Tag Archives: RMF

🥩 Red Meat Friday: True Believers

Posted on 2026-10-02 by jcs

There are a couple of threads on the Emacs Devel mailing list that, zombie like, refuse to die. They’re essentially the same. One, entitled “ethically” running proprietary code? is an endless discussion of what Emacs should do if a package … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The EU Is Becoming Tiresome

Posted on 2026-09-04 by jcs

Apologies to my European friends but the EU—or rather its regulators—is becoming tiresome. It’s bad enough that they treat American tech companies as piggy banks—like this almost billion dollar fine because Uber used automated systems to identify and temporarily suspend … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Acronym Of The Day

Posted on 2026-08-28 by jcs

Rick Manelius has proposed a new acronym: AI;DR. It stands for “AI; Didn’t Read”. He says that it actually originated with @seclilc here. Manelius isn’t an AI hater and, if fact, uses it himself. It’s just that he objects to … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on 2026-08-21 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal at all, you know that I have little tolerance for stupidity on the part of the “suits”. My go to example is Boeing where an essentially ignorant group of finance based suits turned the world’s … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Perils Of Rewriting

Posted on 2026-08-14 by jcs

The Emacs Cat, of whom I’ve written many times, has a post on a broken change in Ubuntu that affected Emacs. The TL;DR is that the Cat upgraded to Ubuntu 26.4 but when he tried to use Emacs he discovered … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Scourge Of Dickovers

Posted on 2026-07-31 by jcs

Over at Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow has a righteous diatribe about dickovers. If you’re not familiar with the term, dickover was coined by John Gruber to describe those super annoying popups that cover the text you’re trying to read. They’re bad … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Apple TV Price Increase

Posted on 2026-07-17 by jcs

Jason Snell has a few words to say about Dan Rayburns’s post on LinkedIn concerning the price increase for Apple TV and why it spells the end of the device. I, too, have a couple of things to say. First, … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Apple And The Cost Of Ram

Posted on 2026-07-10 by jcs

The technical press is wetting their pants—or pretending to—about Apple1 raising prices on many of their products due to the AI industry fed rise in RAM prices. It’s outrageous, they claim. Apple should just eat the cost of those increases … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Vibe Coding vs. System Engineering

Posted on 2026-06-19 by jcs

Yusuf Aytas has a great post that explores the difference between a vibe coder and a software engineer. He plays it straight and says, basically, that vibe coding may be fine for a proof of concept or for a one-off … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Score One For The Luddites

Posted on 2026-06-05 by jcs

As many of you know, I have a special contempt for what I call “the new Luddites”: those who find (nonsensical) fault—usually for performative reasons—with technology. The most common current sign of the new Ludditism today is giving up smart … Continue reading →

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