It’s release day for Debian 13 “trixie”! Across the world, the release, publicity, images, and FTP teams are making their final preparations for the new stable release. #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

Universal #EInk Solutions, which aims to provide a consistent API for driving #epaper displays 🖥️

https://nlnet.nl/project/Universal-EInk/

As someone who cannot concentrate for long periods on bright screens and the owner of an e-ink monitor as well as an e-reader, this is something I'm looking forward too as it'll increase hackability and enable the development of more #OpenHardware devices!

(On a related note, I also learnt during the course of the meeting that #Modos is also an NLnet-funded project)

🧵 4/n

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14

To err is human; to if err != nil { return nil, err } is golang

A post about how I wrote maybe the most fucked up way possible to run Doom , but on the Amiga: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73001.html

Been thinking about our vibe-coded future. Software is already so janky, but we're heading for a whole new level of jank, where things seem to work on the surface until you dig a little deeper, but try a slightly less common use case, and it all breaks down.

Computers already often don't work, but at least there's still a sense that they are _supposed_ to work, that someone messed up if they don't. That notion may seem quaint soon. Instead they'll be fickle spirits who may cooperate if it pleases them, but only ever temporarily.

I wonder if we'll get a counter reaction, "deterministic software", "built by humans", "AI-free".