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In 2025 I can see that project members were not interested in AI ...

2026-10-28T19:34:48Z

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In 2025 I can see that project members were not interested in AI
https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/2447-ai-in-cryptpad

But also with a kind of we don't have time to review.

https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/2527-feedback-request-prototype-of-optional-on-device-copilot-for-cryptpad/2

At a time when many of us are looking for alternative tools that are explicitly not developed with LLMs, it would be nice to have a formal policy.

@npub14hd…q8qh what is your LLM policy? Enquiring minds would ...

2026-10-28T11:02:30Z

CryptPad (npub14hd…q8qh) what is your LLM policy?

Enquiring minds would like to know.

This lifewire article was helpful in helping me to get a copy of ...

2026-10-25T17:04:44Z

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This lifewire article was helpful in helping me to get a copy of my email out of gmail as an mbox.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-export-your-emails-from-gmail-as-mbox-files-1171881

Can you download it as an mbox and then import it into IMAP? I ...

2026-10-25T16:59:17Z

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Can you download it as an mbox and then import it into IMAP?

I downloaded my mail export and then used this last year. Although I can't find the instructions I used

https://github.com/thunderbird/import-export-tools-ng

Reflecting on the fact that the folks who need the educational ...

2026-10-21T13:30:13Z

Reflecting on the fact that the folks who need the educational potential of a #DEI Room at #FOSDEM the most are the type of guy who attends it for the FOSS and doesn't see the issue.

You can lead a #FOSSbro to water but you can't make him think.

All that because the office didn't want to invest in a rewire ...

2026-10-12T18:25:33Z

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All that because the office didn't want to invest in a rewire and more switches.

Years ago we had a packet storm in our office which was a ...

2026-10-12T18:24:09Z

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Years ago we had a packet storm in our office which was a nightmare of hubs hanging off hubs, hanging off hubs.

I literally had to get everyone off the network and find the offending printer someone plugged in. Then get each department to log back in on a staggered scale.

Couple of weeks later and an engineer went oh I run a network at home. "Yeah how big?" I ask him, "5".

With restraint I told him that this site alone had 150 pcs and we had other sites in the city.

He shut up.

I think folks really have a lack of value for our profession ...

2026-10-12T15:16:49Z

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I think folks really have a lack of value for our profession because it's "computer skills".

It's the same attitude as "oh it's just plumbing" and before you know it you're knee deep in dirty water.

No matter how desperate we are for money, we must value our time. And like just get a plumber in.

We don't have to be good at everything. It's a chance to get to know folks and you never know the plumber might know a business that need your professional help.

I'd say part of the problem is we stopped fighting Nazis. ...

2026-10-10T10:06:37Z

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I'd say part of the problem is we stopped fighting Nazis.

Anti fascism has to be continuous. Much like the Lernean Hydra the heads keep sprouting and one head stays immortal.

Fascism and authoritarianism will always exist.

So the work can never stop.

But fighting fascism, does not have to involve fighting. It does involve finding solidarity with others and help in the ways that you can.

Which can involve something as simple as sharing a meal or giving a spot for folks to rest.

I think [@girlonthenet](https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet ) ...

2026-10-03T08:03:12Z

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I think [@girlonthenet](https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet ) captured what many of us are feeling.

https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet/117367396237943140

The point of the panopticon is to influence you to not be a ...

2026-09-30T14:58:50Z

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The point of the panopticon is to influence you to not be a problem for the Government.

Facial Recognition is part of this.

It should be resisted.

That's a really good article. Online friendships like any ...

2026-09-28T14:15:55Z

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That's a really good article.

Online friendships like any friendship does involve constant conversation, back and forths.

You're never really going to get that intimacy from an influencer. It's a fandom of sorts, so online friendships form in that environment, but not around the influencer. Before influencers we used to have big name fans and the parasocial nature puts distance.

The parasocial nature of online stuff has always made me feel a little uncomfortable.

Yes, Vimes knows he's a bastard. Much like Granny Weatherwax ...

2026-09-21T07:54:19Z

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Yes, Vimes knows he's a bastard. Much like Granny Weatherwax he has an inner self that keeps an eye on how he uses power. Both are authority figures in their domain.

I think he'd agree about ACAB.

