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Russ Cox

@swtch.com

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
Jake Bailey@jakebailey.dev · last wk.

the worst part about talks is writing talks the best part about writing talks is finding all the oopsies in the code being talked about and thus, I now have PRs to make the TS AST 2% smaller, the parser 10% faster, the binder 1.5% faster

Russ Cox@swtch.com · 3w ago

Every so often, this magnet on my fridge catches my attention, and I think about how innocent the internet used to seem.

New Yorker cartoon with a dog at a desktop PC telling a dog on the floor, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
Russ Cox@swtch.com · last mo.

A few years back, a snorkeling boat in Australia gave us Kwells, and we were delighted to find it actually works for us, unlike everything available in the US. Works for roller coasters too! We order it online now from Aus/UK/Can stores.

Greg Egan@gregegansf.bsky.social · last mo.

TIL that the sea-sickness medication that made the D-day landing possible — given the loss of usual supplies from Europe — was derived from a native Australian plant, the corkwood tree Duboisia myoporoides, whose properties had been known for centuries to indigenous Australians.

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · last mo.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Russ Cox@swtch.com · 3mo ago

In Plan 9 in ~2001, we introduced "private" processes that even a sysadmin couldn't access, debug, etc. I just learned Windows Vista added the same in 2007. The difference? We did it to protect keys held by the security agent, while Windows did it to protect media content. Priorities! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brandon Downey@bdowney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This does a pretty good job of dismantling an argument that ha me (apparently a 'data center moderate'?) scratching my head over how it could even happen. General principle, I think industrial structures should account for their externalities. But there is a narrative developing here for sure...

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.