Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)

@janneke @b0rk I think bork is asking a different question: why would info have been better? it’s been a loooooong time since I was a power user of either, but I remember finding info very frustrating. And I was a regular emacs user at the time so I should have known most of the shortcuts! So I’m not clear why it would have been amazing if there were info for git.

@bruces my OG cyber tool was lost (or stolen?) by movers 15 years ago. Still bitter.

Banged this out over tea this morning. TLDR: the FSF/OSI four freedoms are myopic in their focus on software developers, and we should complement them by asking what freedoms non-developers value.
https://lu.is/2025/02/freedoms-for-who-revisited-briefly/

Landed in Brussels for 2+ days of policy work before FOSDEM. Already exhausted; that’s a good sign, right? 😬

I remember when Google embedding unit conversions in search was a cute little convenience. And, uh, actually useful and accurate. This is just so embarrassing for a once-great tool.

@onepict My main reason for not protesting Dorsey is that he’s mostly small fry. I would not do him the honor of protesting him and pretending he matters that much.

@onepict I’m deeply curious what the hell they were thinking.

@skinnylatte I’m in the south side of the Mission, so just a mile and a half to the SOMA Costco. Easy cargo bike ride. (I don’t really Prime all that much anyway, though I suppose that’s famous last words 😂)

@skinnylatte Yeah I’ve been wondering if it is finally time to do a Costco membership to replace Prime.

@skinnylatte Also it turns out that when you don’t hire pharmacists it is hard to sell pharmaceuticals; sun rises in East; etc.

Signed, guy who finally switched to Amazon Pharmacy for everything that’s not burningly time sensitive because waiting for hours in a Walgreens aisle is unappealing

@ocdtrekkie @cwebber @eloquence And that has failed at all to attract or retain any of the normies from the other half of the list? Much love for mastodon but half of us don’t know who the celebs on this list are and the other half will attack you for even caring who a celeb is.

Great Sunday morning long read for SFans: @sfpublicpress.bsky.social on radiation experiments at Hunter’s Point. This is a return to what SFPP does best, and does uniquely: historically-informed deep dives that are neglected because not “news”.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed/

@kingrat Limited, right? That’s where social.coop currently is.

This is essentially my take on Threads. I am glad that social.coop is having a coop-y discussion and vote about this (check your email, instance members!) but if it results in complete defederation I’ll probably finally move to sfba.social.
From: @adam
https://social.lol/@adam/113810663343513922

I don’t think you can do this for Facebook, but I grabbed all my Twitter interactions and sorted the list to find out who I’d interacted with most. And then emailed one of them a day for weeks. It was great.
From: @vkc
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113805847867961551

@scott So how do we get her off the fascist site and onto sfba.social or at least Bluesky (non-trolly question, genuinely)

(And don’t always agree with her, as you know, but so obviously correct on this issue)

yo @mozillaofficial (and moz friends) what… is this?
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113771882893603942

@glyph @aeva why do the magic spells not work

I was promised they were magical

@simon genuinely inspires me—his method of learning is creative, persistent, and dedicated to sharing. His LLM year in review is a great example of talking about a burgeoning field in a thoughtful, low-hype, high-value way.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

@ntnsndr I guess it can’t hurt to poke @Markoff and see if he suggests further reading on the topic :) I wish I had his book to hand, but in a situation that would have blown the minds of many of his protagonists I am typing this on a pocket supercomputer while 30,000 feet in the air…