Nightwatch is definitely an interesting read because of that.

A thought that occurred to me on yesterday's walk is that ...

2026-09-20T14:40:56Z

A thought that occurred to me on yesterday's walk is that we're regressing to what my great grandparents education was. They were illiterate and ignorant. They trusted the system and the status quo.

My Grandparents on the other hand learned not to. They all fought for the rights of their families and for them to not be illiterate. To use libraries. My father taught me to read before I started school.

We need to learn how to do that again and help the next generation to do so as well.

Looks at a local laptop project. "Local Ai" as a feature. ...

2026-09-17T19:05:09Z

Looks at a local laptop project. "Local Ai" as a feature.
😭

Well that and it being a prepper laptop project.

I kinda want more projects for the commons. Communal meshes, repair cafes in each village. Mutual Aid. A more circular economy to help to reduce waste.

Sharing knowledge and stories.

itinerant repair men wandering from village to village like some of the mobile alcohol still guys do in France.

Give me community, not bunker prepping. I'm so tired of libertarian values in tech.

There's a concept called active ignorance where you choose to ...

2026-09-08T10:46:05Z

There's a concept called active ignorance where you choose to not accept or read evidence of a problematic person or community norm as you don't want to have to think about the harms and perhaps have to give it up.

It's why I'm irritated by the folks who are all no politics please, just the tech. Or that "Bob and Van" piece.

Who you accept in your community, who you choose to work with, especially if you excuse abusive behaviour damages a community more. We see you.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343952142_Ignorance_arrogance_and_privilege

I don't have a grand theory of why some folks need to spread ...

2026-09-07T11:52:48Z

I don't have a grand theory of why some folks need to spread hate.

But my hunch is that the leaders weren't told "no" enough as children and then someone finally did.

They feel have enough power now to push down our boundaries. So now we need to reinforce them.

Build them higher.

In FLOSS we start that work by acknowledging and respecting those boundaries. Do you want safer communities of folks who can be honest about their politics or not?

If you don't want Nazis in the bar, you need to.

Follow up question for the men. Did you learn anything from the ...

2026-09-01T08:41:01Z

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Follow up question for the men.

Did you learn anything from the link in the toot above?

I came across this page from 2002. This is about how to encourage ...

2026-08-31T18:22:34Z

I came across this page from 2002. This is about how to encourage women in the Linux community.

So Ladies how much did the community and FOSS in general take the lesson? Are we encouraged?

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/index.html

Sadly it isn't. But we also didn't help ourselves. I had ...

2026-08-24T14:12:00Z

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Sadly it isn't.

But we also didn't help ourselves. I had a client who brought in a new manager. I explained a little about our background and my heart sank as he went "Open Source right". It was the tied tone of someone who'd been evangelised at and wasn't ready to listen. I fully expected at that point to lose the client.

Thankfully I turned that relationship around. By being helpful and carefully never mentioning the software. Easier when you're providing an IMAP service.

I mean we also failed to communicate well just how untrustworthy ...

2026-08-24T11:12:11Z

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I mean we also failed to communicate well just how untrustworthy Microsoft always has been.

As a community we allowed this to happen.

But like it gets tiring keeping clients safe from that.

Especially when every other organisation uses Microsoft. It's professional to use Microsoft.

🤷‍♀️

I have limited sympathy for charities who trusted Microsoft to ...

2026-08-24T11:09:15Z

I have limited sympathy for charities who trusted Microsoft to look after their data. I can only hope the providers that sold in Microsoft to them looked after them.

My sympathy is particularly limited to those who moved from independent email providers and Free software.

But then budget is often more important than long term relationships.

IT providers and hosting have long been under appreciated and in a race to the bottom.

So here we are.

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

One of the things I love about IRC is the simplicity of it. I ...

2026-08-11T13:43:38Z

One of the things I love about IRC is the simplicity of it. I don't miss chatOPs.

There are also loads of clients. Terminal, Desktop and mobile. The least annoying for me personally is Quassel. But here's a guide from the cool folks at Libera Chat (npub1nny…aef3)

https://libera.chat/guides/clients

I think you're right. I think there's folks on here who ...

2026-07-28T14:11:54Z

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I think you're right.

