WHY DOES MY CODE USE 12.4 TERABYTES OF VIRTUAL MEMORY

Migrating #Dillo from GitHub to our self-hosted server.

I wrote a post about the current situation with #GitHub and how we ended up self-hosting our own infrastructure to be robust against data loss. We now store all important data (including issues) in git repositories which are replicated accross #Codeberg and #Sourcehut.

https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/

A thing that has been in my head for years:

An intern assigned to a project to improve caching in a hot path system declared one day that the problem was that we had been thinking about it all wrong: we didn't want a better cache eviction policy, we wanted a better cache admission policy. He then set about implementing a really simple thing that he only added stuff to the cache after it had been used more than N times in a sliding window.

Cache instantly performed like 50% better. There's a lesson here.

I think my favourite point so far in the progression of AI was when Microsoft launched the new Bing Chat (Sydney) which was really quite horrifically misaligned, manipulative, and frankly just completely evil.

Quick little micro post about it: https://vale.rocks/micros/20250417-1200

#AI #LLM #Bing #Microsoft #ChatGPT #OpenAI

I frequently hear people say they don’t need to support older browsers because ‘everything auto-updates now’.

Here are some reasons that people might not have an up-to-date browser:

https://vale.rocks/micros/20251126-0103

#WebDev #FrontEndDev

"proprietary software is gross" mfs on their way to install steam and 500gb of games (not one of them is oss

"OpenTorment and LibreNexus" still makes me laugh

During the UK Covid vaccine rollout, I would print blank NHS vaccination cards so I could get as many vaccinations as possible. I received 4789 different vaccinations, from all three major drug companies. I had to travel to different clinics, then different cities, and even to the other nations of the UK just to get more, because I would be getting recognised by NHS staff.

Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as their support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.

#discord #privacy

I find it disillusioning to see the casual use of "AI" slowly creeping into our hacker circles. Most of the discussions about AI focus on the quality of its output. I think we're not doing a good job communicating its more fundamental dangers.

In this blog post I write about how tools shape who we are and why the resource intensiveness of AI is ingrained in its purpose. About the devaluation of skills, and power cycles.

Let me know what you think.

https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

Sorry but if you turn off JS for websites in 2025 you're at least a little bit insane or just a masochist.
"Hm lemme make my like 999% harder by being unable to interact with any web services made without progressive enhancement (almost all of them)"

“we should make a slur for __“ ………. No we shouldn’t

@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl

Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

C shills in 2025 🥀

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: http://doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists

JPEG XL in Chromium update:

“[...] we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance.”

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/blink-dev/msg/482c0bcb26336

Alt...

Message on the blink-dev mailing list: "Hi everyone, Since JPEG XL was last evaluated, Safari has shipped support and Firefox has updated their position. We also continue to see developer signals for this in bug upvotes, Interop proposals, and survey data. There was also a recent announcement that JPEG XL will be added to PDF. Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance. With those and our usual launch criteria met, we would ship it in Chrome. Rick (on behalf of Chrome ATLs)"

imagine being on segfault.us.to

Today, my VPS served over 51.5 million requests. Well over 99% of that was AI crawlers and other obnoxious shits.

This is not normal. This is complete and utter bullshit. This is also happening all over the place.

It can be caught, it's not even hard. But we shouldn't need to. This is about three orders of magnitude more requests I'd normally receive, and it's almost entirely useless garbage.

Every single one of you who use GenAI tools, you personally, are complicit in this. You are responsible for these bots hammering the entire internet, you are enabling it.

If you think this price is acceptable, that every single person who hosts anything outside of BigTech walled gardens deserves this relentless assault of thieving robots, then you are a garbage human being.

But it is not too late to change course. You too can look back at the carnage you enabled, and feel remorse. It's okay. We'll forgive you.

You don't need to look at the environment damage LLMs cause - we can have an educated guess (it's very bad). You don't need to look at the unsustainability of it all. All of those are things that we don't directly feel right now.

But look at the damage these things cause to everyone outside of the BigTech walled gardens. That is measurable. These attacks are fact. You can't debate it. You can't justify it.

You, dear enabler of GenAI bullshit, you are responsible for enabling this carnage. Think about that. Feel bad about it, and stop. Today is a great day to do that.

DNI anyone who thinks masculinity is inherently evil, and that trans men are "requesting labor from transfeminine people" other than wanting to be recognized and understood

calling stuff you don't connect to "psyops" is such a clear marker of a disconnection you have with your fellow brothers and sisters, do better

As a purist, I prefer to generate my own delusions without AI assistance. Smaller carbon footprint and all that.