I do not understand any of this. Does that mean I am an AI? I don’t even know anymore.

It is for most people. You are welcome to create your own issues in life if you wish. But Linus Torvalds is infamous for his meticulous, detailed, thorough, and often expletive-laden code reviews, and if he is willing to review AI-generated or AI-assisted code that’s entirely up to him, there is no indication he is willing to lower his coding standards one iota. He trusts his maintainers not to bring him any shitty AI code, but he’s giving them the freedom to make that choice themselves. If they abuse it, he will punish them. There’s no doubt if you know anything about how the Linux kernel development process works.

I might be going the wrong direction of “micro” here but time is the very minimal, tiny, and traditional unix way.

For example:

$ time curl https://lemmy.ca/post/61453347 > /dev/null
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  175k    0  175k    0     0   525k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  526k

real    0m0.343s
user    0m0.030s
sys     0m0.016s

There are also a large number of other profiling outputs you can ask time to spit out by passing it the appropriate command line flags.

It’s also a gift to Russia since middle-eastern oil is effectively shut down now and the price of oil is skyrocketing, so Putin can get a fresh injection of cash into his economy.

So… the doomsday clock has run out of time, is that what you’re saying? Seems apropos.

Anything you post on the internet is public knowledge forever. End of discussion. Most people won’t care at all, in most cases almost nobody or perhaps even literally nobody will ever even see it, but the harder you try to hide it, the more the Streisand Effect will magnify it until eventually everyone knows about it.

Anyone telling you they’ll delete your data from the internet without clarifying that it is in fact impossible, is at worst deliberately lying to you usually for their own benefit, and at best making a promise they literally have zero ability to keep.

I would hope that Fediverse services will never lie to you and tell you your data is deleted, because it can’t be.

They would be. That’s why you don’t tell them. If you’re treating your insurance company as your friend not an adversary, you probably don’t understand how their profits grow year over year.

Despite our governments (well, one of our governments) the Canadian and American people still care for and look out for one another.

We have entered the era of drone technicals. Behold the future of warfare.

The rule is that the market can generally stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Even broken clocks are right twice a day. It doesn’t make them useful, they still belong in the trash.

Systemd killed my father, but it’s okay because he was Darth Vader anyway.

I think ActivityPub is closer to the right answer than ATProto, and ActivityPub’s issues (though many, as the author notes) are more manageable in the long run. I think the article makes a good analysis of the fundamental differences, but is a bit glib in referring to Piefed’s topics and discussion merging as a “joyful mess”. It’s not a mess at all. It’s making order out of the chaos, and it’s the right way to build on top of ActivityPub into something that is actually fluid enough for users to actually use.

Mailing lists were built on top of federated email in much the same way, and they formed enduring, resilient, well-structured communities, some that continue to this day (the LKML being perhaps the most notorious)

I think ATProto makes creating enduring communities too difficult, and BlackSky illustrates that perfectly. The author’s criticism of ActivityPub, on the other hand, seems to be that it makes creating communities too easy, and this results in a “mess”. I disagree, I think the mess is a necessary and inevitable part of having community. Communities are messy. They fracture and schism, they rejoin and reshape themselves. That’s normal. It is the responsibility of the software to make sense of the mess and make it presentable, and with ActivityPub, that is not only possible, it is happening. Piefed is the present example. I expect there will be more examples, and a wider variety of them, as the ecosystem continues to develop.

I think the biggest thing that ActivityPub still needs is better portability, for both users and communities, to allow moving servers more seamlessly. The “Personal Data Server” of Bluesky is not a bad concept, although I don’t love their implementation. I think ActivityPub can find a way to handle portability even better, but it doesn’t seem like it’s been a priority, and that’s fine. But it will need to happen eventually.

Americans have had business interests blowing smoke up their ass for so long they just think it’s constantly foggy. Canada’s not much better, but we do our best given our proximity to source of this madness.

I’m adding “AI Bros” to the list of people it is morally acceptable to punch at any time. Current list: Nazis, AI Bros.

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Anarchy is the opposite of what they want. Anarchy means no person is artificially elevated into hierarchy over others, and then where would they be? Treated equal? To the rest of us plebs? What a horrifying thought!

People are surprisingly very good at rebuilding. We hate doing it, we drag our heels and refuse to until we’re left no other choice, but we’re generally very good at it when we’re forced to.

The Hindenburg disaster killed 35 people. I can say, without the faintest hesitance of doubt, that AI has already killed more people than that. I don’t know what kind of disaster it might cause that would be enough to do anything to stop this race towards AI, but I can guarantee it’s going to take something VASTLY more horrific than the Hindenburg disaster, and it may well be something fundamentally existential to the human race, and the further we pursue it, the worse it gets.

Unlike the age of airships, this Pandora’s box will not just go away if we simply decide close the box again.

Maybe he should’ve thought twice before wearing his “friend” Mr. hashtag-TeamPutin Ovechkin’s gifted laces. While he’s fighting his invisible battles, Ukrainians have been fighting very visible battles for over a decade. Embarrassing choices? Makes sense there’s an embarrassing performance to go with it. Don’t accept gifts from Putin supporters, they’re probably either poisoned, listening devices, or cursed. Apparently these were the latter.