Notices by Carmen Bianca BAKKER (carmenbianca@todon.eu)

@VanuPhantom @maartje gjin probleem, ik sjoch der nei út

the best use for generative ai i have found thus far is as a stupidly inefficient thesaurus. just describe the vibe of a word that is on the tip of your tongue, and it will output some suggestions.

it works a little better than a thesaurus, where you only get clouds of related words (synonyms and antonyms), and not the ability to just explain the vibe.

this makes sense, of course, because the gpt language model is one giant ouroboros of a thesaurus _anyway_. thing good at thing which it is, more news at 12.

@queerthoughts a zo. ik had nooit overwogen om een verschillende ticket tussen brussel en noorderkempen te gebruiken.

nu hoef ik eigenlijk bijna nooit in antwerpen te zijn, maar ja, klote.

@queerthoughts 'gewone tickets' zoals binnen belgië? ik neem deze route toch exclusief naar rotterdam/amsterdam, een paar keer per jaar.

jaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/12/15/eurocity-direct-brussel-amsterdam/

#trein #brussel #amsterdam #belgië #nederland

todon.eu has a character limit of 1312 and this is very funny

#acab

someone just leisurely cycled past my window, and the child seated behind them was just shouting 'MEOW. MEOW. MEOW. MEOW' like an alarm going off.

i love people man.

@jesuisgavroche @eledoster en tout cas, une chose est sûre, y en a que 3.5k qui ont voté - comme de cons - pour que les consuls virent César

➡️ https://politipet.fr/2360

Dommage que les Belges pouissent pas voter, autant ça feraient monter le compteur !

@davidleeholcomb Speaking as an SF author … my stretch goal is creating a new piece of slang that goes the distance. ( @pluralistic hit it out of the ball park with "enshittification".)

i cannot possibly express the depths of my genuine sorrow at this cascade of terrible news well enough in english, so i will try in my native tongue.

tja pech jongen, gebeurt wel 's. had je maar een beter braver moeten zijn voor sinterklaas of zo.

#brianthompson #shooting #unitedhealthcare

i don't read nearly as much about shootings 1 km from my front door in brussels as i read about one guy getting shot all the way across the ocean.

jeez condolences, i guess. this guy must've affected a lot of people's lives for you yanks to care so intensely. you must really be having a hard time of it.

#brianthompson #shooting #unitedhealthcare

Pour les amateurs de #MachineàEcrire #typewriter , voici l’Hermès Baby que j’utilise au quotidien et sur laquelle j’ai tapé l’entièrté de #bikepunk .

En arrière-plan, mon vélo Salsa de #bikepacking qui a servi de modèle pour celui de Gaïa dans le livre ;-)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bikepunk_typewriter.jpg

@SuperDicq i understand what you are saying, and to some extent i echo that sentiment, but while theoretically the most important utility of a licence is to hold up in court to defend software freedom, there are far far far more scenarios where the licence must be read and understood by people who aren't legal experts trying to learn if something is possible or not.

in my case, i needed to:

- double-check whether people can use an agpl module on an lgpl server software;
- and verify whether people can use an agpl module on the non-free version of that lgpl server software.

this was absolutely painful to research, and the fsf (for good or for ill) is very little help when it comes to any matter involving compatibility with non-free software.

a better licence wouldn't be such a pain to read.

@SuperDicq i don't disagree, but i can read the eupl and understand it 😫

@gnu2 https://eupl.eu/1.2/en

i've gone off the deep end. the lgpl and agpl are not compatible.

god i loathe the #gpl

sorry not sorry. this document reads like sandpaper. the whole #copyleft virality thing depends on like one or two vague sentences.

i love what this licence stands for, but i loathe reading it so much.

can we switch to the eupl or something already

this is my new favourite #website

https://genders.wtf/

https://stallman-report.org/

The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.

And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.

And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.

And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.

But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.