New blog post: "The fate of 'small' open source" nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the…

Some meandering thoughts on writing open source when LLMs can do a lot of the same thing. I don't have all the answers, but I'm trying to ask the right questions anyway.

Remember, there will not be an episode of Sonic Synergy tonight, it will air tomorrow after the Digital Domain. On said Digital Domain...There's plenty of talk about Bob's birthday party last Friday, including episodes of 'Me, Myself, and Chip'. But what ironic information did @nick learn there?

7 PM EST tomorrow!

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Together with @forgejo, we will have a presence at #FOSDEM 2026! (Thanks @fosdem!)

FOSDEM will take place in Brussels between 2026-01-31 and 2026-02-01—it is the largest European conference on free and open-source software and the admission is free (as in beer).

Just like last year's FOSDEM, we will be running a stand, exchanging stickers and having delightful conversations. If you find anyone wearing a badge of either project's logo, feel free to say hi. :D

fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-1…

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“Hence, this new device. It's called a randomizer, and it's fitted to the guidance systems and operates under a very complex scientific principle called pot luck. No one knows where we're going, not even the Black Guardian.”

“Not even us.”

— The Doctor and Romana, in “The Armageddon Factor”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

I had an epiphany yesterday.

I spend so much time trying to escape from this terrible world we live in right now.

I reminded myself that all the "escapes" are the product of the same world, the same 14 billion years of history and evolution. The same species that's causing a mass extinction event due to greed; that's ruled by wealthy, white nationalist, performative Christofascists; that's perpetrated countless genocides also created every work of art; every poem, play, and novel; every movie; every video game; every medical miracle and scientific advance. We've put people on the moon and landed ships on other planets. We know the speed of light and what black holes look like.

I have to remember that being under a hateful regime doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is hateful. It's not one or the other, it's not all our nothing.

There are kind, thoughtful people out there right now who are thinking up the next thing that will bring us together and give us peace. There are people who would love and accept you. There are writers, artists, musicians, coders, scientists, etc doing good work. Yes, there are terrible, short-sighted, people who think little of others, but they are not all people even if they are often the loudest.

I have to remember that what I see, what those in power want me to see, are the things that support their narrative. It's why they want genAI so badly: it lets them churn out propaganda at an unholy rate. But it is propaganda, not reality.

If you live in the United States (or the UK) and are non-white, non-male, non-hetero, non-cis, non-neuerotypical, non-ablebodied, or non-"Christian", the government wants you and everyone else to believe you are less than human.

You are not.

I am not.

The government is lying. They are wrong. I can't fix it. You probably can't fix it. We can at least find each other and support each other, remind us that we are not alone and that we matter.

You matter.

El Español:
«El IVA de la vivienda con Feijóo será del 4% para "jóvenes de hasta 40 años" y se pagará en los mismos plazos que la hipoteca»

Joder! Parece una buena iniciativa!

O no? Veamos.

El 78% de los jóvenes que acceden a la compra de una vivienda, compran vivienda usada, no nueva, y esas compras están exentas de IVA.

Del 22% restante, los más desfavorecidos, los que compran vivienda de protección oficial, ya pagan solo el 4%. Tampoco les beneficia esto en nada.

Entonces, a quién beneficia? El comprador joven de vivienda nueva tiene un perfil socioeconómico alto o medio-alto, con estudios universitarios, núcleo familiar con dos trabajos estables y dos sueldos superiores a 2.500€ netos cada uno, es decir, un total de más de 5000€ netos mensuales.

En resumen, reducen impuestos al 20% de la población más rica y dejan que se joda el 80% de la población más pobre.

Es el PP amigo!

A good #Caturday to the #CatsOfMastodon, and the #FediCats , and all y'all who celebrate!

We need to rehome some of our kitties because my partner and I are both experiencing health challenges that are both costly and impacting our ability to adequately care for all our kitties.

I have no idea how to go about this. We have ten cats right now. In no particular order (and little alt-text, as I'll describe in the posts—I can't add more than four pics). We're in the Houston metro area, kinda near where 290 comes off 610. My partner used to know folks who did this, but not currently.

The front cats. There's a door between the kitchen and other public areas and the rest of the house. It stays closed.

Spike: He's in his late teens. He's incredibly shy and distrustful of strangers. He's a white and gray tabby, but with a white area on his back (not visable). He stays

Kitsune: I call her Kiki. She's a 13-
yo calico who will accept attention from anyone, so long as you don't try to pick her up. She stays.

Freya: She likes to sleep on a cat bed in the front window. Entirely white except for tiny black dot on her nose. She used to bully Squirrel, and would be okay as an only cat or as an addition to a household, as she was an addition.I believe she was born in 2019, and littered young. Her kittens went to forever homes before I moved in. She's waving friends with both Spike and Star—they greet each other by batting at each other for a bit. She's available by herself.

