A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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  • Continuwuity. I’m using it. And contrary to other projects, it’s a community effort. So I have my hopes up it’ll last and not depend on any singular person.

    And I wouldn’t recommend Conduit or Conduwuit. Conduit development is very slow, that’s why we got the forks in the first place. And Conduwuit is discontinued, so it wouldn’t be wise choice at all. So you’re left with 2 choices, Tuwunel and Continuwuity. One is a one-man show and they’re calling it the “official” successor. The other one is a community project… They both work fine.




  • That’s correct. I went with OP’s original question, what happens after it happened… Not sure what OP meant, they’re nowhere in the comments… Maybe they’re a bot as well, and we’re subject to the very same thing we’re talking about, right now…

    But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone… Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit… The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you’ll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer… We’re just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money… Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects…


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    At least the Christians pretend its wrong.

    Aha, since when? Last time I checked they still had that cover-up going to protect their internal structures. That’s more important to the Christian church than the welfare of the victims.

    And what does the Bible tell us about pedophilia? Well… not a lot, seems it’s not wrong in specific?! And what does Christian culture consider a good age of consent? Oh… Entering puberty is a good indicator for being marriage material… So it’s literally the same root in both Islam and Christianity/Judaism. Puberty makes you ready for marriage to a man. 11-12yo girls are perfectly fine. Some Christian denomination still practice it that old-school way as of today… And first thing some Jews think of, when a boy gets born, is cater to the infant’s penis…

    But yeah its all fucked.

    It definitely is 🤮


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    Yeah. That’s one of the many reasons we sane people don’t support religion. I don’t get it in the first place. Islam has that in history. A way too large amount of catholic priests will be child diddlers. And in US politics it seems to be a bipartisan issue to clandestinely support pedophile crime rings… I mean wtf? Just get your fingers off the children?



  • Nothing? I mean an if/else works the same way, no matter if it’s written by a human or an AI or a cat or whatever…

    The Linux kernel developers are opinionated, though. Everything gets quite an amount of scrutiny. There will be several people having their eyes on submissions. They’re looking for security vulnerabilities. They’re adamant on maintainability. Have a standard on how to phrase things, indent lines… Send in the patches… They generally have high standards. I mean if someone submits some AI slop, there’s a high chance it just gets declined and they’re getting scolded for doing it.

    There’s of course always the chance someone tries to sneak something in. Or it creeps in on its own. But it’s the same for bugs or security attacks. And maybe some of the devs work for companies who push AI and they’ll do silly things. But the Linux community is pretty strong. They’ll find a way to handle it. And maybe in the far future, AI will get as good as human programmers and there won’t be an issue accepting AI code, because it has the same quality as human code. But that’s science fiction as of now.



  • Hehe. Sure. I mean it’s both a blessing and problematic at the same time… I think most people appreciate a TV set is a few hundred bucks these days. Or the availability of smartphones and home computers. That’s only possible because of modern pick and place machines. I think our world would look a bit more like the victorian age if we didn’t have those modern perks. Each computer would be hand-soldered by a workforce of hundreds of people. Fill several rooms and be slow and unaffordable for anyone except the government. It wouldn’t have a screen… We couldn’t sustain billions of humans on the planet without all the machines and science in agriculture…

    But automation is problematic as well. I mean we’re arguing about it since the Industrial Revolution. I think they painted a dark picture of the future in the early 20th century. Like the movie Metropolis. I think these days, we’ve solved some of the issues that come with industrialization. But we’re doing stupid things as well. And it’s an everlasting struggle not to end up in some machine dystopia. Not sure if machines are the root cause of everything, though. I mean scientists use them, they’re on every assembly line and in logistics centers. And not even the handyman with a more down-to-earth job renounces their modern battery-powered power tools… I mean sure we could use a handsaw and the hand drill from my grandpa… But I don’t think that’s the point?

    But I value the human aspect as well. I mean I don’t need soylent green out of a dispenser. I’d rather have a cook and waiter.


  • Weird article. Is this some domain specific breakthrough? Because I’m fairly sure laboratories and researchers use some ultra precise experimental setups and sampling machines for like half a century now? For example an elaborate machine that loads 200 blood samples at a time and it’ll return the lab results to the hospital within a few hours. For what used to be a time consuming, labor intensive job with a higher error rate before… But we have these machines for quite some time now… They didn’t include any AI in the advertising, though. Same with material sciences, I believe. Either they’re doing something very specific and it’s a lot of manual labor. Or they have to test a lot of samples, or handle things very precisely, and someone is going to build a jig with robots or actuators. But that’s kind of what people always did? I mean they did palletizing robots in the 60s, and the KUKA robot arm was patented in 1973. And this article reads a bit (to me) like the job description of such a KUKA robotic arm… But what’s newsworthy about this in 2026?








  • I think there’s a lot of nuance here. I mean the Fediverse isn’t super efficient. But it manages to do what it’s supposed to do. And it really depends. Which Fediverse software. How many people are on those servers, how are they distributed. Do groups of people mingle on certain servers. Do they all subscribe to all the same content out there. Are there really big groups on servers with happen to have a slow internet connection… And then of course can we come up with improvements if we need to.
    I think we’re going to find out once (or if) the Fediverse grows substantially. Some design decisions of the Fediverse are indeed a bit of a challenge for unlimited growth. Oftentimes technical challenges can be overcome, though. With clever solutions. Or things turn ot differently than we anticipated. So I don’t think there’s a good practical and straightforward answer to the question.