Barba Koala
@barbakoala.bsky.social
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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.
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
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
I ❤️ coding for the little highs that come with figuring out fixes to self-inflicted failures. That's why LLMs are so unattractive; they value a rush to the output over the pursuit itself. And of course that's why your boss insists you use AI. We need new bosses.
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I ❤️ coding for the little highs that come with figuring out fixes to self-inflicted failures. That's why LLMs are so unattractive; they value a rush to the output over the pursuit itself. And of course that's why your boss insists you use AI. We need new bosses.
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Do you remember this?
Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.
Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Do you remember this?
Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.
Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.
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The EU has launched a Consortium for Digital Commons. Authorities were crystal clear on how large our digital autonomy challenges are today. I delivered a talk in which I outlined how dependent we are technically AND culturally on big tech & I offered some modest advice: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons - Bert Hubert
Last Thursday, 11th of December, saw the launch of the new Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium. In attendance were delegations from the launching member states (and the observer...
berthub.eu
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The EU has launched a Consortium for Digital Commons. Authorities were crystal clear on how large our digital autonomy challenges are today. I delivered a talk in which I outlined how dependent we are technically AND culturally on big tech & I offered some modest advice: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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#E2EE must be explicitly protected, and client-side scanning must be excluded entirely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final
After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the
www.eff.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#E2EE must be explicitly protected, and client-side scanning must be excluded entirely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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This should make any human with values sick.
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This should make any human with values sick.
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Utter insanity. Can we turn the country off and on again?
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Utter insanity. Can we turn the country off and on again?
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cool job at a very special computer company
- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
Product Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
cool job at a very special computer company
- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Worth your time:
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Worth your time:
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
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Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
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Hi Bluesky!
The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥
#puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube
The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥
#puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube
September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hi Bluesky!
The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥
#puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube
The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥
#puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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It looks like we have some new friends, which means it’s time to reintroduce ourselves. 🥳
Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.
Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.
July 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It looks like we have some new friends, which means it’s time to reintroduce ourselves. 🥳
Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.
Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.
I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf- Infuriatingly brilliant.
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
jsdate.wtf
July 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf- Infuriatingly brilliant.
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I’ve put a /speaking page up on my site. Collection of videos from some of my better* talks heydonworks.com/speaking/
*more unhinged
*more unhinged
Speaking
A blog post from the HeydonWorks.com blog
heydonworks.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I’ve put a /speaking page up on my site. Collection of videos from some of my better* talks heydonworks.com/speaking/
*more unhinged
*more unhinged
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"We are not building people up by giving them helpful tools, we are tearing people down by convincing them they can’t function without the tools."
I gave @monteiro.bsky.social $2 but I also give him this retweet, because look at that sentence. It's good shit.
I gave @monteiro.bsky.social $2 but I also give him this retweet, because look at that sentence. It's good shit.
How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate
Look at all this evidence of humanity! Gimme $2 and become a premium subscriber. This week’s question comes to us from DB: How do I make art without feeling...
buttondown.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"We are not building people up by giving them helpful tools, we are tearing people down by convincing them they can’t function without the tools."
I gave @monteiro.bsky.social $2 but I also give him this retweet, because look at that sentence. It's good shit.
I gave @monteiro.bsky.social $2 but I also give him this retweet, because look at that sentence. It's good shit.
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A whopping £160bn - that’s how much could have been raised for our country with a 2% wealth tax on JUST the families on the Sunday Times Rich List.
May 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A whopping £160bn - that’s how much could have been raised for our country with a 2% wealth tax on JUST the families on the Sunday Times Rich List.
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“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same 4 words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, forever. This difference is vital yet often ignored: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
'The cloud' is not just servers. 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor - Bert Hubert's writingsSupport Ukraine
The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean lockin...
berthub.eu
April 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same 4 words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, forever. This difference is vital yet often ignored: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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Europa kan niet meer bouwen op Amerikaanse clouds. Er gaat niet vanzelf een Europees alternatief ontstaan. Dus is het tijd voor #industriepolitiek. In deze post een tour langs de uitdagingen & een suggestie voor een coherente strategie om snel tot Europese opties te komen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Maar hoe bouw je die cloud? - Bert Hubert
De hele korte versie: inmiddels is duidelijk dat Europa/Europese overheden niet meer kunnen bouwen op Amerikaanse clouds, en dat we hier geen goede en dekkende alternatieven hebben. Marktwerking heeft...
berthub.eu
March 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Europa kan niet meer bouwen op Amerikaanse clouds. Er gaat niet vanzelf een Europees alternatief ontstaan. Dus is het tijd voor #industriepolitiek. In deze post een tour langs de uitdagingen & een suggestie voor een coherente strategie om snel tot Europese opties te komen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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Incredible clarity. Claude Malhuret has done the free world a solid:
old.reddit.com/r/europe/comment…
old.reddit.com/r/europe/comment…
"We Are Fighting Against a Dictator Backed by a Traitor" – A French Senator Speaks Out
Posted in r/europe by u/Herobrine20XX • 86,025 points and 3,137 comments
old.reddit.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Incredible clarity. Claude Malhuret has done the free world a solid:
old.reddit.com/r/europe/comment…
old.reddit.com/r/europe/comment…