I’m not very good with C/C++ so please correct me, isn’t that what’s called a “race condition”? Parallelism can cause non-determinism but not in the same sense LLMs generate non-deterministic output. Compilers are not statistical machines.
Never seen a non-deterministic compiler though
There are credits at the end
Hyping up AI doesn’t become nice when Linus does it.
He can be a legendary developer, a better one than I’ll probably ever become, but I just don’t see how one can separate the use and the ethical implications of this. AI companies want to replace workers, period. There’s no plan to “increase productivity” and still employ this many people. The plan is to increase profits for shareholders.
AI helping Linus to develop better doesn’t make this reality go away. It’s akin to saying we should be thankful to nazi scientists.
Thanks for writing this post. I too am hoping to switch soon.
The movie “Mercy” huh
“It has a mic, so it’ll definitely have eavesdropping malware” is quite a logical jump to make. Everything has a mic nowadays.
“President of Signal getting paid less than a principal engineer” must be the take here.
The same argument applies to Wikipedia: it’s a blessing these people accept working for <1M. They could easily get a job for triple the salary elsewhere but choose to forfeit it for principles.
I run a iRobot i3 and cutting its internet connection renders it useless. I’m eyeing a dreame l40 ultra for valetudo
I use the audio rooms feature with some friends quite a lot, where anyone can join and leave. Don’t know the official name. What’s an alternative for that? Will stoat work?
I might actually use this as my primary phone (I agree with others who say marketing this as a 2nd phone was a mistake) if it gets e/os/ or grapheneos support
Not really, since Briar has a very specific usecase and doesn’t have cross platform support
Cory Doctorow regularly writes in his own blog, without any cookie banners: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/
Can you put a tl;dw here? Are they scams?
AppRaven is quite nice
I haven’t seen the 1987 version or read the novel, but agreed on all points.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.
I got myself a pair of moondrop chu’s and this is the way