The Interns: These three were born in January, 2020, in a cat enclosure on my stepdaughter's porch. There was a fourth who didn't make it. Their mother wa TNR, and, due to quarantine they ended up staying.

Star: She was named because she's entirely black with small groups of white hairs that resemble a starfield. She is super friendly with people. She has recurring ear issues. When she's dealing with that she over-grooms, and we support her with special gooshy. She would be available with Squirrel as a pair.

Squirrel: She's a chonky bullseye brown tabby with a bobbed tail that her mother must have bitten off by accident. She is afraid of everything and everyone, though she will sometimes join Kitsune and Weasel in my lap. She is available with any of Star, Weasel, or Squeaker, or with Star and Weasel as a trio.

Weasel: She used to climb into the dishwasher and lick at the dishes when I was loading it. She's the mackerel brown tabby in the picture with Kitsune, Star, and Spike. She will use her paw to move her treats bowl away from interlopers. She has a unique raw element to her meows, and prefers being near my feet when I'm in the recliner. She's available with Squirrel or as a trio including Star.

The Backsters:

Noodle: She's a tortoimese. The photo where her eye looks like a laser captures her personality best. She was rescued at fourish months, and hid in a ramen noodle box. I am her human, and she is finally accepting attention from my partner (we moved in in February, 2020). She didn't meow or play until I adopted Fur Elise. She stays.

Fur Elise: She likes laundry and little catnip mice. If you throw one of her meeses, she'll chase it and pounce on it. She's large, and a very dark gray tabby. She stays for Noodle.

Squeaker: He's an ambassador, and would be happy with the frontsters or the backsters. We had to restrict him to the back because he needs Hill's prescription c/d urinary diet. As an accommodation, we cut the Hill's kibble with the non-prescription ProPlan urinary support kibble, and free-feed all the backsters. He's not a gooshy eater, which may be why he developed the crystals. He squeaks instead of meowing (although he yowls when he's in the carrier on the way to/from the vet). our youngest, and was born iv the summer of 2022. He's available with Squirrel or Ma Ma Ma, or by himself if he's moving in with other cats. He absolutely gets along with every cat here.

Ma Ma Ma; Her meow sounds more like she's saying, "Mah! Mah! Mah!' She's very pretty, and the pic I have is her on the top of a bookshelf, with my unshaded warm LED lamp shining up at her. Noodle and Ma Ma Ma are frenemies; if I'm petting one, the other will casually wander up and interpose herself. She is available with Squeaker or alone.

#OpenAI wehrt sich gegen Herausgabe von 20 Millionen »anonymisierten« ChatGPT-Logs…Das Unternehmen argumentiert, dass 99,99 Prozent der Chats nichts mit dem eigentlichen Fall zu tun hätten und eine Weitergabe die Privatsphäre der Nutzer gefährden würde. …und ich dachte immer, der Kackladen speichert keine personenbezogenen Daten. 🤡🤡🤡 #chatgpt #KI #AI

reuters.com/business/media-tel…

Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway?

natkr.com/2025-04-10-async-fro…

#rust #rustlang

Two of my favourite languages have something you could call ghost consonants.

In Italian and Brabantian, consonants that were lost long ago still have an effect in the modern language.

Learn all about these fascinating ghost consonants in my new short video:

youtu.be/w-LDMJweRis

Ghost consonants in Italian and Brabantian

Two of my favourite languages have something you could call ghost consonants. In Italian and Brabantian, consonants that were lost long ago still have an eff...

^YouTube

🗺️ Bikerouter now runs on new server hardware. Since Saturday routes are computed on dedicated physical hardware instead of shared virtual machines. This makes the calculations about 40% to 50% faster. You’ll notice the difference especially on longer rides.

#Bikerouter

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Enfin quelque chose bouge. youtube.com/watch?v=NqoEEo6QOa…

Procès Rima Hassan : une première comparution qui secoue la gauche, décryptée par Nora Bussigny

Invitée de Ça se débat sur i24NEWS, la journaliste Nora Bussigny analyse la portée du premier procès visant Rima Hassan, accusée d’avoir injurié l’élue socia...

^YouTube

Montreal blue line metro tunnel boring machine has arrived, time to dig

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo…

How long has this extension been discussed?

Montreal blue line metro tunnel boring machine has arrived, time to dig

A major piece of equipment essential to digging the new Montreal metro blue line extension tunnel has fully arrived in Montreal.

^{Kelly Greig (CTVNews)}

Started a discussion about adding a timer notification to libcurl. If you use the "multi" interface, maybe you have an opinion?

#curl
github.com/curl/curl/
discussions/19553

GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub