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  Okay. If the LibreOffice promotional posting about their "keep AI optional so people can do office stuff without it" stance was persuasive to you, and you gave them money, you have been defrauded. And you should demand your money back. And we should all be ever more skeptical of carefully-worded "nuanced stances." No money for quislings. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117510420175177743 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/

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  When I first started seeing millionaires talking about the "greedy" humans that need more water and electricity than agents, I wasn't just angry and a little scared, I was confused: how are we not bringing out the guillotines on the spot? But then I thought about the way that older generations have demonized gens Z and Alpha for killing off industries (which can't make a compelling case for themselves to young broke kids in a world that demands always-on grindset to survive, t...

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  If people contributed to a project with the understanding that it would contain LLM contributions, that's their prerogative, and some people are fine with that. But the reality is that most of these projects are older than that. People invested their effort on a different social contract, and it was changed out from under them. It's like relicensing but more consequential. I think that's a much bigger theft than scraping. Scraping doesn't steal our communities.

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  Wife: Me: "GPU ISAs would have prevented this ;)"

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  Well. I think I just figured out where the "Posted from ${appname}" bit at the bottom of toots come from. In fact, if this status actually submits properly, I think I'll have conclusive evidence that it's one of the most annoying (but, from Mastodon upstream perspectives, reasonable) answers possible. For the record, this status was posted without using madonctl at all.

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  The comedy of git-send-email.io advertising Sourcehut not requiring JS (legit feature that I love) while itself not working on Dillo for reasons that feel JS-implied.

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  It's funny, I know my decision to switch to Zen browser was - on the grand scale - a pretty recent one. Probably the last year. And for reasons that still feel pertinent to me! That Mozilla is a hostile entity, that to use vanilla Firefox is to be constantly holding my ear to the ground for rumors about what new fuckery to turn off until they change my permissions *again* in an emotional flashback to the warning days of Facebook, which I refuse to go back to, that for tasks which require a f...

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  "The Netherlands. Not to be confused with the Neth-Irelands, where you can order your potatoes with void butter." #thingsthatmademypartnerlaugh

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  If you give a mouse a cookie, you might be a browser fingerprinting mechanism.

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  Speaking of irrational negative associations that I have to be careful not to allow to influence me in meaningful ways, I can't see MIPS mentioned (like on a download page etc.) without remembering The MIPS Guy Who Tried To Get My Friends Banned From Tumblr. And every time, I still think, "wow. What a slimy little dickweasel." 1/n

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  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single distro in possession of a good live USB experience, must be in want of a homegrown and severely limited partition manager built into the install experience.

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  I can fly on one clipped wing. The air yet remembers my name.

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  Testing to see if creating a new post will now render that new post in #Moonshine immediately (side benefit of template refactor work going on right now)...

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  Ah, Mastodon changed the API for dismissing a single notification, and that broke a bit of `madonctl` for doing that operation. I'll need to contribute a fix upstream. I'll have to maintain a fork of `madonctl` with my fixes, so that people will be able to have a copy that works for the things #Moonshine depends on, until upstream is caught up.

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  I really won't have time to record a demo before I go to surgery, but I wrote a song last night while scrubbing up in the shower. My wife was like "awww, she's singing in the shower!" And I was like "Yeah! I'm COMPOSING!" Lyrics should fit in my instance's 1024 char limit based on the "950B written" reported by vim. Lots of optimistic feelings. It's good to finally feel like the last two years were short. I've certainly felt their length eno...

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  You know, I've been stressing about what my next phone OS is going to be, as Google tries to crack down on side loading. And considering I'm also trying to get onto a #NeverSlop (rather than merely #NoSlop) stack, and figure out what that stack even contains, I think Nura is gonna be the thing if I can get it on my phone. https://social.treehouse.systems/@cas/117347732017118902

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  You know, I've been reading the terms #NoSlop and #NeverSlop as pretty interchangeably so far, but I think my brain just clicked on the difference between them, which is clarifying my goals to someday run an explicitly and completely Never Slop software stack on my machines. The key word is "yet" - no slop *yet.* It's easier right now to run a fully No Slop system, because it's more permissive - it allows you to include software that doesn't have a policy about LLMs, o...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@libreleah/117344092080724056 Libreboot being #NeverSlop is great news. With all the foundational infrastructure we've lost ground on in the last couple years, having this part a of a Never Slop software stack locked in is genuinely delightful and a breath of fresh air.

