@mttaggart
So many creators have already switched to subscription based models for a lot of their income. I hope that itself helps encourage others to post videos in better places.

@mttaggart I still pay for a premium YouTube subscription because I hate ads that much and I don’t insta/reels/tok at all so YouTube is about my only source for user-created video. So, serious question, which do you think provides Google less money, a Premium subscription or letting their ads run inline with the videos? I watch 6-10 videos a day of the < 15 minute variety.

@davidrevoy Good for you. I've had concerns for awhile about how they approach AI and not respecting our privacy. Website has quite a few trackers.

@davidrevoy This looks like it was built by a community that has absolutely stopped learning.

@davidrevoy I'm learning how to use NetBSD on an extra laptop I have. It's nice, but not as modern as I like. I really hope I don't have to switch, but I will if I have to.

@davidrevoy It’s the year of the BSDesktop

@davidrevoy shit sucks all over, man. maybe you actually have enough relevance to be able to shift the scales though.

@davidrevoy I get you, and the Linux Foundation has been a bunch of horrible assholes for a very long time. They're basically a who's who of the most awful corporations on the planet at this point - Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon are platinum members. Fucking Anthropic is a gold member.

But they don't own Linux.

@davidrevoy obligatory

Alt...

one free anti-slop kitto coupon

@davidrevoy The problem is that there's no real "elsewhere", linux being the only remotely mature alternative to proprietary systems and a lesser evil compared to them.

@davidrevoy Uhg, gross...

I think what's most disappointing to me about *all* of this stuff is having spent so many years believing that FOSS was at least partially grounded in an ideology and a philosophy, and not just about being cheap and, well... sloppy.

It's difficult not to burn out, to be honest.

I have to remind myself that a lot of people really do care, and want to do what is right.

@davidrevoy The Linux Foundation has Linux in the name but it's barely associated with it, their actions cannot be seen as representative of the Linux project.

@davidrevoy Just so everyone knows, the same applies to #wikipedia and the #wikimedia foundation:

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/08/04/wikipedia-turned-on-its-volunteers-now-its-coming-for-its-workers.html

Yes, they are also union busting.

@davidrevoy *squints really hard at the floppy disks*

Have we really gotten so old that people don't know what floppy disks look like anymore? Or they just went "good enough" and slapped it down.

Could have at least spent a few bucks on Fiverr to hire someone to fix the AI's mistakes.

@davidrevoy understandable sentiment, although this does feel a little bit as we would say like "throwing the baby out with the bath water".
But yes there have been some decisions lately that are - lets say disputed.

@davidrevoy

Remix of "This is fine" (https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-07-01_This-is-fine_by-David-Revoy.html) by David Revoy − CC-BY 4.0

Alt...

Pepper sitting in a burning room with a blue Linux cup in her hand. Referencing the "this is fine" meme.

@davidrevoy @ozzelot the linux foundation receiving a fuckton of money from multiple AI corporations (including Palantir) and paying Torvalds a $1.5 million/year paycheck is almost certainly the reason why Torvalds instituted an AI policy in the kernel that requires maintainers to use LLMs for review and encourages slop in the kernel. he evoked a right-wing conspiracy theory while doing it.

a lot of people have told you the Linux Foundation isn’t Linux, that they don’t matter, that you should keep contributing. that doesn’t make any sense if you think about it, does it. this is capitalism, and the person at the head of a project receiving large amounts of money certainly affects everyone who’s part of that project.

the Linux Foundation posting slop is a symptom of a sickness, but keep your eye on what matters. the kernel is rapidly becoming slop and it’s run by someone who very loudly dislikes you and me and everyone else who doesn’t like LLMs. you can do better with your time.

@davidrevoy however, this is another level, wondering what would the choice be other than linux for OSS

@davidrevoy We need more people like you in this world!

@davidrevoy

I will reconsider my donation to Linux Foundation.

@davidrevoy The Linux Foundation is not a monolithic thing. It consists of many corporations, which, in turn, consist of many more humans.

And it does many things besides Linux, some of which are real head scratches (at least for me).

This is quite possibly, a random Joe or a random boss doing a thing without much thought. Or with thought of investors, neglecting which turn out bad for Ford, IIRC.

And over... this, the whole foundation seem rotten; lead by worst example, all in the world is bad (it isn't bad, if we include a bit more than the worst).

That is not to say that Linux Foundation is good; it is corporate alliance, to do its things, some of which related to Linux.

Now, with this more detailed picture, ask yourself... is it worth to assign the mega-blame... to a project worth billions (Linux kernel), given for free to all?

