2026-07-10T10:42:05Z https://njump.me Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: https://njump.me/npub17uxpdhz0kqqwej08g36e40hzxc6ceg5yp4m7yq70qhs5hjj2ej9ssh329m https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/000/244/507/original/3bca48c5a05e7eda.png https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/000/244/507/original/3bca48c5a05e7eda.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8aqkp05mv60gumf6u2q4qs4xyggwawrukfuy6c9a2lmrqj53surqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk45v5dq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqczaxdmslx6txfjn8txky6wefj6jnd4vazj56kvrqvt59k50tjsg644us7'>nevent1q…4us7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes absolutely, but not with age verification please.<br/><br/>Hold providers like Meta and Alphabet to account. 2026-05-12T13:19:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfcw38e4keav96xfnme28ma4vua6eh4ccutq3590urd62fkzmfmtszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkutd42w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7cxmwrckw2s3a26krle27hknjcezsmywxpmrmgx2hzquk54w3xcqxx6cs'>nevent1q…x6cs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yep been aware of that one for months since the LLM that the stable kernel folks use for selecting patches bungled up networking in stable which broke multicast.<br/><br/>We can still be open about our dissent.<br/><br/>There&#39;s a lot to think about what it takes for a forking. Intention as much as code. 2026-03-28T14:31:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq0kqgxxeaak7mtuam8afyfsgwk7h3rryj0ynw83fh7yxgvf3qa8qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk8m3du3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs27rtl3gmye4wvpks7h8vfhjg8lursvydl4xj25luxkd0w4rdx82cl3x0wv'>nevent1q…x0wv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Folks also tend to not be that great at acknowledging power and responsibility.<br/><br/>We have a bad habit of bigging folks up because they expressed our frustration well without consideration about if we should have given them that power.<br/><br/>Power is a responsibility and it should be shared.<br/><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral</a> 2026-03-17T11:52:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcn99dnakauyvgqr9rm22q85vkyn8a407w9qrhgr4z3ktgktyz5czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkmudp0j Hmm Tunnocks caramel wafers 2026-03-11T17:05:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszrjute3lusrxk86n4s83ulcf78cgmx6gdcv7jlh4lyzrs7team0czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkc8sw0p Oh look, another industry where Men who support the status quo, don&#39;t think politics should be part of art.<br/><br/>Louder for the back of the room.<br/><br/>&#34;Art is political. &#34;<br/> <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/arundhati-roy-quits-berlin-film-festival-over-stay-out-of-politics-comment">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/arundhati-roy-quits-berlin-film-festival-over-stay-out-of-politics-comment</a> 2026-02-13T16:20:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyv2qm7t8hhdxhmcne0pctck48ffnfv2rj4ce72uq27pnhuy2sepqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkp6h2ad In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrfyumm4kej08qe4263s9g9nxy7durqfychmjf33er9svfeg56zjc2ztdc0'>nevent1q…tdc0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Once you&#39;ve read that, here&#39;s some more posts from my cobbles blog.<br/><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/on-bears">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/on-bears</a><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ignoring-boundaries">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ignoring-boundaries</a><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/reflections-on-fedicon-and-foss-guilt-by-association">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/reflections-on-fedicon-and-foss-guilt-by-association</a><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-others">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-others</a> 2026-01-22T20:26:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrfyumm4kej08qe4263s9g9nxy7durqfychmjf33er9svfeg56zjczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkan7wr6 A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.<br/><br/>Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren&#39;t welcome.<br/><br/>Otherwise you&#39;re making it clear we aren&#39;t welcome.<br/><br/>It shouldn&#39;t just be us doing the work<br/><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence</a><br/><br/>#sexism 2026-01-22T20:25:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs08v90pmq52f62fp2rl8mjz92wf5u6lxajffqv2tragnxldw0h63gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgknsdqga Is there an creative commons/public domain photograph of the Tech billionaires behind Trump during his second inauguration?<br/><br/>Need it for a thing.<br/><br/>:BoostOK: 2026-01-02T12:47:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfwkd60f4t29gwkxq978az00xyvswx7gmkhh6vj486gj0avcv5meczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkqr59pv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgz5g6wtcvd93r7wnheg490xzqw9n5jrj0su74h592r4a6qrrkz0cjazu86'>nevent1q…zu86</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>well FOSDEM pretty much demonstrated their values last year.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html</a><br/><br/>About that time they picked Jack Dorsey as a headliner.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250122-mirror.html</a><br/><br/>I called for some transparency.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250206-mirror.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250206-mirror.html</a><br/><br/>No Dorsey, Matrix got to talk instead. Oh and no transparency. 2025-12-12T16:56:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgj8xz2nmy22lzdjey6ta08pw8ypt0wyyh4dkcsmujujml2077d9gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk4ax0af In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy9xkamqnt528lwrk9l7468tzwr8h0awjv98wdx45pxy78yg8xstst2lpma'>nevent1q…lpma</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It honestly still stuns me when people think like that.<br/><br/>Yet we&#39;re expected to sacrifice our safety to be around family and to not mask because it makes them uncomfortable.<br/><br/>🤦‍♀️ 2025-12-08T06:38:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0ae324epplvtmjgdf5ac26upewq432mht3kfunnwe6spuw74hzxgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk0z86de In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswq87cj3ndhfvx9enmvul02mmjehafg837punvk796ntgw390mp7swdylhk'>nevent1q…ylhk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah if they think that&#39;s bad luck it&#39;s ableism at best and they are on the road to eugenics at worse. 2025-12-08T06:22:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp2tu5yjsnllv20zvf6yfdx3c2u4yeucd6gt68asv2ehak8jr0fyszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk9uhknx TIL how to get to the about config page on Firefox mobile if about:config is disabled:<br/><br/>chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml<br/><br/>Handy if you want to disable the AI features on there.<br/><br/>#Firefox #Mobile 2025-12-08T06:15:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs984cnza4f5lgjx6nkas5l045wk43vlfvpj0n6u93ty03klpajutgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkmnl2ap As a cis woman I&#39;ve been misgendered at a distance for having short hair and wearing a hoodie by two older cis women. That&#39;s all it takes, a glance.<br/><br/>No one should be policing the toilets or common areas, because of how they dress. This makes me feel unsafe.<br/><br/>Trans women and Trans men have never made me feel unsafe. Non binary folks have never made me feel unsafe.<br/><br/>Just because I&#39;m choosing to present as feminine doesn&#39;t mean I always will. This is transphobic bullshit. 2025-11-21T10:20:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrzsmm2cep32wz5d8fgudns73e2w0vka5f628gtgyg2l9e7ql435czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkwcx9jq This article from 2023 by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hr7087sk4yxl25nmx9c42p0zgk5kyfyvar5xeklezs23hjuenr7qr3jxyc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Baldur Bjarnason</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hr7…jxyc</span>)</a></span> is really good.<br/><br/>Reading this today after a conversation with my brother as we tried to make sense of why folks are using the AI chat bots. The framing of the psychics con is brilliant. Because that is what those bots are doing.