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  ArduinoIDE really is just such total garbage. I must have fought for two hours to get a simple demo up on a TTGO board for my wife. Absolutely unreasonable, and in the end, I got it with PlatformIO. Now PIO has its own learning curve that I was interacting with while already at peak frustration, and the VS Code part of things makes me sad, but it does have this lovely property that if you fuck around with it awhile, it actually works eventually. ArdIDE on the other hand, I've never had a n...

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  @hyc@mastodon.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @r@glauca.space @mcc@mastodon.social @decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com @amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems It's such a common error. If anything you should be LEADING with the why. My pet conspiracy theory why they don't, is that most curricula are designed by committee and lean toward including everything that sounds like it might be useful. This lack of discretion means that most of the material IS pointless for the s...

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  I've gotten really adapted to the climate, which is to say, good at heat dissipation. So now when I take a hot bath or even do the dishes, it feels like the water cools off really fast despite being initially uncomfortably hot, faster than if the water just sat there. It took me awhile to realize my body is literally playing the role of a heat pipe via my blood flow. I think I read something about how trees do this too, and don't just cool/stabilize temperatures in the area with shade....

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  Ah crap, I think this is the latest in the day I've ever realized I forgot to post a walk recap. And I took SO many good pictures! I'm going to be a bit selective and not share all of them, but still. It's really nice that the temperatures are going down, and I can go out at later points in the day cycle, and see the world looking differently. I also took a different route home.

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  I'm tired of hearing about scale from non-relational database groupies and people who work at AWS. I wanna hear about scale from those metalworkers who do forge work. Is it really the metallic impurities? What's it made of? Why does it flake off? Is it valuable to collect and recycle? Like these are the actually interesting questions here.

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  Okay I gotta get on the trail and properly disconnect. Normally I wouldn't even explicitly say that, because the default assumption on this kind of platform is asynchronous communication, right? But it's the kind of morning where a lot of stuff is happening, and I feel like I'm in a role like a daughter with divorced parents, all like "you tell YOUR MOTHERRR that...", just a human message passing bus. I feel like I need to set an away status for this shit, like no I need to...

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  Man I should not have had so much cheat food leading up to the weekly injection I have to take. It's an incredibly unpleasant tension, feeling my stomach ominously gurgling while using an alcohol pad to sanitize my ass cheek. That was a skill check for wisdom that I failed. Thankfully, not to a truly consequential degree.

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  I should be looking at the beautiful scenery on this walk. I check my phone every few minutes in case I missed a notification under the Do Not Disturb that keeps music flowing into my headphones. Closer to addiction than I'm comfortable. I am turning over the old trauma of reading about Justine Sacco, who made a dark humor joke about structural racism being fucked up, phrased it poorly on her way onto the plane, wasn't there to explain as Twitter tore her apart, found out her career was...

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  I really need to stop being an enabler when my wife gets cravings. But then I wouldn't have had my last three consecutive meals be Taco Bell for lunch, delivery pizza and an incredibly strong mixed drink for dinner, and cookies for breakfast! 🤩 💃 I do honestly not feel very great right now

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  True crime has never been tried #shitpost

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  Okay, so you know how the capital A used to face the other way up, because it started of as a pictograph of a cattle (or possibly goat) head? And each letter has a history you can trace, and so do the Arabic numerals? Imagine how hard Sesame Street would have gone if they taught that history. That's not just a fun curiosity, it also teaches how... *invented by ordinary people* all of our writing systems are. They weren't better than you, they were the same. You, kid scooted too close to...

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  Thank god we got away from the dark unenlightened ages of pop-ups and Yahoo! toolbars. I love living in better times, and regularly getting ads from my phone's primary package manager to spend my Play Points or install whatever app paid Google money expecting to get the ROI out of me.