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Jon O

@nojjan.bsky.social

Interested in computing, mountains, security, privacy, music, movies and art. @noj@mastodon.social

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rob pike@robpike.io · 8mo ago

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Jon O@nojjan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Society respects an MBA more than a plumber, even though the latter benefits society more — though I concede that both roles involve, on some level, shit, with the plumber unblocking it and the MBA spewing it." From www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

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Jon O@nojjan.bsky.social · last yr.

Ad breaks in Instagram and Facebook may be the best thing that has happened. Will likely expedite the un-Metaification I’ve been brooding over

Jon O@nojjan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tröttaste grejen som särskilt äldre skolans programmerare/sysadmins hänfalle till; emacs vs vi. Vem bryr sig vilken 70-talseditor du använder? Särskilt inte om du ändå inte använder den bättre än vad du skulle nano/textedit.