<br/><br/>Which makes various governments AI nonsense even more frightening.<br/><br/><a href="https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/">https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/</a> 2025-11-21T09:42:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ncqvu9z6ngvz0qarulppxy9jkq3ry03chzdgmuf0y8grf9zmr6qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkn09a6z I&#39;m still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US. <br/><br/>We have technical forks like librewolf, that&#39;s not what I&#39;m asking for. I&#39;m asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they&#39;d become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.<br/><br/>Mozilla is a product of it&#39;s surroundings. It&#39;s surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷‍♀️<br/><br/><a href="https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/115548809564345011">https://mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/115548809564345011</a> 2025-11-14T17:46:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8epl2f04cllkuwz3g64u3upc8a0kgscsga7wxp70q3n49rhc8evqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkrne5y2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrsr23yva6vn7n9rm85ej2nwf8rds6mecqy8zpxqauljvacumthkq35gvgm'>nevent1q…gvgm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not letting the Nazis in the bar seems like community safety 101. 2025-11-05T09:36:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrsr23yva6vn7n9rm85ej2nwf8rds6mecqy8zpxqauljvacumthkqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkm05tng In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8nvcve9np80fu7mwpetjn27622epxze9fap0fu9z99xn079dfk0q5zjrlt'>nevent1q…jrlt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not 24 hours after the admin of mas.to wrung his hands about Nazis in his bar, there was another one.<br/><br/>That one was replying to the visible activists on our community and posting death threat memes, using racist language and Eugenics.<br/><br/>There is no ironic posting of the Nazi flag or usage of Nazi dog whistles.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve reported and blocked but the only way to stop it is close the open signups.<br/><br/>Stop performatively wringing your hands. It does nothing to stop the wave. 2025-11-05T09:35:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8nvcve9np80fu7mwpetjn27622epxze9fap0fu9z99xn079dfk0qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkzn2g9f About threads, but feels kinda relevant.<br/><br/>&#34;I often feel that being a community mod or a community leader should not be seen as power but a responsibility. You have a duty of care to ensure the safety of your members who choose to let you have some power over a part of their lives.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think some of the admins of the larger instances get this. I think some admins are salivating more over getting the celebs over, rather than caring for their existing community. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html">https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html</a> 2025-11-05T09:30:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxxmx0ju7f5k0r83v53vdeemnn0v482vujdy0yrp06num7zjye0kszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkyxcx37 As someone who campaigned hard to bring back Nominet (dot.uk) to the public benefit, I can see that our infrastructure ( including our domain names) needed to be managed by cooperatives rather than our VC backed landscape.<br/><br/>Public commons, rather than rentiers. Which the majority of our domain name landscapes are.<br/><br/>Vint Cerf trying to rehabilitate his reputation via the Internet Archive and Libraries is just 🤦‍♀️<br/><br/>You built this landscape not just physically but you allowed this. 🤷‍♀️ 2025-11-02T10:36:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyvfwqjf4t7wld66p6pr3z72alfrprg9z4xpvl6racnkpgzpa30vczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk7l3hqm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp3ussncqyqw8vxtfjj5uzgczle30m5xhjqhfznasd5rn43ac2t5gfxvzcg'>nevent1q…vzcg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah I saw that and my first impulse was swearing.<br/><br/>Pretty disappointed in general with Tim Burners Lee as well.<br/><br/>I should not have been surprised as Robert Calliau (Berners Lee&#39;s collaborator) was happy to front for closed source natural language company Run Rev in 2010<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20101104-closed.html">https://www.onepict.com/20101104-closed.html</a> 2025-11-02T10:27:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwjlls3fnexdul52veywwsdnkxdekgxzet0mjc678g0s2jarudwszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgklxe6cv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv60nw2z87dlm2n28pa4eux6tac02089kusewc0q4c2272rv3aflg88n8l0'>nevent1q…n8l0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here&#39;s the overall timeline of the save .org campaign.<br/><br/>I forgot it was so recent. But I do remember being incredibly disappointed in Vint Cerf. <br/><br/>But our internet now is the outcome of desires like this. When you see our infrastructure as something to sell rather than maintain or be a guardian of.<br/><br/>I mean granted the internet is not the web.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.nten.org/change/savedotorg-campaign-history">https://www.nten.org/change/savedotorg-campaign-history</a> 2025-11-02T10:23:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv60nw2z87dlm2n28pa4eux6tac02089kusewc0q4c2272rv3aflgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkpd8gea In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspew8j9s990kqrtu87cu8r3lxxyyks7je8pq4pch2vynxh9gvpsaqkrtp47'>nevent1q…tp47</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here&#39;s Kieran McCarthy&#39;s article from that time as well.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/14/icann_org_redacted/">https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/14/icann_org_redacted/</a> 2025-11-02T10:18:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspew8j9s990kqrtu87cu8r3lxxyyks7je8pq4pch2vynxh9gvpsaqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkrnjuzk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs086wa44e44s6jpmvq4kuexcm72u448rrh3s00rfg3drars62ph0sxkym7e'>nevent1q…ym7e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I point you to Cerf&#39;s own words at the start of 2020 when many of us were vocally against the sale of the .org registry to Ethos Capital.<br/><br/>Our walled gardens were always going to expand Vint, especially when you helped to encourage that mindset.<br/><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@vint_4444/a-stronger-future-for-org-and-the-internet-52002a8268cf">https://medium.com/@vint_4444/a-stronger-future-for-org-and-the-internet-52002a8268cf</a> 2025-11-02T10:15:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs086wa44e44s6jpmvq4kuexcm72u448rrh3s00rfg3drars62ph0szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkqgntn9 The warning is timely. But some of the folks like Vint Cerf became part of the issue when we remember how we had to fight to keep .org affordable.<br/><br/>But again it&#39;s a reflection of big tech. Our early internet pioneers flirted with VCs and capital not that long ago.<br/><br/>So it&#39;s on us to save the open web. No one is coming to save it. So we must try.<br/><br/><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/115478416083147772">https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/115478416083147772</a> 2025-11-02T10:12:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0kd32qr6zgwkturt5klj36kfvwx3f6a4uddjzzjerarw6nv0u2dqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgktxrzgx I hadn&#39;t even heard of DNS0.EU<br/><br/>Europe&#39;s privacy-first DNS pulls the plug overnight<br/><br/> European DNS shutting down<br/><br/>European public DNS service DNS0.EU has shut down its operations immediately<br/><br/><a href="https://cybernews.com/news/european-public-resolver-shuts-down/">https://cybernews.com/news/european-public-resolver-shuts-down/</a><br/><br/>#DNS 2025-10-30T09:02:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2spugy3mdw69v4z4gdpjta9hgu0d3wt27wwgfz25jzzezy5qa38gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk6d5su6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ja342pkyn6henqt2a3yscyvh80c7waqysv9807sy6k8jsml3edcje22n7'>nevent1q…22n7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s a reflection of the bigger picture really. The general public hasn&#39;t been offered the knowledge to able to understand roughly how our internet works.