And, what this does actually accomplish? Do you think that generative AI actually uses tablets on Linux? Or maybe actual artists are using tablets? And Linux gives more freedom from corporate control, to 'em?

Your time is yours. And your decisions, are too. And you do lots of amazing, evocative, libre arts (& more). Just... here's a bit of food for thought, okay?

@davidrevoy I mean, if your concern is the use of generative AI in Linux, then from what I've been reading, The Linux Foundation is the least of your problems; a much bigger problem is Linus Torvalds.
But, as others have pointed out, it's not clear there's anywhere better to go instead of Linux. 🤷
Ref: https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=linus+generative+ai+linux

@davidrevoy First of all, you need to contact The Linux Foundation, otherwise they will not realise you are upset at them.

Second, Linux and TLF are two different things and likely only the former cares about your tablet driver contributions unless the manufacturer of those tablets is a TLF member.

Third, I suspect this is a result of one employee's decision because likely TLF does not have any internal AI use guidelines. That brings us back to the first point. Complain to them.

@stefano I think the main reason behind this scarcity is abundance of capital, compute and data. It sounds contradictory but it’s basically the viewpoint of these traditional tech companies.

IMHO their motive was not about forcing usage, but more about how easy it is to corner the market (pick up the phone, buy all the available compute, sleep, repeat).

@stefano to me, the root problem is lack of competition.

It's not like there's hundreds of manufacturers in different countries. There's just a few of them, concentrated in 3 countries from the same continent.

And they choose the better buyer which is currently not the small consumer.

@stfn ostry falafel na grubym, z frytkami

@stfn Co to jest kapsalon? xD

@GossiTheDog

Luckily, the video doesn't work for me. Phew.

@GossiTheDog What a willfully unnecessary waste of processing power. There is no need to use AI for that. Any video of that man is already the cringiest shit anyone has ever seen.

@GossiTheDog Oh that explains the latest Midnight Pals. https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/117095546138166369

@GossiTheDog
He's such a poor soul.

@GossiTheDog the man aint sure if he wants to be Michael Jackson, Koji Igarashi, Ozymandias, Peaky Blinder cosplay or a House of Dragon extra. Also, a lot of phalic shapes and weirdelly thick water

@GossiTheDog my body doesn't have enough skin that can crawl 😱

@GossiTheDog As we all should, I see a villain.

@GossiTheDog

Binface does it better.

@GossiTheDog That’s the equivalent of a MySpace page full of stolen GIFs and tasteless music from the late 90s.

@GossiTheDog the most wealthy man on the planet is somehow also one of the biggest losers on the planet. He could literally do anything, or go anywhere and yet he chooses to be terminally online in the cringiest of ways.

@GossiTheDog lol, the way it just... keeps going... with the same slop.

@GossiTheDog
Apparently, something is wired wrong somewhere between his two ears.
#Elon2Mars

@GossiTheDog That is *one way* to express that he is a divorced absent dad.

@GossiTheDog the fact that he's not mortified with embarrassment by this says a lot about his particular psychosis.

@GossiTheDog mega cringe

@GossiTheDog ai failed to inform him this doesn’t get him friends nor does it make him likeable

he’s such a fucking loser

@GossiTheDog I don’t think that is superhero. He is ignoring the city being flooded and smiling. I would say that is more likely supervillian behaviour.

@GossiTheDog me me me me ffs

@GossiTheDog AI captures Elon, high as balls on Ketamine, rambling into his phone.

@GossiTheDog
In this screenshot he reminds me of Osgood Fielding III in Some Like It Hot...

@GossiTheDog When Elon smokes a cigarette, he only exhales through his eyes.

@GossiTheDog yeah uh...I downloaded a copy. this needed to be preserved for posterity. it's so awful and it just seems to go on forever

@GossiTheDog

👀

... Whoa.

Like... About half of us have been a nine-year-old boy before but... We... Whew... We learned this type of personal ideation and hero-framing of our own ego is _part_ of our personal development and... Fuck... You outgrow that... Or... Well-adjusted folks do.

What the fuck is it about having billions of dollars that turns off the ability to _see_ other people?

Ego fantasies aren't _weird_. Sharing them as a fifty-five year old adult... That's fuckin' weird.

@GossiTheDog lol strong barbie vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBpdXMgTFU

@GossiTheDog patriarchy REALLY IS men and horses!

@GossiTheDog my cringes are cringing

@GossiTheDog

What in the incel-narcististic- delusional hell did i just watch?
This is so cringe, that my eyes tryed to devolve out if their sockets back into stem- cells.

@GossiTheDog el douche

@GossiTheDog I hope he takes off his visor when he gets to Mars.

