Founder of SourceHut, designer of the Hare programming language, original author of Sway and wlroots, and much more. I blog about politics and free software.
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Last Notes npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Looking for wiki software which is slop free _including_ its dependency tree npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Need a logo for #AlpineBSD, any artsy types want to take a crack at it? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault I think the only viable high level programming language that isn't slop or lisp at this point is... Lua, Java, and quickjs? Is that it? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault #alpinebsd updates npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault First #AlpineBSD install report from @nprofile…c7c7! npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault What SSGs are around that are slop free _including_ in their dependency trees? Zine is one, others? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Been cooking something up for a few weeks npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault I got sent this really cool project: npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Why is Hacker News like that? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Here it is, now I *do* have a list! npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault So, I guess I need to add that in addition to being slop-free, Vim Classic is explicitly antifascist and does not associate with fascists or care for endorsements from them. npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Draft proposal to ban the use of AI assistance on SourceHut: npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault @nprofile…kesx I got an email this morning npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault The Nazi laptop company leaked my full name, phone number, and billing address in a hack. Nice one. npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault I've just finished rolling out one of the longest-awaited features on #SourceHut: navigating around projects on each service. A git repository, for instance, now has links back to the project page it belongs to, plus the related mailing lists and bug trackers, other git/hg repos, and so on. npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault AI in Linux npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault I spent like two hours today racking my brain for a decent way to build a simple frontend/backend website that would inspire some joy rather than just be digging through slop, and... I just couldn't. Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, even .NET, it's all just infested with slop. I looked at Rust and the predominant web thing is Actix which is... mostly written by Claude, now. Linux is slop and Linus espouses the now-default view among leaders in FOSS and tech, which is ethics are not up for discussion, so fall in line and keep up with the changing world. The major BSDs are slop. It's all fucking slop, everywhere, too much to fork, software no one can live without. npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Honestly... I might need to find/start a support group for people with anti-AI sentiments. Is there anyone else here who needs that, and would want to join, or help build it, or knows something that already exists? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Is it practical to write Rust without a language server? npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Did anyone visiting the Hare meetup at FOSDEM take a picture of that silly slide which said "Welcome Crustaceans" with the Go mascot npub1ty8z79jztunnrakucwwgjv0kpxmml9lsfuc0xl0kk6kh32mzx5xq935pv7 Drew DeVault Looking for someone near #Amsterdam who drives an automatic and is open to swapping cars with me for a week in August, so that I can take a road trip without worrying about charging my EV. Any takers? 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