Omar Polo @op@bsd.network

Fun times ahead on the #gameoftrees hub 🕸️​https://marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1768837501.8165_0.html

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/

<cough>run your own email<cough>

Just learned that "January" in Italian is "Gennaio," the GenAI bros have gone too far this time

So, not only did I recently code a whole-ass programming language using nothing more than Rust and ed(1), I just submitted a proposal (unrelated) to RustConf 2026 a full month before the deadline using no AI.

Just cancelled my KeePassXC Patreon :(.

Been a member for years, but I can't in good conscience contribute financially to a security tool that uses and endorses gen-"AI". It's grossly irresponsible.

> I don't know what other people think about this, but I have no plans to add plugins to #ed.

— Antonio Diaz Diaz, maintainer of #GNU #ed(1)

Finally someone not falling for the idea of plugins!

CC @ed1conf

Since Ryanair now requires you to use their app to get a boarding pass or stand in line at the counter I got fed up with their BS.
I made an app that allows you to get the Google Wallet link and Apple Wallet pkpass (that you can also add to Android wallet apps) without their shitty app (online check-in still has to be done on the Ryanair website, I might make a tool that does that at some point as well).

Feel free to try it at https://ryanair.anze.dev.

You can find the source code at https://github.com/craftbyte/ryanair-bp

oh my god gothub's ssh-based signup bot is adorable! ​

https://gothub.org/signup.html

#gameoftrees #runbsd

Current AI Downsides:

> Stole all creative, intellectual works from everyone ever

> Eats so much power that they need tons of nuclear plants yesterday

> Eats up so much electricity that everybody else is priced out

> Eats up so much GPU & DRAM that everyone else is priced out

> Devours jobs like Ghibli's No-face

> Falsely identifies people as criminals who aren't

> Hallucinates legal briefs in your court case

> Destroys the validity of all video evidence in all courts everywhere

> Facetracks children playing at the park

> Generates infinite piles of dogshit spaghetti code that can't be read or revised

> Can't count to 100, doesn't know how many r's are in Strawberry

> Deep-fakes Martin Luther King Jr. stealing fried chicken, Studio Ghibli child porn

> Produces ugly, smeary, unappealing fake video that nobody likes.

Added: Consumes water at a rate that will desertify our entire planet.

Added: Completely destroys college education, both in terms of cheating and inability to read/write

Added: Makes all art suspected as fake, all art stealable and reguritated.

Added: Allows world leaders to fake their health, presence, & speaking capacity.

Added: Not even a Language Model.

Added: Fake/bullshit content and rampant chatbotting means the Internet is now mostly dead.

Added: AI warfare is inept and kills innocent/misidentified people. AI security bots are in the works for your home town.

Added: Allows for extortion, sextortion, scamming at a level never seen before.

Current AI upsides:

> Sam Altman is rich, I guess, idk.

xmas is now deprecated, we need waylandmas

Je refais ma pub mais s'il y a des fans de #DoctorWho qui veulent parler de #DoctorWho à d'autres fans de #DoctorWho, j'ai créé l'espace "Doctor Who sur Matrix" pour nous permettre de communiquer ! https://matrix.to/#/#dwmatrix:grtt.fr

The compiler flag -funsafe-math-optimizations tells the compiler to use fun and safe math optimizations

Though a bit niche, my #FreeSoftwareAdvent today is ed(1). As the goofball behind @ed1conf, I certainly play it up, but I certainly use it more than the average Unix/BSD/Linux user.

A while ago I wrote up list of reasons¹ why one might use ed, and some are more obscure/improbable reasons (though I've encountered all of them in that post), there are a couple of those that drive me back to ed regularly:

• I can still see the output of previous commands on the screen while I edit, where a full-screen editor would obscure that output that I need to incorporate in my edit

• it's just darn fast for a quick edit, changing a variable name or adding/removing an entry in a list, etc. No startup costs for a honkin' huge $VISUAL with dozens of plugins and language-server processes and GUI rendering

• very usable on low-bandwith/high-latency connections like I sometimes get when I remote into machines (less of a problem now, but I still experience sessions where I'll SSH in, invoke ed, make the change, write & quit, and exit the shell, in a couple seconds, while the screen repaints things oh-so-slowly

• and most importantly, there's quality geek-cred for using it in front of others 😆

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¹ https://blog.thechases.com/posts/cli/why-ed1/

trade offer

you receive: SMB3-like gay foxgirl platformer, turn-based roguelike starring an agender body snatching imp, adorable hat based puzzle game, and an SMB1-like platformer with fiesty fox girl protagonist

we receive: $20 and the ability to survive the winter

https://itch.io/s/169922/kitsune-games-bundle

The new feature nobody wanted

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Did you know that if cyber crime was a country, measured by GDP - it would be the third biggest economy, after USA and China. $10.5 Trillion!

Their business model is ransomware.

Keep this in mind as the number of companies hit is steadily increasing, and while the global economy turns into dust - this economy only grow stronger and bigger for each day.

What enables this economy is still people, because despite the development of computer science through the decades - ransomware still relies on people clicking on bad links, open attachments, being socially tricked by professional bad actors, and so on.

Criminal actors using WormGPT and other AI LLM's that are trained to create perfect phising emails, the future is going to be interesting, to say the least.

Stay safe out there!