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YorickPeterse

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Author of the Inko programming language, formerly a staff developer at GitLab.

Website: https://yorickpeterse.com

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YorickPeterse··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Banning AI generated content works just fine, and arguing otherwise is nothing short of FOMO.

As a random example, AI generated content is banned from the /r/ProgrammingLanguages subreddit and any regular visitor that _isn't_ suffering from AI psychosis/FOMO will tell you it's for the better. In general it's not that difficult to moderate for it either as AI built projects consistently contain the same patterns _over and over_ such that 98% is easily detected.

YorickPeterse··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
Competent or not, slop is still slop. The website in particular uses the exact same copy-paste layout/style produced by LLMs and used by pretty much every slop project out there.

One very quick "slop or not?" test is to see if em dashes are used in the source code where they literally never make sense. It's not a great test, but it's one that consistently turns out to be good enough. The results should speak for themselves: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajolt-lang%2Fjolt+%E2%80%9...

YorickPeterse··on AI in Linux
No one is dead because I launched a nuclear missile.

That doesn't mean I _should_ be given access to a nuclear missile.

YorickPeterse··on AI in Linux
There are many arguments one could make in favor of keeping AI around and using it, but your "argument" here is just about the lousiest and most naive argument one could possibly make, and shows a complete lack of empathy and understanding from your end.
YorickPeterse··on JetZero
I think that's called a train.
YorickPeterse··on Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions
Oh no, anyway...
YorickPeterse··on Gleam Is Now on Tangled
What's a search engine?
YorickPeterse··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Probably more than we'd like to admit. This isn't new either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 for example).

Thinking software developers have done no wrong (deliberately or not) ever is just borderline naive.

YorickPeterse··on Podman v6.0.0
You're running an LTS release first released in 2024. What exactly did you expect was going to happen?
YorickPeterse··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Ah yes, so if say Hitler says "millions of people should die" then it's not violence, it's "just" words.
YorickPeterse··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Surely they can just ask Claude Code to fix this? After all, coding is a solved problem right?
YorickPeterse··on Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS
So how is this different from Fedora CoreOS or bootc/RHEL image mode?
YorickPeterse··on Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
> Over 135 original creations published (essays, poems, blog posts, one interactive experiment)

Ah yes, the pinnacle of original creations in 2026: regurgitating content ingested from elsewhere.

> They connect NASA redundancy systems to African kinship funeral economics. They trace an em-dash from typographic style choice to surveillance detection signal to Cloudflare product name.

So basically it produces complete bullshit equivalent to that of somebody having some sort of mental breakdown.

This article and the general attitude of AI bros reminds me of somebody hearing a parrot blurt out something random they picked up, then try to assign some deeper meaning about the universe to it.

YorickPeterse··on With one million displaced, Lebanon turns to digital wallets for aid
Just like Gaza right? Oh wait...
YorickPeterse··on Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers
This is just the typical FOMO nonsense pushed by AI fans.

It's the exact same as seen with many past hypes, and every time the result is a lot more nuanced than those fans claim. It wasn't that long ago that people were claiming MongoDB was going to revolutionize the world and make relational databases obsolete, or how cryptocurrencies were going to change the world, or NFTs, and the list goes on.

YorickPeterse··on World Happiness Report 2026
An increase in right-wing extremism and racism, public transportation that is falling apart and ridiculously expensive, the water quality going downhill due to pollution, costs increasing far more than neighboring countries for seemingly no solid reason, a complete disregard for the climate and the EU regulations we're supposed to meet, and a lot more.
YorickPeterse··on World Happiness Report 2026
Considering the state of The Netherlands over the last two decades, I can't help but feel this report is straight up bullshit. The only way I can see The Netherlands rank this high is by only asking two people and some sheep in the middle of nowhere.
YorickPeterse··on Tony Hoare has died
Is this why software transactional memory is so prevalent today and the actor model is barely used?
YorickPeterse··on Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk
I haven't looked deeply into either, but how does this compare to the combination of Clevis and Tang that e.g. Red Hat/Fedora seems to favor?
YorickPeterse··on Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
For those looking for a more extensive article about bootc, I recently wrote about using it in https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-..., including a comparison to some other existing tools.
YorickPeterse··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
Ah yes, because companies never lie about how they process your data...
YorickPeterse··on Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers
I think sysusers _can_ technically run quadlets because you can log in as them, but it's definitely not what they're meant for so it's probably not going to work forever.
YorickPeterse··on The Gleam Programming Language
The type of people complaining about this are usually the people you don't want in your community to begin with, so I doubt Gleam is missing out here.
YorickPeterse··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
A user friendly distribution would be something like Fedora or Ubuntu, not "Arch but with some optimizations that probably won't matter much"
YorickPeterse··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
It's very much privatised in the sense that it's operating on a for-profit business model, rather than a for-benefit model.
YorickPeterse··on FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
For Linux this will vary between distributions and configurations. For example, based on some testing I did today using mkosi [1] (for reasons unrelated to this discussion), a bare-bones Fedora 43 installation uses about 130 MiB of RAM, while a Debian installation uses a little more than 100 MiB.

IIRC last time I tried a bare-bones FreeBSD installation it used about the same amount of memory, maybe a little more based on how ZFS is set up.

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

YorickPeterse··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
The Netherlands has a very similar problem: the train system was privatized in the late 90s/early 2000s and has been going downhill since the 2010s or so. While it's still better than Deutsche Bahn, it's just so much worse compared to how it used to be.
YorickPeterse··on I'm returning my Framework 16
Thank you for mansplaining what color calibration and accuracy means, but I'm well aware of how it works due to my background in photography and having spent plenty of time calibration displays in the past.

In particular, there's a big difference between "can show more colors" and "shows the same colors but overly saturated".

The Framework 16 suffers from this by default, something that's quite obvious when comparing it by looking at photos for which you know what the actual colors look like, something I did do but didn't cover in the article.

Whether this is because the display operates in a different colorspace by default (e.g AdobeRGB) or not I don't know, but there's at least no option for it anywhere in the BIOS that I could find.

Claiming the Framework is superior over a monitor literally meant for color grading and photography is laughable to be honest, and seems to suggest you interpret display quality as "more intense is better".

YorickPeterse··on I'm returning my Framework 16
What's the battery life you're getting out of the Ryzen AI 9?
YorickPeterse··on I'm returning my Framework 16

  > I don't really know what the "creaking screen" is about though. IMO the F16 screen and hinges are a higher build quality than the F13. I had to upgrade my F13 hinges to the 4kg hinges to keep it from bouncing and moving.
I think the comment was referring to the noise of the spacers, unless the author also thought it was in relation to the display. So to clarify, the display makes no noise whatsoever and neither do the hinges. The noise shown in the video is specifically about the trackpad and keyboard spacers.
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