<br/><br/>Or the implications of the walled gardens most folks access. <br/><br/>So it&#39;s no wonder our politicians don&#39;t understand or ultimately don&#39;t want to understand it.<br/><br/>So it&#39;s a good thing when more of us seek to teach folks outside our specialisations. Computing used to be a lot more accessible to the general public. 2025-10-27T10:37:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw75a7zmns4ywvqaq7xz5sepn5ps5dsnu6pgrppqx64wn4rwj3d6gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkvjwz52 While the article is about what I expected, I am pleased <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1afml2kzwamqxppl50207sf5jwgl3l6ugn6hnuwugtxt7ctnhdtkqjq5gp4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦</span> (<span class="italic">npub1afm…5gp4</span>)</a></span> was interviewed for this.<br/><br/>I do wonder what the reporter left out from Michal&#39;s comments.<br/><br/>&#34;Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/26/internet-infrastructure-fragile-system-holding-modern-world-together">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/26/internet-infrastructure-fragile-system-holding-modern-world-together</a><br/><br/>#Internet 2025-10-27T09:22:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8z87qunyzeqx2t9tre774ag5aep5s0yzqflp0x2kn6dc0hg422lgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk4tdhsn It&#39;s probably safer to assume anyone using the Meta branded Raybans is a non privacy respecting glasshole, who doesn&#39;t understand consent.<br/><br/>&#34;A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light&#34;<br/><br/>Available to Zuckerbergs customers via a hobbyist.<br/><br/><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115423606706984519">https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115423606706984519</a> 2025-10-23T16:06:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0dr49ejaxw6pfyzu4pymndjc2m5saaxvtvqrqrn2mm8zzuw76ruczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkrdpyec Thinking about it, I do quite like the terminal.<br/><br/>Not quite ready to abandon the gui entirely, but for git, using ssh to access remote systems or plain distraction free writing in base Vim there&#39;s nothing like it.<br/><br/>I prefer simplicity because I want the spare brain cycles for other stuff.<br/><br/>My computer should be under my control, not another source of anxiety or pain. 2025-10-22T11:48:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqknmmd86495z8kgq9qwhtkg3y0v7ymudvp6h0tu40ky2yzvnxswgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkydw3rt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrswln40mxezgqxnhjg3cdqfq80apr97p3j8v77f0a54gqc2cp7zcey83u3'>nevent1q…83u3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That was a really interesting response thank you.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been trying to think about the math and game theory and you&#39;ve given a really good insight there.<br/><br/>I love the term asset bubbles in politics.<br/><br/>I feel that should be a blog post because it&#39;s the first time I&#39;ve read that perspective. 2025-10-17T19:29:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs22fshcps7hdrdmyfanvy2qdjxumqkyttn5wm8u36jwr2zhpcsccgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkgrv7pn There&#39;s a common problem in our politics in Europe and the US. Tactical voting for the status quo.<br/><br/>The centrists cry oh but &#34;consequences&#34;, some folks have already had the state come down hard even with &#34;centrist governments&#34;.<br/><br/>Those of us on the sharp edges that you ignored. Suddenly Fascism raises it&#39;s head and you&#39;re asking us to prop up governments that will ensure we don&#39;t have a livable environment for humanity.<br/><br/>No I won&#39;t facilitate your status quo because you&#39;re scared. 2025-10-17T17:04:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvkz7p5nhx97rpfu8e6ll7g9yh2hehayp8ls9nvw2yxafrvzypx7szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk7q9ltl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvqm3xjs737wauxtlmxc7swuqk2qalw9l5s43nstx9fkz9gv42gug6rsmt9'>nevent1q…smt9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This was the announcement by Mozilla. We really do need a new Organisation, preferably not headquartered in the United States.<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-144/">https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-144/</a> 2025-10-16T10:56:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvqm3xjs737wauxtlmxc7swuqk2qalw9l5s43nstx9fkz9gv42gugzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkxynxte We really need an org forking of Mozilla. Especially with #Firefox plonking in #perplexity without our consent.<br/><br/><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/115377002571305266">https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/115377002571305266</a><br/><br/>Firefox is used by a lot of folks outside our space, we develop for it, so the answer isn&#39;t just insert [alternative] here. So if you&#39;re gearing up to suggest your alternative. Please don&#39;t, I&#39;m aware.<br/><br/>I have them installed. 2025-10-16T08:57:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxzkrl3gghn50m5g5582zlvh4sktduz3gsdjs4rj37v0a543e7negzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgknmg4z9 Technology and protocols may seem to be neutral.<br/><br/>In reality people are not neutral, our politics influence how we see the world and the change we want to bring into the world. We encode those beliefs.<br/><br/>It&#39;s why I don&#39;t trust projects that choose &#34;No Politics&#34; or &#34;We have a big tent&#34; .<br/><br/>Being nice to each other and framing it as kindness means you can ignore the Fascist in the dev teams. After all if you never talk about your politics in the open, you can claim you never knew they were harmful. 2025-10-09T08:27:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrnewjggadzvwsnzsf307ylgwgd2e7e732sg0cppph6laectpzrgqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk954t0e Over a year ago I wrote this about long term community sustainability issues.<br/><br/>&#34;We have systematic issues with recruitment into STEM in general. To be clear when we are talking about toxic communities and discrimination we aren&#39;t criticising specific individuals. We are criticising the systems of community that encourage that toxic behaviour.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html">https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html</a><br/><br/>I do think it&#39;s better to signal our values widely and openly. Freedom of association in Safety is as important as free speech. 2025-09-28T10:55:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9lufmz0mm8ej9f0luztsmahd6zq976ccwpl6vxm8ja63hlafutfgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkknjtx2 The thing to bear in mind with any centralised biometric ID system in the UK is:<br/><br/>1) Do you really want palantir (Peter Thiel) whose secondary market is insurance to get their grubby paws on it?<br/><br/>2) Do you want Farage and his group of nerdowells to get their grubby paws on it?<br/><br/>3) Bad actors including The US and criminals around the world?<br/><br/>They aren&#39;t qualified to handle that data. 2025-09-26T12:08:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsftr4wy6xsy82was9yczvrt59qh0uwt735dejzrs69glhe5hfectqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkutjnm3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0wfv255u0czhejqe63ed0e0mq6p8sxh52tzfyh7hjx74kdfslnqstwua0l'>nevent1q…ua0l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As I&#39;ve said elsewhere:<br/><br/>&#34;Like if your attitude is: &#34;It&#39;s begging, how do I know they deserve this money?&#34;<br/><br/>Dude take a long hard look at yourself. If you&#39;re worried about the idea of someone just demanding money without contributing at all and like grifting.<br/><br/>We have those in society. They are called Billionaires.&#34;<br/><br/>Thank you both for your work creating Gaza Verified. 2025-09-25T06:49:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd33k0uw0sjte72azjmkqwg33rpxwmvj2qllafr28j6w4pmqjmjggzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkzuyucp I wrote this on November 6th after the results of the US election were announced.<br/><br/>Movements can&#39;t really be mobilised unless you have a sense of community and the support that comes with that.