I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.
Only an AI can detect how expensive-looking your clothes are and raise the price based on that.
One of the things I immediately liked about cargo is that (so far as I’ve seen thus far) the source is already there, without vendoring, in ~/.cargo/registry. In Debian, to get the source it’s apt-get source $package and as an end user it’s super easy to build things from those source packages if you want to.
Yeah, the personal risk doesn’t worry me as much as the idea that it might eventually get to be as bad as npm.
I did not mean to suggest that crates.io is “bad”. It’s obviously quite useful. It’s just that I would like it better if there were some kind of systematic review of newly submitted packages by someone other than their authors, and I would like rust better if its standard library included a random number generator.
I would suggest that Debian is quite good, and is indeed something special, but that’s another story.
Trusting an organization because it has a long track record of being trustworthy is “invalid”? You guys are pretty weird.
I got the compiler and whatever comes with it from the debian package manager, which has existed for much longer than has crates.io and has had fewer malicious packages get into it.
The AI bubble is so ridiculously huge at this point that I think we’re all living inside the AI bubble.
i3c updates RTC updates bpf updates gfs2 updates configfs updates MM updates non-MM updates more MM updates misc updates
In total 183 “updates” for all the things. It seems to me that in times past these summaries normally gave us slightly better descriptions of what had changed.
Sorry ma’am we have a warrant to suck your blood.
If it was something like “our policy is to use AI where it’s useful, so we’ve used it to reformat all the documentation” that wouldn’t worry me. Going “AI first” for “faster innovation” to “unlock the next stage of rsyslog’s evolution” is just not what I’m looking for in a logging daemon.
At least for my home network I’m going to just go with plain old GNU syslogd.
Anyone else suddenly wondering what other syslog implementations are available? Apparently the big one at the moment is syslog-ng.
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uname -srv
Linux 6.18.0-kbal #111 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 1 10:26:08 EST 2025
Ah yes that’s all fine but the real secret is the meaning of that #111. (I only thought to find out a couple days ago — apparently I’ve done 111 kernel builds on this machine.)
As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.
That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn’t seem like a problem to me. That’s just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.
Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I’ve been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.
Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn’t they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.
Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.