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  I miss Sun Microsystems so much

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  COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in PRs. There are various reasons, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. The primary reason is simply our team's load for reviews. In particular, we would like to prioritize working on contributions from our own team and regular contributors, while we have been receiving far more changes from first-time contributors using LLMs. These changes are often unplanned and have had a low acceptance rate. 1/2

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  If you hate DHH and vibe coding, come help Redox. Here he is throwing a temper tantrum over our no-AI policy: https://x.com/dhh/status/2097559561993326752

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  I have ported X11 to Redox OS in order to start working on ports that have previously been too difficult. In the future, we will be rebuilding these with wayland. Here is TWM with gtk3-demo open on the left, the embedded GL example on the right, and xterm behind. This all runs inside orbital using a custom X server video driver.

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  Did you know that if you try to type SHA256SUMS on a mobile keyboard but hit the numbers too fast it is SHAWTYSUMS

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  After Gitlab's recent announcement I am strongly considering migrating Redox OS to Forgejo, a truly open source community maintained project. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

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  cosmic-text 0.19.0 has been released: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text/releases/tag/0.19.0

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  Why even have user accounts if one missing if statement in a multi-million line kernel gives everyone root

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  I understand where Matthew is coming from, but I wholeheartedly disagree, and maintain that LLM contributions are generally undesired in all of my projects. https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116424709251813699

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  The Redox OS February report is out! This month was very exciting as always: COSMIC Compositor, COSMIC Settings, NodeJS, Vulkan, Complete POSIX Signals, Fixed Nushell and Helix, More Boot Fixes, Better Multi-threading, Better Package Manager, Orbital Performance Monitor and many more. https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-260228/

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  htop has been ported to Redox OS! I'm using it to identify performance bottlenecks.

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  New user-agent just dropped

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  There's still some weirdness but I have mate-session running on Redox. We now have GTK, X11, wayland, d-bus, and dconf ported (though there are still some bugs). With these fundamentals in place, porting software from Linux has become much easier.

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  After a few nights of reading through thousands of pages of PRMs I have finally implemented a modesetting driver for Intel HD graphics on Redox OS: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/base/-/merge_requests/46/. There is much more to do, but there is now a clear path to native hardware accelerated graphics!

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  COSMIC Sync Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0QgO1_3PU

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  There has never been a time in my life when I have been less enthused to be a programmer than now.

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  Redox OS has added a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy to our CONTRIBUTING.md: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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  LLM slop is just one part of the broader systemd/Linux sloperating system. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

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  US courts consider code to be fully written by an LLM with limited human interaction to be public domain: https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf. Public domain is NOT open source as defined by the OSI: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source. Nor is it free software as defined by the FSF or GNU: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html. Accepting these works could make software licenses unenforceable in the US, regardless if they are FLOSS or...

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  I understand everyone is under pressure, and I wish you all the best. Especially if we disagree on things, I am often wrong. I feel that everything I had hoped to gain from writing FLOSS is slowly but surely eroding. My freedom and joy are being soaked up by intense pressures, both internal to FLOSS and external. Software will get worse before it gets better. Burnout could push maintainers to lower their standards and embrace "AI". Hardware will continue to complexify. Where...

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  I am in the incredibly privileged position to say no to LLM use in my projects. I have heard from many people who are being forced to use LLMs for their programming jobs regardless if they want to or if they are well suited to the task. SAG-AFTRA and WGA were able to fight this for other disciplines, it is quite a coincidence (ironic?) that software developers are both responsible for and suffering from widespread LLM deployment

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  IF I WANTED CLAUDE TO CHANGE MY CODE I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF, I DON'T NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROJECT TO ASK CLAUDE TO MAKE CHANGES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND