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Yet more meaningless political theatre.

This generates ZERO passed bills, but lots of pre-election rage bait donations.

End-stage Alexis de Tocqueville material.

Anti-AI is rationally and logically incorrect, because it focuses on inputs, rather than outputs.

The Linux kernel has always been focused on outcomes and outputs, which is the right focus. Here's Linus: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2110524360377458786

Outputs: Code quality and long term maintenance matters. Outputs: Serving users with correctness, security and performance matters.

Focus on "purity of input" is a faith-based political filter, not engineering.

Re: on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:43PM (#50065914)
Testing and feedback welcomed, heading in to 1.0 release soon.
Re: on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:13PM (#50050069)
Humbly requesting feedback and testing from users and their agents.

Primary question: Continue to implement legacy BASIC audio/video and select PEEK/POKE's, or no?

Re:Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:46PM (#47473959)
Skeptical of their engineering, with replies to questions like this: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/2031312666036146460?s=20
Re:"apython": Accelerated asm Python 3.12 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:26PM (#47102765)
Rough draft for comment - passes core cpython 3.12 tests with an inspired design.
Does it isolate keys away from bots?
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:19PM (#46908192)
Already done, months ago, with better taste: https://github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs
Re:BotMaker: Simple Openclaw Configurator on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:11AM (#46837326)
I needed this for experimenting. Sharing with others. Please file issues, to extend.
The next iteration of awk?
Re:It boots on real hardware (hk kernel) on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:57PM (#46428619)
Passes 100% of userland tests, supporting 99% of linux syscalls (though very few filesystems!)
Re:It boots (Linux compatible kernel) on Sunday December 21, 2025 @02:17AM (#46342903)
Early boot and early page table setup, logging single characters to simulated serial console.

Then keep adding tests/features/tests/features/...

Re:It boots (Linux compatible kernel) on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:07AM (#46333755)
I always wanted a kernel where I can experiment with the device driver model, eBPF, device tree and more. Now I've built one:
Re:The state of the kernel Rust experiment on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:31AM (#46322843)
Somewhat related, a kernel in Rust: https://github.com/jgarzik/hk
Re:A new C99 optimizing compiler, with full testsuite on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:31PM (#46240584)
Accelerated by Claude Code, leashed tightly by unit and integration tests, and test-driven development.

Speaking as a compiler and kernel expert, the productivity boost for domain experts is real.

Compiler status: Full C99 compliance, test suites pass, alpha-beta stage, starting to test on Gentoo and open source package builds "real world builds"

Posixutils status: Very close to 1.0 (all POSIX utils, all POSIX util features, tests pass)

Re:Antirez/sds: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:06PM (#45047535)
enums > defines
Re:Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:34AM (#44299024)
Love this! I had the same idea, and was pondering funding apps like this. Was going to call it "SimpleFree" and focus on privacy, offline, mobile, games.
Thanks! There is very little info available on useful, working Veo 3 techniques, so I cobbled together what I could find, with my own experiments: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/1926496820311605577

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