Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Sure am glad I didn't relearn emacs and just stuck with a pre-slopped fork of vim.

Cool, apparently Lowes and Walmart have such paranoid surveillance/anti-fraud/firewall measures that I can't actually order anything or create an account.

this, of course, means that unless and until eli zaretskii will be removed as the maintainer of the gnu emacs, no decent people should continue to use the software.

@kevingranade @cwebber They value the ability to fire and replace all their workers more than they value the quality of their product, and more than they value money.

SIGHhhhhhh.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-01/newsom-vetoes-bills-to-block-federal-immigration-agents-from-state-employment

AI Bros just wanna own slaves. Its really that simple.

@drahardja you mean, once a piece of software is done we just… stop touching it? Sounds bizarre, is that even possible?

I think software can remain static and non-updated if (and only if) the problem domain it tries to solve remains static.

The key to stable software, then—and this is so obvious it’s painful even to say—is to stop asking it to do more and more. Once it covers a good amount of its problem domain, stop adding to its problem domain.

Part of allowing software to mature is creating strategic interfaces and ways to let new software *extend* the behaviors of mature software without changing the mature software’s problem domain. UNIX folks knew how to design for composition way back when; in many ways, we need to remember how to do that once again.

Sometimes it seems like it’s almost a bragging contest to cram more and more features into bloated software. Perhaps a better way forward is to define *down* the core problem domain that your program is supposed to solve, and then design interfaces that let other software extend it without making your software obsolete.

#FridayDevAdvice

free software is important, but it is only the beginning. it is less than the bare minimum

all software must, at the very minimum, be free software, plus:
- code of conduct that bans transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism, gen-ai, ... (not an exhaustive list, as there are many problematic things i'm not even thinking of right now)
- contribution policy banning gen-ai
- once it grows: have a resilient community around it that won't succumb to the nazi bar effect
- be immune to corporate takeover

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117582291834400512

Here’s a thought worth saying out loud.

…and of course I think immediately if TeX, whose version number does not just increase forever but instead asymptotically approaches pi, on the principle that software should •converge• rather than •grow•.

(The software dates from 1978. The latest release is version 3.141592653, released in 2021.)

The myth that software needs constant updates has utterly undermined the principles of free software and immensely empowered sloppers and other bad actors.

The whole idea was supposed to be that, once you get something released as free software, you have it forever, and don't have to care about the people who made it selling out and betraying you.

That was like the whole distinction from proprietary software, where we knew it would always end that way.

And somehow we let the worst people in out spaces convince us that we have to accept the same from free software.

So I boosted a slopped cartoon about chess pieces cuddling. Turns out that account is just a constant stream of slop and one of them just happened to go a bit viral.

The OG artist of the chess carton makes a lot more wholesome and cute comics.

It makes me angry that the slop version is getting spread so far and wide while the originals aren't.

Go take a break from your and enjoy these: https://www.wawawiwacomics.com/comics

@Gargron @sstephenson The reply is illuminating.

"i went back and read the gnu manifesto and the sections on philosophy at the fsf website, something i haven't done for quite some time. i was convinced I would find something to support the idea that the fsf's mission, while focused on software, is in support of the greater mission of human liberty. but you are right. i was gravely mistaken."

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00197.html

TIL that Chuck Schumer's daughter is a lead lobbiest for Open AI. (Gee, I wonder why they hired her?)

That man does not deserve to be in leadership.

Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/2026/09/11/openai-chuck-schumer-daughter-amazon/

Help in testing the release candidates is much appreciated: https://dev.phosh.mobi/docs/releases/testing/

This is simple on @mobian  and @nura as nightly builds are available for these distros via separate repositories.
These distributions also usually contain the release candidates early in their #unstable and #edge distribution channels as well.

Ofc our BengalOS images contain the changes as well as they always pick up latest Phosh.

If you tested something, hit a problem and don't know where to put the issue, please add a comment to https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/meta-phosh/-/work_items/51

Reports of successful tests are super useful too as they give us confidence in the release.

#phosh #ReleaseTesting #BengalOS #ReleaseTesting

“A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code : r/ClaudeCode”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_year_after_the_100_ai_mandate_nobody/

Am i allowed to say "I old you so" now? Because I told you so.

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I’m not interested in roleplaying with you that there are threats to FOSS and that those theoretical threats make what I’m proposing impossible

there are real threats to FOSS, right now. they’re in the house with us. the men who told us they’d protect us from threats to FOSS all failed to defend FOSS from anything other than the thought experiments they came up with to manipulate us.

those men took those thought experiments so seriously that now emacs, my editor, has an official maintainer who is proudly pro-slavery. that’s how hard those men ignored real threats to play in a fantasy land where good slavers exist and they must have software freedom.

those men and their organizations have all failed.

at this point, I see no reason to continue to pretend that any pro-slavery, pro-LLM, pro-war, pro-bigotry variant of the GPL is recognizably the GPL

GNU and the FSF can feel free to make their own license under a different name, to make it clear that theirs is a proprietary software license that does not protect the freedoms of users or contributors, and which is incompatible with the GPL

my code will be licensed under version 3 of the GPL, not that I have any choice

my code will be incompatible with any corrupted variants of the GPL, including the one being perpetuated by GNU and the FSF. I said what I said.

if these fuckers want a schism, we can give them a fucking schism