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YorickPeterse

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About YorickPeterse

Author of the Inko programming language, formerly a staff developer at GitLab.

Website: https://yorickpeterse.com

Recent public activity

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    Competent or not, slop is still slop. The website in particular uses the exact same copy-paste layout/style produced by LLMs and used by pretty much every slop project out there. O…

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    Comment #49099556

    No one is dead because I launched a nuclear missile. That doesn't mean I _should_ be given access to a nuclear missile.

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    Comment #49099540

    There are many arguments one could make in favor of keeping AI around and using it, but your "argument" here is just about the lousiest and most naive argument one could possibly m…

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    Comment #49057607

    I think that's called a train.

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    Comment #49005172

    Oh no, anyway...

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    Comment #48961217

    What's a search engine?

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    Comment #48789895

    Probably more than we'd like to admit. This isn't new either ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 for example). Thinking software developers have done no wrong (deliberately o…

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    Comment #48774153

    You're running an LTS release first released in 2024. What exactly did you expect was going to happen?

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    Comment #48725616

    Ah yes, so if say Hitler says "millions of people should die" then it's not violence, it's "just" words.

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    Comment #48358624

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    Comment #47966857

    Surely they can just ask Claude Code to fix this? After all, coding is a solved problem right?

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    Comment #47897949

    So how is this different from Fedora CoreOS or bootc/RHEL image mode?

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    Comment #47766159

    > Over 135 original creations published (essays, poems, blog posts, one interactive experiment) Ah yes, the pinnacle of original creations in 2026: regurgitating content ingested f…

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    Comment #47653102

    Just like Gaza right? Oh wait...

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    Comment #47483379

    This is just the typical FOMO nonsense pushed by AI fans. It's the exact same as seen with many past hypes, and every time the result is a lot more nuanced than those fans claim. I…

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    Comment #47453960

    An increase in right-wing extremism and racism, public transportation that is falling apart and ridiculously expensive, the water quality going downhill due to pollution, costs inc…

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    Comment #47448507

    Considering the state of The Netherlands over the last two decades, I can't help but feel this report is straight up bullshit. The only way I can see The Netherlands rank this high…

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    Comment #47329193

    Is this why software transactional memory is so prevalent today and the actor model is barely used?

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    Comment #47268180

    I haven't looked deeply into either, but how does this compare to the combination of Clevis and Tang that e.g. Red Hat/Fedora seems to favor?

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    Comment #47194837

    For those looking for a more extensive article about bootc, I recently wrote about using it in https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-... , including a compari…

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    Comment #47104867

    Ah yes, because companies never lie about how they process your data...

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    Comment #47071796

    I think sysusers _can_ technically run quadlets because you can log in as them, but it's definitely not what they're meant for so it's probably not going to work forever.

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