<br/><br/>You have to find solidarity. When folks went on strike, the community around them supported them and kept them and their families fed. We&#39;ve been socialised in the last 50 years to be isolated.<br/><br/>Now&#39;s the time to start building, that starts with kindness and mutual aid.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20241106-solidarity.html">https://www.onepict.com/20241106-solidarity.html</a> 2025-09-20T10:13:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf58ejl7jfyqhnyapck4qf0syjlu36jnu7vgmrge7cnf54xtqgcwczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkkvrj28 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvkg6f9xpufr4wrnt0ham098fqeyu4ze72hhd0xv93p5ygn4k9hlqa8t7kc'>nevent1q…t7kc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>look EU commission, there is no magic way to only scan for CSAM, all messages will be scanned.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s a document about cryptography and backdoors written round about the time of the clipper chip. TLDR:<br/><br/>A backdoor is a backdoor. <br/><br/><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984</a><br/><br/>#ChatControl #NoChatControl<br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/187/601/633/796/115/original/6848b46d365ebb34.png"> <br/> 2025-09-11T18:33:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdms24ud958asvkuhjevuh22pr27fskm6avamjzk62n5m3n5p6ufgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgks3urf6 I need to find a new Domain Registrar preferably in the EU but the UK will work too.<br/><br/>We used to use Gandi, but then they turned Evil. I&#39;m on Porkburn but I don&#39;t approve of them putting domains we release out to auction. It encourages Domain squatting.<br/><br/>Any suggestions for an ethical registrar?<br/><br/>:BoostOK: 2025-08-27T10:27:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspjf4x8gm7ldem8nw79w5q060dzfde3sv5xz93484ngkzvcr0mtqczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkzkx0n0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjcy5tle5luztv32lru7sked9cs5sntf3qwvw9a6904w55dy77acan5h9j'>nevent1q…5h9j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was discussing this with Brett yesterday, we have forks, but what we need is a fork of the foundation.<br/><br/>I was reminded of open office and the document foundation for libre office.<br/><br/>I think Mozilla&#39;s mindset is very Silicon Valley, plus everytime folks mention forks, some smug person pops up with the fact the forks rely on Firefox for the base. Also the foundation is based in the US. <br/><br/>You need something to ensure Devs can eat and there&#39;s an organisation around them to support them. 2025-08-14T09:17:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf62sa902nfgr4d7w3twm42pj7ueh32d4dht8vq94hlk36fusny5czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk6gu04g It&#39;s bad enough that LLM and the industry that pushes it are trying to alter the perception of reality on-line.<br/><br/>When we do it to &#34;fight against ai&#34; by suggesting that we poison alt text it&#39;s a harmful fucking move.<br/><br/>It&#39;s ableist as fuck and you are trying to distort the perception of reality for those folks who need alt text. Just to &#34;fight against AI&#34;.<br/><br/>Readjust your logic FFS.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t leave folks who need that alt text in the dust in your crusade.<br/><br/>Fuckers. 2025-08-13T07:14:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstpz0j7jsx63gjd5u9v485e84xr4vwe5xw4aeaa2kwq053ar7y9qczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkpuft44 &#34;By supporting the fedipact we are signalling that we don&#39;t consent to interacting with a known abusive actor who revels in their power. Mark Zuckerberg revealed that to us over a decade ago. He revealed what he can do with his power again and again.<br/><br/>You should not trust a company he owns with anything of you. Not your posts, not your contacts, not your metadata.&#34; Me - 2023<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html">https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html</a><br/><br/>#fedipact #threads #AI 2025-08-10T06:05:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxhnwww97rqzxm07qyngw2ph32n8wvwnupq4lckjz2c78t4sqhgvgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkupkxjr Our world and our societies at the moment seem to be doomed. It is changing drastically, however we do have hope.<br/><br/>Where that hope is, starts in us and the communities we build. But we must have solidarity with each other. Which is something that it takes a lot of us in Tech some time to learn.<br/><br/>We can&#39;t save the world with code. We build solidarity which changes us and what we code.<br/><br/>We build community and code to reflect our communities needs. 2025-08-09T07:49:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxqrrvgy6a05lwlrvve6rdftgumzsq9jl47rwylast0k3jsqp836czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk0z228a I have to admit I get nervous when I see Devs on here being obsessed with scale and reaching billions of people.<br/><br/>Yes we do need to share information.<br/><br/>But we can&#39;t scale context or the complexities of language. We can&#39;t really understand the scale of billions.<br/><br/>Sharing information and translating is an art and takes some empathy.<br/><br/>Scale does matter for the transport, but the message? 🤷‍♀️ <br/><br/>You need to consider context, that takes people. 2025-08-03T06:49:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyz40vz3srf5d4cpfa4dvylgsdgmyh9cggqt7n2p86j8gtl729m3gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkvearal In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2wkg8r266z0qg9t33cwhcchexnru9amrfuqpxt2pusn7zu4qas3qh5c8yv'>nevent1q…c8yv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>are awesome.<br/><br/>When I remember why libera.chat was started after the ashes of freenode, I&#39;m so thankful to everyone there.<br/><br/>The same folks who kept freenode going for so many years keep libera.chat going now.<br/><br/>Thank you all. 2025-07-31T17:50:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8893ksrd6yl0njadp8yqjm4k0s0vnwluhzmzmw6std4hgnf47j0szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkfllj9c A very long overdue network for me to leave. It&#39;s been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It&#39;s corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.<br/><br/>But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn. <br/><br/>If you&#39;re still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html</a> 2025-07-30T09:05:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfxzn8nh7wdsvqhrdsfdc69xj2sxm0ejm420a5zflf4hnfck0te6qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkg72gmg Getting awfully crowded in my sky.<br/><br/>I know Matrix.org is protecting itself in the UK as that&#39;s where it&#39;s based. Age gating a chat server isn&#39;t right. <br/><br/>I really hate all this because of the online harms act. I hate the fact that UK services feel they have no choice but to comply.<br/><br/>At least I still have IRC.<br/><br/>🙇<br/> <img src="https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/938/103/441/406/828/original/3a4fd6c955b05024.png"> <br/> 2025-07-29T19:17:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstw2sdf5sh5rumxr3zflgdw5m4597jn6dmjaj7qu7698qucen7sqgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkh0sdmd Some folks particularly in the #NoPolitics #FOSS crowd want everyone to work together for the greater good. To discuss politics would open a can of worms.<br/><br/>Politics are an integral part of culture, it forms cultural norms, weither folks choose to explicitly acknowledge it or not. <br/><br/>Our personal politics will always be in the background. Our views on humanity and who&#39;s #HumanRights are respected.<br/><br/>Being able to ignore politics shows a level of comfort and privilege in a culture, the status quo. 2025-07-25T08:55:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr58yrcxs6w5n5s33hs940nwluqm5p3m4qh0xc7vvcv0rpt2p89fqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkjz87xr Like what&#39;s wrong with ORCID and perhaps universities making the degrees available?<br/><br/>Saying that my degree is public information. It was published in May 2002 along with my fellow classmates in the local newspaper.<br/><br/>I do not want my degree award in the blockchain FFS.<br/><br/>It&#39;s like a Zombie and I wish someone would put the whole concept of the blockchain out of it&#39;s misery.