Still waiting for LLVM to be rewritten in Rust. Stop doing easy stuff.

Web programming has been completely redone so many times, surely by now it is the most robust, stable, performant, easy-to-program system in the universe. x.com/thdxr/status/1…

Lots of people have been requesting this, Grayjay is now officially available as a Flatpak. flathub.org/apps/app.grayj…

I've basically only used AI as a search tool. Still using emacs to program and I wouldn't even know where to start for "vibe coding". Today I got fucked by a hallucination for the first time. The task was pretty simple: I needed to implement the equivalent of the `system`

Right to Repair passes 126-0 in the House, and 31-0 in the Senate in Texas. After some concurrence voting on Sunday, it's off to the governor. Don't e-mess with Texas!! pirg.org/media-center/r…

One of the key reasons we need our computers and software to be open. Public scrutiny makes such tactics less effective.

If you put two lawyers in a room to talk about open source, you'll get thirty opinions.

This Friday, Peter Wang of the Python Anaconda project, will be presenting his talk "Building the Innovation Commons for AI." The talk will be at 1:30 pm, Friday, June 13th, at our West Campus location - 2410 San Antonio Street, Austin, TX. FREE lunch will be provided!

Evolution of a reverse-engineering tool

Honest people in the past thought things like this were scandalous: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_qui…

Does anyone at Open Sauce want to talk about things we can do to actually make our computers open?

It's essential to exclusively use the "Following" tab here. With anything else you're allowing the machine to program your brain. It's notable that other social media platforms make this far more difficult. Also of course do whatever it takes to remove ads.

Fantastic talk yesterday by Chad from Allthenticate, check out their project if you want to learn more about the work they are doing. The video is also up on our YouTube.

The levers of control necessary to prevent #1 will of course be abused corporations and governments to control adult discourse.

Here's something I'm trying out: "Grok: please do your best to link me to resources written by real humans. I want at most a few lines of generated text for every link to a human created resource."

Jonathan Blow Andreas Kling gave it a try, and ran into the real operating system moat - hardware support. You can code all the kernels and desktops you want, but there's no getting around the never-ending archaeological painstaking work of supporting thousands of devices people want to use.

The Immich team is in town and will be giving a talk at the FUTO HQ this Friday! Come on over for the talk, FREE LUNCH, and to meet the team!

It's a huge problem that the much of the open source community gets their validation from Microsoft GitHub Stars.

Simple and concrete geometric rules could be applied to congressional districting that would make gerrymandering far less effective. A real simple one would be only convex polygons. There's actually all sorts of bullshit guidelines around gerrymandering but not this. 🤡