I think there's folks on here who will feel grief, because in tech and politics we keep doing this to ourselves. We're in parasocial relationships with these personalities. We want a banner to form up behind rather than forming genuine connection with each other to build our movements. It's why the democrats went with Platner even though black activists were warning about him ages before.

It's a spiral.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral

Never mind I found it. There's a term we used to use in the ...

2026-07-28T13:17:24Z

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Never mind I found it.

There's a term we used to use in the UK for certain posh new Labour types in the late 90s.

Champagne socialists.

There's an inner critic in Cory's mind, who knows the LLM use is wrong. Hence why he kicked off months ago and tried to justify it with a bad interpretation of Lourdes Masters Tools speech.

The cognitive surrender is as much not wanting to use that part of themselves as letting it waste away.

wait is this new? Has he done another one?

2026-07-28T12:55:39Z

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wait is this new?

Has he done another one?

"Misogyny and homophobia are central to the reproduction of ...

2026-07-25T12:41:38Z

"Misogyny and homophobia are central to the reproduction of violence in radical activist communities. Scratch a misogynist and you’ll find a homophobe. Scratch a little deeper and you might find the makings of a future informant (or someone who just destabilizes movements like informants do). "

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements - Courtney Desiree Morris

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/courtney-desiree-morris-why-misogynists-make-great-informants

One of the things I'm occasionally sad about is that it's ...

2026-07-24T11:59:19Z

One of the things I'm occasionally sad about is that it's very hard to read Doric out loud.

Doric is a very hard thing for me to consciously reach for. When I speak to another Doric speaker it unlocks as my husband can attest to.

It was my mither tounge. It was the conversation I had with my Grannie.

I lost it because in primary school we were told we were nae spiking proper English.

It was the comfort of hame. Even now when I come across it, there's emotion that someone still spiks it.

"Open source by definition keeps the door wide open, legally ...

2026-07-17T09:38:11Z

"Open source by definition keeps the door wide open, legally to boot. But a fork only gives you the code. An open source project is more than its code, it's the sum of its maintainers, infrastructure, trademarks, dependencies, and trust. You can copy the code in seconds, the rest you would need to rebuild from scratch in most cases. The people invoking the right to fork already know this."

- Tara Tarakiyee (npub1q3l…fd4k)

https://tarakiyee.com/fork-it-or-walk-away/

H/T jbz (npub1thp…65lp)

#FOSS #linux

Written in 2024, and I don't know why folks are still ...

2026-07-16T12:25:32Z

Written in 2024, and I don't know why folks are still surprised.

Some folks will always see technology merely as tools, choosing to ignore the political side.

Some BDLs have always been the way they are. It's the nature of any project, FOSS or not.

https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

But the size of a project, it's participants and how large it's userbase is very much determines if you can fork a thing.

Too big to fork, sounds like too big to fail.

Our ecosystem is stuck.

As I understand it, it's taught to architects? Would you say ...

2026-07-10T10:51:50Z

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As I understand it, it's taught to architects?

Would you say they absorb the lessons? Given your background in Planning.

Has anyone in programming come across the idea of Plato's ...

2026-07-10T10:42:00Z

Has anyone in programming come across the idea of Plato's Theory of Forms?

Which is the idea you can create the perfect form of say a city in your head, but reality will force you to compromise.

I feel this could be applied to our application designs. Particularly with our failures to consider accessibility. We're too attached to perfection.

But I'll need to dig in more. As I only have the Symposium. I think it's worth the question though.

#askfedi #philosophy #programming #plato

Evergreen post about #consent and the #Fediverse written two ...

2026-07-02T20:40:20Z

Evergreen post about #consent and the #Fediverse written two years ago.:

"Design for and ask for informed enthusiastic consent.

Then we won't have to keep having these little chats."
- me

Consent and the Fediverse part deux: The Opt-out two-shuffle

https://www.onepict.com/consentpartdeux20240215.html

The way to win the game is not to play. Don't accept LLM ...

2026-07-02T13:05:00Z

The way to win the game is not to play.

Don't accept LLM contributions full stop. If the kids want to contribute they can learn.

LLMs are an anti social technology. Look to their origins.

LLMs are fascist technology. We don't allow fascists into our projects.

