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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

Last Notes

2025-11-28 20:38:53 GMT

No firefox, I do not want you to summarize this webpage. FFS.

2025-11-18 17:54:34 GMT

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Don't worry. I'm not losing my permacomputing soul.
https://bitzero.cloud/concepts.html

2025-11-18 17:48:39 GMT

Lua ok
Rust ok
Zig ok

2025-09-23 08:29:54 GMT

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Post-legal

2025-04-30 07:23:44 GMT

I'm sorry for the Fosstodon drama. Fosstodon was my second fedi server and there I had a lot of FOSS fun: nice people, good moderators, good topics. I left when my radicalized vision of how world was changing, also thanks to digital/software/tech stuff/hype, became too much abstracted from the "yes but huh, I do not care, any foss is good and that's all" vibe of the instance. But hey, it was me.
The Fosstodon story is another example of how our expectations of fedi aren't aligned with reality. It's not a matter of moderators, server policies, who's federated with whom. It's simply that when a group of people grows beyond a certain number (I think it's in the hundreds not in the thousands), more drama ensues and more often jerks prevail.
In short: it's not the medium, it's the people. Or people dynamics, if you want to feel less harsh. Hidden behind their keyboards, people are jerks when they have the chance. Every bar, getting bigger and bigger, is on the verge to become a jerks bar and maybe then a nazi bar. It just needs someone to become a catalyst for stupidity.
The difference between fedi and corpo social networks is that fedi doesn't want drama: it's divisive and burns moderators out. Corpo socials crave drama because it's engagement. And there are no moderators or nice corpo people to protect.
That's why any debate about "how can fedi win?" makes no sense, for me. If winning is copying the techbros and aiming to get bigger, we have ample proof that bigger instances will gradually become a mess of spam, jerks, bots, misinfo and drama and then - if below a critical self-sustainable mass - collapse. Instances even bigger, will stay the mess they've become. Thinking "oh but this time it's different, we're different" is naive.
In real life, we're praising the beauty of local communities and of communities of interest, and the value of real interactions in smaller groups. This is also a value fedi should underline: bigger is not better, smaller has much more appeal. But, again, it's me.
#fediverse #fosstodon

2025-04-19 12:56:48 GMT

Digital garden upgraded, thanks to @npub1yqw…ywz8 and their Kiki

2025-04-18 17:39:37 GMT

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On another note: I bought Kiki and I'm playing with it. Definitely a very good platform, that - it seems - one have to study a bit to use at its best. Greatly appreciated.
Now I have just to move my pages and re-organize them in order to use Kiki's tags as a taxonomy.
It almost makes me want to learn PHP...

2025-04-18 13:03:19 GMT

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A very very good work!
And it's been a while since someone cited somewhere "Patterns of Software"... a book that had a strong effect on my vision of computing in general.

2025-03-13 17:26:27 GMT

"OpenAI declares AI race 'over' if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use".
Fine with me. Over.
Let's get back to serious stuff.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/

2024-10-13 14:25:28 GMT

A lot of the digital stuff I read on fedi strengthens my beliefs in permacomputing: (also) tech and approaches you have full, or almost full, agency on.
#permacomputing

2024-10-05 17:50:27 GMT

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The rabbit hole you sent me into… :awwwblob:
https://media.corteximplant.net/media/084e4768558d103611164d5f9b6987d2077ac33570eaf58fababc2e5609fae97.jpeg

2024-10-03 17:57:38 GMT

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I always wondered if the manga is actually as good as many say. The art is exactly my taste, it seems. The story, of course I don’t know. It’s on my list.

2024-09-26 18:19:51 GMT

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They’re corporate drones. Cannon fodder for the capitalist machine.
Letting themselves to be exploited, they pave the way for others to be exploited.
They betray their brothers.

2024-09-26 18:08:04 GMT

On a train. People around me working on their PCs. It’s 8pm. They’re slaves.

2024-08-28 19:26:22 GMT

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This is not going to end well for both of us

2024-08-28 16:12:05 GMT

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I suppose it’s a case of “when life gives you onions, garlic and microgreens, then make…”. Darn, what can you make with this stuff? Alternative microgreens pesto? Sautéed microgreens? Onion soup?
Well… sending positive (albeit non edible) positive vibes.

2024-08-25 08:43:20 GMT

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Because people think that if they’re happy and you’re happy too, it’s good. But if they’re happy and you’re sad, it’s better. Much better, my darling.