i don't agree — i am way more optimistic

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116217029716302392

Can LLMs think is a hard question not because we don’t know how LLMs work. But because we don’t know how “think” works

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Liam Proven » 🌐 2026-03-12
@lproven@social.vivaldi.net

A.I. Isn't People

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

<- We know EXACTLY how LLMs work. It is not that complicated. You can express it in 200 lines.

They absolutely, canonically, by definition, are not aware. They cannot think. This is not controversial or hard.

My turn to pen a blog about my discomfort with AI-generated code. I feel this is a measured take, and addresses something I haven't commonly seen mentioned elsewhere. And it helped me process a bunch. 🙂

"On Making"

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/

#llm #genai #ai #programming

I love people. I love when they’re not around.

uname -sr
sysctl hw.version
time (x11perf \
-dot \
-create \
-destroy \
-map \
-rect500 \
-aa24text \
-copywinwin100 \
-f8text \
-fitext \
-gc \
-getimage500 \
-pcircle100 \
-polytext \
-putimage500 \
-rect500 \
-resize \
-scroll100 \
-tileftext \
-tr10text \
-triangle100 \
-repeat 2 \
-time 1 > /dev/null)

Here's a thing that might help that aspect though:

You *do not* need to have an opinion on everything.

The idea that "you should be informed" is a bad one in isolation. Sure, we'd all like infinite knowledge - but no, actually.

Be comfortable with "I have no opinion on that". Does the *topic* actually matter to you? Ok, then go look harder. Until then? No, you shouldn't have an opinion.

Don't let yourself be recruited into some agenda because someone else said you ought to have a viewpoint.

Another drawing for my OpenBSD pf gateway/router for an upcoming article (mostly written). This computer enforces bedtime on my home network.

#openBsd #mastoArt #pf

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A pencil drawing with some watercolor. Puffy, the OpenBSD puffer fish mascot, is holding a magic wand. A phone, a laptop, and a desktop are sleeping in little beds. A crescent moon is visible through the window.

I believe NTPD should be completely disabled by default. It's snithcing about yourOS. Sending information to linode.domain. We need more privacy. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177296357231841&w=2

• self-hosted #searxng
• paid https://kagi.com
• bing results with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
• google results with https://www.startpage.com/

why some of the files listed twice? o_O
#openbsd

OpenBSD was right

There’s one very simple thing I learned from Chomsky and that will change your worldview forever. It is really simple.

Each time you read something in a media, simply add the following sentence before everything: "Someone want me to believe that…"

It completely modified my perception. It calmed my anger against lies. It allowed me to read something with no judgement other than "Someone want me to believe that".

Next, you will start questioning who is that "someone". But one step at a time…

I moved all my repos to #GotHub:

https://gonzalo.gothub.org/

And you can do the same! Go to https://gothub.org/ and check it out!

Maybe you are interesting on this one too:

https://openbsd.gothub.org/index.html

#OpenBSD #got #GotHub

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

Friendly reminder of some really good resources to lean email-based git workflow when your centralized forge goes down:

Authoring & Sending Patches
https://git-send-email.io

Receiving & Applying Patches
https://git-am.io

#Email #git

Gotta give it to Claude Code developers: they are exceptionally brave. I would’ve been straight up embarrassed to show stats like this.

Reminder: Claude Code is a thin CLI client that reads input from your terminal, sends it to Antrhopic servers and prints back the response.

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Tweet by @trq212 about Claude Code rendering scene graph in 11 ms and printing it to terminal in 5 ms

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Tweet by @jarredsumner about Claude Code memory usage growing from 10 Gb in January to 68 Gb to 1.7 Gb now

let me know if you can recommend anything else.

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

I've moved some of my currently active repositories over to Game of Trees Hub! 🌳

GoTHub is a transparently funded Git/Got repository hosting service - lightweight, BSD-licensed, and a great minimalist alternative to the big tech.

Check it out: https://rsadowski.gothub.org/

#GoTHub #GameOfTrees #OpenBSD #Git #OpenSource

i wrote a little time log parser in posix shell. it collects from all the files in my todo directory, selects all the lines formated like this...

# start-time stop-time project: task description
- 20260301-085700 20260301-095640 code: add log.sh

code	05:10:44
home	00:22:00
kids	00:42:40
meta	00:40:22

best answer: man man my man 🙂

CfP is coming up for EuroBSDCon 2026 in September!
https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/

17 new VMs were added and 68 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1190 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €63385 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe & healthy!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Squirrel covered in snow It has the text: sooo.... where's spring?

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Paypal receipt for €1190 to the OpenBSD Foundation

What a great joy it is to walk - the pure joy of movement itself, of feeling ones body, of using it the way it is meant to be used.

#joy #walking