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Drew DeVault Talks About RSS About Drew DeVault Hello! I'm a software engineer and I write here about free and open source software, politics, ethics, and philosophy.

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Blog 3 months ago
AI in Linux
The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds " put his foot down " in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development. I can identify two major ways in which AI is used for Linux kernel development
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Blog 4 months ago
The circus freaks of open source
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievem
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Blog 4 months ago
Vim Classic 8.3.0 released
Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, I'm happy to announce the first release of my fork today: Vim Classic 8.3.0. I have written a release announcement for vim-classic.org, which you can read here . Happy editing!
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Blog 5 months ago
New blog design
I redesigned my blog! I decided to put some more personality into it this time, after over a decade of the minimalist style. This short post is just an excuse to show up in your feed reader so you can go look at it. Cheers! Also: I'm trying out fedi again
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Blog 5 months ago
Add an LLM policy for rust-lang/rust
No comment on this PR may mention the following topics: Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs The environmental impact of LLMs Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output Moral judgements about people who use LLMs We have asked the modera
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Blog 5 months ago
I can't cancel GitHub Copilot
Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn't interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free subscriptio
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