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  Yikes I didn’t fancy Dansup a transphobe but here we are.

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  Honestly if this is how people in FOSS are going to act, that the correct response to problems is bullying and harassment, I hope the movement fails in the long-term, because people deserve better than this shit. If you acted the way people do in FOSS In any other hobby, you'd be kicked the fuck out. Amateur radio, act like this? Everyone will know you're a lid. No one will engage with you. You won't be welcome into clubs. Keep it up and you'll lose your license. Keep going furth...

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  "We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

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  I hope people learn shit from this KDE discourse but I'm not convinced they will. I'm convinced the discourse will get rancid until eventually they have a "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" moment like McCarthyism did.

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  This fucking anti-AI discourse has gone into absolute stupidity and is driving people away from anti-AI positions. Being a total dickhead, assuming bad faith, not listening, jumping to conclusions, and assuming people want to make projects actively worse? This is how you make people think, "wow, why would I join them, they're a bunch of fucking crazy zealots." And at this point, they'd be right. It's pissing me off to no end, and I am Anthropic and OpenAI's biggest h...

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  A lot of people in FOSS need to grow the fuck up. The world isn’t just fucking AI or some purity test for what OS you use or where you’ve worked or what fucking editor you use. I don’t even like AI but I’m at the point where it’s like: if you don’t like AI then don’t use AI. If you don’t like the way a project is run, do what you’ve told people YOU don’t like for years: fork it (/s but also, I heard this enough over the years). Your bullying is not working and makes you look like a jerk. Worse...

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  I heard the CEO of IKEA got elected as prime minister of Sweden. He’s still assembling his cabinet.

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  Virtually EVERYONE I know has a bullying story from FOSS. The fact that this is considered very normal and just part of the culture is a huge problem. The fact people have pushed back very hard against those who speak out against it are also part of the problem. Many of the bullies are prominent developers. Some eventually realise they’re burning bridges. Others I swear to God were born assholes and will die assholes. Many users and advocates have rancid behaviour too. Attempting to call it out...

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  To queer people hoping to move to #Seattle and hoping things will get better: The state is less oppressive here for queer people. It is still oppressive. Our police sent more cops to January 6th than any other department in the nation. There are CCTV cameras in Seattle now. They pinkie promise that the data isn’t shared federally. And I’m also the pope. The queer community here are… um. How do I put it. Some people are amazing. Some people are… less so. You will still need your wits about y...

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  When tankies come into my mentions asking me “hey how do you feel about [dictator who did good things but was installed via military power]” I say that the good doesn’t erase the bad Authoritarian rule is authoritarian rule It inevitably leads to terrible abuses of power We can achieve great things without it. We should not glorify it in any way.

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  I oppose capital punishment for political crimes. I instead advocate making them politically impotent and useless. Why you ask? History has rarely looked kindly upon those who have used the death penalty for political purposes, and it almost always winds up being abused once we cross that line to eliminate those who say “maybe we shouldn’t be so violent” or “perhaps we can do things better.” That’s why I don’t advocate the death penalty for say, Sam Altman or Jeff Bezos. What will it achieve....

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  I may hate OpenAI and Anthropic but honest to God my hatred of copyright is more intense. I lived through the 00's, when copyright enforcement involved big companies suing literal children and grandmothers, when Big Media tried VERY hard to make it so you would literally lose Internet access after infringement as well, and then adopted compromise positions like "six strikes" because the "zero tolerance" policy was politically rancid. In Germany, you can still get a deman...

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  Yo @mxchara@cyberpunk.lol helped me out of a jam moving a storage unit at the last minute and I owe them big. Can y’all help them out? They’re broke as Hell. https://www.paypal.me/PnictogenWing

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  Wait Why would a robot need boobs Why do so many robot girls have boobs Like what function do they serve

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  I still find it funny all the cloud computing people offered bargain basement rates until people got hooked, jacked up the rates, and everyone is forced to pay what they tell them now. And people were warned this would happen. Like, a lot of people warned about this. "But it's so cheap" Yeah, for a reason.

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  Doctor told me to cut salt in my diet. You have no idea how annoying it is to use a knife on the individual grains.

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  I'm tired of people complaining about the use of AI in foundational pieces of software, but the only time anything ever gets forked or the only time anyone cares, if it's something like a text editor. I get forking things like Linux is nearly impossible. You're never going to get the critical mass to do it. You're never going to get the expertise to do it. Text editors are easy. Things like "XML parsing" or "USB device handling" are specialist domain knowled...

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  Nobody believed my neocortex extractor worked. After I demonstrated it on them, there were no objections. Agreeing with me was a no-brainer.

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  Every weirdo nerd when I say I actually use secure boot and use my TPM on my laptop to store credentials and prefer to keep it that way because that's what it's literally designed to do: 👁️👄👁️

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  What do you use (in English)? I use Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, as did my mother. My grandmother used Breakfast, Lunch, Supper. My great-grandmother used Breakfast, Dinner, Tea or Supper.

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  finger elizabeth@elizafox.dev I promise it's not lewd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

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  Nuclear-level fedi take: I am absolutely fine with computer-vision systems doing things like trash sorting. Some might say "that's AI" Yeah, it's a damn good use of AI Who the fuck grows up and thinks, "yeah, this is it chief, I wanna sort trash for a living" And don't say "someone with a kink" because come ON. That's a cry for help, and it's different when it's your job anyway.

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  Your MOM is vibecoded

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  Okay, weird debate in my friend group. Some of my friends think the rise of femboys is due to transphobia and many of them are trans. I think that it's just more people being more comfortable with who they are and not necessarily all or even most of them being trans. Settle this.

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  Everyone thinks everything has gotten worse Here’s some things that actually haven’t: Weather forecasting: it’s better than everSolar: cheaper than natural gasCoal: essentially dying from not being cheaper than natgas or solarTimekeeping: now accurate over galactic timescales Flash storage: surpassing spinning rustPublic transit ridership in the US: Amtrak is posting the best numbers everUnion membership in the US: risingMurder rates: falling in the US and worldwide on average, believe it or no...

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  Little known fact: XML was invented by Dr. Xavier Markup-Langley, who wanted a bloated and complex format that was still not as complex as SGML. It also was fuelled by his rivalry with Samuel Godwin Markup-Langley, his cousin and creator of SGML.

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  You shouldn't use AI to communicate with another human being. I understand paraphrasing and copypasting things. We all do that. Anyone who says they don't is a liar or a smartass. But plagiarism is defined as wholesale copying of what someone else wrote without putting it in your own words. Why would doing this with AI be any more acceptable?

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  Lest you think that union-busting is strictly a private sector activity, my best friend works for one of the University of California’s libraries. She is paid way less to work for their library than a normal person in her job would be, by policy, just because it’s the library. About 40% less. The university told her that’s just how they do things and that was policy. The library unionised. The school tried to bust the union. Correspondence about it “mysteriously” disappeared. They stated their...

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  I don't think tech is "cooked" because of AI. How can a field that was ruined by capital long ago fall any further from grace?