I discussed this in my talk* on Friday: this is what makes artists unique. They can take a stance.
Your LLM won't choose to be informed and support action with regards to Palestine.
*https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/jA4a36/creativity-cannot-be-computed
You know, it's funny. 20 years ago I started photographing abandoned buildings, as I believed they were a warning sign that America was sliding off the face of a cliff. Years later, that's pretty obvious to just about everyone that we're in freefall. Not really sure what the point of a warning is any more but I still have photos so what the hell, why not post them.
“Why Lightsabers Sound Like a blueprint, Sightless Scribbles”
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/why-lightsabers-sound-like-a-blueprint/
> If I held a lightsaber, I wouldn't need to see the blade to know where it was. The sound design tells me exactly where the danger ends and the safety begins. When you wave it, the pitch constantly fluctuates. That pitch shift gives me precise data on the speed and arc of the swing. I can map the blade’s position in 3D space purely by the rise and fall of that magnetic hum.
“macOS Golden Gate is a buggy mess”
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/10/5.html
> How does Apple mess up something as fundamental as keyboard focus?
“The freedom to read doesn’t exist without the freedom to write — Malinda Lo”
https://www.malindalo.com/blog/2026/10/14/the-freedom-to-read
> The "freedom to read" implies that reading exists completely separately from writing, when in fact there would be nothing to read if authors didn't have the freedom to write.
(Last week was Banned Books Week, and some of the talks are now dropping as blog posts)
“AI Is a Book Ban — Sonja Drimmer”
https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/10/14/ai-is-a-book-ban
> For one, the ease now with which information is availed to people by summary means that there is a screen between people and the actual sources of information they seek. That's the obvious part, and that's a kind of low-hanging-fruit argument about how generative AI has mounted barriers between people and information.
At least the sky is pretty.
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #sky #clouds
jesus christ, Linux has had a 100% LLM takeover.
this project is completely cooked.
even after the AI bubble pop, it's not clear how to recover from this level of bullshit from this level of bullshitter.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/be20382b54a9b4cd/
> Linus Torvalds believes that blaming LLMs for the kernel community's problems is wrong, when the problem is LLM users who do not understand how to use them or how the kernel works. A properly trained LLM is a useful tool, but it takes a lot of time to reach that point.
> Torvalds and others repeatedly said low-quality contributions from new developers should receive low priority, and that the community should stop trying to make contribution easy. Many developers said, repeatedly, that trying to mentor those developers is almost always a waste of time; they do not listen.
> There is some concern about companies maintaining private kernels with LLM help, but there does not seem to be much to be done about it.
> Kernel developers should not be required to use LLMs to work in the community, but those who do need to have enough resources available to generate acceptable results.
The requirement to add Assisted-by tags to patches created with LLMs will be removed, but maintainers still want to know about how a patch was created.
so how's it going already?
> The development community is struggling to keep up with the flood of security patches, and will continue to for some time. Some of the most urgent fixes may bypass maintainers and go straight to Torvalds. Maintainers were cautioned against telling their employers about vulnerabilities before public disclosure happens.
Really, I'm not out to suck ass as much as Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Yesterday's essay:
It’s not our job to fix our employers
It’s not our job to fix our employers
This broken industry is too big of a problem for software developers to solve alone with unions
Publishing links with commentary over on the patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/baldurbjarnason/posts/tech-is-again-14-172334419
The must-read link is above the fold, links with commentary below it.
Though, you can find all of the links in my profile here. I post them all as I find them.
“'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS”
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/you-are-not-fragile-you-are-outnumbered
> So, if I could leave you with one thought, it would be this: please don't assume that the difficulties you are experiencing now define who you are or what you may become. And don't accept the idea that needing support makes you weak. We all become who we are partly through the understanding, kindness and opportunities that other people make available to us.
It’s not our job to fix our employers
This broken industry is too big of a problem for software developers to solve alone with unions
Yesterday's essay:
It’s not our job to fix our employers
Publishing links with commentary over on the patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/baldurbjarnason/posts/tech-is-again-14-172334419
The must-read link is above the fold, links with commentary below it.
Though, you can find all of the links in my profile here. I post them all as I find them.
To explain what I mean by this: for a long time the Perl community took great pride in how difficult and terse the language was. The old joke that well-written perl was indistinguishable from line noise wasn't just a joke, it was a badge of honour.
That attitude was sustainable when the internet was small and alternatives were scarce. But the moment tools appeared that prioritized things like human ergonomics (python) and human interaction (ruby) the perl community started aging out and dying.
Today the number of people under 50 who'll reach for perl or raku or who cares what it's called as their first choice of tool for anything new is zero. In practice Perl is an esolang now.
Torvalds' position is that contributing to the kernel should be _more_ difficult for everyone else, but, through LLM usage, easier for existing kernel developers.
Ted Tso's adamant position that "you can't make us learn Rust" is the same insularity.
If the kernel was a country, we'd recognize this.
RE: https://woof.tech/@techokami/117439226690379216
The LLM part is bad news but it isn't the sign. It's the talking about planning succession while simultaneously complaining that nobody new wants to learn, that's the sign.
Y'all the kernel is in deep, deep trouble. We saw what happened to Perl and the kernel is in deep trouble.
Another abandoned car. I didn't get close enough to see the brand.
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #sky #clouds #vintagecars
Granted, I'm currently only getting this pushback from agent-using web developers, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual talking point among the pro-"AI" crowd.