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System76 Principal Engineer, Pop!_OS Maintainer, and Redox OS BDFL - https://soller.dev Profile picture and banner: I am wearing a Pop!_OS shirt with multiple computers running Pop!_OS in the background to celebrate the 20.04 release.
Today, I met with Colorado Sen. Ball, co-author of CO OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.
Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.
No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.
Stop calling them datacenters in space and start calling them Space Slopera
I would welcome the slopetition 🤣
I saw someone claiming that this is short-sighted and that someone should fork it without the new policy, since it would develop at "5×" the current rate. Genuinely, if you think you can fork RedoxOS, and long term improve its development by a 5× for more than the attention span of a grifter, do it.
Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy: gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/red...
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
I sent this to LinkedIn because I like to imagine the rage it induces may be at least proportional to the rage I feel at reading LLM slop
IF I WANTED CLAUDE TO CHANGE MY CODE I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF, I DON'T NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROJECT TO ASK CLAUDE TO MAKE CHANGES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND
“With New York’s bill, liberty is lost.” Carl Richell, Founder of US-based System76, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification ⬇️
The Redox OS February report is out!
This month was exciting: COSMIC Compositor, COSMIC Settings, NodeJS, Vulkan, Complete POSIX Signals, Fixed Nushell and Helix, More Boot Fixes, Better Multi-threading, Better Package Manager, Orbital Performance Monitor and more.
www.redox-os.org/news/this-mo...
AI, government overreach, undocumented hardware, death of the PC and rise of mobile devices, etc
There has never been a time in my life when I have been less enthused to be a programmer than now.
Parents are still responsible even with the laws. I had no problem getting alcohol if I wanted to before I had a valid over 21 ID.
I have no useful opinion on that. It is incredible how two of the most deadly drugs are the ones our society has decided to accept
These are my personal opinions about the operating system age bracket law passed in California (and coming to Colorado): www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/com...
Parents should parent their children, not websites, not operating systems, and not idiot politicians writing idiot age verification laws
cosmic-text 0.18.0 has been released with support for ellipsis
github.com/pop-os/cosmi...
Ground-up redesigned @system76 Thelio hardware coming soon.
☑️ 10 months of design and engineering
☑️ Over 16,000 durability test runs
☑️ Over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization
#MiraMarch
Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine
Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
The purpose of a system is what it does and what our system does, globally, is allow the powerful to avoid any form of justice
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
I saw it too:
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
What is documented in the data is *worse*. 35% used AI after being told not too, and 25% continued after getting scolded for it. It's not just deteriorating their skills, its actively making them incapable of learning them again.
The fact that Anthropic of all people is publishing this is wild.
"We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
I would love for conservative commentators to say their lies while this video is playing in the background youtube.com/shorts/oD7yo...
Another angle clearly shows victim had both hands empty and was held face down when shot.
www.reddit.com/r/law/s/PgCn...
Many ICE agents attacking one person, no vehicle involved, person is shot to death after being motionless.
www.reddit.com/r/law/s/HzJ5...
