@dalias @burnoutqueen

yes, I get that. I also am transgender and have been smeared by Lunduke in an episode of his podcast that he dedicated talking about how I am a transgender rabbit therian and thus it could not possibly be xlibre's own community behavior that makes people not want to deal with them.

anyway I hear a lot of talking about the law and I am also autistic as fuck so pattern recognition is something I lock into very easily.

so I notice the talking points about the law are as described by Lunduke and how his misinformation has diffused around fedi, and much less debate about what is actually in it. people copy, paste and react to talking points all day on fedi.

my point is that the aspects of the law that I bring up, nobody knows about them because none of the journalists have talked about what is actually in the law and are instead turning it into a boogeyman for clicks like Lunduke did. he just did it before everyone else.

internally in alpine we have been debating what, if anything, to do about this law for almost a month now, so it is possible that things look differently to me :)

so anyway:

1. i would put money on Linux distributions with package managers being left alone. I just don't see the risk. if anything the risk is as you say, that we are complying in advance without even being confronted.

2. some distributions which have actual app stores (e.g. elementaryOS) probably will have to comply with this somehow because they have more of the right shape. i don't think that makes them evil, to any more extent than participation in capitalism is evil by default. i would rather the trans woman running the indie distro keep her income.

3. in general I think people should calm down just a little bit and engage with these legislation attempts to protect our interests as distribution maintainers. this way we aren't caught off guard. it was surprising to see that this was not on anyone's radar. I seriously wonder where LF was here, for example.

@Khrys that's called harassment

@Foxboron I saw a post of someone trying to start a harassment campaign in my feed and was just about to write this. Thank you

People are rightfully angry at age verification laws.

That doesn't justify any harassment campaigns towards *any* FOSS developers, maintainers nor contributors. Turn that anger towards something productive.

Get a grip people, holy shit.

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

@justsoup I never said it did, more that it really is a shame..

apparently from my cursory looking (please don't quote me on that) they mainly only use LLMs for code reviews ........ already bad in itself :/

I suspect they generate code now too or will do so in the future.

@karolherbst Still runs linux very comfortably ^^

@elly @TheOneDoc @lanodan @mgorny @moses_izumi it's a Fermi card (Quadro 2000M)

@elly @moses_izumi @lanodan @mgorny @TheOneDoc this message was sent from a laptop with an nvidia GPU (and no integrated or switchable graphics, so it only uses the nvidia gpu at all times), running Alpine Linux and sway. (nouveau)

@DrewNaylor @jane bwrap?

Big Endian won't tell you this but you don't actually need to chose between big- and little-endian, you can just select no endianness!

Endinaness was invented by Big Endian to sell more big-endian

@pj @elly Windows 8.1 was already bad in 2013 and caused some users to stay on 7 or quit to linux or macOS. Vista was also pretty bad. 10 went worse. 11 went way, way worse.

A new halloy release dropped! With a set of new IRCv3 features. Mainly multiline and react. And of course a bunch of other features and fixes. Really enjoying this new little client! :) https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/releases/tag/2026.5

*sigh* Dune 3D getting more exposure has inevitably attracted the vibe coding mob. As I don't want to review PRs that no one wrote, we now have a contributing policy that explicitly forbids LLM-generated PRs: https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

#dune3d

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

It's funny how this phone keeps feeling faster as it gets older.

Looks like GTK is starting to get its renderer inefficiencies sorted out, as updating Flatpak runtimes has made Tuba smoother than ever 😄 #librem5

@dos isn't that awesome? ^^

@justsoup systemd also did it

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:02 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
cc: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
In-reply-to: <2c8df0cc-938e-4036-a628-4c7f69874e0a@allard.it>

Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it> wrote:

> Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only
> allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more
> requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.

Yes.

#openbsd

@elementary coined by google