<br/><br/><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EC_DIGIT/114908520969086551">https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EC_DIGIT/114908520969086551</a> 2025-07-24T14:38:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvmznghtvv4q0fg9l52lxacxgjphcvwgpzeum3xzveas82g7c0rwgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk2573ql In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8nh8tmz06yedpdhcc8smayfxx4jpeges3382z9ld3n4qfz96s99c2jquhk'>nevent1q…quhk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua is an awesome comic book, with a plethora of real life information about Lovelace and Babbage and their time in the footnotes.<br/><br/>It&#39;s one of my favourite books for the Steampunk alternate universe fun and the real life facts. 2025-07-09T18:15:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8nh8tmz06yedpdhcc8smayfxx4jpeges3382z9ld3n4qfz96s99czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkav4qgg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8wtkhcphzu2f85534u9pdezlwu4l6296u4h84s7r85tz30ctdqpqp0uzzg'>nevent1q…uzzg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ada brought context and support to Babbage.<br/><br/>She could see what it could be useful for. <br/><br/>She had the mathematical background to understand what Babbage was trying to do. <br/><br/>Centuries later you still get folks trying to minimise her contributions.<br/><br/>🤷‍♀️ 2025-07-09T18:03:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8wtkhcphzu2f85534u9pdezlwu4l6296u4h84s7r85tz30ctdqpqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkqcr230 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx5ayfzg9t28a80zdk3kjsvwpckh0h2378kl8u2nqvcfea5ww2v0cl60unu'>nevent1q…0unu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>From the article.<br/><br/>“The notes of the Countess of Lovelace extend to about three times the length of the original memoir,” Babbage wrote later. “Their author has entered fully into almost all the very difficult and abstract questions connected with the subject.” Her comments highlight the link she found between the machine and the Jacquard loom. This loom used punched cards to automatically create images and Babbage’s Analytical Engine would do the same with numbers.&#34; 2025-07-09T18:00:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx5ayfzg9t28a80zdk3kjsvwpckh0h2378kl8u2nqvcfea5ww2v0czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkz0rf77 Over a decade ago, I had a male colleague who reduced Lovelace&#39;s contributions to computing as &#34;oh she just translated stuff.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/">https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/</a><br/><br/>Given the respect Babbage had for Lovelace she did more than that. 2025-07-09T18:00:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2uh2v08pzaam0nrcnmdzmyh8a6r8k3ezzwlq66plqd3wvey2hhlczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk9nhdxp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspz6hlfgv7sdd94s9z2hrfy8dmmg5ea55hqsdcaavv93elh3xtecs9xsuyf'>nevent1q…suyf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>clearly he&#39;d have been disturbed by agit prop in art.<br/><br/>Art is politics. What a useless wall of words in that article. 2025-07-06T07:39:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszvf9ksgz6zsxpds653urgqwkkgmu2n6zmjnj3udqqxt7nzef9u3szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkj852gl So I had some more thoughts about FOSS sustainability. I&#39;ve had them for some time. But this weeks issues reminded me of them.<br/><br/>So here&#39;s a mild spruik for some of the orgs who make my digital spaces for myself and my project and also package <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qkykw8y05gvstaf68fsk23cmpery9h6mg2tgaxcnrn3yhtln5sxsc2mckc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Librecast</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qky…mckc</span>)</a></span> <br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250628-plussustain.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250628-plussustain.html</a><br/><br/>#FossSustainability #Matrix #ReproducibleBuilds #Outreachy 2025-06-28T08:44:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs29w4z2j5qnx9tljd3jfp9sjpyj3hwcq8xu2mmcjr7xqhk4ut5j0qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkm40424 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8q474dlm3tajgnmv0pk36lt3wpumf94c8yuhfvfwereqrgsc4whqr8rrjq'>nevent1q…rrjq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it&#39;s partly because we don&#39;t have the vocabulary to talk about making space for each other and having healthy communication.<br/><br/>You have to have the will for that.<br/><br/>My husband and I have never understood the relationships some folks appear to have with their spouses. We don&#39;t understand why you&#39;d be in a relationship where you don&#39;t seem really like that person or respect them.<br/><br/>Like I married my best friend. Why wouldn&#39;t you do that? 2025-06-23T08:04:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2mcgamkfxwa8ghf3g8sh2d9ja94ek4py52j7809rlhwtfhlg3seczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk02zy7c I think that with LLMs and generative AI, there&#39;s no creativity partly because there&#39;s no play.<br/><br/>When I write, I have fun, I play with words and with worlds.<br/><br/>When I paint, there&#39;s a play with what I mix and the strokes of the brush.<br/><br/>With code, the coder in my life creates and plays with that code<br/><br/>I get this sense that some AI folks never really got to play as an active creative thing to do. No make believe.<br/><br/>So of course they steal our work and copy it. They never got to do creative play. 2025-06-10T07:25:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvl8s9t4mcq505gqqautrpras78n44na428mrgzmfhkycluy52l5qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkfjnwj5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgkw49t4qxy37mj59jsyp2jugxkdrjjqdr4qd6zr9puye5920tn3gysgsca'>nevent1q…gsca</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel like the [@vagina_museum](<a href="https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum">https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum</a> ) could weigh in here. 2025-05-06T07:31:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg0kk5vfgwuca79h7da4kczuyrh3ztvf3dswuq0wywn62pmuj50ugzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkua06dn Reading that Rolling Stone article, I think LLMs are just fancy ELIZA with add-ons.<br/><br/>#LLMs 2025-05-05T19:23:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdy08x8hd6yvxjdl7d4vfzg339cezcd3qpsrfv7uq3k9w7h43araczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk4jq5kx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2g3vmht6us3kkuj8w2l3dlc2tntdquscu9qh7xla50s3xgh7j60glv3e2a'>nevent1q…3e2a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think the most revolutionary act many of us can do is help people to learn if they want to.<br/><br/>To make spaces where people can access learning. <br/><br/>Education is rapidly becoming a radical act to enable. 2025-04-30T07:00:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqkkc9v675lj3vzq86efxxctkyq8apc0af87yeznfmqeypjswjx0qzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkzdk64p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9uhungyxd4fgknfj2gq5a6s554lv2l6yg20klz2dd8lcj34pfr7gktj4yh'>nevent1q…j4yh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ok, this isn&#39;t really an essay. It&#39;s just some thoughts.<br/><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-end-of-an-era">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-end-of-an-era</a> 2025-04-29T10:33:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9uhungyxd4fgknfj2gq5a6s554lv2l6yg20klz2dd8lcj34pfr7gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkt5zsa5 I had some thoughts, but this should be a blogpost 2025-04-29T07:17:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8kv33a7953l29y8hp66fhhnvww8d950f66q650qz9vf8gq2ygaugzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkk6zrfr Look folks I know that the idea of federation is scary.<br/><br/>But it&#39;s not going to break FOSS or the fediverse. People do. By the political choices they want to make. Choosing FOSS is a political act. Wanting to have nothing to do with Fascists is a political act. <br/><br/>On here it&#39;s not just about free speech, it&#39;s freedom of association.<br/><br/>We don&#39;t need to connect to every single person on the planet. We have that choice. 2025-04-26T17:37:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs82xn88f6rww4cj4pq8uyp4td65s3cj55klamk0ars60d0qhz7wrszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkffesws In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst9zcfdwzasgmlyhkzwagls0zh8cyzzatql8463k2rae22vr4akyg0ch7x6'>nevent1q…h7x6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah we got it as well.