2026-08-29T00:32:18+02:00 https://nostr.ae Davey https://nostr.ae/npub1w5psl5ea62gmtnu2e23m2euu0d6dlsvcmhjhy0tedx2m694tregqrt7ege https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/accounts/avatars/000/000/607/original/77091452d08b26eb.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/accounts/avatars/000/000/607/original/77091452d08b26eb.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswl9xtcca2mhl8sre468p53stq5x3k9w0fx9qnqfl968nv70vy4eczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09quqmwnd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrf5kgk64g3yjlxj6zjfyxqsspmlevhnnj9kzen6gnwggem2vuksce9elg3'>nevent1q…elg3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know everything I need to know my friend 2026-08-15T13:35:55+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8dy5cf8c46e2anjnag07huqtcnt3z562ls8fnuujg39wwevf4m5qzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q7gl0yl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxphnnqyrnv0hwuvpm83jh3kffm53m0u9ykkvjgrx6l459ynhl32qxe8ulz'>nevent1q…8ulz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ok, I&#39;ll ask this question in your voice: <br/><br/>You do realize that there&#39;s more to software licenses than where copies of the code are stored? 2026-08-15T13:28:40+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvveuarefpzlh27fdns9t79f38k2nl0gtaz63rddr2wqams3v2h5szyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q7dqeaz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxdd96gwqpjjwulk75026qqn333qj4xt6rdgdn7h32jfwtc2gzfsqtw0d3z'>nevent1q…0d3z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>lol<br/><br/>ok if my day job gets rogered for publishing code infringing these licenses, I&#39;ll tell the court you said it doesn&#39;t count 2026-08-15T13:24:56+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstgqulxpm2w04agrynece2ysazxvl90sjfwn6su9smnxusm09d5pqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qg9jy7d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq0ay3ng3dlj7vexkg69cu33d5xhdvyynk9rf79fsr887n203dlsgmvwvrd'>nevent1q…wvrd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes, I have professionally deployed ML solutions in my time. My wife has professionally deployed neural nets.<br/><br/>it&#39;s actually possible to understand things and disagree with you 2026-08-15T13:21:36+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz7hlmptqzp66hgseeguy7matxdwgwe3tyfhw5x4xv8par98vju9gzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qm0hgz9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9repkt5eqckeaz3l6jhzwj8ssxytlq06aa6h5mmwnlvwe4g7yt5gfgc4vh'>nevent1q…c4vh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do you understand that LLMs can generate license-infringing code as a result of training on licensed data? 2026-08-15T13:18:00+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8pj90eufc3sr2ffvxgpjapkezvwl9mrpwg6xjl8zrhvpkdsk3ecszyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qpevurk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hfusaz94z8285srg9zkmgrtccda0xk8n9mhfcyqzn6tuy2hny0qa49acl'>nevent1q…9acl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not a fanatic, I&#39;m a professional.<br/><br/>Tell me how scraping for LLM training observes and respects copyright licensing, including ensuring that no &#34;copyleft&#34; code ends up in proprietary software. Because this is a quagmire.<br/><br/>(I also asked Claude how LLM scrapers respect licensing and it said they mostly don&#39;t :hehe_lizard: ) 2026-08-15T13:10:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq6nxpgk24r4wq504akz9mpjjvl388g9p6jgwh72x5mtk5gxdz3qgzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qlgv7rx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg8lap63wm2dcxg9gm7uvl06lf286xml5jw4eq97nezuy0sav3ysg0xg5w4'>nevent1q…g5w4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No, that&#39;s just a cop out, as was your original statement.<br/><br/>Literally nothing I referred to is a controversial take. Reams and reams have been written about these topics by professionals at the coal face.<br/><br/>You just want people to stop criticising the thing you like.<br/><br/>I look at LLM-generated code every single day.<br/><br/>Your whole argument is &#34;but I don&#39;t care&#34;<br/><br/>If you don&#39;t care, stop replying to people about it. 2026-08-15T12:59:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg8lap63wm2dcxg9gm7uvl06lf286xml5jw4eq97nezuy0sav3ysgzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q8402me In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2y88mc3fgrz2m8hqk8lj9pa3cws5uhshz9q0z3a3wtclu83xr7sg4qhxcu'>nevent1q…hxcu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s nice, I know plenty of experienced folks who think it&#39;s a pile of shite and an accident waiting to happen, before they even get to the theft, DDOSing half the internet, ignoring software license (another timebomb)<br/><br/>And that it can have some use isn&#39;t the question, it&#39;s whether it&#39;s a net benefit, whether the dangers posed are harms caused are worth it.