Alternatively, how many of them have invested in one or more of these LLM makers and are ready to torpedo their own business as long as it makes the share price go up/feeds more authentic training data?

not far off, sadly

It’s not chatbot psychosis, it’s ‘math and engineering and neuroscience’

top-tier sneer from The Register

Your last paragraph reminds me of the following series of YouTube videos that goes over how to build a “correct” fluid simulation, starting at the quantum mechanical level (iirc): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMoTR49uj6ld32zLVWmcGXaW7w2ey7Vh4.

Multiple scales of complexity and interaction, that’s way too computationally intensive to just directly stimulate how reality works, and so each scale has to be carefully “averaged out”, in a sense, to end up with a simulation that is cheap enough to run yet still behaves realistically and reproduces as many nuances as possible.

You can use me after free() all you want, babe

Yeah, go big or go home with this kind of stuff. Give me some Linux kernel source code, maybe even some well-known RFC!

Yup! YAML is defined as a “strict superset” of JSON (or at least, it was the last time I checked).

It’s a lot like markdown and HTML; when you want to write something deeply structured and somewhat complex you can always drop back/down to the format with explicit closing delimiters and it just works™.

Now you’re thinking with portals primes!

So which is it? Are developers 55% more productive, or are they losing 20% of their time to inefficiencies and burning out at record rates?

The answer: executives are measuring—and reporting—what makes their stock price rise, not what’s actually happening on the ground.

Or if you want to get slightly more conspiratorial: the execs are all buying shares in OpenAI, Nvidia, and the like - so now they’re more interested in ordering people to use LLM tools so that these stocks rise in price, even if it means sabotaging their own company.

I recently read a lovely short story about this: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Hi, not OP, but: that’s known as frontmatter, it’s somewhat widespread, and thus I suspect that it’s much more difficult to have it live at the end of your markdown files than in a separate file or db altogether - unless OP is already rolling their own markdown parser.

I have the same preference for personal projects, but when I was working on a corporate team it was really useful to have the “run configs” for intellij checked in so that each new team member didn’t need to set them up by themselves. Some of the setup needed to get the python debugger properly connected to the project could get quite gnarly.

I think this part references it, though it’s kinda solely in passing:

Production evaluations can elicit entirely new forms of misalignment before deployment. More importantly, despite being entirely derived from GPT-5 traffic, our evaluation shows the rise of a novel form of model misalignment in GPT-5.1 – dubbed “Calculator Hacking” internally. This behavior arose from a training-time bug that inadvertently rewarded superficial web-tool use, leading the model to use the browser tool as a calculator while behaving as if it had searched. This ultimately constituted the majority of GPT-5.1’s deceptive behaviors at deployment.

In case you omitted the following out of ignorance and not by deliberate choice:

podman unshare can be used to (mostly) painlessly access the files created by rootless podman.

I’m surprised that’s what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.

I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don’t exactly know which parts.

Quite a few! And so many overlap! Thankfully they’re all supposed to be live streamed and recorded. An excerpt of my personal schedule:

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LHANGM-open_source_in_public_utilities_-collaboration_with_diy_communities_for_better/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/UQUCFW-the_buyout_how_the_open_source_community_liberated_its_own_platform/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FXLB7M-outside_the_beaten_path_of_css/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3EEZZB-open-source-batteries/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WQBBR9-map-your-grid/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GTZSA8-docspec/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/K7YXFT-gotweb/

• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SK3Z3Q-epaper-driving-waveforms-explained/

This is just Saturday…

I guess it only makes sense that after Liquid Ass UI, we’d get Fuzzy Toilet Seat UI

I hesitate to bring this up because you’ve clearly already done most of the hard work, but I’m planning on attending the following conference talk this weekend that might be of interest to you: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VEQTLH-infrastructure-as-python/

ehehehehe thanks for that mental image

Of course, one can always reclaim that space if the data truly is inaccessible. Makes me want to write a joke program for “cleaning up” after ransomware that just removes the data from the partition table (or whatever the equivalent for files is - would that just be rm?)

shred -f -u