talkingpumpkin

For the fellow community members who are not up to date with the latest AI ~~BS~~ trends:

• if you search for "speckit" you'll land on https://speckit.org/ "Spec Kit - AI-Powered Specification-Driven Development Toolkit"
• if you've never heard of "spec-driven development" it's because, far from being a noteworthy development practice like TDD or DDD, it's just another word for "leave all coding to coding agents"

I clicked on them all so you don't have to (well, so you can better decide what to investigate and what to ignore):

Ratty 3D Terminal
Is the compiz of terminal emulators
https://ratty-term.org/

TheyLive Adblocker
An ublock origin lite fork that replaces ads with slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live instead of hiding them
https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker

TerminalPhone
CLI messenger (with voice messages) that operates over tor
https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone

Cuda Oxide
"Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets you write (SIMT) GPU kernels in safe(ish), idiomatic Rust"
https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html

Wario Synth
Browser-based midi player + search engine (doesn't look like you can easily download the midi filies)
https://www.wario.style/

Jmail & EpsteinExposed
Epstein files search engine (seems very US-focused: I tried looking for a few non-US people and found nothing)
https://epsteinexposed.com/

Wikipedia Doomscroller
"pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia. It is made as a demonstration of how even a basic non-ML algorithm with no data from other users can quickly learn what you engage with" (AGPL)
https://xikipedia.org/

Puter
I'm not 100% sure by looking at the homepage, but it would seem it's a containerized desktop you can access via web (think webtop)
https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter

Honker
SQLite extension providing functionality similar to postgres' notify/listen
https://github.com/russellromney/honker

Yes, these are 9 and not 10... Sorry, I only see 9 in "Topics Covered" above and I don't want to go to youtube (I've already ~~wasted~~ spent enough time on this). If you can, pls integrate the list with the 10th project by replying here.

I’ve been thinking about AI and autonomous agents.

These days this is enough to stop me reading, but thanks for saying out that the article is about AI in the first sentence and spare me a click (declaring that in the title would be even better, but first sentence is pretty darn good).

Synchthing if I want local copies, otherwise I just mount sshfs shares from my nas (using sftpman as a helper)

you will have to spend a lot of time learning the Nix language

I'd say you shouldn't use any system (be it nixos, ansible or even bash scripts) if you are not willing to learn it.

That said, I too find pre-made modules less useful that I initially thought when I got into nixos: unless you want to do very basic stuff, a lot of times it's easier to just generate whatever scripts/configuration files you need directly (using one of the trivial builders in lib or writing a custom derivation) rather than learning how the corresponding nixos module works.

One could say nixos modules make easy things slightly easier, and hard things much harder (this is adapted - possibly imprecisely - from a quote on ORMs, I think by Joel Spolsky).

In your shoes (and, in fact, in mine) I'd try to move away from interactive tools and into file-driven ones.

Personally I use nixos, run WUD (what's up docker) to be notified of available updates, and manually test/update the containers once in a while (every couple weeks or so?)

There are a bazillion other solutions (from stuff like ansible/chef/puppet, to docker-compose, to kubernetes, to... a hand-written bash script) - the idea is to setup stuff via files that you can version, reference and write comments in rather than using some gui for interactive steps that you'll forget to document in some wiki.

Monitoring is a whole different beast than configuring: you'll be probably better off using something that does just that instead of some all-in-one solution. Try looking into something like beszel before going for the full prometheus/graphana stack.

domain-driven design (or development?)

I'm not 100% what it is (I'm really not into nomenclature), but I think it's the practice of modeling your software after the domain you are working in... IDK if/how it differs from what everyone has always been doing since forever.

It would seem my point is not getting through (ie. I must not have expressed it well enough).

You having freedom doesn't mean other people have a duty to support what you do - it just means they don't have legal ground to stop you.

For example, freedom of speech doesn't mean that newspaper must publish whatever you write - it just means the police won't come knocking on your door at 5am because you of something you wrote.

The "idea of linux" (by which I take you mean the idea of FOSS in general, not of the kernel specifically) isn't to support anything and everything.

Does dropping 32 bit go against the "idea of linux"? Does software being developed/tested only on specific distros go against it? Do devs that only supporting glibc because they don't care about musl go against the idea of linux?

I’m just expressing a concern where over relying on one init system will limit options

Nope, nothing actually limits the options of people who don't like systemd: if they want to run some FOSS piece of software whose upstream devs don't care about openrc (or whatever init of choice), they'll just have to fork the projects, put the work in, and the upstream devs won't be able to stop them in any way.

This is what the "freedom" in FOSS means. Twisting it to mean that upstream goes against "the idea of linux" if they don't support whatever thing you care about and they don't is entitled.

this doesn’t go with the idea of Linux, which is having “freedom” with your os

Err... it's "freedom" as in "you are free to run your own system using whatever software you wish" not "freedom" as in "distros and devs have a duty to support your freedom to run any specific software you happen to like".

Let's turn down the entitlement dial a bit.

TLDR:

Current status for 26.04 LTS

We shipped rust-coreutils as the default in Ubuntu 25.10 to maximise real-world testing ahead of the LTS. Based on the audit findings and remediation progress, here is where we stand for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

We have included the latest upstream release 0.8.0 in Ubuntu 26.04, which incorporates the bulk of the security fixes.

cp, mv, and rm continue to be provided by GNU coreutils in 26.04. These utilities have remaining open TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues (8 as of Apr 22, 2026) that need to be resolved before we are confident shipping them.

Our plan is to address the remaining issues as soon as possible and target Ubuntu 26.10 with 100% rust-coreutils.

Does https://www.olivetin.app/ look like what you have in mind?

(OT) what did you use to annotate the picture?