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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • That review hit the nail on the head: Why do all these people feel like they have to hide if they aren’t doing anything wrong?

    They know what they’re doing is wrong. They are doing it anyway. They want you to believe they are “just following orders” or “just following the money” but they know what they’re doing. They are not your neighbor, your family, your coworker. Maybe they were once, but they’ve sold their soul and they are not that anymore.

    These people are irredeemable. They are the enemy of every good person on the planet, and the sooner everyone accepts that, the sooner we can do what is necessary to stop them. Fascism comes in all shapes and sizes and colors, it wears all sorts of flags and clothes, but it’s still fascism down to the roots, it will kill or convert everything it touches into a tool for its own use, and it will use those tools to destroy everything good and kind in the world. Nevermind the woke mind-virus, this is the fascist mind-virus and it’s absolutely real, we’ve seen it before, and we’ve seen what it can do.

    We must fight it again. They want us to feel helpless and hopeless, but we’re not. We won last time, and we will win again. But be prepared to fight hard, because we’ll need to.



  • As a senior developer, my most productive days are genuinely when I remove a lot of code. This might seem like negative productivity to a naive beancounter, but in fact this is my peak contribution to the software and the organization. Simplifying, optimizing, identifying what code is no longer needed, removing technical debt, improving maintainability, this is what requires most of my experience and skill and contextual knowledge to do safely and correctly. AI has no ability to do this in any meaningful way, and code bases filled with mostly AI generated code are bound to become an unmaintainable nightmare (which I will eventually be paid handsomely to fix, I suspect)









  • I get accused of being a bot all the time now because I still enjoy writing long-form posts and, y’know, contributing what I can to the state of human knowledge, or what remains of it anyway. I can’t blame people for being defensive about it. It’s the AIs themselves I’m offended by, they’re the ones doing wrong. We’re all just trying to cope with the avalanche of unverified garbage they’re putting out. It’s digital pollution.






  • I think we can all agree it’s probably a bad idea.

    Does that mean you shouldn’t? Maybe. But maybe not. Sometimes it’s fun to do something “wrong”, because you want to, and maybe you’ll really enjoy it anyway. Maybe you’ll learn a lot about why it’s a bad idea, and maybe you’ll find those learnings enrich your life and give you stories to tell. I’m not trying to recommend this at all, I’m just saying you should consider it from all angles and outcomes before you make a decision, especially if this is something he really wants to do for whatever reason. Life is for living, it’s not for making a series of optimal choices to result in the highest score. Experiences, both good and bad, are their own reward. And as long as nobody’s going to get hurt, and you go into it with your eyes open and an understanding of the risks and potential downfalls, and do what you can to mitigate and protect against them as much as you can, maybe it’s something you can try.

    If it’s really something you’re not comfortable with, and he is, well then you two are going to have to have a long and hard talk about it and come to some mutually agreeable compromise. But even if it is objectively a bad idea, you also need to think about whether he’s just naive and is going to hate it, or whether it’s going to make him happy that he tried it, and whether it’s an experience he needs to have in his life. Meanwhile, is it going to cause you resentment if you go there and hate it and he loves it? Will he listen to you if you decide you really do hate it and don’t want to continue?

    That’s not something anyone can answer for you, but it has little to do with whether it’s a bad idea and much more to do with what both of you want out of life.


  • PikaOS is Debian based, and they’ve built the deps they need for Steam in 32-bit, so it’s not the end of the world AFAIK. GloriousEggroll seems to be part of it too, so if any refugees are looking for something not Fedora-based there you go. Although his efforts for now seem focused more on Nobara (which is Fedora-based) maybe this will cause some shake-ups there too. I can see Pika is already picking up speed from this though, the Discord is super active.

    Even if Fedora doesn’t ever drop support I think even considering the possibility is shaking people’s confidence in using it as a base going forward, sort of like how Unity’s quickly-walked-back disasters drove people irrevocably towards Godot and other engines. Arch and Arch-based distros are probably starting to look much more appealing too.