Anyone thinking about walking away might be interested in Haiku OS, which does not accept AI code

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/organization/policies/

I followed Veronica down this rabbit hole. The server part was beautifully easy.

But sadly, there are no Linux AIM clients - pidgin dropped AIM support 8 years ago.

I compiled an 8 year old version of pidgin from source and it ran but seems hardcoded to point to AIM’s official servers (which no longer exist).

Might be good to be able to block based on hashtag too…

I’ll probably move the ‘Set my flair’ function into the Membership area too, soon.

Fuck off Jack

“AI is a tool” is a thought-terminating cliche. The phrase is intended to foreclose other ways of framing the discussion.

It doesn’t do it in comments, just when you make a post.

Apparently Bun was always an especially bad example of how to use Zig.

From https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

The Zig team regularly checks in on our users’ projects. We read source code to find out how the language is affecting users, we test changes to see how problematic breakage might be, and we check for performance regressions.

We became increasingly horrified at the programming practices we saw in Bun’s codebase. Hacks on top of hacks. Abuse of assertions. Most of all, recklessly speeding past feature after feature with very little time taken for reflection and elimination of bugs and technical debt. Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs. Now, it’s not our business to police what our users do, but you may have noticed people screaming in our faces about memory safety constantly. You can imagine how we might want to put some social distance between ourselves and a project whose irresponsible software engineering practices invite the exact kind of criticism that people are eager to level.

We made futile attempts to guide them towards better programming practices. There were a few exceptional heroes who did their very best in a dysfunctional company. You know who you are. But you can’t stop a rising tide.

By this time, we all felt at ZSF that Bun was a net liability, and this was before RoboBun became the #1 contributor.

Yeah

YSK PieFed automatically strips that out.

Edit: posts only, not in comments.

Yes it’s intentional.

Jinja templates get really slow if you have many levels of {% include %} inside loops, like when showing many comments or posts at once.

Or the moon icon in that place?

It’s not released yet but is coming very very soon. :)

Thanks for the idea.

Yep. Assume the worst, imo

Probably although I bet there’s some National voters too. National’s unpopularity is at historic levels so there’s lots up for grabs.

Ahh so bots are finding subdomains by scraping SSL certificates?

Already! :-O

Is there any point starting this up again?

Seems like everything that needs to be said has been said.

afaik it was always a land-grab / gold rush mentality - capture the market, then figure out how to make money later. Now, it’s later.

Today it’s 5914, 106 more than March.

Stick around for more exciting updates. Or you could just look at the direction of the graph and get the idea.