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Drew DeVault
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Back on fedi after a few years break o/

Founder of SourceHut, designer of the Hare programming language, original author of Sway and wlroots, and much more. I blog about politics and free software.

Antifascist, feminist, leftist, etc.

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PCI bus driver works :) with a proof-of-concept AHCI "driver" just to show that you can memory-map PCI devices in their respective drivers

 Screenshot of Artemis booting, enumerating PCI devices, and starting up an AHCI driver. The driver reports the controller's vendor ID and AHCI version.
Mental illness (follow-up)
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I want to clarify something following up on my blog post about mental health: suffering from AI psychosis is not the same thing as being suckered in by LLMs as a productive or creative tool, or deciding to ignore the externalities of generative AI. On the whole I condemn the use of generative AI, and I don't necessarily care to humiliate people who disagree with me, but I do disagree with them, and in political terms, where I am taking action to oppose their views.

I don't really consider anyone who is suffering from AI psychosis to be my political opponent, however. I think that it's a tragic, inevitable consequence of the dangerous and reckless way these tools are designed, and my ire is with the boosters, not the victims.

One thing that really stuck with me after learning about Disability Justice was the extent to which supposedly abled people, aren't.

I have nearsightedness and I require accommodations for my disability in the form of prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses. I also require other accommodations, such as using specific fonts and a bigger font size than some people. And I'm lucky, because my disability is very well provided for by society: there are two dozen optometrists in my mid-sized city and access to the accommodations I require is very convenient, albeit sometimes expensive -- and it's indeed a form of economic privilege that I can depend on those accommodations.

But, nonetheless, it's a disability, and it requires accommodations, and framing it in these terms, instead of the pleasing myth that I am a fully abled person, has helped me to empathize better with people who suffer from more challenging, less socially supported and normalized disabilities.

Finished (mostly) rewriting Artemis's memory manager, next up is the filesystem API but I've gotta put that on the old thinker for a while before I can confidently design it

Any chance anyone here kept the old copy of my GCC and binutils forks for Bunnix? They're sitting in an encrypted hard drive in the attic and I could probably get them back but you'd save me the trouble if you ever downloaded these to try compiling Bunnix.