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There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything. Trust yourself. You are enough.

colton.dev/blog/curing-...

There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything. Trust yourself. You are enough.

colton.dev/blog/curing-...

I'm using this shell shortcut a lot - you can use Alt+. to insert the last argument from your previous command into the command you're currently typing.

#cli #shell #linux #unix

Learning Basic Electronics By Building FireFlies | theapache64 From missing real fireflies to learning basic electronics and building my own blinking "fireflies"

Learning basic electronics by building fireflies

a64.in/posts/learni...

#blog #electronics

"Great news, boss! We invented this new tool that allows nontechnical people to write code in English! Now anyone can deploy applications, and we don't have to hire all those expensive developers!"

"Wow, show it to me!"

"OK here it is. We call it COBOL."

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429...

Generative AI Policy - Asahi Linux Documentation None

"It is the opinion of the Board that Large Language Models (LLMs), herein referred to as Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use as software engineering tools, particularly in the Free and Open Source Software movement."

asahilinux.org/docs/project...

#llm #ai #genai #linux

Simplicity is hard work. But in the long haul the person with a simpler system is gonna wipe the plate with you. Because they can change things when you are struggling to push elephants around.

-- Rich Hickey

dwl dwm for Wayland

dwl - dwm for Wayland

A hackable (~3200 line single .c file implementation) compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

codeberg.org/dwl/dwl

#linux #wayland #wlroots

Rubenerd: Being optimistic for technology This was a bit of a ramble, but I had to get it off my chest.

Being optimistic for technology

rubenerd.com/being-optimi...

#blog #technology

AI: Over-Promise + Under-Perform = Disillusionment and Blowback Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped. The most self-defeating way to launch a new product is to over-promise it...

AI: Over-Promise + Under-Perform = Disillusionment and Blowback

Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped.

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/07/ai-o...

#blog #ai #genai #llm

Type cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear the Voice of God.

What to expect from Debian/trixie

Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025.

michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/07...

#blog #linux #debian

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom GrapheneOS offers some of the best privacy and security features of any smartphone operating system, but is it too effective at what it does?

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS - I say that’s freedom

Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying [...]

www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-gr...

#privacy #surveillance #android #grapheneos

Tailwind is the worst of all worlds

colton.dev/blog/tailwin...

#blogs #webdev #css #html

Tailwind is the worst of all worlds

colton.dev/blog/tailwin...

#blogs #webdev #css #html

I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...

A tsunami of burnout and quitting, both quiet and loud, is on the horizon, but it's taboo to recognize it or mention it. That the system is broken because it breaks us is the taboo that is frantically enforced at all levels of narrative control.

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-qu...

Why a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page

endtimes.dev/why-your-web...

#blog #webdev #webperf #javascript

The post shows a comparison between two moments in tech history. It mentions the 1994 Pentium FDIV bug, where a bug caused inaccuracies in 1 in 9,000,000,000 calculations, leading to a massive recall after Intel downplayed it. The tweet contrasts this with 2025, stating that it is now normal for tech companies to sell software that is frequently inaccurate or dishonest, often failing at simple calculations. The post is written by Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io).

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Feeding slop is an act of war

It's rude to show AI output to people

distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

#blog #ai #llm

right to root access right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device's bootloader (to provide root access) upon consumer request.

If you own a computing device outright, you should be able to make any level of software modification you desire. hardware manufacturers should not be allowed to absolutely restrict distribution of software to their own channels under the guise of safety.

medhir.com/blog/right-t...

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

notashelf.dev/posts/curse-...

#blog #programming #softwaredevelopment

We are destroying software

antirez.com/news/145

#blog #programming #hacking #softwaredevelopment

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

Using zip bombs to protect your server

idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb...

#blog #web #selfhosting

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

What if we made advertising illegal?

simone.org/advertising/

#blog #tech

LLMs and the framing of inevitability

tomrenner.com/posts/llm-in...

#blog #llm #ai

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

-- Douglas Crockford

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

What if we made advertising illegal?

simone.org/advertising/

#blog #tech

Measurement and Numbers Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Measurement and Numbers

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/measure...

#blog #tech

Over half of the time you spend working on a project is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you.

-- Richard P. Gabriel

Rubenerd: Ask Ruben: do you use LLMs to write posts? No.

Ask Ruben: do you use LLMs to write posts?

rubenerd.com/ask-rubenerd...

#blog #tech #ai