Further, neither Anthropic nor OpenAI have a product that has any growth in their value.

DeepSeek pretty much does the stuff that they do with way lower amount of teraflops, and it's open source. Majority of customer base can probably do 95% of tasks locally within only few years. Buying AI will become like buying a printer or something.

I would never buy their stocks because it does not compute to a cash flow to have a worthless business.a

And their brand suck too. There are crazy people of course who think they are "builders" but most people are just scared of them and think that they are fucking weird (like they should tbh).

Everybody loosing their income and dignitty is not a business model. Tech is tech and we choose as a non-technical decision how we apply it in the end.

Believing in magic creatures is the professional standard of 2026. I wonder when this AGI bullshit will stop. It's sad and ridiculous.

Talking about contradictory actions. I'm using Pi to do some QA, some research for sandboxing agents etc. Lots of unrelated on writing code. Actually more like providing more focus on just writing code would be better description. I was also happy to see that QEMU has AI guidelines that match pretty much how I see the world right now.

With some of the plugins I've found i've UNVIBE coded the implementations because there's like really weirdly ineffective patterns used.

For pulling a full WASM runtime to be able to call WASM version of xxhash is awkward :-) And that async routine. I replaced it with stock library SHA-256 and no bullshit function call. I guess LLM had made these ridiculous choices based on algorithm completely ignoring the context.

I'm glad that this is moving forward:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20260515211410.31440-1-ross.philipson@gmail.com/

By all means and purposes it does much the same as conifdential computing for in-premises.

That is sort of high-level use case difference between confidential computing and D-RTM.

CoC makes sense when renting from cloud, or when "untrust" is part of the product (e.g., as in Signal which uses SGX for contact delivery).

I wonder is there specific reason for NVIDIA driver in Buildroot being so old?

I've made update to the latest.

#buildroot

weekly ed zitron delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeXwFWmv1U

1. Pre-2026: open source turning into slop thanks to unnecessary Rust rewrites.
2. Post-2026: open source turning into slop thanks to unnecessary Rust AI rewrites.

Every week requires at least one Ed Zitron clip to keep one's head sane in this business :-)

Fedora's "AI maximization" plan is like if NAS was a feature of the desktop. Desktop and compute workloads are not compatible. Just from plain technical perspective I don't understand it TBH.

😅

spotted from linkedin

The build tool called 'just' is actually pretty nice for orchestrating more complex builds.

The feature that makes it nice are target parameters and parametrized dependencies. They give it suprisingly increased amount of robustness over GNU Make.

I use it together with Buildroot in couple of occasions.

Vim 9.2 :----) let's go...

The lightline theme called (drumroll) monochrome is the only theme I've ever made.

It's 2026 and still not aligning too well with phones having touch screens :-/

Hmm... not with phones for that matter...

Anthropic just announced Claude Design... and it tooks just few days to get a slop copy of the service Github :----)

It's a great demonstration how nobody is and neither will make any money with AI, and also well deserve, karma is a bitch etc.

If China restrictions were not active, Anthropic would be in bankcrupty. The company is only aritficially alive. There's now one model in par with Sonnet and other not that far away from Opus, and both cheap as dirt.

It's all shit.

What they call agents, are actually markdown documents dumped at the beginning of every context (🤦‍♀️), or at most gradually pulled from a skill set on demand.

And it’s a very disturbing topic overall. I mean all this role playing of imaginary characters as part of daily work life is just… I don’ t know…

For stuff that I do with AI, which right now is to create an O with local LLM focus, Pi saves me from all that bullshit.

My Pi setup has neither subagents nor MCP servers. They are both useless and impose a fixed cost for every new context.

When I initialize a context I might dump relevant data instead of descriptions of agents and their personas (nnnggh…. thinking of this feels as physical pain tbh).

And this is how task management works:

1. /fork: creates a new session.
2. /tree: lets you time-travel through the context history and create new branches into the past to continue from.
3. /merge: combines the running context with a session given as a parameter.
4. Background task creation: I just prompt to PI “spawn a new process with fresh a session and …” or something.

The 3rd feature is /merge, which comes from the extension npm:pi-session-merge.

GNOME 47 compiled from scratch!

Phew, that was hard BUT I learned a lot of legacy lore while doing it :-)

My current list of Buildroot packages in my BR2_EXTERNAL:

❯ ls -1 package
accountsservice
appstream
bootc
colord
colord-gtk
composefs
dconf
evolution-data-server
flatpak
gcr3
gdm
geoclue
geocode-glib
gjs
gnome-bluetooth
gnome-console
gnome-control-center
gnome-desktop
gnome-keyring
gnome-online-accounts
gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-shell
gsound
gweather-locations
iso-codes
libadwaita
libei
libgrapheme
libgtop
libgusb
libgweather
libnma
libnotify
libportal
librest
libwacom
mozjs128
mutter
ostree
puu-installer
python-zxcvbn
vte-gtk4
xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

They say that world has moved to Wayland but still it seems that gnome-settings-daemon hard depends on X11 version of libgtk3.

Infosec community right now…

Another git setting I realized that I want to have:

❯ git push
fatal: You didn't specify any refspecs to push, and push.default is "nothing".

Helps to keep focus imho :-)