Richard Littauer
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Posts
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Post #1177594
Started a new podcast today. Emailing potential guests about it. https://ossforclimate.sustainoss.org/ If you&#39;re interested in OSS for climate change, I think this could be interesting for you. Curious what people think.
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Post #722257
My add: &quot;Another wrinkle: &gt; [I] explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code I don&#39;t know how much Claude can be trusted to have followed this instruction. Further, many dependencies that may not have LGPL/GPL may have dependencies that do. Many code packages are not legally compliant all the way down their stack. I don&#39;t know of any LLMs or large open source stacks that have solved this issue.&quot; https://github.com/char...
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Post #722254
Kōkako photos in the press. https://www.burntfen.com/2026-03-11/kokako-photos-in-the-press
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Post #722246
Lost the day to US taxes. Was a beautiful day. Ahhh, the mountains I could have seen...
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Post #722244
Ran an AGM today, and finished my six months of service on the exec committee for my postgrad student association. Happy to be just a member again. 🖖 https://www.burntfen.com/2026-03-16/te-herenga-waka-postgraduate-student-association
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Post #620476
Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors? Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.