions of governance until much later than those questions were relevant, because they just wanted to keep doing what had worked at a small scale

large projects that are successful often end up with foundations supporting them, because you need structure like that in order to enact democratic governance

but that comes at a cost which doesn't make sense at small scales, so how do you avoid despotism when you're big enough to be more than one person but not big enough to have a foundation?

does anyone have examples of medium-small software projects which aren't big enough to have a foundation but have still done some work to formalize their decision-making process? I'm thinking of projects with a small core team of 3-5 people describing how they make key decisions and how the core team is held accountable for the resources they control

when I read about openJDK's policy

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

I completely forgot the Fennel survey was still open; oops

if you use #fennel and haven't filled it out, please do so! I will be closing it tonight or tomorrow

https://fennel-lang.org/survey/

at long last we've recreated the horrific necktie from the beloved sci fi classic "Don't Wear the Horrific Necktie"

https://shop.zaumstudio.com/products/horrific-necktie-dis

game jam idea: Revachol Postal Service

a while back I asked about fiction written in unusual formats such as a spreadsheet or git commit history log, and yall delivered some pretty great examples

yesterday I found maybe the strangest format I've encountered yet: a work by @suricrasia told in lecture slides for a computer science class

https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precognance.pdf

finally one of the Racism Linux supporters is someone I have an account with, so I can join in the fun and cancel my account instead of feeling left out

[I made a digitalocean account in 2022 to get around eurovision's region blocks]

year of betrayal continues, so I'm hand-making weird keyboards for mental health reasons

just opened the Autumn Lisp Game Jam:

https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2026

we'll be kicking it off the last week of October; come join and get your parens humming!

#lispGameJam #gameDev

the great thing about NetBSD is that it installs very quickly

this means that in the time it would normally take to install Debian, you can try it on four machines to find out the distinct ways that each one of them doesn't work with it

disco elysium setting but the failed revolution that ended 50 years ago that your character is still sad about is the free software revolution

cherry on top of the shit sandwich has been spending the evening trying freebsd across five different thinkpads and suspend works on a grand total of one of them (the one with the worst battery)

on one of them it couldn't even find the wifi device

I used to think of debian as one of the wonders of the modern world; you could pull in endless marvels with the flick of a wrist

now it's all going up in smoke; such a senseless waste of something that used to give me hope

guess that's the end of any hope I had for debian; if you can't even manage to pull the right answer on the easy question, there's no hope for dealing with the hard work we've got a head of us recovering from this ongoing disaster

https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/results.txt

getting a bunch of spam signups on https://yyyo.online/about from people "hoping to explore the fediverse and share updates with friends" and I'm kind of tempted just to approve them for the hilarity of seeing them try to come to grips with the fact that it is an instance that only allows you to post the word "yo"