<br/><br/>&#34;I find it useful&#34;. Ok, but that&#39;s not what&#39;s being discussed. I like ice cream. 2026-08-15T12:51:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst4sd0yw3qj4ymveyfsazgee76aqalyspxxnkkxq0ayxezj938dzqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qgfnkp5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz97xsxgknpjecf3arwujk5x8esy37xtv8k2g67lrzx26tvskzyys8afyfy'>nevent1q…fyfy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t agree with that characterisation at all.<br/>I&#39;m one of many developers who interact with this technology daily and find it wanting. I have to use it if I want to keep my job because management believe the marketing, but I am aghast at the prospect of supporting the stuff we&#39;re slopping out over the long term. Based on evaluating and understanding the output.<br/><br/>Our work is bullshit anyway but I would never use it for something critical. 2026-08-15T12:45:31+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8v4jj6v3xjs8u8853ydzkxujty7f8973lc2scgndewpq6j55mlggzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qj7t2u2 So now we realize the problem with the Amnesty report, which resulted in a fucking oddball billionaire threatening to SLAPP Amnesty UK out of existence, was its revealing all the US funding from extremely conservative organizations. <br/><br/>These people tried to do the same shit in Ireland with gay marriage and abortion access. <br/><br/>I&#39;m curious what the differences have been in terms of reportage and success rates. Are UK politicians more easily manipulated, are Irish politicians just aware of EU law? 2026-08-05T15:43:51+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf9s6t3mw0jzp63erz4z0ruwspq6u5k6j7zvug30ww25jtljhckuczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q98slyz Grand spot spot for reading and/or staring. Do it again tomorrow I think.<br/><br/>(It&#39;s at Doohoma Head, Co Mayo, looking at Achill Island)<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/117/017/125/783/483/767/original/a625efbf684da0f4.jpg"> <br/> 2026-08-01T01:17:44+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszzh85kv5rurgkcwuw3cw0rdx4lfhwv4k2z4p3s697ufdl8swx6fqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q2y6y64 &#34;Why did I, a libertarian anarchist, support the Örebro Party (ÖP), which is neither, with a donation?&#34;<br/><br/>Oh, me me! Ask me! I know this! <br/><br/>It&#39;s because the kind of cunt calls himself a libertarian anarchist always turns out to be a fascist when put to the test!<br/><br/>What do I win, it better not be a subscription to Mullvad.<br/><br/>I did a speed-run and finished reading the founders blog post in one line. Cus I didn&#39;t just float down the Blackwater in a bubble. 2026-07-21T22:05:56+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxxdma7lae8h73tsjej2kqgyryxd7697h6g0m7qkyvmg7l6w50etqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qvvsx9u Recently saw someone talking about a person who took time off their job for their mental health, &#34;but&#34; they went on a nice surfing holiday. <br/><br/>As we all know, if someone needs time off for their mental health, they spend that time lying on the floor going &#34;AAAAHHH MY BRAIN!&#34;<br/><br/>And doing something nice for yourself just makes it worse. 2026-07-09T18:41:55+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxxfc73gqxj4he9gqfeema5hmevnj8wqu6s59g2j87d9kxfe9c2lszyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qkfq9ma Anyone out there using #Obsidian or a similar cross-linked, markdown document thingy to generate docs?<br/><br/>Very modest requirements. 2026-04-28T19:33:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq0jnwy6twn438n2j3k92t9j8w9sszn8jw0wx6a4cfs77q3yf3auqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qm327vq Anyone good at Irish text want to help this person?<br/><br/>&#34;Manannán written in 1940 by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. An Irish-language young adult sci-fi space travel book. Contains one of the first uses of a mecha outside of Japan and the first mention of a gravity assist in literature.<br/><br/>This digitisation project aims to make thebook more accessible and widely read. The text used the old Irish orthography (dot over the letter = h after the letter, etc.).