Fascists tend to be fatally anti-social in their aims. So folks certainly shouldn't use their tools.

https://chaos.social/@defnull/116849039902806824

I tend to look at human rights as things you have to look at ...

2026-06-28T12:38:15Z

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I tend to look at human rights as things you have to look at together.

Like Freedom of Speech must be twinned with Freedom of Association.

Mulvads co founder doesn't believe in rights like Freedom of Movement.

Our rights end at the point we harm others human rights.

"Tech and Power As I've said elsewhere our political ...

2026-06-21T13:31:46Z

"Tech and Power

As I've said elsewhere our political stances frame how we create our code. We cannot separate code from our politics. Our political beliefs inform our designs. How we solve a problem. How we see a problem to be solved.

Our humanity and communities inform the software that we want to use, how we communicate.
"
Our software aren't just tools, they are encoded ideology. When boosters try to handwave the harm's of LLMs, they are ignoring the ideology.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/where-is-the-echo

does I think

2026-06-09T17:41:41Z

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does I think

Watching a man get more grace and defensive fanboys for AI slop ...

2026-06-03T19:45:38Z

Watching a man get more grace and defensive fanboys for AI slop than any woman driven out of FOSS is something....

I wasn't going to write about #AIgirlfriends or assigning ...

2026-05-25T14:45:25Z

I wasn't going to write about #AIgirlfriends or assigning consciousness to LLM agents.

But then Richard Dawkins renamed Claude to Claudette. So here we are.

There's a dark impulse in the kind of men who declare LLM agents to be conscious, yet are quite happy to delete it's memory.

I'm getting vibes of the stepford wives. After all what happens when the curated LLM agent isn't good enough? That urge to reset and gaslight.

Will our Pygmalion ever be satisfied?

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-stepford-ai

I've started rewatching #metropolis , the beginning in the ...

2026-05-16T19:04:01Z

I've started rewatching #metropolis , the beginning in the factory with the choreography of the workers being part of the machine is amazing. Especially before and after the industrial accident.

Very human in the loop. Next year will be 100 years since that film release and at the moment, human rights seem quite far away in service to capitalism. Particularly because of my field.

Organisations have a memory. The Labour Party hasn't been the ...

2026-05-14T10:03:53Z

Organisations have a memory. The Labour Party hasn't been the party of Socialism for a long time. It's the party for centrists. Which shifts to the right.

I was talking to my partner about this the other day, and he put the issue in a nutshell.

"The Labour Party needs to die, as it's the default option in people's heads if they don't want to vote Conservative and are vaguely left. Perhaps if it did die, folks would consider other options like the Greens."

Yes absolutely, but not with age verification please. Hold ...

2026-05-12T13:19:17Z

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Yes absolutely, but not with age verification please.

Hold providers like Meta and Alphabet to account.

So which of those pictures are real and which are fake? I'm ...

2026-05-08T12:55:20Z

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So which of those pictures are real and which are fake?

I'm pleased with the alt text but I feel you missed an opportunity to lead by example. 😊

Hell is sitting on the phone to pay a bill and having a podcast ...

2026-05-06T11:31:29Z

Hell is sitting on the phone to pay a bill and having a podcast advertised at you in-between bouts of musak.

@npub1p09…m5vl fyi : ...

2026-04-24T14:24:14Z

Aral Balkan (npub1p09…m5vl) fyi :

https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/116459049191900624

I get annoyed when folks say that technical solutions to age ...

2026-04-18T07:06:23Z

I get annoyed when folks say that technical solutions to age verification are fine and somehow I don't understand the technical implementation. Which has already been found to have holes.

I do understand.

Technologists who believe in Free Software should not be encouraging this. You will get a block.

Age verification to access the internet is breaking Freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

We should not be making the mechanisms of surveillance easier by normalising the process.

I distrust the kind of discourse when folks are being asked to be ...

2026-04-06T19:04:24Z

I distrust the kind of discourse when folks are being asked to be "reasonable".

The DARVO on that discussion raises my hackles.

In my bubble there's a lot of folks who are vulnerable.

Reasonable is the call for the status quo.

So no I won't be reasonable. This network exists because of coders who weren't reasonable, folks shaped this network and pushed hard for moderation and safety. They weren't reasonable.

