You know I thought this whole discussion was really about taste or ethical usage of software free from the influences of corporations, but then you hit me with a link to an insane persons blog where they vibe coded 100k lines of assembly with claude and apparently that’s “interesting” and knowing how you think by now it’s probably way better than something made by people who know how display technology works, the people who used to develop X.
made of ancient arcane magic that’s never seen an llm.
I have AntiX laptop & desktop, Gentoo & Debian boxen with Alpine kvm’s running x11 nicely. This is fine but I am keeping an eye on the ecosystem as the lines of code outside my x11 window are going faster than cmatrix at the moment.
An ‘insane person’ summoning up novel display servers that make them smile and ditching 4 million lines of x11 code is of interest to me. As is Rene Rebe talking about vibe coding his own kernel whilst vibe coding the linux kernel, peeps are playing supertuxkart on the hurd and Fabrice Bellard is working on LLM’s like an Elven smith.
Old hardware and software is coming back to life at a time when new hardware, that isn’t shit, is hard to come by. Man pages and neofetches are being read again and novel solutions are appearing as people demand all sorts of weird content from novel models not caring if people think them a witch.
At a time when the government here are trying to lock spyware into operating systems the possibility of being able to roll your own components alongside models that can understand and modify them, even if they are a bit shit and can’t run steam, is worth considering. If an insane pleb can do it on a current consumer model, the future is bright.
You know I thought this whole discussion was really about taste or ethical usage of software free from the influences of corporations, but then you hit me with a link to an insane persons blog where they vibe coded 100k lines of assembly with claude and apparently that’s “interesting” and knowing how you think by now it’s probably way better than something made by people who know how display technology works, the people who used to develop X.
Well, not anymore apparently, lol.
It is about that.
I have AntiX laptop & desktop, Gentoo & Debian boxen with Alpine kvm’s running x11 nicely. This is fine but I am keeping an eye on the ecosystem as the lines of code outside my x11 window are going faster than cmatrix at the moment.
An ‘insane person’ summoning up novel display servers that make them smile and ditching 4 million lines of x11 code is of interest to me. As is Rene Rebe talking about vibe coding his own kernel whilst vibe coding the linux kernel, peeps are playing supertuxkart on the hurd and Fabrice Bellard is working on LLM’s like an Elven smith.
Old hardware and software is coming back to life at a time when new hardware, that isn’t shit, is hard to come by. Man pages and neofetches are being read again and novel solutions are appearing as people demand all sorts of weird content from novel models not caring if people think them a witch.
At a time when the government here are trying to lock spyware into operating systems the possibility of being able to roll your own components alongside models that can understand and modify them, even if they are a bit shit and can’t run steam, is worth considering. If an insane pleb can do it on a current consumer model, the future is bright.