<br/><br/>Although the subject line was a massive clue as it was a slur. 2025-04-24T05:27:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvuyfyrfqhn674cgzsd3l05cjaw5fw8vprazrdlnh0qg2vvv6yhjszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgke9yhv9 I have signed the Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results.<br/><br/>Organisations that are meant to safeguard our licence definitions for the commons should be open.<br/><br/>This petition is as much a signal to let others know they aren&#39;t alone in their disquiet with the direction of the OSI.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not pointless, or a waste of time. If you feel the same about the lack of transparency with the election. Now&#39;s the time to sign.<br/><br/>#OpenSource #OSI<br/><br/><a href="https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/commit/445cbe7b7fa35d2bd08cef3f5872e4f90448567b">https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/commit/445cbe7b7fa35d2bd08cef3f5872e4f90448567b</a> 2025-04-20T18:21:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2975a2dxjxzxmnx7f9gpjec00wcjfvwp6e572k4dyne0hxjx09rqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkyjpf59 Friends don&#39;t let friends use what 3 words<br/><br/><a href="https://w3w.me.ss/">https://w3w.me.ss/</a><br/><br/>#what3words #w3w 2025-04-19T10:32:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsweyk9auj399r45yal8vckl03q4av834526fjdcjg66j50j27cejczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk7q3lt6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxxgmdm8zzmw2ljz0vm8lc4834mpvkzc6tuhg0dfs4ypx3humr8cu75zz7'>nevent1q…5zz7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I still remember all the stuff that Caster Semenya had to go through and still is.<br/><br/>Biology is complex but how you identify is still important. <br/><br/>I sometimes think about the human rights abuses some intersex folk have had from birth including my ex. <br/><br/>But it&#39;s not in a bigots interest to think about that. They have their of notion of feminity.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not on me as a cis woman to dictate to others. But I can sure as heck state JK Rowling and her ilk don&#39;t speak for me. 2025-04-19T07:59:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqwqwmpf7zg227wvd9pqqpvfcm22vrnnjggjkh8nlpa2fpcmxnsdszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkt0f4qz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr2myyladdqe5x2yx48qm455mr4m2zs8jtt9z3hg95eja6yqerm8s4df0fx'>nevent1q…f0fx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So when you see who&#39;s being cast in that new series, you have your answer about how politically engaged the actors are. <br/><br/>You have your own answer for how politically engaged you want to be.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re feeling unfairly judged because you like HP and you feel the artist needs to be separated from their work.<br/><br/>Take a moment to understand that discomfort.<br/><br/>Understand she funds hateful organisations with political and legal power.<br/><br/> Then please look elsewhere for your jollies. 2025-04-16T13:19:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr2myyladdqe5x2yx48qm455mr4m2zs8jtt9z3hg95eja6yqerm8szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkfke3rc She&#39;s been mask off for years.<br/><br/>She&#39;s biphobic, acephobic and the Olympics showed her racism.<br/><br/>She has a very specific idea of what counts as a woman and it&#39;s a fascist definition of womanhood. She dehumanised other cis women because they don&#39;t fit her definition of womanhood, she dehumanises Trans folks regularly.<br/><br/>She spreads hate. 2025-04-16T13:16:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2xeh9jn4wgeujrh5yrte0p92d08fchr74elqcdreyl7ryyp5v3aszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk4wx0l9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrxw9ah2zh2dg2stajxyttl5t8yzf08xc9h5m6tr6zc0zs4uqpz7gx89kaq'>nevent1q…9kaq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah there&#39;s a whole ecosystem in the valley and I&#39;m not sure it&#39;s for the betterment of mankind, or great journalistic integrity. 2025-04-05T10:22:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqka2c2n6d9nkx2wc5xxx2nzy5jfaml62wh5fwg8cqtap2hmfwkrszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk7vlga9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx007yv2s8twxa9p30ethfcdjsde8d9pymyggssj7g22sa3a3k2ds060g0j'>nevent1q…0g0j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I enjoyed reading that, although I was also thinking &#34;the shade!&#34;<br/><br/>As a connoisseur of shade it was nicely done. 🤣<br/><br/>But yeah, there are some journalists who breathlessly report on hype. <br/><br/>Bravo the fediverse, still here. 2025-04-05T10:17:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsflzmcfl2x9kdxxl4c0rlf84d52hjrm3sjtlcs6evc507frlz6x5szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkyzu98q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyu8afyfg736w6yuukggup4a5pzj3635vhe5af9zv4lpyjnzzgamg40t3fm'>nevent1q…t3fm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1p46a8eu5xeemy38mml455ncwwmclnawqtpcv722u5el06yzy457q3kmpxq" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Christine Hall</span> (<span class="italic">npub1p46…mpxq</span>)</a></span> did some articles on the election as well<br/><br/><a href="https://fossforce.com/2025/03/osis-roster-of-board-election-candidates-doesnt-include-faraone/">https://fossforce.com/2025/03/osis-roster-of-board-election-candidates-doesnt-include-faraone/</a> 2025-03-21T18:57:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyu8afyfg736w6yuukggup4a5pzj3635vhe5af9zv4lpyjnzzgamgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkrqgeem In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdxcwxkdsaea3zsdajrsxpg3sqgpxhw82r5heqf872vv65vv2wglcj8a4gj'>nevent1q…a4gj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Bradley&#39;s summarised some links here:<br/><br/><a href="https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230">https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230</a> 2025-03-21T18:53:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2sy6cawyd368adj7xaxmmf70dg953xfhwsp2285ftaja2aj6se6szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkr8nk8x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8ua6fvwzauejl67z82dk4d42ramrr2w9vzvtnpzrnjld0tf5sfsejhxgm'>nevent1q…hxgm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The OSIAID dilutes the Open Source definition and at a time when more and more public funding goes into AI. This needs to be a firmer definition.<br/><br/>Especially as governments start to use Large Language models to help their systems of government to make decisions.<br/><br/>Every thing needs to be open. The code, the weights and training data. These systems need to be fully auditable.<br/><br/>Especially for systems that service the public. <br/><br/>I&#39;m appalled at the shenanigans with the election for the OSI board. 2025-03-21T18:15:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf8ua6fvwzauejl67z82dk4d42ramrr2w9vzvtnpzrnjld0tf5sfszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk8gfpez In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg80mmsvc9rdlayt2d2qruh8gtjg2tfhszvtskck34063a9vll7ac6xtcjx'>nevent1q…tcjx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As I also said in Mirror mirror:<br/><br/>&#34;In FOSS we tell ourselves the comforting lie that what we do is ethical. Merely by writing code and releasing it under an Open Source Licence.&#34;<br/><br/>We licence our code under the GPL. It&#39;s a part of the conditions of our funding, we must release our code under an open source approved licence.<br/><br/>So I need that definition to be for the public benefit. For the organisation to be trustworthy.<br/><br/>The OSI has lost my trust and my projects trust. Now what do we do? 2025-03-21T18:10:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg80mmsvc9rdlayt2d2qruh8gtjg2tfhszvtskck34063a9vll7aczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkya8trw When I started my journey in FOSS I came very much in on the Open Source side of the portmanteau.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve moved over to the Free Software side. The organisations that represent our communities have let us down, badly.<br/><br/>As I said in mirror mirror:<br/><br/>&#34;Some of us, who were attracted to FOSS for explicitly ethical, and political reasons appear to have misunderstood what the movement was about.