he/him. So many interesting things to know and do. At the moment, spend my free time as an #OpenBSD hacker, #Perl programmer, and fan of pockets.
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
This is where the people that donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center went to donate, so that their money could be used to infiltrate and uncover white nationalist organizations.
So don't donate here unless you want some of your money to be used to uncover white nationalist organizations.
That's a confusing #zelta message
> localhost:ztank: 16E sent, 69 streams received in 309.01 seconds
Usually that "16E" is "200G" or "1T". How much data did it receive in five minutes?
Today I join an illustrious group of #Perl hackers at the Perl Toolchain Summit in Vienna. I'm mainly here as a local organizer, but I also plan to discuss and hack on a few things, eg containerizing `pause`.
The fact that the Trump administration is trying to take down the Southern Poverty Law Center is testament to their effectiveness in fighting racist extremists.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g-s1-118275/southern-poverty-law-center-fraud-charges-paid-informants
It's probably a good time to throw them a few bucks, to fight this injustice.
Time for a new #OpenBSD story! Investigating what appears to be a VAX bug turns out to be the consequence of a more-than-late processor design change, so brace yourselves for a VAX history lesson!
If Not You, Who Else?
Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind
I'm a full-time professional novelist. Have been for 25 years. Before that I was a software dev. From the inside, the cognitive experiences of writing prose fiction and writing software *feel identical*. The creativity exists outside the words, and most of the phrases and grammar I use are unoriginal.
Ball's back in your court.
After a few surprisingly large zelta policy runs, I decided to try to clean up the mess I made with `zelta rotate` and delete the annoying "zside/ztank_2025-12-20_11.00.06/iocage/log_2026-04-09_10.00.04" datasets, but "filesystem has dependent clones" and those clones are things I want to keep.
How do I make these ?clones? go away without getting rid of data I want?
@cwebber @bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana
Based on my following of current legal cases, I think it's entirely possible that in a year or two we'll suddenly be rolling large OSS codebases back to 2023. And won't that be fun!
@bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana So let me summarize:
- Without knowing the legal status of accepting LLM contributions, we're potentially polluting our codebases with stuff that we are going to have a HELL of a time cleaning up later
- The idea of a copyleft-only LLM is a joke and we should not rely on it
- We really only have two realistic scenarios: either FOSS projects cannot accept LLM based contributions legally from an international perspective, or everything is effectively in the public domain as outputted from these machines, but at least in the latter scenario we get to weaken copyright for everyone.
That's leaving out a lot of other considerations about LLMs and the ethics of using them, which I think most of the other replies were focused on, I largely focused on the copyright implications aspects in this subthread. Because yes, I agree, it can be important to focus a conversation.
But we can't ignore this right now.
We're putting FOSS codebases at risk.
I'm hiring for a Senior Software Engineer position on the Player Team at Plex. We're looking for someone with low-level video playback knowledge & experience. If you think you might be that person, please apply, if you think you might know that person please send them along, or if you think that person could follow you please boost! 🚀
We get so many AI generated resumes that are obviously bullshit, it'd be great to have a few more real candidates in there!
Recently I have become less certain of my available bandwidth to contribute upstream.
Over the past couple of years I have been the top contributor to core memory management by patch count and lines of code changed, and the 2nd-top reviewer.
I also wrote a 1,300 page textbook on the linux kernel memory management subsystem - https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager
See https://ljs.io/kernel for a detailed list of what I've done, and https://ljs.io/cv.pdf for my up-to-date CV.
I have been heavily involved in the community, where I established the memory management maintainership model, and have given talks at Linux Plumbers, Kernel Recipes and the key memory management conference LSF/MM/BPF.
I have a proven track record of working very effectively upstream and can really help any company who has needs in this area.
If you are interested or know of any opportunities around linux kernel memory management, please reach out!
If you program, you should read this piece.
"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"
Turns out #OpenBSD is also good for marketing.
I now have my own Utah teapot!
This ordinary teapot is the "hello world" object of computer graphics and has cameos in countless productions.
A thread on teapots and UNIX… 🧵
Photo: My Melitta teapot, 2026-04-16.
@darth I have only BSD computers that I use as "daily drivers": A laptop and a tower, both running FreeBSD.
In addition I run NetBSD on every computer I own that can run it, from an old 486slc2 and am Am586 via a Nintendo Wii to a couple of dual Pentium Pro machines. All but the 486slc2 are equipped with full GUI and set up so I can do Real Work(TM) from them.
I have my laptop full of BSD stickers, Once - and there are witnesses - I was in an Irish pub here in Oslo, and one of the waitresses who had walked past our table a few times stopped, looked me in the eyes and asked "Are you running BSD on that thing or are you just bragging with those stickers?"
Turns out she used to be a network engineer in Cambridge.
he/him. So many interesting things to know and do. At the moment, spend my free time as an #OpenBSD hacker, #Perl programmer, and fan of pockets.
