I've been working at my current workplace for 7 years now.

Seven.

I've been there for 49 dog years and they still don't know that I'm a dog.

I'm more annoyed that one creative branch is willing to kneecap the other creative branches without even realizing it.

The idea that "slop" can only be genAI art, but never code or the idea that because you aren't good at art, you can just slop it up and it'll be fine because you can focus on programming.

Like... no. What the fuck are you doing?

god I'm so tired of "AI" centrists/apologists.

"It's BAD for this, but good for this other thing I'm not good at lol. That makes it okay!"

please play in traffic.

pointer decay: you hate to see it.

or you love to see it.

it depends on what your role is, I guess.

A lot of the worst corporations out there have brilliant engineers working for them. It's a shame their talent is wasted on (mostly) evil shit.

If I ordered a pizza and told you that I "made it" because I'm the one who ordered it to my specifications, you'd look at me like I'm out of my fucking gourd and/or like I'm a liar.

And you'd be right to look at me like that because what an absurd thing to say or even imply.

"I made a thing! Here's a GitHub link!"

> checks repo
> 2 "contributors"
> 15,000 lines
> Claude is one of those "contributors"

You did not, in fact, "make a thing." You voluntold a chatbot to do it for you and took the credit.

"Did you use an LLM to document this?"

"How could you tell?"

"It looks like a fucking Stephen King novel that fell in a porta potty. I ain't readin' all that, pal."

On a somewhat related note, we need to re-hang all the doors and redo the frames in this house because of the DIY special the last people did on it all.

Why the hell was my studio door so squeaky?

I have a large loaded vinyl sheet that hangs off the door and it's pretty damn heavy, but it significantly reduces sound going into and out of the room which is important. That causes some downward force on the hinges which makes them pretty noisy.

Using the right lubricants for things that move and are supposed to continue moving is very important. WD-40 is usually not this lubricant. To me, it's for breaking a nut/bolt loose and even then, there's better stuff.

I had extremely squeaky hinges on my studio door and I had tried a teflon lubricant, but that eventually dries up. It turns out that all I needed was sewing machine oil. Just a few drops and working it in. Those hinges haven't made a peep in weeks.

Thinking that FOSS projects shouldn't disregard all the ethical issues with LLM use in projects is apparently "brigading."

Also only people who are "known" seem to matter.

Very unserious.

hello. my brain hurts.

I could probably fix it, but I'm not sure if it's worth doing. I kind of feel like if I'm going to fix it, I might as well replace the chunkier usb-mini port with a usb-c port.

I got a hold of a usb logic analyzer and it's great and all, but I just unplugged the cable and plugged it back into the usb port on the analyzer and the port itself immediately ripped itself off the board WITH the pads.

so that makes me sad.

"How can you tell I used AI tools on my readme?"

👀 I
🚫 don't
🤷 know
😜 bro

No actual person does this.

If the community wants to fork Linux, I'd encourage that, but I also know that it would be a hell of a task to fork, deslopify, and maintain security and features.

It royally sucks to see him behave this way because it doesn't give people a lot of options.

I don't have any advice. "Switch to FreeBSD/OpenBSD/whatever else" is not good advice and solves nothing for most users of Linux.

Re: Linux/Linus Torvalds and LLM contributions... what is there to be said that hasn't already been said?

I'm not just going to stop using Linux because the guy in charge is being an insensitive asshole. At this point, Linux is bigger than him and his feelings. There's an entire community of people who feel he's in the wrong on this and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the community collectively knows more about Linux than he does at this point.

There's an attempt to categorize based on having LLM functionality, allowing LLM PRs, LLM-based code reviews, having a lax policy, etc., but the biggest issue I have with the list is that it really doesn't take into consideration the "slop ratio" in the projects that it lists.

One contribution from Copilot (which could have very well been when MS fucked everyone over with VS Code earlier this year) is as bad as something fully vibe-coded to this list.

There's another thread about the open slopware lists and the issues with it. I'd quote boost it, but I'd rather just put my own thoughts out there on it.

For those who aren't aware, "open slopware" is a repository that's maintained on CodeBerg which lists all kinds of FOSS projects that involve LLM contributions/processes.

At first glance, this seemed like an okay idea if you're looking to avoid anything that's been done with LLMs, but it's way, way too broad.