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This is a post about how I personally use AI.

If you have a functioning Internet connection, you've probably seen someone use the word "slop" to refer to something they don't like, especially if that something was produced by AI.

The word 'techbro' has seen a massive uptake in the past few years (source: trust me), driven in large part by the massive hype machine that is the AI industry.

Blowing the stack is one of the few ways to kill a Rust program that you can't really recover from.

So recently I've been hearing a lot of buzz about this new operating system that a bunch of my friends have tried out.

A virtual cat running arouund a window, chasing a pointer.

I use full-disk encryption on my laptop because I'm a bit of a control nerd like that.

Recent advances in the field of 'biological intelligence' have been impressive.

NOTE: I'm explicitly not going to address all the events that led to rms resigning and then rejoining the FSF board.

NOTE 2022-10-02: Hello again, Hacker News.

I'm one of those people that actually, genuinely enjoys using Linux.

Patreon's core way of letting content creators interact with their patrons is by effectively hosting a blog that's ACLed so that only people who pay enough money can read the posts; patrons can also see a stream of all of the new posts across creators.

Stepping on the rake Like many window manager nerds, I have a status bar (in my case, waybar) that shows the artist and title of the song I'm currently listening to. cmus has a command-line tool that (among other things) will format information for you, so

About 8 months ago, I decided that I'd gotten tired of macOS.

(This post is going to have some amount of spoilers for This Is How You Lose The Time War, so if you don't wan't to be spoiled on that, stop reading here.