What is Open Source

https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/what-is-open-source

How do you explain open source to an obligate capitalist?

Update: I went with, sometimes crazy people exist and sometimes that's good for the world.

Update 2: He replied, ahh, like Elon Musk?

It's not that I'm ignoring your political posts. But it just feels so weird to like them.

"Stupid minister says stupid things"
*Like*

"Government passes new racist law"
*Like*

"POLITICIAN EATS BABIES"
*Double like*

Two frogs are sitting in a pot. One turns to the other and says, does it feel like tokens are getting more expensive, or is it just me?

So I have this irrational fear of ceiling fans.

I grew up in a third-world country, and the ceiling fans in my school always seemed improperly installed. They felt more like they were dangling from the ceiling than mounted. When there was wind, they wobbled even more. I spent more time watching them than listening to the teacher.

Now I try to leave the room as soon as I notice an old-looking ceiling fan. I think it's like Inside Out. The little purple guy in my head is keeping me safe.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zhenyiblog/116764228375610944

Li Shimin really does feel like an alien from the historical records. I’m not making the stories up. Even the dialogue is translated literally.

Traps

Please Stay Calm and Listen https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/please-stay-calm-and-listen

Who wants to buy 0.0000000001% of my company for one dollar? It will make me the second trillionaire.

I think the standard indie hacker advice is horribly out of date.

“Talk to people.” Yeah, bold of you to assume people want to talk to you.

“Build in public.” Haha, why do you assume people are watching?

good samurai movie

The Little Boy Who Sells Knives

My knives are so sharp you could easily slice your fingers off!

My knives are so sharp you could easily kill a tiger with them!

My knives are so sharp you could easily kill an entire village with them!

"Okay, if the knives are so dangerous, we should ban them."

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zhenyiblog/116738473155278140

Wrote about the SpaceX IPO

The scarier thing is, the plumber said, if it weren't for my guardrails, I'd hack into the government's water department and change the water pressure nationwide

You hired a plumber to fix a leaking pipe. The plumber fixed it, but he was unsure of the fix. So he built a machine to test the water pressure, attached 15 sensors to your pipe, wrote a Python program to log the readings, then modified your water tank to simulate different conditions. Fabulous.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zhenyiblog/116731885804289681

So last month I suddenly got the urge to create (umm, not another app). I thought about writing something, but I didn't want to write another "technology bad" post. So I started writing about Chinese history. Turns out 3000 years is really long. 4 parts in and I'm still at the Three Kingdoms. So I'm making it a weekly thing. I'll try to write until the fall of Qing dynasty. Hope I can keep this up

I'm so used to the yellow-and-green kitchen sponge that this new one will always feel wrong and desaturated to me

Oatmeal https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/oatmeal

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zhenyiblog/116709786090922024

I wrote a shitpost

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/943531/ai-script-quilty-simon-horsman-daniel-wood

I facepalm every time I see people claim that "AI can predict XYZ".

If you tweak your prompt a little, you'll get a different answer. If you push back, the LLM will agree with you.

Snow White would not be a thing if the magic mirror is powered by an LLM, because the queen would just regenerate the response until it says she's the fairest.