I know this might sound controversial¹, but you know what's a bigger tent than a tent that lets nazis in?

A tent without nazis.

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1. If you think this is controversial, please let me know, so I can block you. Thanks. ↩︎

this can’t be a real name

“Technology” being repeated is icing on the cake (“Windows 2000, Based on NT Technology” anyone?)

>Copilot on Windows can now connect to email, create Office docs

The U.S. is not a democracy but a combination of celebrocracy, sophistocracy, plutocracy, and theocracy. Here a fascist theocrat in action:👇

bash.org #33799

<RichiH> talking of netBSD - someone has a spare toaster to test 1.6?
<mirabile> lol toaster
<mirabile> you know them :)
<RichiH> you just wait...
<RichiH> some day they will support toasters and washing machines
<Tschechow> "a toaster can be on or off, so it has at least one bit, so netbsd should boot on it."
* RichiH 's mental eye sees a toaster's heating elements glow morse code
<mirabile> lol
<zinx> they already do, you just need the right brand
<RichiH> or it could punch the toast

Are you allergic to LaTeX? This pharmacy I'm at has this allergy warning. #latex

Don't Host Your Web Server On A Vape #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/srdP33GQTcI

Did you know you could play 2048 inside U-Boot?

Video: https://ircb.dersco.re/uploads/funderscore/08b8678f945b925e

Thanks I guess to whoever implemented this \o/

special delivery from @fizzo :D

Would you look at that? I moved away from Adobe a long time ago. I changed my default program for pdf files. And they just came and changed my settings without my consent to try to insinuate themselves again.
#FuckAdobe

i think big endian isn't enough there should be a bigger endian

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:

It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.

Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Denmark has scheduled a vote on Chat Control the 14th of October. Despite not wanting to break end-to-end encryption, 🇩🇪 Germany remains both UNDECIDED and critical to defeating the proposal.

If you are German, please take action and contact your Bundestag members today via https://fightchatcontrol.de !

Microsoft attempting to force people to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has somehow resulted in a 10% increase in the market share of Windows 7 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-7-usage-skyrockets-as-users-refuse-to-upgrade-to-windows-11-in-wake-of-windows-10-end-of-support

EDIT: Before replying to this post, please see this reply about how apparently the entire increase in Win7 market share is due to like one person in Singapore installing it a zillion times https://chitter.xyz/@Vordus/115301165497461902

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#XDC2025: Full day recordings for Day 1 & 2 are now available on the TU Wien platform, and Day 3 will follow shortly. Individual talk recordings will be available on YouTube in the coming weeks. https://video.tuwien.ac.at/events/xdc

hi, security team, I keep getting fishing emails.

security team: you mean phishing?

no. fishing. I'm pretty certain.

Mesa is working to update our contributor guide. Can you guess why?

Did you guess AI?

Because if you did, you'd be right. I don't want to put anyone on blast here so please don't go digging to find the motivating MR and harass the contributor or anything like that.

But the situation was exactly what you might think. Someone ran ChatGPT on the code and asked it for suggestions on making it more performant. They applied a bunch of the changes against their local branch, tested it, and found that it gave maybe a 0.5-1.0% perf boost in some titles.

That's totally fine. I don't care what tools you use to find a bottleneck. I'll happily take more FPS, no matter who found the issue or how. If some AI assistant helps you find things no one else has found and lets us make drivers faster, great!

But that's not what happened.

What happened next is that they then tried to make it the Mesa project maintainers' job to sort through the shit ChatGPT spit out and decide what's useful and what's not and why the changes helped and whether or not they were correct. The contributor had no no idea and, more importantly, they had no desire to actually learn about the Mesa code-base or the hardware in question. They just wanted to run ChatGPT and send its suggestions towards upstream.

This is not useful. This is not contributing. It's just burning maintainer time sorting through AI hallucinations. We have enough mediocre code to review that comes from actual humans who are actually trying to learn about Mesa and help out. We don't need to add AI shit to the merge request pile. If you don't understand the patch well enough to be able to describe what it does and why it makes things faster, don't submit it.

So now we're making it really clear: If you submit the merge request, you're responsible for the code change as if you typed it yourself. You don't get to claim ignorance and "because the AI said so". It's your responsibility to do due diligence to make sure it's correct and to accurately describe the change in the commit message.

Some things shouldn't have to be explicitly written down but here we are... 😩