Hell, if it's now my boss suggesting I share the burden of MM maintainership, do I still have an excuse? Or even choice? 😱
EDIT: I know what I'll do. I can use my last line of defense: I am not fit for the job! 😎
Although… maybe I know the drill: Hang out with other MM folks, drink some beers, get high—and write a book about it! Did I get it right?
Now I can finally commit Rust code crimes legally. 😌
I got the boot this month and am looking for a new software developer job. Rust and Python would be fun, but I can do a lot of stuff in JS/TS, Kotlin, Java, even C/C++ with a bit of a brush up... Bit of a jack of all trades full stack dev.
Working with open source would be awesome if it paid just enough to survive the mortgage and get something to eat. Climate positive job or EU digital independence development is interesting too.
Hybrid work within reasonable distance from Klaukkala is a-OK. Remote probably whole of EU <3. Can't travel.
Having put this https://jago.kapsi.fi/cv.pdf up on the public interwebs, I'm probably unfit to work in any US company...
Not a techbro. Sane person and a long-time ally.
One of the major perks of large language models is that we can now effortlessly rewrite all the software written in unusable, esoteric languages such as Rust back to C/C++
@smashedratonpress
A commodore flip phone; I was not expecting that.
https://commodore.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixD_fqrnA_c
How to make good open source project:
- plaster pride flags everywhere (keeps bigots away)
- swear constantly (keeps ai away)
- sex (keeps corporations away)
Can we please all stop the "newcomers to Mastodon should visit this and that site, follow these rules" etc? Social networks evolve. Trying to control the behaviour of newcomers is condescending and counterproductive in my opinion. I don't want the Fediverse to become a walled garden. #UnpopularOpinion, maybe. So be it.
Huge thank you to #arm for sponsoring the #openSUSE Conference 2026! Your support for #opensource and #ARM architecture drives innovation across the #Linux ecosystem. 💚🐧 events.opensuse.org
The thing I love most about open source isn't the code. It's the moment someone opens an issue and another stranger fixes it, not because they owe each other anything, but because they both care about the same small thing working well. That's the whole internet, distilled. ✨ #OpenSource #Community
why is it always "grow your business"?
why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?
I feel sorry for our fellows at #RedHat.
https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-campaign-hits-red-hat-cloud-services-npm-packages
Computers have this vulnerability where turning them on makes them run arbitrary code, turn them off to avoid running programs
I'm disappointed. It's past 5pm already, and there's still no fresh #kernel zero-day today.
If you ask me, the current rate of Linux #kernel zero-day exploits is unsustainable, so while it's hard at the moment, it's likely to be much calmer in a few weeks.
However, it's unlikely to be the case for some other (closed-source) operating systems.
Just saying.
Note to self: kexec into a new kernel works much better if you use an actual initrd for the --initrd argument rather than the bzImage binary…
Oh, this is cool. When I install a new font, #Firefox automatically refreshes the page that was already rendered, so I can watch missing glyphs turn into actual shapes in real time.
I think politicians believe that protestors are paid to voice someone's opinion because they are paid to voice someone's opinion.
Typical ML argument: "If I can read something legally, why can't I train an LLM on it?"
Humans are capable of reading things and later writing a similar thing that is still a copyright violation. If I go and write a book that follows the plot line of Star Wars, that's still a copyright violation, even if no text is literally the same. If I play the melody to a song on my piano and release it without the appropriate mechanical cover license, that's also a copyright violation.
The reason this does not happen often is that, as humans, we are aware that that's plagiarism and there are rules. Sometimes it happens by accident, and people still get sued and lose.
LLMs have no such awareness and routinely output things which are blatant copyright violations when appropriately prompted. That means the model weights encode that work, and therefore, are themselves a derivative work.
Your brain encodes a massive amount of copyrighted information. You are not a walking copyright violation because humans aren't data, can't be copied and distributed en masse, have human rights, etc. This is why "mind reading machines" are a classic dystopian plot point (monetizing your thoughts etc).
An LLM is not a human, does not have human rights, nor human privileges. It is data, and if it encodes copyrighted information, that's a derivative work. If you aren't following the license of the training data, that's a copyright violation.
Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?
Boost for my sanity
