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The pain and despair of using Linux as a person who is blind or visually impaired. It's almost a poem.


"Still, I was determined not to write any code ... I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code."

I can pop over to Midjourney and be determined not to draw a single line and "sit there laughing" as it draws the Mona Lisa in the style of Salvador Dali but with a turnip instead of a person.

How is this any different? What is ultimately notable about it? Did any of it make you a better programmer?

I'm always deeply impressed when people devote significant chunks of their time to achieving extraordinary results. I'm entirely baffled, however, that there's anything at all interesting about using an AI interface to build an AI interface to connect you to AI slop.

You could have spent 20 hours planting trees or doing some kind of community serivce, and the world would have been a far better place.


Programming is not art. In the end, nobody will care whether software was painstakingly hand-chiseled by humans in a dungeon or "vibe coded", as long as the result is good enough. (I'd argue that art will "suffer" from the same "problem".)

What is notable here is that someone is demonstrating that the systems are reaching a quality where this is possible.

> Did any of it make you a better programmer?

By conventional metrics, if the job got done well enough in less time, yes, even if less skill is involved.


I don't know about that, Roller Coaster Tycoon is fondly remembered and sits on a special place culturally because it was written in assembly by a single person.


Programming is more art then anything since it's definitely not a science, nor is it mathematics or engineering.

It's similar in principle to architecture or interior design.


Is this an April Fools "joke"? It's hard to tell.

One thing I can say is that we need more disinformation on the internet as much as we need a more polluting car on the roads.


ALGOL68 has much of the memorysafety that rust "invents" yet remains largely unmentioned in the discussion. There is a point to be had in terms of language design but rust has the community backing and momentum required, time will tell if ALGOL-FOR-LINUX will gather enough interest to pull this off.


There's some interesting papers in the balisage archives.


> I'd guess that they do that to make sure that you actually visit the site once in a while and might accidentally view an ad so they can make a few cents or they hope that you might see something else on their site you might be interested in or whatever.

I can't speak for others, but as someone who hand codes my HTML, it is a non-trivial amount of work to convert the entire text of a page into an RSS feed, whereas it is easy to add the headline, datetime, and summary.

I get that it is pretty cool to read stuff inside an RSS feed reader, but doesn't fit with my current workflow. My site has no ads, tracking, cookies (aside from the ones imported by the odd embedded youtube video).


I also hand code my website and rss feed, so my feed is basically a changelog disguised as a blog post masquerading as a news feed. If you want to read the full articles, you have to visit the site.


A firearm is a tool.

Do you think firearm ownership and usage is free from politics? Do you think a gun club is free from politics?


> Do you think firearm ownership and usage is free from politics?

Of course not.

> Do you think a gun club is free from politics?

That depends. Is it a "let's talk everything about guns"? Is it a "let's go to a shooting range and shoot guns" club? There's a place for people to discuss things, there's a place for people to do things together, and neither might be a good place for people willing to be political in the sense of some people trying to coerce club members into specific beliefs, or trying to make the organization pursue some social cause.

Want to have a social gun club? Find or start one specifically about gun-related social causes! There's space for that too!

Really, all this "political" vs. "not political" boils down to people wanting to "talk shop", discuss technical or practical or emotional aspects of something, without feeling coerced to join causes and judged for not joining them, or otherwise have their standing as a human being questioned by some zealots.


> Is it a "let's talk everything about guns"? Is it a "let's go to a shooting range and shoot guns" club?

I know of no club where the purpose is merely to talk about guns. Gun clubs are typically organised shooting ranges. In Australia, if you own a firearm, I believe you are legally required to belong to one, and have some kind of minimum attendence per year.

And yes, they discuss politics, and they veer strongly towards conspiricy paranoia.

I expect it's the same in the US, especially with its NRA stranglehold the culture there.

I'm not sure if you're aware of the Port Arthur massacre in the 1990s in Tasmania. Probably small beer if you're from the US with it's weekly atrocities. The PM at the time instituted a mandatory gun buy-back/hand-in/confiscation scheme to reduce the number of firearms in the community, which was broadly seen as a Good Thing (by people who don't own firearms. ie. the majority of the population).

Talk in the gun-club is that the massacre was conspiricy perpetuated by the Gubmint in order to bring in tighter gun control laws, confiscate firearms, etc.


Several ways.

To start with, I'm pretty sure it was established early on that the various vaccines don't prevent infection necessarily, but rather reduce the severity of the symptoms.

Vaccines are always one step behind, like they are for Influenza. You can get vaccinated against last years, and still catch this years.

Maybe the vaccine that was given was not given or stored correctly. There were also stories of anti-vaxxer medical staff giving fake vaccinations to people.

And biology is weird and complicated. Given the large human population and diversity, at some point there'll be an exception.


Meanwhile PFAS is in everything, including some paper and carboard (so don't burn it) and very little sign of it being regulated, much less stopped.

See: - https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...

- https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...

... or just use the search engine of your choice.


3M's decades-long litigation about PFAS:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=PFAS+3M

And even after the settlements ever get resolved and it's no longer being produced in developed countries, economics says they'll just ship the waste to LDCs.


Minnesota has enacted some pretty strong and broad bans on PFAS already in effect with more to be phased in over the next 7 years. Food packaging, firefighting foam, cookware, and a broad selection of consumer products.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/air-water-land-climate/2025-pfas...


"How dare they enfringe on the free speech of corporations using their free speech to freely sell freedom-pfas to American citizens ? I hope the agency overseeing this communist-woke crusade against free speech is going to get DOGEd out of existence" /sarcasm (but, barely)


I hear it's more efficient to not worry about these things.


Why are you tolerating a web that requires an ad blocker?


Is there a different Internet that I can use?


Yes! Well, if you're lucky enough to live in New York (NYC Mesh), Germany (Freifunk) or Spain (Guifi), you can actually access alternatives to the internet :)


It's not the network that serves ads, it's the crappy servers serving ads connected to it. There are other servers which may be less crap. YMMV.


I don't tolerate it and still use an adblocker. What else can I do?


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