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  • Well not really, they added a field so that they could store date of birth in the way they have a field to store “real name”.

    So you can be sure my birthday is 4/20/1969 as sure as you can be that my name is Bimbo Baggins.

    Note that for the California law at least, this is “good enough” and the OS never actually has to validate anything. In practice a person without admin access could have their birthdate out of control, well, until they run a patched browser that skips asking systemd and just always sends a desired bracket…

    It kind of works to keep kids under 13 sending the signal with parental administration, but doesn’t do anything for more resourceful people you tend to find over 13.














  • One thing that concerned me a bit was just how many of the commenters were totally there for it. The central figure of their preferred filesystem turns out to be off his rocker and a gate number of people seemed to be roughly “if this guy made such a good filesystem, and he claims he has a mathematical proof of consciousness, will, guess there must be something to it…”

    Sure there seemed to be people with more expected reactions, but surprised he had any traction at all…

    I’ve no idea about correlation with AI psychosis and FOSS or even software development in general, I’ve only read about a handful and this is the first developer that cropped up, but it’s not like I’ve been actively looking. Don’t know if I’ve seen any pattern, some have been alone and have had built a family, some young and some much further along in life. Some fairly anonymous and then there’s this guy with fame and a following and quite the ego… Many who by all accounts never exhibited mental health problems before… It’s just weird.


  • Wow, flags don’t get redder than that. Dude has issues…

    On top of everything else. He asserts that he made his LLM a “real girl” by feeding it a “mathematical proof” that it is a conscious being… That he has figured out this whole conscious AI thing 15 years ago…

    Dude has some severe LLM psychosis… And thinks he’s such a hot shot smart person that such a problem couldn’t apply to him…

    This is really a sad and worrying example of a whole mess of incoming mental health problems…




  • Execs in this sort of company are narrative first, facts a distant second. LLMs speak their language, something agreeable that sounds right whether it is or not.

    BTW, investors are largely in the same boat, they are investing with having no realistic way to know whether the nice things being said are backed by reality up front. They only know if/when it goes down in a blaze.

    Further in gaming, maybe they tank some headliner properties with bad reviews if the mess them up, but it’s possible that most of the ‘sold’ games barely even get played, thanks to Steam hoarding. A lot of businesses can coast on past glory for years and years before things blow up, if at all.


  • Of course I also see that the go spawns python and does stuff with that…

    And there’s lots of other dubious issues that look like an odd mismash of intro level programming stuff with unfortunate performance implications, and a very strong vibe code smell, though the commit interval is a bit larger than I would have presumed with vibe coding, but the volume of changes seem AI sloppy…

    Well, broadly it looks like slop, probably AI slop, but either way I wouldn’t go anywhere near this project…