https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00279.html
I just submitted mine, I hope one of the sane options wins. Mine would require a 3:1 majority which might be unlikely, here's to hoping. Though I could live with Proposal C too.
Ethics aside, we can clearly no longer deny the utility of necromancy. Perhaps a year ago, when the pathetic shambling of the animated dead so often made a hollow mockery of our arts. But now! Incantations that once took weeks of toil can be wrested from their tormented souls in mere minutes!
Without the awesome power of the newly dead coursing through our veins, how are we to solve the great problems of our age, like the mysterious disappearance of so many of our elderly and sick friends, or the festering piles of rotten flesh that now clog our streets and homes?
If you still have qualms about using the large soul providers, you can always obtain your own local, free range specimens, although of course they won’t obey quite as faithfully as ones from the leading charnel houses.
Honestly, do you want to be left behind?
"AI" doesn't "escape sandboxes" or "commit cybercrimes." Careless software developers write software that can do that, then run it without proper industry safeguards that have existed for decades, then get off the hook for the consequences because yall keep letting them claim "ai did it." No it fucking didn't. Stop personifying LLM agents. Stop letting others personify LLM agents. Call them on their bullshit and don't let this nonsense spread.
About LLM, AI companies, the environment, the climate crisis.
In the context of the huge discussion about AI in #Debian, I wrote that email:
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5742777.MHq7AAxBmi@turnagra
Bahnhof #Minden hat auch nur noch ein Bezahlklo. Eine Frau stand unentschlossen davor, hab sie gefragt ob sie da ansteht, sie war so "nein nein". Hab ihr angeboten, dass ich gehe und ihr die Tür aufhalte, damit sie nicht zahlen muss und sie hat etwas schüchtern genickt. Glaube sie musste sehr dringend, aber konnte es sich nicht leisten mal eben 1€ dafür auszugeben. Bezahlklos sind so ein Mist.
Pinkeln muss einfach kostenlos sein. Immer und überall! 🚽🧻
Programmers: Mom, can we add logical expressions in Unix shells?
Mom: No, we have logical expressions at home.
Logical expressions at home: An executable named [ that pretends to be an operator.
I think a lot about bell hooks writing that the first act of violence society demands of men is to cut out their own softness:
"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. "
Now featuring a shark, for some reason? #Eclipse2026
read something about someone using an LLM to write their own father's obituary and its just like.... genuinely die
Zusammen mit Freunden haben wir eben mal in die `ISO 12312-2` Norm "Augen- und Gesichtsschutz - Sonnenbrillen und ähnlicher Augenschutz - Teil 2: Filter für die direkte Beobachtung der Sonne" reingeschaut.
Das kann man bei libgen finden :)
Dort gibt es zwei nice Anhänge, einer der explizit Schweißschutzfilter erwähnt, und dann noch AnhangB mit einem Praxisleitfaden.
Quote:
> Filter mit der Schutzstufe W12
sollten ausreichend sein, um das Auge zu schützen...
in which the author of xfwl4, XFCE's Wayland implementation, tells us exactly how much his principles are worth https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4
Yes it fucking is, and I am tired of explaining why.
I have so many thoughts about being a man in this day and age and I think it's hard but one thing I'm experiencing with my old friends is that it's becoming more normal calling each other "brother" and saying "I love you" and honestly that means the world to me
And let me say it loud and clear, I'm not going to wait for World Men's Day or whatever the fuck it's called - dear men:
You are important. We need you. The new world we're trying to build desperately needs you. Your masculine qualities. Your strength. Your anger. Your passion.
You are not a problem. You are not a liability. You are not a second-rate human. If anyone tries to tell you that your masculinity makes you less valuable, destroy them. They are the enemy. You are beautiful. We are one.
Be here now, love your sisters and your brothers, fight the system, and your instincts will help set us free.
Also, just in case it needs to be said explicitly - trans men, welcome to our flock, I love you.