Mark Vincze

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

“So far, Google’s AI infrastructure buildout drove an 11 percent rise in the company's total emissions last year.”

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Couldn't have picked a better time to fully switch to Linux.

[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.

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.

What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.

When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.

One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.

Glide A breezy tiling window manager for macOS.

Announcing Glide, a tiling window manager I've been working on for macOS.

glidewm.org

Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls

Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall

Let's talk about:

a) how to get around paywalls
b) why you shouldn't be mad about them

billboard for “sleeper: #1 sports app” reading “YOUR EX COULDN’T SEE THE SIGNS, BUT YOU CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE, JUST LIKE SPORTS.”

most depressing billboard I have ever seen

OPINION GUEST ESSAY I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery. What Happened Surprised Me. Dec. 22, 2025

Pass

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1995)

This makes me so happy for having switched to Vivaldi a couple of years ago.

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

digging out the box of loose ddr3 from the garage and selling it to buy a car

This is great: em-dash-appreciation.org
I certainly won't stop using em dashes—LLMs be damned!

Let me guess: Apple TV?

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

With Strange Jigsaw, puzzlemaker Fleb wants getting stumped to feel like a gift 'I would like people who have never played puzzle games before to be able to complete the game'

I loved Strange Jigsaws and I love Fleb www.polygon.com/strange-jigs...

Borderless: The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) with Gunnar Morling YouTube video by Ogrodje

Last week I started exploring in C# the (originally Java) One Billion Row Challenge (github.com/gunnarmorlin...).
This is a really interesting conversation with the creator, @gunnarmorling.dev: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYjB...

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

I've been getting familiar with Kotlin in the past days, and so far I'm enjoying the experience, the syntax is compact and friendly, and the getting started guide is really good.
Some of the syntax seems to be even closer to C#, especially with the C# primary constructors.

Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

as the homo sapien crushes pigment with water on the cave floor, then presses his hand to the stone and spreads the ink across its surface, marking the cave for thousands of years — he thinks “I can’t wait till this can be done with a.i.”