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The biggest LLM stories are still either somebody with good content tries to keep it out of training sets or somebody with bad content tries to get it in. — Security quote of the week July 30, 2025

two open source stories was in Distributions quote of the week for March 5, 2025.

turn off advertising features in Firefox was in 2024 Linux and free software timeline and Security quotes of the week for July 17, 2024.

Happy GDPR day. Here’s some sensitive data about me. was in Security quotes of the week for May 30, 2018.

JavaScript and not kicking puppies was in Development quote of the week for September 6, 2017.

Stuff I’m thankful for was in Development quotes of the week for June 28, 2017.

I don’t get the “Unix Philosophy” thing.

Posts about “this functionality is broken on systemd but not OpenRC” are great, but “Unix Philosophy”? What did that get us? A bunch of failing vendors in the 1990s, and the inevitability of Windows NT.

The “philosophers” of Unix let themselves be rounded up and made irrelevant.

If you want to build a better init system, build a better init system. But philosophy-based OS advocacy is a failure. Designing working software based on philosophy is like writing real network software based on the OSI 7-layer burrito model. — Quotes of the week for May 18, 2016.

Countdown to 2016 (and some links) was in Quotes of the weeks for January 6, 2016.

“We as an industry need to fix this.” is business-speak for “Magic stuff-fixing elves should come in at night while we sleep and fix this.” — Quotes of the week for March 4, 2015.

You call it having to write a pointless “user story” for Agile Development at work, I call it a market for my fanfic. — Quotes of the week for January 21, 2015.

Oh, no, it’s Brag About How Long You’ve Been Running The Alpha And Beta Releases Of The New Fedora Version Day…and I don’t even have it installed yet. Um, look! A migratory bird! How about that California weather and stuff? Want to see a #cloudcomputing demo? — Distribution quotes of the week for December 10, 2014

1990s: The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
2010s: The net interprets censorship as entertainment and routes it around. — Security quotes of the week for March 26, 2014

Using git and make for tasks beyond coding from March 5, 2014 covered my SCALE talk.

Printer for Linux was in 2011 Linux and free software timeline and Quotes of the week for November 2, 2011.

Why would a company that depends on goodwill from a distributed development community spend so much time bragging on how they have managed to transgress the community’s cooperation norms, and the spirit of the key legal charter that reflects those norms, without violating the letter of that charter? Most people who find loopholes just exploit them quietly without putting up the “Open Letter: Neener, Neener, We Found a Loophole” and “FAQ on the Loophole we Found (Neener, Neener)” web pages. — 2006 Linux and free software timeline: November

The real success of Burn All GIFs day will be measured by how well webmasters can stay away from patent minefields in the future. When you use a patent-encumbered format, you’re setting yourself up to have the patent holder hold you up in the future. The W3C’s decision to declare itself a patent-shenanigans-free zone is a positive development, and other information technology standards bodies should also drop the idea of “UFO” (Uniform Fee Only) patent policies, which impose prohibitive transaction costs on free software and small companies. — LZW is Free! (Almost) June 11, 2003