&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan">https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan</a><br/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/comments/1sounaf/irish_language_spelling_conversion/">https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/comments/1sounaf/irish_language_spelling_conversion/</a><br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/116/425/467/949/229/771/original/0a4b57dda252921d.png"> <br/> 2026-04-18T13:29:55+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp5rxdujsly4xffdunmwqsnsewddw6wedw6cv6axqljahxe08qmlszyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qd8nw2r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswy7q7qu428ka57750ru6ay55gnxagnczzxp0mccjgdtf0am5mv7q3gk6c5'>nevent1q…k6c5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;If you&#39;re so smart, why don&#39;t I see Google on your CV&#34; is the tech industry&#39;s version of &#34;If you&#39;re so smart why aren&#39;t you rich?&#34;<br/><br/>That&#39;s why they&#39;re so hard to argue with. Any difference of opinion is evidence that your brain isn&#39;t as good as theirs. They worked with the smartest people ever you know. They were the Albert Einsteins of invasion of privacy. 2026-04-07T11:13:22+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswy7q7qu428ka57750ru6ay55gnxagnczzxp0mccjgdtf0am5mv7qzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q2zvjmt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd2qwrlcpvj65mhc9685ahqmu7j5tjfhjjvh0ymst2puzmvrzwn3gfusdfq'>nevent1q…sdfq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They spend half their career in companies which do the bad things and take a position of &#34;I would have noticed. Everyone I worked with was lovely.&#34;<br/><br/>When you point out things, you&#39;re wrong. <br/>When the CEO admits those things, &#34;I&#39;m shocked&#34;<br/><br/>They will be shocked every one of the dozens of times this happens. <br/><br/>You&#39;re still a clown if you don&#39;t like the 3 employers they list on their bio.<br/><br/>&#34;Business is business. I&#39;m nice and so are my friends. There&#39;d be no internet if you had your way.&#34; 2026-04-07T11:12:22+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd2qwrlcpvj65mhc9685ahqmu7j5tjfhjjvh0ymst2puzmvrzwn3gzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qnum95m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw3h9w2795rfq06a5vxhy7s9pfug4vtwas6kelqxexwth5awhpayqwjw2fp'>nevent1q…w2fp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Tagging on one more thing about &#34;tech folks&#34; and I technically am one so I&#39;m allowed say it.<br/><br/>There&#39;s loads of intelligent, friendly people in tech who are so used to not thinking about certain things, that they think you&#39;re weird if you do. <br/><br/>- stealing from artists<br/>- pollution for speculation<br/>- causing psychological harm<br/>- invading privacy<br/>- participating in war crimes<br/>- doing business with tyrants<br/><br/>&#34;That&#39;s business! You&#39;re weird for thinking it&#39;s weird.&#34; 2026-04-07T11:07:39+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw3h9w2795rfq06a5vxhy7s9pfug4vtwas6kelqxexwth5awhpayqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qycv8rw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfls8jq5hzcayquz2vuuttxza35q9gmmddefknr52zdxkp6wjghfqzsxvrt'>nevent1q…xvrt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s hard to be polite when people pretend not to understand what exactly people hate about this stuff.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been around so many tech debates over the years and LLM hype is the winner for patronizing absolute bullshit.<br/><br/>It comes down to people who want to do what they like, and still want to be liked. Sorry, but we&#39;re all adults, you have to pick one.<br/><br/>You can&#39;t fuck people over and still expect them to play with you. 2026-04-06T22:22:55+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfls8jq5hzcayquz2vuuttxza35q9gmmddefknr52zdxkp6wjghfqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qtv74lk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxv24m77y9nqayus6qzh5fy6ddpa4sgk0k33cyygtpvxusy0quktcmxmuaa'>nevent1q…muaa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Putting on my &#34;not taking the piss&#34; hat, I think sometimes people get frustrated, ultimately, by the fact that fedi isn&#39;t about shared values as much as it is overlapping values.<br/><br/>And it&#39;s cool cuz everyone can play their part in that context. <br/><br/>But there are tendencies that many of us are here to _escape_. Call it Big Bad Tech. Anti-BBT sentiment is a major, well-established building block of this thing.<br/><br/>And the LLM boom is a distillation of some of the worst BBT tendencies. 2026-04-06T22:09:33+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxv24m77y9nqayus6qzh5fy6ddpa4sgk0k33cyygtpvxusy0quktczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q9nwyvs &#34;I want to talk about an under-represented group on Fedi&#34;<br/><br/>Young people? