Since March, 73 accounts were made on catodon.rocks. Out of those, 51 have been active in the last month. I think that having over 2/3 of the registered users return is a pretty good statistic. Thank you!

Have you noticed how much more toxic the Fediverse has become since Mastodon added quotes, after almost a decade of rejecting it as an inherently "toxic feature"?

Yeah, me neither.

Mainstream social media have given me a reflex that's both stupid and a little funny: I'm usually aware of what I click, because I know that the algorithm will be feeding me similar content for days, so I restrict myself if I'm not *that *interested in something. And I sometimes catch myself doing it on fedi too: I'm like, ugh, maybe I shouldn't click that, and then I realize: you're in fedi, relax. Your every move is not being watched.

"I don't understand this whole idiotic concept of "don't use AI for X".

Here's a new rule just for you: don't use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.

Because if you can't show that you really understand what the machine is actually doing by writing your code in assembler, then I don't want to see your code contribution. You clearly aren't competent if you can't write it that way.

And btw, you had better not use an editor to write that commit message either.

Because I need you to show me that you can actually write a good commit message without using tools that make it easy to backspace and hide the mistakes you made while typing.

Ok?

Because otherwise those tool-assisted commits of yours clearly aren't showing that you know what you are doing.

Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?

So no. We're not going to make stupid rules that say "you can't use tools for X".

The kind of expectations I have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing.

But that understanding has very little to do with what tools they use.

And quite honestly, in my experience, the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools."

Linus Torvalds