Notices by Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)

@dentangle

I must admit I'm a bit upset about everything being backfilled in and being uncategorised.

Especially since in Mastodon I explicitly selected to not be searchable on search engines.

It feels a little bit like the time Maven ingested everything.

Just because this time it's a forum over ActivityPub doesn't make me feel happy about it.
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/happy-bi-visibility-day

@dentangle I thought it was just forum software.

I wasn't aware that everything was being republished.

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

@EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO Ok so here's one case where it's a bad idea beyond the usual ecological arguments.

What if someone is trans and doesn't want their deadname in the Blockchain transactions forever?

Because it's hard enough for some Devs to get their deadname removed from software contributions in places where it's possible but projects don't want to.

You can't update a Blockchain ledger. It's the whole point of it.

https://posts.arborelia.net/the-software-heritage-archive-wants-to-deadname-me-forever/

The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua is an awesome comic book, with a plethora of real life information about Lovelace and Babbage and their time in the footnotes.

It's one of my favourite books for the Steampunk alternate universe fun and the real life facts.

From the article.

“The notes of the Countess of Lovelace extend to about three times the length of the original memoir,” Babbage wrote later. “Their author has entered fully into almost all the very difficult and abstract questions connected with the subject.” Her comments highlight the link she found between the machine and the Jacquard loom. This loom used punched cards to automatically create images and Babbage’s Analytical Engine would do the same with numbers."

Ada brought context and support to Babbage.

She could see what it could be useful for.

She had the mathematical background to understand what Babbage was trying to do.

Centuries later you still get folks trying to minimise her contributions.

🤷♀️

Over a decade ago, I had a male colleague who reduced Lovelace's contributions to computing as "oh she just translated stuff."

https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/

Given the respect Babbage had for Lovelace she did more than that.

The issue with this idea of consent with robots.txt as part of CC signals is the huge elephant in the room.

The current state of the web shows that AI crawlers do not respect robots.txt.

Tech bros don't really believe in consent.

I'm so disappointed with Creative Commons.

@aral Yeah we got it as well.

Although the subject line was a massive clue as it was a slur.

Thanks to @iank for creating the petition.

I've had concerns for a while about the direction the #OSI has been going with AI for a while. The publishing of the #OSAID weakens the #OpenSourceDefinition.

I'm not a member but the definition does require community participation in terms of the licences we choose and how we advocate for Open Source.

The recent board elections showed a disturbing pattern of obfuscation. We need to be able to trust Organisations that are meant to safeguard what Open source is.

It's surprising that the #OSI decided to obfuscate the election results and handwaved it as "oh it's STV you dont understand it".

Some of us participate in votes that have STV. Organisation's like Nominet use a third party Civitas and they publish the votes.

The election is done, but the OSI has damaged our trust.

A way to restore that trust for the community would be to publish the voting tallies in full.

There's a petition for the community to sign.

:BoostOK:

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/

I have signed the Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results.

Organisations that are meant to safeguard our licence definitions for the commons should be open.

This petition is as much a signal to let others know they aren't alone in their disquiet with the direction of the OSI.

It's not pointless, or a waste of time. If you feel the same about the lack of transparency with the election. Now's the time to sign.

#OpenSource #OSI

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/commit/445cbe7b7fa35d2bd08cef3f5872e4f90448567b

@trdebunked I think tech always has an element of almost mysticism to outsiders.

Like with politicians thinking we can come up with a magic key so they can still have encryption but they can access those messages.

Or tech bros thinking they can automate moderation.

Take the magic away and it's clear that humans are inflicting their idea of what a society should be.

Computers aren't magic, but a lot of people think they are.

@trdebunked

But I take that quote as meaning we want to put some form of our hearts into what we do.

I don't want to build a tool that enables soulless decision making without accountability.

But I also think if you can't put your joys into what you do, it's never going to be that great either. True joy to me is being able to share that experience of joy with others.

@trdebunked When you focus on the line goes up and tech just taking over everything, you've made computers the thing.

You ignore the other things. You've not really got joy. Only the need to win over others.

@trdebunked I don't regret my path. The computer science degree was needed.

@dusnm @darkwiiplayer I've often thought about the difference between copyshops that do like clip art and artists.

I know some coders who are like artists, they code for the thing they want to see in the world.

But we also have the day job, where we code for the same thing that's in the world at the moment.

I like the idea of coding for the world that could be. Because thats encoding the change you want to see in the world.

@dusnm @darkwiiplayer

This is why I'd like UBI, when you do the think you love for a paycheck it does get a bit stressful.

http://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html