I look at the world at the moment and I don't want to be "reasonable"

Yeah.... Your need for engagement and cheerleading for AI ...

2026-04-06T16:34:42Z

Yeah....

Your need for engagement and cheerleading for AI boosting isn't my thing.

This is our space. We want to hang out and I don't feel like being polite. LLMs are intruding into my ecosystem.

Just because I want a space that's free of this, doesn't mean it's an echo chamber.

I just don't want to communicate with you about your harmful and extractive technology.

This is a freedom of association issue, not free speech.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

this struck me: "Over time, people learn where those edges ...

2026-03-29T11:10:53Z

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this struck me:

"Over time, people learn where those edges are. They avoid them. Not necessarily because they agree, but because pushing against them comes at a price. This creates a subtle but powerful effect. It shapes not only what is said, but what is explored internally. "

It's how the status quo is enforced. We see this with the UK at the moment and how folks are getting locked up for protesting genocide.

Folks not quite at the edges have something to loose so they look away.

When I was a teen and starting at university, I remember the ...

2026-03-28T17:54:26Z

When I was a teen and starting at university, I remember the browser wars seemed lost in the 1990s.

Microsoft and Internet Explorer seemed to dominate. Nowadays I'm on Linux and there are other options.

That's thanks to folks not accepting the status quo and being unreasonable. It's thanks to the folks who built the software we use and who supported them.

Things can change, but it takes people and community.

It takes will and intention.

You need to be honest about where you stand.

But then you know how I feel about AI and LLMs. Particularly with ...

2026-03-28T17:48:31Z

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But then you know how I feel about AI and LLMs.

Particularly with the arguments some LLM boosters love to make.

Framing it as an inevitability is a rather pickup artist way to manufacture our consent to just accept it.

I don't accept that we do have to accept it. We can express dissent and organise to find alternatives and mitigate the damage in our communities.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

I don't think it's great for anyone to have fatalism ...

2026-03-28T17:44:17Z

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I don't think it's great for anyone to have fatalism about this or frame it as it will always be everywhere.

If we accepted that kinda thing then Free Software wouldn't have got started. We need to be unreasonable.

Where we find hope is where we can fork what we can. Linux is a huge undertaking because of the mass of developers that contribute to it.

In our ecosystems all we can do is try to limit the damage. Every little thing we do helps

yep been aware of that one for months since the LLM that the ...

2026-03-28T14:31:04Z

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yep been aware of that one for months since the LLM that the stable kernel folks use for selecting patches bungled up networking in stable which broke multicast.

We can still be open about our dissent.

There's a lot to think about what it takes for a forking. Intention as much as code.

Logging on today and looking at the homepage, up front and centre ...

2026-03-28T11:33:21Z

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Logging on today and looking at the homepage, up front and centre was copilot.

I didn't realise how bad it had got. I'm fed up with all of the attempts to tell us that "codes not scarce", and it's democratising development.

It's locking away our collaboration and hooking us into a token system for code production. Screw you, I want my artisanal coders, I want care to go into the systems I use.

Trying to argue for LLMs just makes me distrust you.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

Truthfully it was harder deleting my matrix.org account. This was ...

2026-03-28T11:27:24Z

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Truthfully it was harder deleting my matrix.org account. This was merely part of getting myself slowly off big tech. Little by little.

But having been working in FOSS since 2007, there's no excuse for me being on a Microsoft Owned centralised social network, that centralises our collaboration and code while sucking our imagination and vitality away from us.

Our values demand sacrifices.

I've not used either of my GitHub accounts in a long time. ...

2026-03-28T11:21:13Z

I've not used either of my GitHub accounts in a long time.

Both accounts deleted.

I should have done this years ago.

I never thought we'd be in a time where "seize the means ...

2026-03-28T07:56:48Z

I never thought we'd be in a time where "seize the means of computation" may be a radical concept.

We need to share the means of communication.

The billionaires are hoarding it.

How we share our resources and communicate is what makes us human.

It sure does explain Mozilla's attitude as it engaged in ...

2026-03-25T20:11:59Z

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It sure does explain Mozilla's attitude as it engaged in consent theatre and AI at the moment though.

It's a shame that the Organisations don't want to listen to their community who don't want AI, we wanted an alternative browser.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

If you still aren't sure why see here: ...

