pimeys

Just waiting for one that requires you to compile one Monad to define your whole distro. Types all the way.

Then I’m writing a blog post how your Linux distro is a burrito.

I think even Samsung was funding it for a while. They took a long time building libraries supporting rendering on X11 what I remember. I used the 0.16.x version with my 1GHz Athlon years ago, it was very cool.

Yeah, or have a meticulously organized multi-terabyte flac collection in your NAS you stream your music from…

But do not run Linux, the kernel.

For me it is the language it’s written in: Rust. Now I can participate, fix bugs and implement new apps with the language I know the best.

Some people might also say less crashes, less vulnerabilities and all that, but for me the first part is the most important.

But they give their data when the officials ask. That is all that matters. And I seriously hope none of us uses Telegram or WhatsApp to any discussions. Use Signal because that is so far pretty unbreakable.

Telegram is already in the hands of that tiny Russian old man and WhatsApp is owned by a lizard.

The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.

You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…

The borrow checker is exactly what the kernel needs.

And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you “do AI” even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.

Ted is the maintainer of ext4 and there are not many people in the world who understand this code.

For Rust to succeed, it has to get the subsystem maintainers to agree. It is going to be many years of petting very angry bobcats…

And that is not even the worst I’ve heard, makes you a bit numb if you follow LKML.