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Africans? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Less techie folks? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Indigenous folks? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Women? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Non-English/German speakers? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Anyone not white? &#34;No&#34;<br/>South Americans? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Minority religious folks? &#34;No&#34;<br/>People with cognitive differences? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Non-graduates? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Working class folks? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Retired people? &#34;No&#34;<br/>Occupied people? &#34;No&#34;<br/><br/>Emmmm, the Sentinel Island people? &#34;No&#34;<br/><br/>Ok, who?<br/><br/>&#34;Tech journalists who love AI&#34;<br/><br/>Fuck all the way off. 2026-04-06T10:36:24+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw826xd62e60twjud8qguvlcs63x2l9kczu5cjax0e80t896sfnzqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qypuwjz RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260876501374382">https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260876501374382</a><br/><br/>Full disclosure, mastodon.ie has not been given 100 million quid.<br/><br/>We were offered a swap of a Ford Escort Mark II and it was tempting, though.<br/><br/>Thanks to donors for keeping that temptation at bay.<br/>nostr:note1kl9v6tgzwcmdk040vw902p7asw24fcdwedtm7t7qzd89wttj28dseze7nc<br/> 2026-03-20T18:26:24+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq7mnju7gkvesnekl4wf4k78wmnwysmjyefqwtqmdggm8llkf0ypczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qhvmfur “This is a massive military undertaking, costing American taxpayers billions and billions of dollars and tragically costing 13 lives.”<br/><br/>Cory Booker simultaneously posing as the voice of reason while not counting Iranian lives as human lives. Blowing up a girls school; who gives a shit.<br/><br/>The US must always be considered damage, and routed around.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/cory-booker-trump-war-powers-congress">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/cory-booker-trump-war-powers-congress</a> 2026-03-17T10:27:44+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyellejzk75l7kzrja0v8p32rqf667h0vlpdndwmaez63fyl9nmhqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qsskr00 The headline: Claude Code hacked these websites, we didn&#39;t ask it 😱 <br/><br/>The article: we made http endpoints that act like something from an SQL injection vulnerability example from 2002. Then Claude used SQL injection techniques from 2002 that it probably got from an article about those. <br/><br/>Might not be Skynet 2026-03-14T12:10:28+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszzywqahms89amv8wm4th4ryf09ak7wksevfqr3c8lxpzk79sye6qzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q77x38c I like an AI fail news story as much as the next person, but do resist the lure of the Birmingham/Maccabi Tel Aviv story being repackaged as an AI fail story.<br/><br/>It&#39;s an Israeli propaganda success story, and a police chief has had to resign over doing something that Israeli police do themselves, and with a lot less diplomacy.<br/><br/><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/tel-aviv-football-derby-cancelled-as-violent-riots-see-nine-arrested-13453239">https://news.sky.com/story/tel-aviv-football-derby-cancelled-as-violent-riots-see-nine-arrested-13453239</a><br/><br/>Haven&#39;t heard UK politicians say that Tel Aviv must not become a &#34;no go area for Jews&#34; yet though. Probably because it would be harder to justify. 2026-01-22T13:29:22+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy5sq5t872fc3kjwfater37wfuzpxzq476y050dsl5mm5eqce9c9szyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09quwqqwd I was asked by someone why my Home timeline is so much prettier than theirs. I follow hashtags is why.<br/><br/>Including but not limited to:<br/><br/>#minipainting<br/>#ceramics<br/>#mushtodon<br/>#bloomscrolling<br/>#aurora<br/>#sculpture<br/>#mastoart *<br/>#illustration<br/>#printmaking<br/><br/>The trick is going for specific arts and crafts, you find people who are into it.<br/><br/>For whatever reason I find #mastoart a lot better to follow than #art as the latter is way more broad like a really nice sandwich is a work of art. 2026-01-19T22:30:38+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszhuyy9f9jvlzqnlx0j9wqy6uwgc5xt9knjhk7amxx6ttc84l8lfqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qa2ng96 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkralhar3zn9e32pe0jc0jn9ltelxykya3uyhseae5tsna7cy3hc0mx9w7'>nevent1q…x9w7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>delighted and kind of confused. <br/><br/>Did Santa bring spines to Labour leadership? 