A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…

Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.

“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”

Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.

Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.

CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.

The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.

What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.

You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.

Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt

I released korgalore 0.3

It's a neat little tool that lets maintainers "subscribe" to mailing lists without actually subscribing to mailing lists. Supports delivering to Gmail, IMAP, JMAP, local maildir, etc. Requires "lei" to do a lot of things, so make sure that's installed.

Lots of new features in this release, including `kgl track-subsystem` that will try to automatically set up lei queries based on the subsystem you're interested in.

Lots more testing needed of the new features, so will be happy if others try it out.

https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20260115-economic-uncovered-nuthatch-36e35b@lemur/T/#u

i'm not crying, you're crying 🥺

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HqgDNbfRxfY

eBPF.party – Learn eBPF through hands-on exercises. Write, compile, and run programs directly in your browser:

https://ebpf.party/

#Linux #LinuxKernel #kernel #ebpf #bpf

Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realize AI is bad https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/dev-of-steam-game-hardest-will-delete-it-after-new-girlfriend-made-them-realize-ai-is-bad/

#IndieGames #AI #GenAI #Steam #Gaming

The cake_mq patches were just merged into net-next!

To appear in a Linux release near you in ~12 week's time...

https://lore.kernel.org/r/176830261504.2192300.2198008591862995733.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org

I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone?

The push to adopt LLM-powered code generation tools is so frenzied and desperate partly because it's a perceived solution to claw back ownership of the means of production into the Right Hands.

The Invention of Anarchism -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/637

Okay, so whoever picked "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" as the hold melody for the DHL customer service line definitely has a sense of humour 😁

Although of course it's a bit ironic since the reason I'm calling them is that it seems that there *is* in fact a valley low enough to keep them from coming to me... 🤷

No rational person would do this

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyist-gravity-well

"Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why | TechSpot"

Jeg opdagede forleden at min fars filer var flyttet til onedrive. Jeg troede at han havde godkendt et eller andet. Men nej, det har Microsoft gjort uden at spørge. Vi er enige om at det er tid til at flytte til linux.

Jeg fatter ikke hvordan I der bruger Windows, kan finde rundt og finder jer i at blive behandlet på den måde af Microsoft.

https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html

Calling Wilcox’s cartoon “unacceptable” misunderstands both satire and journalism. Political cartoons are meant to be provocative, compressed and confronting. They exaggerate power relationships to expose hypocrisy and danger, not to offer polite balance.
This cartoon does exactly that. It highlights unchecked US imperial behaviour and the hollow language of “freedom and security” used by institutions like NATO while aggression proceeds regardless. Discomfort is not a flaw, it is the point.
If a cartoon criticising military power is deemed unacceptable simply because it offends those aligned with that power, then the problem is not the cartoon. It is a shrinking tolerance for dissent and satire in public debate.

Wilcox is doing a great job.

#politicalcartoons #satire #pressfreedom #imperialism #media #theage

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115863080846737985

Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.

From the mid-90's to the mid-2000's videogames would scream their own name at you in the attract mode.

RESIDENT, EVIL 😡
THE HOUSE. 😮 OF THE DEAD 💀
Sega, Rally Championship! 👋☺👋
FATAL FRAME 2, CRRRIMSONBUTTERFLY 😨
Residentevil... 😡 FOURRRR!

I need a supercut video of lots of those title screens with the games screaming their names.

Fedi, please boost, does this already exist? Are you in fact the one who made it?

I'm asking not out of a desire for amusement but to help my daughter with her enunciation. Some of these voices had to carry across an arcade with all the games set to the same volume and so had to be Very Very Clear, but also with a Certain Flair

Guten Morgen ☕

Das freie GraphenOS macht Schlagzeilen:
Die spanische Polizei nennt es "Geister-Betriebssystem". Und:

" 'Jedes Mal, wenn wir ein Pixel sehen, denken wir, es könnte ein Drogendealer sein' "
"Abhörmaßnahmen wirkungslos"
"Staatliche Malware funktioniert nicht wie geplant"

"Da die katalanische Polizei aber laut eigenen Angaben ohnehin jeden Pixel-User für einen Dealer hält, ist es wahrscheinlich günstiger, selbst gleich GrapheneOS zu installieren."

;-)

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000278495/katalanische-polizei-geht-gezielt-gegen-nutzer-von-pixel-smartphones-vor

Names for avid readers 📚 by language -

English: Bookworm

Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)

French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)

German: Read-rat (Leseratte)

Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)

Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)

Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)

Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)

Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)

Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)

Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách) 

#books #reading

“I don’t know how to stop the bully [US gov’t] from beating people [oil states like Venezuela] up for their lunch money [oil energy] —but what if lunch [energy] was free, and no one was carrying lunch money?” Great allegory by @billmckibben.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Just possibly it's the oil?

Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?

Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/

It includes:

* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/

* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/

* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/

* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/

* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/