On some visceral level the incompleteness theorem is awe-inducing and wildly optimistic, to me. The simple elegance and total comprehensibility we might want doesn’t exist. It can’t. Embrace complexity and your arms will never get all the way around it. There is always more, and there will always be more.

The world is provably beyond comprehension and somehow still full of structure and beauty. Simplicity is only self-delusion. Empathy is infinitely more real than categorization.

In a depressing tale as old as time, we're seeing the sole dev who made the #Pokemon ROM hack called Pokémon Lazarus (who goes by 'Nemo') stepping back from the public

They shared their 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 work free, and the vocal minority crawled out of the sewers and spewed hatred

Homophobia (because there is one scene with pride flags), bigotry, even disgust at Nemo deigned creating audio tracks from the ground up

You can read my thoughts on it here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/pokemon-lazarus-when-a-fan-game-becomes-a-conversation/

Unsure Calculator: calculate with numbers you're not sure about

Pretty neat!

https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

#LibreQoS is an example that you can develop a world changing startup from the borderland. We are thankful to KTSM 9 NEWS for highlighting our work on fixing #latency, #bufferbloat & #jitter for Internet Service Providers and their customers around the world:

https://www.ktsm.com/news/el-pasoans-operating-software-startup-designed-to-improve-internet-connectivity/

We would like to dedicate this to our beloved colleague #DaveTaht (1965 - 2025) that was instrumental in the global effort on fixing these issues for the #ISPs & their customer everywhere!

#OpenSource #FLOSS

I love all the accounts across the Fediverse that are damn near constantly screeching, "Stop recommending Linux, Linux hardware support is still not there! People can't figure out how to install devices in Linux! Linux is too hard for everyday use!"

Kimball bought a new game on Steam, and it said it needed a controller for the best experience. So I dusted off a game pad, put some fresh batteries in the controller, and handed her the little USB/bluetooth dongle.

A few alerts popped up about a new device in the corner of the screen, and without even restarting the game, it was working fine.

Course, half an hour later, she was playing the game with a keyboard and mouse. "The controls are just like Stardew Valley, I dunno why they recommended a controller for the best experience."

But the point is, it just fracking worked. Every piece of hardware on her machine works. Every piece of hardware on my machine works.

I swear, some people are still trapped being miserable in Windows11, and want everyone else to be as miserable as them or something.

Cue the people yelling about poor application support....

One of the best pieces I've read in awhile. Emily Bressler in @mcsweeneys.net writes "I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person":

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

The current Pope in 1982. He's even from Chicago: obviously a Blues Brother.

As someone elsenet remarked, "He looks like he spent the 80s hunting undead gangsters and complaining about the wind."

After six momentous passes in a small aircraft, skydiver Gabriel C. Brown completed his mission. He and his photographer friend Andrew McCarthy created this stunning image that shows the adventurous subject falling in front of the sun.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andrew-mccarthy-skydiver-sun-image/

#photography #nature

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

#firefox #ai #privacy

Pepper & Carrot, Episode 39: "The Tavern" is finally out!

This 11-page webcomic is a standalone episode that you can read in five minutes. It's about courage and an experiment with sound in the comic medium. Translations are already available. We've got English, Français, Deutsch, Español, 中文, Nynorsk, and Toki Pona, thanks to some great contributors. And a big thank you to my 1106 supporters for giving me the time to create this one.

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep39_The-Tavern.html

#webcomic #krita #peppercarrot

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products?

If so, why? Are you under pressure to do so? Where does that pressure come from? What would happen if you resist?

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free software without progressive politics is just free labor

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

# DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

@xgranade

I used Windows for five years when I worked at MS. My conclusion was that it’s not ready for the desktop.

"But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

Source:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/lauren-groff-on-florida-as-a-state-of-mind/

Back from vacation, I caught up on discussions about the kernel and had nice chats with my @igalia colleagues.

At the end of the day, I published a blog post about my Kworkflow talk at Kernel Recipes 2025 with speaker notes and live demo script. So that, you can check what I presented in more details.

https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2025/11/03/kworkflow-talk-at-kernel-recipes-2025

This blog post also reminded me how fun the #KR2025 days were.