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.

[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.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@pseudonym @datarama severe case of chatbot psychosis here.