I had to ask my spouse to describe them to me because I’m extremely sensitive to light, but we made it — we finished the two first seasons of Twin Peaks. We’ll probably watch Fire Walk with Me tomorrow.
“Some tragedy in Brazil demanded his immediate attention.” → There’s a canon explanation for that (Jack’s unnamed partner died in Brazil), but I couldn’t help but think about what event in March 1989 we could point to as a potential tragedy in Brazil.
I keep seeing people defending the use of LLMs as a good way to “understand what they’re studying”, but I swear I’ve seen it not even getting binary calculations right. At this point, I think it’s atrocious and dangerous _especially_ when you don’t know much about the subject.
A post where I try to make sense of things I've been thinking about in the last weeks or so: why I believe free software is still worth my time; @outreachy's financial situation; my pledge to the software freedom community. https://notapplicable.dev/ode-to-free-software
What's the best way to work collaboratively on .odt and .ods documents that doesn't involve proprietary services such as Google Docs and Google Sheets? (Feel free to boost.)
I support FOSS and contribute to FOSS and I'm involved in discussions and spaces relating to the bigger picture of technology and its role in our lives because I'm a technologist and this is one of the ways I fight, BUT being cognizant of the fact that this is a tiny portion of a very complex system of systems
I hate to be person who's always repeating the line about how we need to think systemically, but this tendency of thinking about FOSS as an isolated element rather than a reflection of and an actor in systems of systems drives me up the wall
@skadi gosh, I don't know? the thing that gets me is that I feel it fails to truly encapsulate solutions I'd like to see in the fight against the horrors perpetuated and facilitated through technology, which is why sometimes I tend to see it as accessory rather than a principal fight
maybe one of my most profound and fundamental disagreements over free and open source software (in relation to some other FOSS activists) is that I see FOSS as a mean to an end, as a smaller but very important and accessory fight in relation to other much bigger fights, whereas some activists may see FOSS as an end in and of itself (does that even make sense? I warned you, this is fucking raw)
1/6 of @outreachy, a @conservancy initiative interweaving technological freedom and liberation.My Mastodon lore: I’m the person who, 7 years ago, thought it would be cool if Mastodon and many of its related projects had a Brazilian Portuguese localization—and got that ball rolling.