I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@datarama @jabgoe2089
Reminder that Kent has always been very bad at interacting with other people, especially anything involving politeness, procedure, compromise or negotiation.

And not quite brilliant enough to make people overlook that, especially Linus.

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@wrench @datarama maybe we should all just collectively decide to use NTFS...

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@mjdxp @wrench you can have my XFS partitions when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

[floe@hci.social]

@datarama My first thought was "Wait, did Hans Reiser get out of prison already?" 🫣

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@cazabon @datarama Not sure whether people are egging him on or is it a crazy-magnet.

As for Kent saying "Do you have any psychologists involved? Like, at all? You really should"...
That will age well.

[tak@gush.taks.garden]

@datarama why is it always the filesystem guys

[cari@sunny.garden]

@datarama @Binder I long for a time when people who wanted to play make-pretend with little people in their computer would just fire up The Sims or something 🫩

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@cari @Binder What if all the Sims got connected to the Internet, though? And they could send random bullshit to strangers?

[binder@petrous.vislae.town]

@datarama @cari sounds like September to me

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

@dashdsrdash

Oh no.. do we need to hand it to Linus *again*?

@datarama @jabgoe2089

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@michaelcoyote @datarama @jabgoe2089

Everyone is imperfect. Some people try to recognize and fix their mistakes, and others try to bull their way through. Civilization depends on the first kind.

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116132873245367969

Me reading this:

"Oh no, who in the hell?"

<reads thread>

"Ok, yeahhh... That tracks"

@datarama

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

Oh for sure and I'm glad for it..

@dashdsrdash @datarama @jabgoe2089

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@datarama
Wow. That's weirder than I imagined.
@mjdxp

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@Tak
My money was always on the printer driver guys.
@datarama

[tak@gush.taks.garden]

@xinit @datarama it would make sense

[riley@toot.cat]

@floe I think he's eligible for parole now, FWIW.

@datarama

[pseudonym@mastodon.online]

@datarama @cari @Binder

Pretty sure that was a Black Mirror episode. Seriously.

[pseudonym@mastodon.online]

@datarama

Popular press coverage

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@datarama Well, I almost understood everything you typed, so maybe you are.
you're hilarious.
Thank you.
I needed someone to be hilarious in a quiet earnest way.