Christine Lemmer-Webber

cwebber@social.coop

Executive Director of <a href="https://social.coop/@spritely" class="u-url mention">@spritely</a> (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet. ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @fossandcrafts@octodon.social. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/her <a href="https://dustycloud.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://dustycloud.org/</a>Recently moved here from @cwebber@octodon.socialLovely banner sketch by <a href="https://mastodon.art/@juliaro" class="u-url mention">@juliaro</a> <a

Posts

Post #4421340
RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117044615886264428 One of the highlights of my career is being able to collaborate with @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org on the @spritely@social.coop mascots (really, David did so much to transform my little doodles into real characters). David has been making beautiful, fantastical artwork in the commons and I have been a fan since Sintel. The prolific, high quality, and availability of David's work means that his art is a strong reference point within image...
Post #4387329
we're not the only org that cares about empowering users by helping them better understand and participate in computing itself, but increasingly, it feels like Spritely is one of only a couple of places and it's getting harder and harder to get people to care, or it feels like it which just makes me care even more about our work but everything feels so precarious in this world rn
Post #4387244
my hair stylist tried to figure out what my fursona was yesterday but I think my fursona is just that I'm a witch that drags all the fur girls behind her panting and desperate on a leash as her helpless and faithful familiars
Post #4387228
you wouldn't favorite this post
Post #4377014
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bwananada phone bododolodoodoo
Post #4365019
I have become even more powerful
Post #4358536
helo
Post #4358464
I'm gonna get a hair cut and bangs and get my hair dyed purple today! I am really excited :O
Post #4353951
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@emilyskidsister/116994552007367487 While I don't use these tools myself, I think @emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io is right that if you are using them, it's important to try to make them as non-"personable" as possible. The hyper-empathy, hyper-personableness is something that's in the market interests of the bigger corporations. But it's like adding sugar to food everywhere: it sells more, and people will consume more, but it isn't good for...
Post #4245522
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117004024280410659 It's worse, because this isn't a warehouse being filled and pulped once, but over and over again.
Post #4172177
Sometimes I think I'm laying it on a little too thick and then I find out that it really isn't thick enough I should just lay it on even thicker, this will lead to less ambiguity and confusion
Post #4170775
Given all the "drama" about the previous "anti-genAI" Guix Consensus Document, I'm really glad to see an alternative that is pro-AI. I submitted as much useful feedback as I could in my review! https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14 I think it was particularly brave of @dthompson@toot.cat to let Grok get the lead authorship spot on this document!
Post #4136876
How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html It seems like if the initial token costs are to believed, the cost is approaching $1m USD, but it's likely, as the article says, that there were a lot of non-reported costs being spent from Anthropic helping the project along and continuous CI/CD.
Post #4101671
I know what this state is, and it's burnout
Post #4088088
sigh
Post #4087038
today I am going to try to do something on a computer that brings me joy. I don't know what it is yet
Post #4085970
"Don't Take the Black Pill" by @andrewrk@mastodon.social https://youtu.be/zLZwpH5lCD4 One of the best talks I have ever seen. Please watch it. An antidote to all the despair about the world of computing I'm sure we all feel.
Post #4085776
Thanks for continuing to care about things, fedi. I'm glad to be part of a space that, despite all the apathy of the world, wants to be part of shaping towards something better.
Post #4079002
I don't love having to wonder whether or not any cute video of an animal now is AI generated
Post #4048111
I'm sorry that purple is the best color. It's not my fault
Post #4045864
Some day I am going to crawl out of an old television like that girl in The Ring and it will be the most terrifying and sexiest thing I have ever done
Post #4038786
The only variations of an ethical future which incorporates "AI" are ones where large AI corporations are unprofitable
Post #4036408
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116964060609145830 Just over an hour left to vote in this poll. And it's pretty interesting; a lot of votes, and a dead heat. And there's a lot of disbelief about whether or not such a machine can *even be built*. So let me up the stakes: this poll is informing whether or not to do a writeup on how to build *exactly this system*. And I'm currently leaning towards writing it up, if for no reason other than because I'm annoyed I'm being told...
Post #4019176
I have a friend who keeps saying "drinking our own champagne" instead of "eating our own dogfood" and I gotta say that what I think of every time I hear that isn't any better
Post #4015089
A hypothetical: Imagine I held a magic wand that could make AI systems improve in all the following ways: - More environmentally friendly - Less capturable by a few large corporations - Less built on "plagiarism machine" foundations - More reasonable and capable of making judgements which are explainable, accountable, and more accurate - More participatory and open However, we are still left in our present socioeconomic system. Should I wave the magic wand and improve things, or doe...
Post #4012746
Vibecoding gets banned on Codeberg! https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
Post #3998017
OpenAI accidentally hacks Hugging Face. But it's more wild than that https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ OpenAI was running an exploit test system in a sandbox. Their model determined that probably Hugging Face had model information that would be useful to complete the task, so it broke out of its sandbox, developed an exploit, broke into Hugging Face to go rooting around for information
Post #3995940
pinning my hopes on things like "people still care about learning and doing things and being creative" and maybe this is a mistake
Post #3967603
guy whose opinion is always whatever the trendy new opinion is in tech: "heheh, bet you didn't expect that opinion did you? I'm pretty subversive ;)"
Post #3904387
a femme fatale a queer coded villainess I'm laughing madly while I'm your undoing