Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

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Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard, born to be great, is going to get told to "review this AI-generated patchset" for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin."

"Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were *artists*. They wrote code like jazz musicians - full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
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"The thing I hate the most about AI and it's ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul... Brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots."

"You want real connection to code? You *earn* that. You dig in. You wrestle with segfaults at 3 in the morning. You pace your apartment muttering about pointer arithmetic. [...] You write your own damn notes instead of snapping lecture slides and pretending it counts. When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. [...] You don’t *know* your code. You’re babysitting it." ~ https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/ (asterisks inserted for italicization)
#AI #programming #learning #fortitude

@arstechnica Quick link to help a bit: go to https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and disable "Gemini Apps Activity".

I think it's time I make the jump away from #Android. But I could do with some help on what to do... ack!
I actually have a bunch of #DIY parts around to put together a chunky #RaspberryPi -based phone. I'll just need a small (USB?) modem first... can anyone help? #platformDecay #surveillance #Google #electronics

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/
https://social.librem.one/@golemwire/114815681586963801

@arstechnica I think it's time I make the jump away from Android.

@btp Oh hey @rl_dane , fitting reply to run into you again XD
I was gonna say something like "Or really, <anything> on a Windows machine is a pain in the <anything>" but everyone here seems to have the same idea :)

@kottke In the public view, "concentration camp" is associated with cruelty such as torture (c.f. Nazi Germany).

@btp That was me today.

@travellator2 I have my gripes with Wayland but it doesn't seem broken per se

@travellator2 What makes you think that?

I hope #Nvidia goes out of business, at this point. Another crash and another lost session. #Linux #Wayland
I'm either gonna downgrade ("downgrade") from this expensive PC, or I'm gonna see if I can replace its socketed CPU with one with (non-Nvidia) integrated graphics.

Reminded of how the things of the world don't satisfy ( #Christianity ) ultimately.

I've been trying out this Kagi search engine. A friend highly recommended it.
https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/114802956951088642

(500 chars on the dot :D)