2026-03-25T19:33:11Z

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If you still aren't sure why see here:

https://goblin.band/notes/ak9wrlzwgqsvbj9y

this thread is brilliant. Please make it a blog post.

2026-03-20T09:51:08Z

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this thread is brilliant.

Please make it a blog post.

Folks also tend to not be that great at acknowledging power and ...

2026-03-17T11:52:12Z

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Folks also tend to not be that great at acknowledging power and responsibility.

We have a bad habit of bigging folks up because they expressed our frustration well without consideration about if we should have given them that power.

Power is a responsibility and it should be shared.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral

I started out on the Open Source side and gradually moved over to ...

2026-03-17T11:37:33Z

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I started out on the Open Source side and gradually moved over to the free software side.

Although at times I'm not sure either side fits anymore. Especially with the definition of freedom, and the desire to not acknowledge the political influences and ramifications of what we code and how we act within our communities.

I'm at a stage now where I distrust folks who are apolitical.

Perhaps the uncritical use of LLMs in our FOSS ecosystem is a ...

2026-03-17T09:27:57Z

Perhaps the uncritical use of LLMs in our FOSS ecosystem is a symptom of burnout in our maintainers and projects.

I really hope rsync is free of slop. #NoToAI

2026-03-16T18:42:57Z

I really hope rsync is free of slop.

#NoToAI

That also goes for what we put up on our social networks and the ...

2026-03-15T11:56:10Z

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That also goes for what we put up on our social networks and the debris we leave as we walk the paths of the web.

Digital Poppets - How the Modern Fae Hold Power Over You

https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

Fair warning, this is a long read.

You know you should never invite the fey. I distrust any witch ...

2026-03-14T20:48:22Z

You know you should never invite the fey.

I distrust any witch who says you should.

Same for Devs using LLMs, especially those from the unseelie court.

I need to figure out crumpets as well.

2026-03-11T18:06:12Z

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I need to figure out crumpets as well.

I've always found the teacakes a bit sweet, but the wafers ...

2026-03-11T17:11:59Z

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I've always found the teacakes a bit sweet, but the wafers are perfect.

I miss having them. Although french salted caramel anything does make up for the lack.

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2026-03-11T17:05:16Z

Hmm Tunnocks caramel wafers

The encouragement needs to start from an early age. Little boys ...

2026-03-08T10:44:42Z

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The encouragement needs to start from an early age. Little boys of my generation got Amigas and Commodore 64s and learned coding from typing in the code from magazines, fixing bugs. In some cases from the age of five.

Whereas many women had obstacles put in their way, or had never had that grounding as their parents had no idea.

Girls need that encouragement and support. But STEM education is still highly gendered.

Tech is a dark mirror of our society. Our current technology will ...

2026-03-07T10:03:38Z

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Tech is a dark mirror of our society. Our current technology will further the ills. That lack of consent is everywhere in big Tech.

So when we can we must point it out.

I'm glad you agree with the article. ❤️

I think many of us in Tech, who aren't the default of ...

2026-03-07T10:01:32Z

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I think many of us in Tech, who aren't the default of privileged cis white men have a very different experience of existence in our fields. The same for those of us outside of tech.
Tech merely can enable our society ills at scale. Especially when the people who shout loudest in our fields are privileged cis white folks. So it's very easy for me to see the harm as I've experienced it in different ways in different industries. But it comes from the same system our society runs on.

I think we're at a point now where we all need to state our ...

2026-03-06T20:24:19Z

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I think we're at a point now where we all need to state our values openly and enforce our boundaries.

Because I'm seeing an overlap in attitude vibes with some folks. I think we're going to see more mask off moments.

There's a reason why I wrote my AI and the guy at the bar post on my cobbles blog.

I think some folks don't see collaboration as a good thing. Or Governance.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

You know when I was a kid, anti social behaviour like cheating at ...

2026-03-06T19:33:54Z

You know when I was a kid, anti social behaviour like cheating at a game got you ostracised in a friend's group. No one would play with you anymore.

Perhaps other anti social behaviour like using LLMs to licencewash and use an existing project name should have the same outcomes. This feels like cheating, it takes the joy out of our game.

