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Your weary 'net denizen

@cstanhope@social.coop

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Interests: programming languages, open platforms, art, craft, diy, and justice.

I've recently set my posts to be deleted after a month.

#nobot, #nobots, #noai

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Joined September 05, 2017

Home Page:

http://charles.stanho.pe

Reading:

Yes

Prounouns:

he/him or they/them

On hiatus:

Until 2026-09-01 or later

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Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · May 14, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber@social.coop I appreciate all the context. Thank you!

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · May 11, 2026

Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win

@futurebird@sauropods.win That was so wonderful!

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · May 01, 2026

Replying to @beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social That's an interesting approach for that sensor. I hadn't seen that before.

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · May 01, 2026

Replying to @janbeta@chaos.social

@janbeta Oh neat! So cool!

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @brennen@federation.p1k3.com

@brennen *friendly gremlin noises* o/

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 29, 2026

I wonder just how deep the sinking feeling was when this realization hit: "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. We had to discover debugging. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." -- Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 27, 2026

I think for once we should put aside putting aside the ethical concerns...

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @LauraJG@deacon.social

@LauraJG@deacon.social I can never see a reference to Sarah Bernhardt, without her "Selft-Portrait as a Chimera" coming to mind: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/260045/self-portrait-as-a-chimera I love that she was both an actress and a sculptor.

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @trashheap@tech.lgbt

@trashheap@tech.lgbt There's nothing funny about any of it, but this part made me spontaneously laugh out loud: "The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software." I understand they are probably talking about autonomous warfare *shudder*, but that feels so out of touch with reality because of all the things that have to happen before that software can run... And the global systems that enable us to make that hardware have multiple, easily accessible, choke points. Anyway, I hate it. :(

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website

@pho4cexa Yeah, I had a very similar reaction when I read the email. 😩

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @aburka@hachyderm.io

@aburka I read it as a warning... :thonking:

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @medigoth@qoto.org

@medigoth Interesting way to look at it. I don't want have to conduct experiments on my computer to figure out how it is working or why my model of its working differs from the reality. Kind of the opposite of what I want from a computer. But maybe I'm old fashioned... 😆

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @janbeta@chaos.social

@janbeta Heck yeah! Internet high five! o/

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber@social.coop Not to be too jaded, but I think a lot of work with computers leaves people bitter for sundry valid reasons. May as well enrich your life, and who knows, it could lead somewhere better where you don't need to feel bitter anymore.

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org

@laemeur That short clip looks amazing. Like straight out of "Fire and Ice", but better.

Your weary 'net denizen @cstanhope@social.coop · Mar 05, 2026

Capital and power have always ignored the licenses when it suited them. Now they've figured how to automate the ignoring and provide it as a service.

I can't predict the future, but the licenses were never the important thing. The licenses were a communication to others that had to be fit into a legal framing. An invitation to collaborate, build, and learn together. We can still do that. Find the like minded people who want to work together.

And we don't have to start from scratch. Fork the repos before people involved anthropomorphized, stochastic parrots. Continue the work from there.

Opensource or free software was never the whole story. There was always more to do, and the opportunity is still there.

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