2026-01-09T21:53:44+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdr4fazqmq4z9f6hh4utpmfxuag52uft7nf4u7mzwp4pn2a3rx26czyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qlgp0kr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9q6swdlx3adm0j7e7utt6yqkn4nvqm23lvwx9uszqc339wl6067gf5lkuz'>nevent1q…lkuz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>a coati walked up to me and put it&#39;s front claws onto my shorts and I didn&#39;t know wtf to do.<br/>Then it was pulling and my shorts started slipping and it was starting to look dodgy but it lunged for my ice cream and ran off with it. <br/><br/>Then there was about 12 coati having an ice cream feeding frenzy. <br/><br/>It was at Foz de Iguaçu and I suppose the tourists had them ruined. 2025-12-14T01:30:07+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx49s30hltr4383q2ywrtkzfvdayke2t0t44t6tyal6h5nc36xfzszyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q0yhufj I&#39;m looking for work!<br/><br/>I can do<br/>- Product Management<br/>- Full Stack Web<br/>- Javascript all the things<br/><br/>I&#39;ve done a lot of freelance so I&#39;m great at talking to clients and have done all sorts of collaboration. I can be left alone to come up with solutions as well as I can in a team.<br/><br/>Available full-time, tax-friendly, in UK and Ireland. Remote essential.<br/>Freelance wherever.<br/><br/>If you have any leads or tips, it would be greatly appreciated.<br/><br/>Details on request.<br/><br/>#fedihired #getFedihired 2025-12-02T12:33:45+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvqefeqht6rgpcyru76ld3k3qg07suuz37hn7lku8mf5722hemn0qzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qu434e2 &#34;If you&#39;re not on board with AI you&#39;re going to get left behind&#34;<br/><br/>Boost if you&#39;d like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit. 2025-11-14T13:01:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs85t0tky70fmkv37n5maar3d0veee9eghnjt7dlh8727k8kj3pa5czyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qjdey39 A cobweb on dead thistles in a meadow, with mist resting on all<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/115/514/798/536/338/900/original/fb0f37e8f4a62156.jpg"> <br/> 2025-11-08T16:33:40+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspcqe6xy32cql7f3wzs0luya29sma28cl4m6phpvcnse4hj59pjgszyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q577gyl I find myself thinking about the difference between non-profit projects and community-owned projects, in relation to LLM adoption which doesn&#39;t show apparent sympathy for community and volunteers.<br/><br/>Wikipedia and Mozilla seem hell-bent on shoehorning LLMs into their systems, in the latter case blowing away community labour. There&#39;s no sense in it beyond groupthink.<br/><br/>Are tech non-profits separate from industry, or a section of it that doesn&#39;t make money? 2025-11-06T12:12:53+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszdq3th6znayzwxwsm2mmvhxr3k26e2hzcgg4aexw9zvjfu5fjplqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q9lg6tt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8qknx4sczep9dg6039x093f2neet0zexf9qs6ngrx2dfxvjn27pchcg04t'>nevent1q…g04t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And I don&#39;t expect people who sell me things to have my politics.<br/><br/>I will raise an eyebrow, and often walk away, when they pick the most ridiculous fucking grenades to jump on, ever.<br/><br/>And I hope their big tent burns down with them inside it. 2025-10-09T12:29:14+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8qknx4sczep9dg6039x093f2neet0zexf9qs6ngrx2dfxvjn27pczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qk5tmsm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszre6exmtv2vavfuerz8zaepgfptj3xnkcx87q9nrj9nlpwekgc7cu30wjv'>nevent1q…0wjv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not mad surprised. Open Source is, to a large extent, another avenue for having a career in an industry which doesn&#39;t give a fuck about you if you&#39;re lucky. It&#39;s overwhelmingly a commons with a paywall.<br/><br/>It&#39;s full of people who get very cross when you suggest that what happens to people might be more important than what license something uses. Or how many computers they can get talking to each other.<br/><br/>A techo-libertarian circlejerk, is what I&#39;m saying. 