https://jmtd.net/log/lanzarote/
A stream-of-conciousness blog post to get back into the habit, discussing our holiday to Lanzarote, Autistic Burnout, the UK special needs education system, Pandoc parsers, the AI control problem and the issue of copyright and LLMs. #software #debian
https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/video/
The video recording and slides for my FOSDEM 2026 talk (Java Memory Management in Containers) are available. I hope to write a proper postmortem blog post soon. #containers #java
Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI.
This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.
POLL: Fedi people, do you have a website or blog or personal wiki or some other kind of online Thing That You Control Yourself that other people can find you on that isn't paid for / maintained by someone else, meaning YOUR THING is at a web address like you.whatever, not at you.someonelse.whatever or someoneelse.whatever/you, I mean are you paying the tenner a year or however much for a whole-ass domain name all for yourself (or for you and a small group of IRL friends), and if not do you want to be, THE POLL, and here is the guidance and elaboration on options:
1) No and I don't want my own site, Fedi and/or other social media scratches that itch for me just fine and I'm content with this arrangement
2) No, but I have a Vague Yearning or a Curious Itch and I wonder sometimes what it would be like, but so far it's just feelings and not plans, I haven't taken any concrete steps towards making My Own Website a real thing that exists, but I'm comfortable saying that I would probably *like* it to exist some day when I'm ready
3) No, but more of a Not Yet than a no; maybe I've bought a domain name and not put anything on it yet, or I haven't yet bought a domain name but I'm researching my options (whether I do it in a lazy few minutes here and there or in focused making-notes sort of study, both count for the purposes of this question), I've spent some time thinking about this With Intent, and I feel less "*wouldn't* this be nice" and more "*won't* this be nice" about this endeavour
4) Yes I own at least one domain name, come on Dan this is Fedi, and at least one of my domains even have websites or services associated with them
BOOST THIS TOOT to get an INCREDIBLY INACCURATE IMPRESSION of how many people have and/or want websites and a more accurate picture of how many people On Fedi have and/or want websites
I’d love it if the default could also handle jumping to (and back from) a cross-referenced manual. (Neo)vim does this, but IMHO would be a bad default for other reasons.
I’d like to see the default man viewer have some more quality of life features, especially for newer folks
a few thoughts about clarifying man pages https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/
No Boilerplate
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.
Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.
You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
