UNIX philosophy needs to be killed, dismembered, dissolved in acid, sun dried, mixed into concrete, cast into an obelisk, shattered into pieces, launched into space, and scattered all over the solar system. No other system has done so much harm to the programming world as UNIX had. Bad design with a cult built around it, it needs to just die, whether by Emacs or any other means.

I hate git submodules.

systemd is ass, and that's why we're gonna launch it into space. No more systemd will be left on Earth.

I'm half serious.

Daily reminder.

We live in the world where most corporate produced pieces of software are indistinguishable from malware from 20 years ago.

From https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:23.bsdinstall.asc:

try to install FreeBSD
some asshole neighbour's wifi is called for f in /dev/ad*; do cat /dev/zero > $f; done
oops where did all my data go

This is what FreeBSD developers have been demanding your respect for, all these years.

Fun activity of the day:

Extracting 1Gb of perf traces over a 115200b/s serial link.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20260514102012/https://thanosapollo.org/posts/bzr-saga/

This is the story in which :rms: forced the use of Bazaar for acs development over git for four years. Not because it was better–it was not. Not because it was freer–git was under the GPL from the start. But because it was a GNU project, as in the GNU foundation held the rights over code. Though, at the same time bzr was only developed by Canonical.

Four years later, Canonical nuked bzr development and suddenly nobody from GNU expressed the desire to pick it up and continue. And then Emacs switched to git.

This tale describes the core of GNU mindset. They will use worse tools developed by someone else, while being incapable of writing a similar thing from scratch or maintaining an existing code base, solely for weird political reasons proclaimed by their deranged cult leader. And then they will happily pat themselves on their backs, while their tooling continues being abysmal piss-flavoured rotting garbage. Until it all breaks apart and then they happily switch to something better, designed and handled by much more competent developers.