@GossiTheDog elon musk stapled his butt hair to his forehead. Just looking at him is the cringiest thing ever. No matter when or what he's doing.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social even I don't believe he created that, and I loathe him

@GossiTheDog so cringe! im crine! 😭

@GossiTheDog

His Russian bots are going to have a field day.

@GossiTheDog

he is pathetic

yikes

@GossiTheDog well that's enough of that for a lifetime

@GossiTheDog
"No it isn't Barney singing this song. (That would be really lame.)"

Remember: Nothing, and everything, is possimpible.

@GossiTheDog

I couldn't watch the whole thing. I was already nauseous.

@GossiTheDog

@GossiTheDog Pre-musk I never even considered the possibility that someone with unlimited resources and some sort of personality disorder could actually fail at being a bond villain; it just seemed like the sort of thing where the gate was kept mostly by the resource requirements.

Post-musk I understand that, somehow, there are actually some fairly profound failure conditions.

@GossiTheDog remember when Ken thought Patriarchy was about horses?

@GossiTheDog He then masturbates over it 🙄

@GossiTheDog I'd have to claw out my eyes. No thank you. 🤮

@GossiTheDog
No thanks

@GossiTheDog would love to see it with his actual pre-gender affirming surgery pudgy no-chin balding appearance

@GossiTheDog yup. Still a loser.

@GossiTheDog
TLDW

@GossiTheDog beruhigend zu sehen, dass er vor sich selbst so wenig Respekt hat wie ich vor ihm

@GossiTheDog This is a diagnosis.

@GossiTheDog Seems like he needs an exo-skeleton or a coat to cover something….

@GossiTheDog Can he please just fuck off to Mars already

@GossiTheDog If he wants to wear full plate armor in a rowing boat on a choppy sea, who am I to stand in his way? 🤣

(Soo many D&D characters must die this way...)

• which property do you want to steal from?
• yes

@GossiTheDog I made it through 40 seconds, and the second-hand embarrassment was overwhelming.

@GossiTheDog Tiny dick energy.

@GossiTheDog I doubted you Kevin, surely no one is that far gone. Off to xcancel to see with my own eyes and…

Oh my god

So much armour 😳

@GossiTheDog #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s precisely why wankers such as #ElonMusk love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

@GossiTheDog at least a good few of the clips he's a criminal.

@GossiTheDog starting a rocket in a residential area seems very authentic and on brand.

@GossiTheDog Jeeees, what a grinch in an armor!

@GossiTheDog the man doesn't have self respect at all eh

@GossiTheDog
LOL - what a fucking dick.

@grumpygamer 🤩

@grumpygamer oh hell yes!

@grumpygamer Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@grumpygamer Oh, *bleeeeeeeeeep*

@grumpygamer Yes!!!

@grumpygamer 🤩

@grumpygamer Congratulations!

@grumpygamer Ooooooo

@grumpygamer b-b-but after that ending how I'm gonna okay with playing this one? 🥲🥲🥲

@grumpygamer

Jiiooooiiieeph
Still lost with Dolores in the library 🥺
BUT Yes OMG

@grumpygamer ohh nice, cool timing, I just started replaying Return to Monkey Island the other day!

@grumpygamer this made my day! I've been itching to play another point and click from you!

@grumpygamer the signals are very strong tonight! 🎉

@grumpygamer This means a lot to me. The original game was the first thing I ever backed on Kickstarter. And then I got to talk to/interview you for the release on GOG (which had me nervous for two weeks leading up to it). So needless to say the first game has a very special place in my heart. <3

@grumpygamer woohoo!

@grumpygamer Checks date. Not April 1st. Fick ja!

@grumpygamer I hope this will run on Mac. Or I will cry

@grumpygamer thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

@grumpygamer nice

@grumpygamer whoa, nice!

@grumpygamer aww yiss.

Twinbleweed Pearks 2

@grumpygamer
Yes please!

@grumpygamer Looking forward to it!

@grumpygamer Great news, my number hasn‘t changed in the past ten years, still 7324!

@grumpygamer sweet!

@grumpygamer Congratulations!

@grumpygamer Awesome

@grumpygamer best news ever! 😁

@grumpygamer this is so AWESOME!

@grumpygamer that’s great news for the whole team, really happy for you all… also, Kickstarter?

@grumpygamer nice to hear! Steam says Windows, in this thread you mentioned Mac. Will it also support #Linux again?

@grumpygamer Wuppiiii! Hopefully, nobody needs to die in this one.

@grumpygamer I don't suppose you're looking for engineers?

@grumpygamer I hope we finally learn about the TRUE Signal of Thimbleweed Park.

@grumpygamer I mean ... the .gif says it all! Please and thank you.

