I'm just out of therapy. My therapist asked me what would help me to feel better. I guess she didn't expect me to say "some sort of an organisation I could trust that would steward the development of ethical computing systems across all areas of computer science". I want to contribute to a project like this, but I don't know of an existing one, and I am scared to actually try and lead a large FOSS project.
#Guile now requires contributors to agree to a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and rejects code authored or co-authored by an LLM 👇
https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/src/commit/b52c48a850765ba93d90fa35fbd3eed8356222a2/HACKING#L134-L156
Kudos to Olivier Dion for making it happen!
@hopeward @analogfusion - federate with instances that show a *track record* of allowing, and not moderating, racism because we don't want our non-white users to be on the receiving end of that racism knowing that the source instance doesn't give a shit.
It's not 'perfect is the enemy of good'. It's 'Black people repeatedly tell us that they don't feel safe on fedi because of exactly this, and NOT taking a stance against it is ensuring that fedi continues to be an unsafe place for them'.
Hey ich bin #neuhier und ich bin erstmal nur zum testen auf Mastodon. Ich wollte wissen, ob es hier auch Gleichaltrige oder Themengebiete für mich gibt.
Ich bin nämlich 14 und interressiere mich zum Beispiel für Volleyball und Vegetarismus. Bisher habe ich hier aber noch nicht wirklich troets gefunden, die meine Altersklasse ansprechen. Habt ihr vielleicht Tipps?
Danke!
#teenie
🇪🇺 European Citizen's Initiative against ID age verification online
Just yesterday, Stop Killing the Internet, from the people at @StopKillingGames, launched an ECI against ID age verification! This is great but it needs 1 million signatures !
So, if you live in #europe, please sign it! If you don't, or even if you do, still share it around so more people know about it and can sign it!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
Reaching the signature threshold will not mean that ID age verification will immediately become illegal, but the subject will be brought to the @EUCommission and they'll have to do SOMETHING about it. This is already a huge step in the right direction!
Please boost and share this post to spread the word! Thank you!
There is a technology which is so expensive to operate that *just by existing*, it has made things like RAM and hard drives unaffordable to me and the humans I know, because the expensive technology's operational demands are so high they had to buy RAM and hard drives *until there weren't anymore RAM or hard drives*.
*A technology with this property is not, and was never going to be, a "democratizing" technology*.
I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:
$ rm code.rs
It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:
$ rm -rf project/
boost this poost if you support a unionized wikipedia
For those that keep saying wind turbines can't be reused or recycled need to read this
"The analysis found a total 99.9% material recovery – calculating that 79.5% of the wind farm’s components were recycled and 20.4% were reused or retained as spare parts, keeping nearly all material out of landfills."
100% of the recycling and component retention took place in the UK, supporting domestic green jobs and at least 10 supply chain companies.
The Gender-Revealing Obsession 🧐
I am so tired of rich white fascists.
So, a question:
What programing languages and operating systems have the most diverse folks "in charge"? Who are the most inclusive? Who as at least as many women as men? What projects are steered by a full chorus of LGBTQIA+ folks? Where are BIPOC putting their energy and power?
'Cause every time we complain about a fash we should lift up the work they fight against two times.
Boots welcome.
Here it is, now I *do* have a list!
Weird little guys of FOSS:
https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
Once again, I find myself begging FOSS folks to recognize that open source is, by construction, a political movement. The onus is thus on us to make sure that our politics are in keeping with our actual values.
We cannot, especially during a global resurgence of fascism, act like it's possible to be apolitical.
Wenn die Nazis die IT von heute gehabt hätten, hätten sie keine Karteikästen durchsuchen müssen. Datenbanken hätten Menschen in Sekunden sortiert. Bewegungsdaten hätten Aufenthaltsorte verraten. Gesichtserkennung hätte Verfolgte gefunden. Vernetzte Register hätten Ausgrenzung automatisiert. Genau deshalb ist Datenschutz keine technische Nebensache. Er ist eine Lehre aus der Geschichte: Ein demokratischer Staat darf niemals eine Infrastruktur schaffen, von der er nur hoffen kann, dass sie niemals Faschisten in die Hände fällt.
#Datenschutz #NieWieder #Digitalisierung #Überwachung #Demokratie #Menschenrechte #Antifaschismus
Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
Und ich stehe an der Kasse, als langjährige Kontaktloszahlerin und zahle mehr und mehr mit Bargeld.
Dank meiner Arbeit in der IT hab ich immer weniger Lust auf Digitales Zeugs.
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If you're a trans ally 🏳️⚧️ , I highly recommend following @reclaimallies to build up your knowledge of common anti-trans misinformation and counters. It's a new account that doesn't have the following it deserves.
A read receipt isn’t a subpoena. A stranger’s breakdown isn’t your content. Your friends aren’t an audience. AI shouldn’t speak for you to the people you love.
21 new rules for being human:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etiquette-basics-the-new-rules
Attention please! (Clears his throat).
Seeing that the Pixelfed.social server was receiving spam and scam accounts, I decided to switch server. Imagine my surprise when I discovered... I couldn't. You can't migrate a Pixelfed.social profile to another instance. Apparently, this has been the case for over a year, by other complaints I've seen.
The lead developer has said something like they're working on fixing it, but it's been like this for a while...
I asked @pixelfed for an explanation several days ago. They've posted things, but they haven't answered to me.
Meanwhile, they've disabled one of the main features of the Fediverse on the largest (and "official") #Pixelfed server.
In other words, they're holding all their users hostage, which goes against the philosophy of the #Fediverse.
What's more, Pixelfed has a function to export your data. However, exporting posts always fails.
I thought, well, at least I can import the people I follow. Nope, because the only import tool they've designed is one for importing your Instagram account. Disabled on the main Pixelfed.social server, by the way.
I even started to think it was because they were one version behind the server I wanted to move to (which would be strange, since it's the main server).
Well, no, they have the same version. But you can only migrate your account INTO Pixelfed.social, not the other way, OUT of Pixelfed.social. That makes the whole thing crystal clear to me.
In short: NEVER create an account on Pixelfed.social, or you'll be held hostage. I recommend another servers (Luzeed, Fotolibre, for example). And there's also @vernissage for sharing photos.
You can all follow me again at this account: @andrewblasco@luzeed.org. Because of course, without account migration, you lose all your followers 🤷🏽♂️