Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
@adachika192 banning the domain is okay. Plenty of servers do and I find it reasonable. 1) Twitter sells data to anyone who wants them. You don’t own your tweets. People should delete their Twitter account if they are not comfortable with that 2) I already do (see picture and pardon the french). All accounts announce themselves as not. Agree that mastodon apps should display bots better 3) Except the previous point, why?
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Running an experiment and streaming a #dataviz of all the open source collaboration happening LIVE right now on #GitHub. LMK what you think and if this is something you'd like to tune into regularly https://www.twitch.tv/github
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Time for a “CopyLeft AI Data License” - if this data is used to train an AI model, then the model must open its source code and its weights.
Thinking of moving servers to https://hachyderm.io ...
Although I'm generally pro-crypto even if I don't talk about it much here, and I wonder if it's going to get me banned if I move there
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Hello Fediverse. Goodbye walled gardens.
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Imagine we could iterate on human buildings like this. Just have the idea, sketch it on the computer, watch robots snap together your new living room.
@BattlingBeaver they stop being replicated, but they are not deleted if they are already on Mastodon servers no... I want to do something that does it but it's quite hard
Patreon finally allowed me to create a tier below 5$, yay!
@pelikans talk to your admins or move servers, there is nothing I can do on my end unfortunately
Re: Mammoth raising venture capital
That is definitely not the way I want to go with bird.makeup. The end game for me would be to have enough Patreon supporters so that I could have a nice lifestyle business making open source tools for the Fediverse. I have no interest at the growth at all cost mindset.
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Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Mozilla is our principal investor.
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (developer of ChatGPT), keeps a cache of weapons and survival gear on a remote estate in case he needs to escape "AI that attacks us". I'm sure it's nothing
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This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.
The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.
Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.
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There is an ongoing news cycle about Linux 6.2 being the first kernel to support the M1, started by @ZDNET. This article is misleading and borderline false.
You will not be able to run Ubuntu nor any other standard distro with 6.2 on any M1 Mac. Please don't get your hopes up.
We are continuously upstreaming kernel features, and 6.2 notably adds device trees and basic boot support for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra machines.
However, there is still a long road before upstream kernels are usable on laptops. There is no trackpad/keyboard support upstream yet.
While you can boot an upstream 6.2 kernel on desktops (M1 Mac Mini, M1 Max/Ultra Mac Studio) and do useful things with it, that is only the case for 16K page size kernel builds.
No generic ARM64 distro ships 16K kernels today, to our knowledge.
Our goal is to upstream everything, but that doesn't mean distros instantly get Apple Silicon support.
As with many other platforms, there is some integration work required. Distros need to package our userspace tooling and, at this time, offer 16K kernels.
In the future, once 4K kernel builds are somewhat usable, you can expect zero-integration distros to somewhat work on these machines (i.e. some hardware will work, but not all, or only partially).
This should be sufficient to add a third-party repo with the integration packages.
But for out-of-the-box hardware support, distros will need to work with us to get everything right.
We are already working with some, and we expect to announce official Apple Silicon support for a mainstream distro in the near future. Just not quite yet!
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You can follow any #birdsite account on the #fediverse. Just search for "@accountname" followed by "@bird.makeup". Done.
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Finally, an explanation for bikini armor that makes sense!
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Which of these worlds sounds best for FOSS:
a) a world where all the projects have clear steps to compiling, participating
b) a world where you trust the developers to compile and put things together from black boxes, don't touch them, the devs know what's best for you
fuck flathub/flatpak/docker as "the way to run FOSS software", go guix and nix and debian
down with "father knows best" architecture
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
