Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)

To be clear, this isn’t a pro- or anti-AI take.

The take is “give a human AI to improve ‘browsing’” is “give a fish 16 gears to improve their fixie” territory. Not even wrong.

Figure out what you want to enable people to do, then whether AI is or isn’t part of the solution.

“browse” ain’t it.

🔥 take: Mozilla’s challenge isn’t leadership or AI.

Virtually no one wants to “browse” or to have a “browser”. They want to search, scroll, or use a webapp—if they think about the renderer’s UX something has gone wrong.

So as long as Moz self-identifies as a “browser company”, they’ll lose.

We absolutely need legal consequences for self-driving car companies, but it bothers me that so many people think human drivers face consequences for hitting people. The US legal system bends over backwards not to penalize drivers who kill, and doesn't even bother to pretend with drivers who merely maim and traumatize.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115674707791502748

A lot of #solarpunk folk could do with reading this thread. What is possible with modern concepts but a massively reduced compute budget?
From: @nina_kali_nina
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/115242939849102943

Skimming https://authoritarian-stack.info/ and wondering what an explicitly and actively anti-authoritarian/anti-tyrant, not just (civil?) libertarian, EFF would look like.

It’s not that the current EFF is anti-antifa, but its beliefs are still at core *libertarian* in the deep sense of “the biggest threat to human flourishing is the state, and the best way to counterbalance that is to unfetter humans” (at EFF, read: “unfetter technologists”.

Which was maybe not an unreasonable perspective in the late 1990s! And is still not completely *wrong*. But it feels a bit besides the point when our most unfettered technologists are open monarchists and eugenicists.

So what is one to do, in San Francisco, in tech, when the “electronic frontier” is no more, and instead the biggest threat to *all* civil liberties, not just digital civil liberties, is coming from inside the house?

This is perhaps not EFF’s fight to fight! And certainly many of the things EFF has long stood for, like the right to encryption, are ever-more important when the state is tyrannical. So I raise this question with love and respect. But also wondering what comes next.

Used the new Claude Code to generate* a small script that might turn into a project, and perhaps even be worth sharing publicly.

It lists Claude as Co-Authored-By: and _without any prompting or discussion_ chose an MIT license. I am bothered, but more than I should be?

* deliberate word choice

For those interested in Co-Authored-By, this paper has a hilarious list:

based-on-the-original-screenplay-by
meh'ed-by
based-on-the-true-story-by
duh-by
hallelujah-expressed-by toasted-by
catched-by-and-rightfully-ranted-at-by

https://web.archive.org/web/20200506201456/https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/download/121/255

@mathowie hell of a way to find out

@janneke @neil he’s a lawyer, would you feel better if he called it his integrated document environment? ;)

@ntnsndr 🦅 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸

(but also yes)

@glyph I fitfully use https://try.relatable.one/ for this. It is overoptimized for voracious networkers, instead of recluses, so not ideal. And expensive as hell. But least bad thing I’ve found for it so far.

This new Remarkable is the first note-taking-centric eink device that has ever intrigued me. But Remarkable-using friends: does it really have *zero* third-party integrations? No ebooks, news readers, todos? I’m not carrying both this *and* a Kindle/Boox.

https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-paper/pro-move

Any S.F. privacy knowers know whether it is legal to hang a private surveillance camera on a public utility pole? And if not where one would report that to get it removed?

@talkie_tim good to see someone read the sign

So what are people here using for Masto clients these days; ideally Masto+Bluesky? I keep wanting to like openvibe and it’s just unusably slow.

@steter @sjharder @luis_in_brief Duke alum so long ago reached peace with not being able to spell Coach K, Coach Woj, Domzalski, etc etc

@sjharder @steter yeah this… just sucks. Good dude.

@mattl @ben I have a first-gen framework, and the keyboard is… pretty meh. At best. And I’m not even a keyboard snob. Not sure if better with their 2nd-gen keyboard; I don’t use it enough to justify swapping out the keyboard—but that is at least possible!

Otherwise a pretty nice little box, and the philosophy is A++; I think deeply appropriate for a Linux box.