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html">https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html</a> <br/><br/>With the recent #OSI election shenanigans, the fairy tale of FOSS is over. 2025-03-21T18:06:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsduqqhredvyhn8jurffxs54mdrjwh0mgjjql5ev9htmulc9zy3wfszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk748nzh Yesterday on my walk, I was talking to a companion about Scouts using proprietary products.<br/><br/>As I said to him, we shouldn&#39;t be surprised by an organisation created by a member of the establishment using the tools of the establishment.<br/><br/>It all reinforces each other. Why wouldn&#39;t you use Microsoft, you&#39;re preparing kids for life in an organisation founded to train the next generation for Empire.<br/><br/>We need newer organisations, different thinking. Then you might get folks using FOSS. 2025-03-11T10:43:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspd32thr3cf0jhdv3k4qprlh95wvr638kr938gamky6qkewte2g3gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgklhmhc8 I wrote this last year. It&#39;s still relevant.<br/><br/>Who you are as a project lead gives the example to others of what&#39;s acceptable behaviour.<br/><br/>Which also applies outside kernel land with our fediverse projects as well.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html">https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html</a> 2025-02-14T11:48:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswxmgnwm46hre4u9gkww82jnl2epl5make5u59tdv7tuuez6hpwsgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkh7uht8 The thing that gets me about the assistants on our phones is that all our applications are opted in by default. We have to actively opt out and disable. Ok not just phones ... Just everything.<br/><br/>Because developers know folks won&#39;t turn on settings to opt in. So those settings are switched on.<br/><br/>If your model is dependent on automatically opted in functionality, you&#39;ve told me about your values. You don&#39;t respect the idea of full consent. It&#39;s a predatory practice.<br/><br/>I want no part of it. 2025-02-07T14:48:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswj8ssevcgp60d2al5qudzawff3gghd4uewzscst5r20fgmgwa79szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk9tv4j4 So the thing to note about Tiananmen square outputs is bias.<br/><br/>Our datasets have bias. The way we program has the bias of our backgrounds and politics.<br/><br/>It&#39;s why the OSI open AI definition isn&#39;t worth the paper it&#39;s written on.<br/><br/>You need to examine what data it&#39;s been trained on.<br/><br/>But well done Guardian news doing a video comparison of deepseek, ChatGPT and Gemini. *Slow clap* <br/><br/>I&#39;ll await more breathless reporting from you, as you fail to examine deeper.<br/><br/>#deepseek #chatgpt #LLMs #openai 2025-01-28T09:56:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp2u8u9gex4922plqmnpqq78370f0cnm4dwjt5pye5lyfxrjses6czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkph3ukk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv7r345zhuf7ptl0t3tuz476fp85ya7tp663rgrze5ym7f5fvlm3gc25sff'>nevent1q…5sff</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Multiple sources in the prosecutor’s office said Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is critical to its operations and suspending access would paralyse its investigations. “We essentially store all of our evidence in the cloud,” one said.&#34;<br/><br/>😱<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/20/international-criminal-court-icc-braces-swift-trump-sanctions-over-israeli-arrest-warrants">https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/20/international-criminal-court-icc-braces-swift-trump-sanctions-over-israeli-arrest-warrants</a> 2025-01-26T15:19:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv7r345zhuf7ptl0t3tuz476fp85ya7tp663rgrze5ym7f5fvlm3gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkdu9tcn I&#39;m still stunned by the ICC having their evidence on Azure.<br/><br/>Public bodies need to have their own infrastructure. Especially when their storage is somewhere that serves shareholders and the country where they are incorporated.<br/><br/>Kinda hope the UN is on independent infrastructure. 2025-01-26T15:05:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs89gf808445svru6jc4fkzr68jz5dhmcqadtlqtk55ywnpnmzwclqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkm0k2cz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6v3t6kgh87cutyu0n0xvgryz0kr245epmrn847jdyg9s7hm3puqlarwxl'>nevent1q…rwxl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you should talk to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1za4ed2l3heg3yrj4j7df5l8dgl6cd7nzdz7s3zfyqyja97z5tvxsafcfjy" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TranscribeBentham</span> (<span class="italic">npub1za4…cfjy</span>)</a></span> , they have had a crowd source campaign to make Jeremy Bentham&#39;s writings more accessible.<br/><br/><a href="https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/">https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/</a> 2025-01-18T17:30:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfps2nr8lladqzrtsrflcvrv37gy5pz8wlrmrwuj4pgjvne34wfsgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkkyxf66 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsghctjlewu0tq6pknddtzuj50j0e7p3a8vectd082r02sq2nejqxgl4kujy'>nevent1q…kujy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>talk to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1cspax02h0l6cuqkdt4sv6uthkx6zfza96qg0qcgx8yhctgrzwt7qv2k7h4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Nathan Schneider</span> (<span class="italic">npub1csp…k7h4</span>)</a></span> about May 1st and read Governable spaces.<br/><br/><a href="https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181/">https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181/</a> 2025-01-18T15:08:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2h3rn5tfpap7avzdv7kq3ua7tu4ta47y2et5qh347rss8gut54qgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk2re7xl My dude, people considering protesting Dorsey is not discrimination. Billionaires are the most privileged people on Earth. They are the establishment, the blockchains they shill are in service of Milton Friedmans disruption of the status quo to benefit them.<br/><br/>I.E the betrayal of the social contract.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re shitposting pick a better subject, cos you sure as hell are not hacking the planet. 🙄 2025-01-16T20:19:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9x65m05ey2742m3xx7tuyf08xz7kmdc5c3lxrrytl88wq9jhtx3szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkpyxs86 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs05yjzlm8m7r3653shpe0zsvvrs8qpyp7fs9r95yhu9q8ng4aeyfqscza9t'>nevent1q…za9t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think part of it is that more teen behaviour is being documented online.<br/><br/>I mean yes, the fads are going viral, but I remember the clouds of axe and perfume at high school. Or conversely the body odour. <br/><br/>I was musing to myself about the silly things I&#39;ve thought and said as a teen and in my early 20s. I&#39;m so glad that the web was in its infancy at that point.<br/><br/>I feel it must suck for young folks now. Especially with parents talking about their tweens online. 2025-01-06T18:39:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8kd7ty33kk44rhc9daurdnsc76m6y25uvz0xp2wl6c0h6sk94kxqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgka9rusq I&#39;m going to take a copy of my archive and do some spring cleaning on mastodon with some auto deletion tomorrow. Some long term stuff will stay but other stuff will go.<br/><br/>So if you&#39;ve bookmarked some of my witterings take a copy. 2025-01-04T13:09:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9pcx5tzelqt2m4ce9lgd09xcgsz0a6cd2wtnmq53swfvkn5gkf3czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkean2nw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr0ypwtum9wd54agzcj9q77z0xzgmn37dmf984cs0m3r64gjatmes5qk0rn'>nevent1q…k0rn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s why I&#39;m leaning more into a definition of the commons, like communalism .<br/><br/>I&#39;m coming to the idea that liberalism is conservatism in a hippy dress. There&#39;s still a conservative underneath desperately trying to convince you they are cool. 2025-01-03T19:58:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqjtne6wysa2zv4asqzwzskpmhjwueqgkkt85zaa9nzmk9epp3sggzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkureemg Tech is political.