@craftyguy @justsoup the semi-colon was specifically invented by Thompson and Ritchie for the C programming language, everyone knows that :D

One thing I learned while working on FOSS is to never take "not working" for an answer.

It's FOSS! You have the right to modify everything! You can try to get that thing working, even if you don't succeed, you can document what you tried so the next person can refer to that :D

So somebody took a couple of LWN's recent conference articles, threw them into an LLM blender with some other stuff, and produced ... this ...

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-kernels-future-tab-integrates-rust-navigates-ai-boosts-collaboration/

Google News propagates that stuff - something they have long refused to do with LWN's original material. But somehow we're supposed to continue to exist to feed material into that machine?

Sorry, having a grumpy day.

@GossiTheDog what in the entire world

Alright, following some discussion in the Spade Discord we have an "LLM policy" that I'm very happy with

https://gitlab.com/spade-lang/spade/-/merge_requests/556

TL;DR: No LLM contributions please, they
- Take maintainer time for less reward than human contributions
- Are questionable from a copyright perspective
- Have ethical concerns

@nullagent Thank you for adding alt text to your posts, really appreciate it :)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@evemassacre/115888801835574185

AI bubble barons are getting pretty desperate it seems.

@nullagent Alt text: an ICE officer running and then falling on ice, then running back to their car. A bunch of people are recording

So anyways, share these videos of ICE falling on their asses.

ICE on ICE violence is good for everyone.

As the 2020 Seattle protests proved statistically, constant protests, online mockery, the physically demanding labor of being a fascist pig and the constant never ending resistance really hurts their feelings.

#FuckICE #ICEonICE

@justsoup they were designed specifically only for the C programming language, and later other programming languages started using them as well.

@justsoup semicolons are things you use to delimit instructions in C

Example:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  int i = 27;
  printf("hi");
  return 3+i;
}

service announcement: postmarketOS now has a binary repo for loongarch64
...but it is not usable at the moment because Alpine's repo is broken :(
Once that's resolved, you can now install pmOS on any* loongarch64 device by selecting the generic-loongarch64 device with e.g. the os-installer interface, flashing it to a USB stick, selecting it in the UEFI and you should be booting right into the installer :)

* Loongson-3 series with new-world compatible firmware

Heads up for edge users: alpine edge repositories are temporarily broken due to the ICU upgrade:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/13/icu-upgrades/

@elly generate excel formulas

@fossdd @domi Hopefully I won't have to deal with this nonsense anymore once I get myself an mnt reform

@fossdd @domi I'm in this exact situation :P card too old for anything, even nouveau doesn't support it very well because most work (understandably, these folks typically do this in their freetime or something) moved to the newer cards

@domi Yeah same, that very same computer I use also came in an AMD FirePro variant... I wonder why I didn't get that one instead

@domi I can't even use the integrated intel GPU (it's a laptop), because hp thought it would be a very cool idea to just disable it electrically. So I have an intel GPU in theory, but it's hardwired to off for dear life. And everything display is hardwired to the nvidia gpu

@domi In general anything that dares use that GPU either ends up not launching at all or it's unusable and has a whole bunch of graphic artifacts