Notices by серафими многоꙮчитїи (djm62@beige.party)

yub nub

Idea: YouTube channel called "Will It Build" where I just check out various popular FLOSS projects and follow the build instructions.

Would probably attract 3 viewers and 17 strong opinions

@silverwizard poorly-configured tools are like ill-fitting clothes. You look silly and it's not comfortable (but everyone's version of looking good and feeling comfortable is different)

Daft little thing off my mind now.

A short bit of writing on how to use computers, rather than be used by them.

https://bugmuseum.tech/use-your-tools.html

Always a pleasure in my #RSS feed: Miniature Calendar

Bread Bath
https://miniature-calendar.com/250316

what

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/

@alcinnz your work, thinking about things from first principles, thinking about what aspects of the things we use truly matter, is valuable whether or not some gargantuan quasi-free browser from a corporation makes a misstep

Honestly, I think massive FLOSSish organisations are part of what we need, but long term we need to architect away from massive anything

Got a local anaesthetic and now I feel like Marlon Brando in the Godfather

@markmccaughrean

What immortal hand or eye,
Could twist that cosmic Allen keye?

@cwebber one more bite at the Ocap'n then... where there's a gill, there's a way!

Spritely institute stuff feels like it is slightly more complex than my head can handle, like I'm a shark contemplating origame

the worst posts are my favourites

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got an idea for temperature-stabilised mailable packaging for chickpea dip, but I want it to be published posthummusly

did you know: every day, an area the size of Wales is used as a meaningless comparison by a journalist

If a "car" is a horseless carriage, then a bike is a horseless horse

(I'm stuck in my brain on a train once again)
🚊

subjecting you all to my train of thought of train

@silverwizard I mean, you say that, but I'm not highly impressed with non-capitalist states and I feel like there's a lack of established supporting evidence of that happening in a modern context. The difference between something theoretically working and actually happening in practice matters to me!

Plus we're not going in ab initio, we've got to start from here. Which includes adversaries with nuclear weapons.

All I really care about is people and practical outcomes, and I'm honestly pretty pissed off that that puts me outside of mainstream politics. But we are where we are.

I feel myself sliding further to the anarchist side, which I don't actually like, but it feels like the best option actually available. Choose between various kinds of powermonger or hope that people can self-organise well enough to outlive them. I don't know. I would rather have a trustworthy state, but that is not on the menu. Even in countries I've spent time in where the state is more or less not corrupt, that's only a contingent thing. And it's a minority of places, and a microscopic one if you weight it by population.

At the same time I don't want to become an anti-society drop out, sending my kids to private schools, getting private health insurance, and avoiding as much tax as possible. Because not everyone can do that. It's about critical engagement with any structure that helps.