<br/><br/>You encode your values, your attitude and your bias into the code.<br/><br/>The tech you create can give you legitimacy. It can give you influence. Get rich enough (or start out rich enough) you get doors opened to you.<br/><br/>It&#39;s all power. <br/><br/>We can see what some people in tech do with that power.<br/><br/>We can however choose to not contribute to that enablement.<br/><br/>You&#39;re in FOSS you&#39;ve made some sacrifices.<br/><br/>What&#39;s a little more? 2025-01-03T18:51:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdjxfjakfrpurgdt4jlj5nyyr43gz8e4pz7hrw5997pmj9kdcq55gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgksevgvz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg7k3x2v980clhf45nzx5rkp00rjnz2jjtthg9h753eg4clrhr6yczrja73'>nevent1q…ja73</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah... There&#39;s a certain type of comfortable FOSSBro status quo type who gets the umbridge and goes on about virtue signalling.<br/><br/>Anything rather than question what beliefs are encoded in that tool and how it works. Anything than consider that them using that tool enables abuses by giving the benefit of the doubt time and time again.<br/><br/>They aren&#39;t suffering, so why should they have to sacrifice anything? Why should they be inconvenienced? 😒 2025-01-03T18:27:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ahpentglh4ndpepkrdm6sx73gq63hqeguqqr6h3jgm9558xan9czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgku54mgn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsylr9jwwlfh6h6ew4p9pxgxzk4khh7meclnfg7as0uvq9gp9jnvms0y8pw9'>nevent1q…8pw9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, I&#39;m an immigrant to France (still working on the citizenship part.)<br/><br/>But when my husband had to do the UK immigration stuff pre Brexit, every part of the process someone would apologise to him saying he shouldn&#39;t have had to do it.<br/><br/>Like we knew what they really meant given the fact my hubby is Australian. 😒 2025-01-02T16:50:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstsudw7wxpp4r0psecp5tsfzwlpklwqsmkqs6388fej4as6vwfm7czyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk4t7lwl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgyruqtdfdp93slk98xrcx84ucqlyyt0vvhrnfgy44vwxv9ujqrdqd5dpll'>nevent1q…dpll</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you know that&#39;s definitely one of the defining images of the year. Possibly the defining one for the whole year. It&#39;s the first day of 2025. 2025-01-01T20:53:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfpjll5uu3tk6qv9cyszg4fc6ld5w7dy7eljy5rfptq2c2es3em3szyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkqardg9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszwspf4zpglyjjse3pa6weagl5yxnc5wp5uc8t5z64hgnxt9vvm3s8rllqz'>nevent1q…llqz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>does this. 2024-12-31T16:41:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0zjcqawhrs76l2myt6ns2lg96zrj9fux334uhjkegzrk9gtvjvgqzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkhqja8k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgueyvtw3gn9ajqxxspwnv53jgpk0hpase5s3y95wkm3vdk9zh73sxj7yet'>nevent1q…7yet</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>remember to take it easy. Even if it isn&#39;t COVID, it still can take awhile to recover. 2024-12-31T09:28:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspv06pcvekhjxljdh727h9scc47kcha4l0ep55kz6hhlqac52n3zgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkgc7kaw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2xccxl6cz0dys5egac4pgu559dmywc8egc9v6wxlemksv7369f6ga4xtdk'>nevent1q…xtdk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We also were interviewed by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub17jlv9n56g79ux5pyxyyjv7ae8a5swumm6nqwhl9mytzmc746snxsspc3ef" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>NGI Outreach Office</span> (<span class="italic">npub17jl…c3ef</span>)</a></span> about the experiments and our project.<br/> <a href="https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/06/13/multicast-as-a-vehicle-for-managing-hardware-infrastructure/">https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/06/13/multicast-as-a-vehicle-for-managing-hardware-infrastructure/</a> 2024-12-26T12:01:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2xccxl6cz0dys5egac4pgu559dmywc8egc9v6wxlemksv7369f6gzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk9xytkh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgt56n3yzaxwh8g6767q3umdpx20wzw452t5xqvutrlmxpl3th0ysm0knnw'>nevent1q…knnw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Publishing Data means that others can verify it.<br/><br/><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/113717343956441026">https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/113717343956441026</a><br/><br/>We get different visualisations of the data. Thanks to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fnejmanw24sxweer9t5ncla5v5ekdf6mvtwnjmkm7em6vxjnxf6swp87ll" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Daniel Lakeland</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fne…87ll</span>)</a></span> we can see the data in a new light.<br/><br/>But it&#39;s why it&#39;s important that the EU keeps funding #FOSS and makes available small research opportunities to small FOSS projects.<br/><br/>It needs to ensure Independent Researchers can access test infrastructure and do research. 2024-12-26T11:49:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgt56n3yzaxwh8g6767q3umdpx20wzw452t5xqvutrlmxpl3th0yszyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgk8qktxq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqts3ncw6chguyv8jfdmn9cwqe7p0u4vhkp4x2k9jghemjrt42htcv5fk6r'>nevent1q…fk6r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qkykw8y05gvstaf68fsk23cmpery9h6mg2tgaxcnrn3yhtln5sxsc2mckc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Librecast</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qky…mckc</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>Being able to test a POC and publish research to fully understand just how differently multicast applications behave compared to unicast was a good thing.<br/><br/><a href="https://zenodo.org/records/6470929">https://zenodo.org/records/6470929</a><br/><br/>This testing period helped us develop Librecast further and meant we created #lcrq, our RaptorQ library. The research fed into our efforts with #NGIZero 2024-12-26T11:46:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqts3ncw6chguyv8jfdmn9cwqe7p0u4vhkp4x2k9jghemjrt42htczyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkq6w2ac One of the lesser known Projects of <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub17jlv9n56g79ux5pyxyyjv7ae8a5swumm6nqwhl9mytzmc746snxsspc3ef" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>NGI Outreach Office</span> (<span class="italic">npub17jl…c3ef</span>)</a></span> was #Fed4FIRE+. <br/><br/>Fed4fire came out of #IMEC and was a series of #FederatedTestbeds. Labs like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1j23jy4jgfs7f9ks66j3z5899dzg3c5dtafn9fghaug6an805lngqqva0nv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GÉANT</span> (<span class="italic">npub1j23…a0nv</span>)</a></span> were also a part of the initiative.<br/><br/>In 2021-2022 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qkykw8y05gvstaf68fsk23cmpery9h6mg2tgaxcnrn3yhtln5sxsc2mckc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Librecast</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qky…mckc</span>)</a></span> got a small grant to test our multicast POC IoTupdater.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.librecast.net/fed4fire.html">https://www.librecast.net/fed4fire.html</a><br/><br/>#NGI<br/><br/>Having testbeds to test #FreeSoftware is important.<br/><br/>Ensuring testbeds can keep the lights on is a good use of EU Funds. Especially if it can be available to everyone. 2024-12-26T11:41:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsykk20mnq68afz5kd7y4pl56a6fsuj3z0am9mllpu85qlyn3yympgzyrmsc9kuf7cqpmxfuaz8tx47ugmrtr9zssxh0csreuz7zj72ftxgkl4396d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyfekca5txw79q2v6x8m9gge9axqu6dls48mlqqfalgmc6sryv9wst4yeh0'>nevent1q…yeh0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So which one of you registered automattless.com 🤣<br/><br/>Somehow I completely missed this:<br/><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241008164308/https://automattless.com/">https://web.archive.org/web/20241008164308/https://automattless.com/</a> 2024-12-21T16:22:47Z