In response to the many requests I have received for introductory performance-programming materials, I will be posting a serialized course on Substack starting February 1st: computerenhance.com/p/perfor…

This type of post disgusts me, and if I had an ultrablock button that would block @mayank_jee and everyone who follows them, I would push it as hard as I could. @Wassimulator is a surgeon as well as a programmer. From time to time, he has to use computers at a hospital. If Mayank took ten seconds to look at the actual photograph, they would have noticed that the computer has a barcode on it. Do you honestly think that Wassim prints out barcodes and puts them on his own personal computers at home? Also, when are "active hours" at a hospital, exactly? What is the time of day when a hospital doesn't need access to patient information? Finally, if you're delusional enough to think that Windows doesn't force updates when it "knows you're working", please tell me what this was, exactly: piped.video/watch?v=ReHafyiD…

Gross, and if self-hosted, expensive. When most of the traffic is AI bots and scrappers, you have to either pay for pro firewall protection or for the infra upgrade to sustain the pressure. Sharing content used to be a labor of love. But today it's also an economic commitment.

Yep. Despite my best intentions I've never been able to fully commit to maintaining an online resource, as much as I wanted to. Too damn busy. But nowadays, my interest in sharing hard-won knowledge for the benefit of others has been completely dissolved by AI scraping.

I find this sentiment very relatable. The behavior of AI companies has made it feel gross to share work online.

They do agree with me. You just have to actually read them :) Try it for yourself below! The reason why the authors lost in cases like Meta is because they brought these cases before any substantial use of AI was occurring, and therefore have no evidence of market disruption.

This is a common excuse, but it's not actually true, and also not how copyright law works. Whether a use is educational is not the primary determiner of whether something is fair use - it's whether or not the use affected the commercial viability of the thing being copied. The reason that humans learning from artwork can be found fair use under copyright law is because humans learning to draw from other humans has not been shown to affect commercial viability of the original work. This is because human artistic output tends to be rate-limited, and there aren't that many humans who learn to create art in a particular style regardless. While originality and educational use are both things that might help establish fair use in the absence of a market effect, if there is a demonstrable market effect it is very hard to show fair use. This is likely to be the case with AI art, since machines can generate a lot more art (not to mention copying a lot more exactly), and they are in fact marketed as being replacements for human artists. In summary, at least in this particular sense, copyright law already correctly accounted for the difference between humans and machines, even though that wasn't specifically something it was designed to deal with.

Have you considered paying some of that money to the artists, authors, and programmers who created 99% of your product, but who as of yet have not received a single cent from you?

The replies to posts like this one never cease to amaze me. It reminds me of the desktop scaling excuse parade. If you can't immediately think of several better solutions to this problem than printing the instructions for console switching, you are in no place to condescend.

Linux desktop does still have some user-friendliness issues, as it turns out

First Nowgrep release will be a closed beta where I will hand out a limited number of keys. I need to do a lot of testing, bug fixing and implement more UX features before I can confidently do a full release. If you're interested in being part of the closed beta, then please contact me anywhere. Full release date is undecided but expect something Q1 2026. I will also be in dire need of funding to keep doing this. If you want to support me, I added a ZEC wallet code on my website. I might do pre-orders later also.

So... we have to reprint Meow Book Three 😰 Our printer royally screwed us over, sending us books with some of the worst print errors I've seen. So now, we have to find a new press. To all of our Kickstarter backers, I'm so so sorry for the delay.

My cofounder and I are making an FPGA-accelerated server for high-memory high-bandwidth workloads. We're looking for one or two companies to partner with; we'll do the work to port your application to our hardware. Please DM me if you've got a tricky workload!

🚨New paper on AI and copyright Several authors have sued LLM companies for allegedly using their books without permission for model training. 👩‍⚖️Courts, however, require empirical evidence of harm (e.g., market dilution). Our new pre-registered study addresses exactly this gap. Joint work with Profs @dhillon_p (@umsi) & Jane Ginsburg ( @ColumbiaLaw) (1/n)🧵

Our current on-prem OS count is now Windows 5, Linux 5, Mac 1. Hoping to convert another 3 Windows setups to Linux by the end of 2026. The only reason we're not still majority-Windows is because of Microsoft's aggressively anti-professional stewardship of the platform.

This is all I am responsible for in Satisfactory. @Jonathan_Blow can attest.

The disassembly will continue until morale improves :) Really enjoying this series with @MarcoBehler: piped.video/watch?v=XRUMbGwe…

Abridged version: piped.video/watch?v=gZ2V5Vtw….

My interview with A Life Engineered is now up on YouTube. The full interview is only available to subscribers to that channel, but an abridged version is available to everyone.

Welcome to the "we need a spreadsheet to explain all the unnecessary accounts you'll need to play your game" era

OP says "I don't know who needs to hear this." Neither do I. To whom was this post even theoretically addressed? The people complaining about Win11 don't want to create Microsoft accounts at all. Exactly when and how often you are forced to use them is not the issue.