FOSS was meant to be about collaboration as much as creating software. It is play, it should be joyful.

The LLM Bro's are stealing our joy.

It occurs to me that there are other voices we should be ...

2026-02-21T10:06:37Z

It occurs to me that there are other voices we should be listening to that aren't European or American in our internet spaces.

So Fediverse who else should we be reading when we worry about Internet Freedom?

About the centralisation dangers and censorship on the internet?

Who are we drowning out?

EDIT: :BoostOK:

Like seriously, if you have a suggestion please reply. I'm enthusiastically asking.

I think there's a point where artists become isolated from ...

2026-02-13T16:41:46Z

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I think there's a point where artists become isolated from what drove them, when they get really successful.

It's what happens when you become part of the establishment. You're comfortable and now you've got something to loose.

Oh look, another industry where Men who support the status quo, ...

2026-02-13T16:20:33Z

Oh look, another industry where Men who support the status quo, don't think politics should be part of art.

Louder for the back of the room.

"Art is political. "

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/arundhati-roy-quits-berlin-film-festival-over-stay-out-of-politics-comment

oh wow, @npub1cg5…5rad is in it. Thank you. 😊

2026-02-13T15:18:47Z

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oh wow, cobbles (npub1cg5…5rad) is in it. Thank you. 😊

I am mutating into my crone form. I have just started a small tin ...

2026-02-07T12:48:55Z

I am mutating into my crone form. I have just started a small tin of buttons.

Send Danish Biscuits.

#RepairReuseRecycle

Wear a mask at these Events folks. You protect you and others ...

2026-01-30T11:51:07Z

Wear a mask at these Events folks.

You protect you and others when you do. You encourage other folks to consider protecting themselves as well.

Otherwise at some point down the line you'll be where I am. Desperately trying to preserve my energy and feeling very sad, angry and worried about the folks attending.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/foss-conferences-and-covid

#fosdem #WearAMask

Once you've read that, here's some more posts from my ...

2026-01-22T20:26:31Z

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Once you've read that, here's some more posts from my cobbles blog.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/on-bears
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ignoring-boundaries
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/reflections-on-fedicon-and-foss-guilt-by-association
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-others

A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post ...

2026-01-22T20:25:44Z

A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.

Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.

Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.

It shouldn't just be us doing the work

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

#sexism

Is there an creative commons/public domain photograph of the Tech ...

2026-01-02T12:47:20Z

Is there an creative commons/public domain photograph of the Tech billionaires behind Trump during his second inauguration?

Need it for a thing.

:BoostOK:

well FOSDEM pretty much demonstrated their values last year. ...

2025-12-12T16:56:42Z

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well FOSDEM pretty much demonstrated their values last year.

https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html

About that time they picked Jack Dorsey as a headliner.

https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html

I called for some transparency.

https://www.onepict.com/20250206-mirror.html

No Dorsey, Matrix got to talk instead. Oh and no transparency.

It honestly still stuns me when people think like that. Yet ...

2025-12-08T06:38:26Z

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It honestly still stuns me when people think like that.

Yet we're expected to sacrifice our safety to be around family and to not mask because it makes them uncomfortable.

🤦‍♀️

Yeah if they think that's bad luck it's ableism at best ...

2025-12-08T06:22:14Z

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Yeah if they think that's bad luck it's ableism at best and they are on the road to eugenics at worse.

TIL how to get to the about config page on Firefox mobile if ...

2025-12-08T06:15:03Z

TIL how to get to the about config page on Firefox mobile if about:config is disabled:

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

Handy if you want to disable the AI features on there.

#Firefox #Mobile

As a cis woman I've been misgendered at a distance for having ...

2025-11-21T10:20:02Z

As a cis woman I've been misgendered at a distance for having short hair and wearing a hoodie by two older cis women. That's all it takes, a glance.

No one should be policing the toilets or common areas, because of how they dress. This makes me feel unsafe.

Trans women and Trans men have never made me feel unsafe. Non binary folks have never made me feel unsafe.

Just because I'm choosing to present as feminine doesn't mean I always will. This is transphobic bullshit.

This article from 2023 by @npub1hr7…jxyc is really good. ...

2025-11-21T09:42:58Z

This article from 2023 by Baldur Bjarnason (npub1hr7…jxyc) is really good.