@grumpygamer You know where your audience is when everyone here is excited for a sequel to a point and click adventure game.

@grumpygamer something good to look forward to!

@grumpygamer just picked up a couple of games on gog. got a notification from steam that the first one is on sale for $5. hopefully gog gets in on the sale action too so I can grab a copy.

@grumpygamer Did not have that on my radar at all. 2028 does give me time to replay the first one (and rebuy it).

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer Actually, they heard it here first!
https://youtube.com/shorts/I-r2Uy3VZzc?si=5tviRffm9BooqcMR exactly three years ago!

@grumpygamer Fantastic-a-Reno news!

@grumpygamer Really enjoyed the first one — looking forward to this!

@grumpygamer wow so exciting!!

@grumpygamer Awesome! I hope you guys plan to share updates like you did during the development of the first game. I really enjoyed the blog posts and podcasts you guys produced.

@grumpygamer Excellent to hear the news on TWP2! The world needs more adventure games.

I know it’s a looong shot, but i sent you a quick form email in my attempt to apply and make myself known! Please give it a glance!

@grumpygamer yeahhhhhhhhhh!

@grumpygamer That's great, Ron.

@grumpygamer I even did not finish the first game. Ok 2 years left

@grumpygamer thank you so, so, so much <333

@grumpygamer yeehaw

@grumpygamer

The mind boggles on how you plan to continue the story after the ending we got!

Looking forward to how you do that!

@grumpygamer
Very cool! Now I'm very glad the 'yes or no' poll turned out the way it did!

@grumpygamer 😱 important note to self: DON'T PANIC!

@grumpygamer Oh my God 🙈 I still have to finish part 1.
But that's great news 💓

@grumpygamer Oh YEAH!

@grumpygamer
THIIMBLEWEED PARK? or maybe THIMBLE2WEED PARK? (pronounced thimbletweed)

@grumpygamer love that bad news

@grumpygamer So happy. I'll be there! Another dev podcast or you regretted making the first one? 😅

@grumpygamer @miekg I played that! Whohoo!

@grumpygamer Woah! Now that's some really welcome surprise!

@grumpygamer "There is no bad news, it’s all good news.". Thank you for this. I needed it.

@grumpygamer «there might be some resemblence round the eyes, but…»

Can’t wait!

@grumpygamer Yeah ;) I like this news ;)

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer That's fantastic news!

@grumpygamer Huzzah!

@grumpygamer 2028? I hope I'll live that long 😂

@grumpygamer
Yeah!

@grumpygamer Best news so far this year! Thanks.

@grumpygamer Any chance of the podcast making a comeback as well?

@grumpygamer wouhouuuuu 🙌🙌🙌

@grumpygamer
Waahhnsinn!
👍👍👍

@grumpygamer “The bad news”, humph. 😆

@grumpygamer 👏 😍

@grumpygamer @marzlberger Sh*t up and take my money - just as you did years ago with v1. Great news! 🎉🖤

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer yay! that's so cool!

@grumpygamer Will you be doing a something like last time with a podcast log of the process ? Are you going kickstarter again ?

@grumpygamer much rejoicing!
🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

@grumpygamer I will purchase your video game software product.

@grumpygamer Oh shit! 🤩

@grumpygamer a wonderful new!!! ❤️

@grumpygamer I needed a good news today. Thanks, man :)

@grumpygamer O_O

@grumpygamer Awesome! Also having the same team (love what Mark Ferrari did with the 8bitish look 😍) on board is great 👍 Absolutely looking forward to it 🥳

@grumpygamer So excited! ❤️

@grumpygamer what a pleasant surprise, extremely looking forward!

@grumpygamer Definitely *beeping* YES! Haven’t found that *beeping* Kickstarter page yet, but I swear I’ll keep *beeping* searching to make sure my *beeping* number stays in that phone book, *beep*!🤡

@grumpygamer Best of news! ❤️

@grumpygamer Whaaaa! yaaaay.

@grumpygamer yessss. Steam only in the beginning or will it be released on iOS?

@grumpygamer 👀 @ingo

@grumpygamer I really appreciate the #Linux port.

@grumpygamer The fast there will be a GoG version is indeed meaning there are only good news. Thanks so much for this.

@grumpygamer Fantastic news!

@grumpygamer I hope in time once Thimbleweed Park 2 gets fully going, that there will be again cool stuff like a big box version available. I know it costs a lot to produce that and possible other cool products like shirts etc. Lets hope there is again some sort of Fangamer collab.

@grumpygamer There will be at least one good thing to look forward to in 2028.

@grumpygamer
Yeeeeeeessssssssssss 🥰