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Carbon-based developer, KM project manager and tech writer. FOSS and openness are my mantra but I still seem to be a bearable person.

Tribalist techno-anarchist before and after it was cool. I metaphorically still live in the Zion Cluster. On the fediverse since 2017.

Permacomputing and collapse computing believer. A love for Lisp and Assembly, even if it's clear they don't love back. Currently going back to "old" things like C and BSD.

My larius is a postdigital bear. He/him is ok.
Feel free to reply to anything I toot.

Digital garden: https://bitzero.cloud

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bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · May 08, 2026

Replying to @_elena@mastodon.social

@_elena@mastodon.social @doktorzjivago@mastodonsweden.se @tom@tomkahe.com @mapache@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz In this case: it takes some federated villages. Thank to you for the awesome inquiry.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Apr 21, 2026

The uncanny side of all this AI (generative, agentic, physical, whatever) tech is that it basically see the user (that is, us) as a finite and determinate quantity. You think, behave, like, desire, in a specific way that algorithms will eventually quantify and model. Then, you're not supposed to change. In some way, you're even not allowed to change, outside of a very limited range.

You're like a shopfloor machine: just be a specific version of the generic human model, where being stable is good and change is a system degradation.

I think this is not a mistake: it's a state of mind. Techbros and their pathetic stans would really like people to be like deterministic, manageable, expendable machines. And it shows, in the platforms they create.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 31, 2026

The more you enshittify things, the more creative people will develop sustainable alternatives.

Because this is how societies works: in the end people fuck sociopaths all the times.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @resl@mas.to

@resl@mas.to Something like "whoa, nobody could see it coming" or "yes but we couldn't scare the moderates away". These will be their last words when CorpoCops will take them away. We'll be hidden away in our solarpunk commune in the mountains, btw.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @susam@mastodon.social

@susam@mastodon.social Cool! Installed on my (very basic and work-in-progress) personal site. Link in the codeberg discussion.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @Alice@beige.party

@Alice@beige.party Absolutely this. Also, this is the Way.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 07, 2026

Vibe coding is keyfabe coding

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @elena@aseachange.com

@elena Naaah. I’m just the average digital guy trying to have fun. Ignoring AI costs nothing to me. If I were a professional coder, I’d probably be much less heroic. Being able to ignore hype is, partly, a privilege. We must be honest about it.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @elena@aseachange.com

@elena I’m doing my best to ignore genai coding hype, it’s background noise at this point. Slop machine believers can’t be saved, so well, whatever. It’s not my game. I spent some time studying and testing LLMs, also implementing them locally. So now I have a clear idea of what they can do for me: almost nothing in general and surely nothing to increase my fun level. I also wanted to spread some little knowledge about “remotely sustainable ways to use small AI”, but it’s a waste of time. People are simply not interested. I decided not to support projects “proudly AI powered” and I’m hiding in my own niche of coding craftsmanship, learning new things the hard way because this is where the fun is. I know this stance means leaving behind many interesting pieces of software. Maybe even mainstream Linux, since there are too many hyped techbros and aspiring AI sycophants in its circles. But still. I love tech and I want it to always be fun for me. The good part: there are gazillions of things to do and play with, while blissfully ignoring the nasty stuff happening around us. We’re not forced to be mainstream.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Mar 03, 2026

Replying to @Daojoan__dup_15824@mastodon.social

@Daojoan@mastodon.social Definitely *this*

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Feb 18, 2026

Just wanted to underline that European Parliament's IT department blocked AI functions on smartphones and tablets used by MoPs and their staff. "We cannot be sure AI won't cause data leaks" it's more or less what IT people said.

There's a story about that on Poltico: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/

POLITICO

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears

AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Feb 08, 2026

Replying to @ChrSt@lethallava.land

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @ChrSt@lethallava.land My unsolicited twocents: in modern techbro language “democratize” means “open new fake markets” which means “get VC money” which means “we get more money fuck the rest”. Democratize money systems -> digital currency frauds Democratize art market -> NFTs Now is “democratize software creation” which we already know it doesn’t work because we’ve been talking about “citizen developers” for at least ten years. But VCs are already blabbing about the “YouTube moment” of software (we all can be creators) and there’s a lot of potential money involved.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Dec 31, 2025

Replying to @Alice@beige.party

@Alice@beige.party This.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Nov 15, 2025

Replying to @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social There’s a lot to study and to like here. Definitely thumbs up. Comments later. If I may.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Nov 13, 2025

Replying to @marcedwards@mastodon.social

@marcedwards They will? https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Nov 12, 2025

Replying to @marcedwards@mastodon.social

@marcedwards On the other hand, macOS 26 is a nightmare of apps with different angle curvatures in their windows. Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave. This lack of attention for graphic details tells a lot.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Feb 05, 2025

Replying to @gruber@mastodon.social

@gruber@mastodon.social Well it wasn’t that boring with a genocide where Joe was actively killing kids and, in the meanwhile, the usual climate catastrophe. And a war in the center of Europe. But it’s me, maybe: I’m too sensitive.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Sep 02, 2024

Replying to @OtaK_@hachyderm.io

@OtaK_@hachyderm.io @matzipan@hachyderm.io @lina@vt.social I understand that maintaining the kernel is a burden and this exacerbates anything that remotely looks like - or can be perceived as - a technological or personal attack. That said, the prevalent (as it seems now) reaction to the Rust for Linux project is... problematic. I love Linux and I think it saved my digital life and mental sanity, but it's not a religion. Code is not a god. I do not specifically love Rust or Rustaceans, but at this point it's clear the language won't go away - if this is what somebody thinks or hopes - and I'm wondering if a better path is starting from almost scratch and use Rust as a base for a new Linux-compatible OS. Many IT things are now changing fast, a new and safer OS wouldn't be so hard to accept. For sure, all this drama gives more strength - if needed - to the old "bearded guy with suspenders" trope :ablobglitch:

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Aug 29, 2024

Replying to @matzipan@hachyderm.io

@matzipan@hachyderm.io @lina@vt.social Yup. Rust is the (quite) new shiny kid who just joined the classroom and a bit of love/hate reactions are expected. Also, all the “C is unsafe, even the Government says so” drama hasn’t helped. Many people felt attacked in their development beliefs. And felt suddenly old and deprecated as their code or the code they like. But, well, Rust is on the rise and, all summed up, this should be a good thing. That said, most of the problems in IT don’t come from the language you choose but from software chains dependencies and complexity. Almost everyone today is trained to look at one or two trees and completely misses the forest.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Aug 29, 2024

Replying to @lina@vt.social

@lina@vt.social At this point, I guess it’s a cultural clash that has little to do with Rust’s supposed pros and cons. I myself don’t like the language that much, but plainly ignoring it is probably extreme. And is not helping anyone.

bitzero @bitzero@corteximplant.net · Jul 23, 2024

Replying to @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

@Binder People with UBI aren’t slaves anymore. That’s why we don’t have UBI. We could fight for it, but actually eating the rich and getting their money and property is faster and more fun.

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