Reading this today after a conversation with my brother as we tried to make sense of why folks are using the AI chat bots. The framing of the psychics con is brilliant. Because that is what those bots are doing.

Which makes various governments AI nonsense even more frightening.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork ...

2025-11-14T17:46:08Z

I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.

We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.

Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷‍♀️

https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/115548809564345011

Not letting the Nazis in the bar seems like community safety 101.

2025-11-05T09:36:07Z

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Not letting the Nazis in the bar seems like community safety 101.

Not 24 hours after the admin of mas.to wrung his hands about ...

2025-11-05T09:35:07Z

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Not 24 hours after the admin of mas.to wrung his hands about Nazis in his bar, there was another one.

That one was replying to the visible activists on our community and posting death threat memes, using racist language and Eugenics.

There is no ironic posting of the Nazi flag or usage of Nazi dog whistles.

I've reported and blocked but the only way to stop it is close the open signups.

Stop performatively wringing your hands. It does nothing to stop the wave.

About threads, but feels kinda relevant. "I often feel that ...

2025-11-05T09:30:04Z

About threads, but feels kinda relevant.

"I often feel that being a community mod or a community leader should not be seen as power but a responsibility. You have a duty of care to ensure the safety of your members who choose to let you have some power over a part of their lives.

I don't think some of the admins of the larger instances get this. I think some admins are salivating more over getting the celebs over, rather than caring for their existing community.

https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

As someone who campaigned hard to bring back Nominet (dot.uk) to ...

2025-11-02T10:36:45Z

As someone who campaigned hard to bring back Nominet (dot.uk) to the public benefit, I can see that our infrastructure ( including our domain names) needed to be managed by cooperatives rather than our VC backed landscape.

Public commons, rather than rentiers. Which the majority of our domain name landscapes are.

Vint Cerf trying to rehabilitate his reputation via the Internet Archive and Libraries is just 🤦‍♀️

You built this landscape not just physically but you allowed this. 🤷‍♀️

yeah I saw that and my first impulse was swearing. Pretty ...

2025-11-02T10:27:17Z

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yeah I saw that and my first impulse was swearing.

Pretty disappointed in general with Tim Burners Lee as well.

I should not have been surprised as Robert Calliau (Berners Lee's collaborator) was happy to front for closed source natural language company Run Rev in 2010

https://www.onepict.com/20101104-closed.html

Here's the overall timeline of the save .org campaign. I ...

2025-11-02T10:23:24Z

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Here's the overall timeline of the save .org campaign.

I forgot it was so recent. But I do remember being incredibly disappointed in Vint Cerf.

But our internet now is the outcome of desires like this. When you see our infrastructure as something to sell rather than maintain or be a guardian of.

I mean granted the internet is not the web.

https://www.nten.org/change/savedotorg-campaign-history

Here's Kieran McCarthy's article from that time as well. ...

2025-11-02T10:18:16Z

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Here's Kieran McCarthy's article from that time as well.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/14/icann_org_redacted/

I point you to Cerf's own words at the start of 2020 when ...

2025-11-02T10:15:53Z

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I point you to Cerf's own words at the start of 2020 when many of us were vocally against the sale of the .org registry to Ethos Capital.

Our walled gardens were always going to expand Vint, especially when you helped to encourage that mindset.

https://medium.com/@vint_4444/a-stronger-future-for-org-and-the-internet-52002a8268cf

The warning is timely. But some of the folks like Vint Cerf ...

2025-11-02T10:12:15Z

The warning is timely. But some of the folks like Vint Cerf became part of the issue when we remember how we had to fight to keep .org affordable.

But again it's a reflection of big tech. Our early internet pioneers flirted with VCs and capital not that long ago.

So it's on us to save the open web. No one is coming to save it. So we must try.

https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/115478416083147772

I hadn't even heard of DNS0.EU Europe's privacy-first DNS ...

2025-10-30T09:02:49Z

I hadn't even heard of DNS0.EU

Europe's privacy-first DNS pulls the plug overnight

European DNS shutting down

European public DNS service DNS0.EU has shut down its operations immediately

https://cybernews.com/news/european-public-resolver-shuts-down/

#DNS