2025-10-09T12:27:14+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszre6exmtv2vavfuerz8zaepgfptj3xnkcx87q9nrj9nlpwekgc7czyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qp8vytz Why do people think free software (Open Source as the problem children call it) is not politics, and everything else is.<br/><br/>Why are FOSSbros so depressing.<br/><br/>Saying this cus I had Framework as a fantasy purchase but their team has decided that supporting projects by David Hanmeier Hanson, of Ruby and Rails and writing blog posts in support of Tommy Robinson fame, is NOT being political. It is the _absence_ of politics and they are being VERY GROWN UP by not caring about white nationalism. 2025-10-09T12:23:59+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv92u6cyknhrjk5925wp2dw33pu9hze2gztfrw7ud7u3c9ent0xcczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qjaf9nw What email clients do people like these days?<br/>Last time I used one, it was Thunderbird and I got on ok with that.<br/><br/>Any others worth looking at?<br/><br/>plz boost for full power hive mind<br/><br/>Clarification: desktop and mobile, Windows and OSX mostly but also interested in Linux 2025-09-29T14:43:27+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsykj64lz4yje7kwfr0aaklg2ptymnzt0yhd74e3vmc8n87swunjzgzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qaxgesq Up on Lough Crew for some megalithic buzz<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/114/955/553/622/999/868/original/c660d7816b3e6eb4.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-08-01T23:10:48+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy0a8qkm3y6a9f5seahl2jcx3ydrxw5vtyahlz3vlf7c0nqscavtgzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qhq7xcl Anyway on a more serious note: is there an animal with four animal names in its name? Or more?<br/><br/>Just saw a leopard catshark on the telly and started wondering.<br/><br/>Eg:<br/>1 dog<br/>2 whale shark<br/>3 tarantula hawk wasp<br/>4 ???<br/>4+ ???<br/><br/>#wildlife #zoology #animals 2025-07-10T21:26:33+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspq4tvtfsg5jzczxnw2xnf6slyzqrdk0700fjfw35qn70yncd608szyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09q8f3h0x #SilentSunday<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/114/805/897/163/408/873/original/c8c297a9afe83dea.jpg"> <br/> 2025-07-06T12:50:48+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszkcmshsuh659epwju7jw8xd6mwsr56s3xfs986fva5626rr0jasczyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qge8s5r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdpvllc5xzekym4e5nhay7y2ux24egw8j43kjemzpuz5tnszkuxcclm0v8e'>nevent1q…0v8e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the long dark turnip of the soul 2024-09-03T15:35:30+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswxll3qa0s8gu6p39rnqxk6meutkmvpnukaswvcxr49dx4ygs3z8gzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qd0f499 It is impossible for my turnip soup business to make money if you enforce laws that make it illegal for me to steal turnips.<br/><br/>Paying for turnips is not realistic.<br/><br/>You bureaucrats don&#39;t understand food. 2024-09-03T13:37:39+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxff0e7wwzf6z7s9h3kx7kgc8z87cwzey2yzv8sv50wrxdxnpp5nqzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09quer09u Phone decided not to cooperate, but there was some nice colours 🤷 <br/><br/>#aurora<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/951/597/923/736/505/original/4f1adc6731a3d4b2.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/951/597/904/278/386/original/671a2eade846a6f9.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/951/597/923/271/090/original/f1d5b1da81b5bd60.jpg"> <br/> 2024-08-13T01:17:51+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfy80sh9n7ns0km969jcexl4hf66us0dfj9lah289la4f8klnd09czyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qnaza9t Both sides of the border in Ireland we have people burning out (possible) refugee accommodation and immigrant-owned businesses and attacking people who look foreign.<br/><br/>Fascist demos are getting bigger every time.<br/><br/>The Republic could have had the Hate Crime Bill in place by now.<br/><br/>Instead it was delayed by Senators McDowell and Mullen because they didn&#39;t want any law that tolerates nonbinary gender.<br/><br/>Queermisia and fascism will always feed off and support each other. 2024-08-05T11:33:04+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspzgt9j8ucwa008esd6wdk5m80x38lvx8fek6x02e3ged9a6dnv9gzyp6sxr7n8hffrdw03t928dt8n3ahfh7pnrw72u3a095et0gk4v09qry33vg Ok, finally a decent giggle out of the Imane Khelif thing.<br/><br/>g&#39;wan Amy!<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/892/174/445/768/742/original/2ccf09dcf2060f8b.png"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/892/175/330/689/483/original/570b420511a5f5fa.png"> <br/> 2024-08-02T13:28:08+02:00