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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jul 17, 2026

If you use power tools to make furniture and other things you have no honor. (Veiled LLM rant)

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jul 14, 2026

I am starting a new movement, Human Computing. Where we reject computers doing our work and automating our tasks.

Our brains have evolved over millennia, we do not need to outsource calculation to computers.

We should not use compilers to translate our code to what we cannot understand.

Don’t automate what you can calculate yourself!

#Satire #Emacs #HumanEmacs (https://human-emacs.org/) dumb shit by people with too much time on their hands.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz

@weekend_editor infinite power obviously… @mnl

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026

When you have to restort to #AnnaArchives instead of #ArchiveOrg .. cause Archive.org implements DRM. Booo..

And yes, "Borrow a virtual book" is DRM.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot "The imperative style was very much frowned upon" It really was not. It was the normal way of writing code. Bunch of TAGBODY, GOTO and other things. SETF pre-dates Common Lisp by many years. Here is some old fun EH code: https://tumbleweed.nu/r/attic/sys46/file?ci=tip&name=lispm2/eh.316&ln=120-149 That uses SETF. @janneke@todon.nl @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @Bumblefish@mastodon.scot

@Bumblefish I think it is fair to say that you have no idea of what facism means. Got no better insults? @yayaver

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @amszmidt@mastodon.social

@Bumblefish @yayaver If you can take an hour lunch each day, you have time for all of the above. The rest is excuses,

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @Bumblefish@mastodon.scot

@Bumblefish Twisty words aren’t we? “Cook everyday” It takes two hours to prep a whole week of food for a family of four, that includes lunch and dinner and even breakfast and snacks. And that includes means different meals each day. @yayaver

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @yayaver@mastodon.social

@yayaver Walking 10k everyday should be considered normal. It is not much. But … Why do you cook every night? Clean every day? Meal prep, making lunch boxes., cleaning should be considered automatic and not something you spend time on. Do you consider brushing your teeth or showering a chore? Taking care of your loved ones, why is that an issue? It is the most wonderful time one can spend. Work hours, ain’t fun,, but that is when you recharge, why be productive for a black hole.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Does truth still exist?

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services

@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services then we are reading two different documents. 🧐

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @amszmidt@mastodon.social

@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services Here is some parts of it: https://www.fsf.org/about/fsf-relationship-framework

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services

@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services I was around when the FSF Europe was founded. The only reason why they can even call themself FSF(anything) is because an agreement between the FSF and FSFE. With that, there were some obligations made. Not at a computer, but some oogling should find the relevant texts.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services

@FediVideo @fsfe@media.fsfe.org @fsfe "(NOTE: FSFE is not affiliated with FSF in the United States. They are totally separate organisations.)" That is quite the stretch, to the point of a lie. The FSFE is a sister organization to the FSF. The FSFE has several obligations under the FSF.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @privateger@plasmatrap.com

@privateger That "clever" nonsense can be elided under the GNU AGPL. "10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term." The extra terms are clearly "further restrictions" -- so ..

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @privateger@plasmatrap.com

@privateger Good thing that you can remove that nonsense pursuant the GNU AGPL under the same section. =)

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @amszmidt@mastodon.social

@skybert @nthcdr @bbatsov just today, I got a Bullshit Generated summary of a five minute meeting that took longer to read than the meeting.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @skybert@hachyderm.io

@skybert @nthcdr @bbatsov I have coworkers that need to ask Bullshit Generators about ”foo.c:123: Variable bar is uninitialized”

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot Sure, but a computer did. @petealexharris@mastodon.scot

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games

@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games and this is why the internet sucks, abusive people like you. It has nothing to do with gender.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot the verdict is still out on that…. Only a human can hold copyright, and if a machine or animals creates something then it falls outside of the scope of copyright. Maybe. See the case where an ape made a picture, and the person setting up the camera wasn’t deemed the copyright holder. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute @petealexharris@mastodon.scot

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games

@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games “We can't use any copyrighted materials in our presentations, …” — CC-BY-SA is a copyright license.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025

Replying to @androcat@toot.cat

@androcat@toot.cat What joke? That is not what GNU means, and how we define in English, not Math. *plonk* @hailey@hails.org

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025

Replying to @androcat@toot.cat

@androcat@toot.cat The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix.” https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html @hailey@hails.org

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jan 01, 2025

Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social Musk being sent to Pretoria seems fair. Musk doing forced labor seems what 2025 would become a good year.

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Alfred M. Szmidt @amszmidt@mastodon.social · Jun 10, 2023

Replying to @redstarfish@social.linux.pizza

@redstarfish@social.linux.pizza hurts to ”star” such a terrible decision by the Debian project. When Debian was started, the goal was always to be entirely free software, this was long before the traversty that is contrib/non-free…. #RIP Ian

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