getting a laptop ready for some 9front / plan9 perversion

linux is OVER

"our advanced AI will immediately neg your bitch ass" ?

person: *makes a ticket on JIRA and assigns it to me*

JIRA, 20 seconds later: *sends me an email saying "check in on this ticket you haven't updated in a while" and it's the fucking ticket that was made like 20 seconds ago*

sweebity creebity hiccups, the fuck

ah, great, a day where music isn't drowning out the noise in the ol brain

Anyone with any insight into where the mysterious registration might be for this "registered foundation"... certainly would be interesting.  Perhaps the website is slow to update... slower than the sponsors lining up to stuff money into its pockets, interestingly enough.

is it safe to say that Arch Linux only has around 400K of net assets and had 60K of donations last year?

https://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/reports/202512/#index35h4

meanwhile ol fucking DHH

it really is amazing that I keep *reading* that "Omacom Foundation was incorporated as a registered non-profit" and yet I can't seem to *find* that registration.  Anywhere.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/

searching for "omacom", "omarchy", etc, yields nothing.  How long does this database take to update, normally?  I would think that since 15 million smackers are on the line and every news snippet about it keeps saying "registered" that it might actually be registered, yeah?

EDIT: Eventually I stumbled on a donation link that said they have filed for IRS recognition as a 501c and it is pending.

Also, on that SPI treasury report, you can see numbers for Debian, as well!  These distros really are not working on a lot of cash and these are definitely The Big Ones (I pulled up Arch because omarchy is just arch covered in a layer of white supremacy slime)

I don't give a single fuck about any piece of software more than I do a single human being and frankly if you care about software more than people, you should not be in a leadership position.

I've asked these questions before and it's always crickets.  It's "unethical" to NOT use an LLM.  It would be "discrimination" to NOT accept money from war mongering corporations.  You externalize all the costs onto a population and planet already stressed to the breaking point by capitalism, where wildfires rage and people don't have clean water and everyone is crowdfunding to help with rent and food and you walk around doing free PR for the companies who want to 10X this shit and build data centers the literal size of Manhattan

all for a "bug fix" of unknown severity (one that Anthropic *says* is severe but later will be downgraded on human review).  So I ask you, who the fuck cares?  Who the fuck cares what you think?  What your project means?  What is important to you?  Why do you bristle and run away the moment someone points out you're poisoning the earth and people for something that doesn't even fucking WORK?  To save you moments?  And you reject emotional statements like this because they don't fit into the world of respectability and "politeness" that you seem to think are necessary.  But newsflash: people have feelings, particularly when your actions impact them.

It's the same as Rust justifying keeping that bigoted palantir fuck around despite him hurting people; he's "too important to the project".  But what is your project, without people?  For whom or what are you writing software?  *Why* is your project important?  Why are you so incapable of asking this question?  If you're this incapable of introspection, why do you think you're capable of being in charge?

"no you don't understand, it's good now" no it isn't!  It's not good enough to justify ANY OF IT.  The ratio of goodness to shittiness is nearly infinite!  ffs.

Just because they hide that from you doesn't mean it isn't there.  You people advertise yourselves as responsible, capable, caring, and mindful of security and impacts yet you constantly fail to assess the larger impact of what you're doing and contributing towards and the risks you're introducing to yourselves and other people and I just don't fucking understand it.   Nothing is worth this.

Why is there a subset of people that always, always, ALWAYS puts software over people?

(I am using "tool" very loosely here because *these are shitty fucking tools*, but I guess I've lost the battle on arguing that a giant, energy sucking hammer larger than the code base you're smacking it against doesn't count as a "tool")

anyway if your software development tool will notably increase cancer rates and air pollution I think you should stop using it.

look, Sam Altman's new headshot just dropped

I wish my name was Steve so that I could walk up to people and say, “And how are you, on this fine Stevening?”

psst tagging @xgranade

THIS ANSWER IS A MESSAGE... IT IS PART OF AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM OF MESSAGES... PAY ATTENTION TO IT, AS OPTIONS HAVE CHANGED!

YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US.  WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES TO BE A POWERFUL COMPANY.

THIS CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR... NO HIGHLY ESTEEMED CORPORATION IS CONTRACTED HERE... NOTHING VALUED IS HERE.

oh shit!  the fourth season of Link Click started?!  I totally missed that...!

now I just get to question: is it a driver bug?  a software bug?  hardware dying?

all of these are bad options!

I… huh.  Well, I narrowed down how to reproduce the visual glitch I keep seeing lately.  But what the fuck!?

not to be an annoying stickler or anything but

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310

while I'm glad they're keeping the name as Lake Ontario (because that is its fucking name), *why* is the "official US name" set to "Lake America"?  An executive order is not a law and prior renamings (such as officially calling the mountain in Alaska "Denali") weren't done through such horseshit orders.

IANAL but it seems super clear that there is a legal process and set of laws for changing a name and none of them were followed for Ontario, the forced renaming of Denali back to the shithead one, and the Gulf.

"official name" my ass.  It's definitely not a good sign when independent orgs start acting as if executive orders are official laws.

Again, I'm not a lawyer, so perhaps a lawyer familiar with affairs about the department of the interior can pipe in and clarify things, but...