Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

happy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate

#internationalwomensday #IWD2023

This is the guy Elon decided to lambast last night.

If a person says they want to see Mastodon scale to support 100 million users, a lot of Mastodon users will jump on that person's neck. 🤷🏿‍♂️ They'll be accused of having "VC brain", or being obsessed with hyper growth.

It's not about hyper growth for growth's sake. If you truly believe that Twitter is bad(tm) and Mastodon is good(tm), and that people should leave Twitter, then where exactly do you think those people should go? There's hundreds of millions of them.

i'm so sorry for being that guy but i can't overstate how reminiscent current twitter is of Portal 2 when the entire facility starts to break down because wheatley got so insecure about being called a moron he starts cobbling together abominations that don't work out of spite

Anyway feels like a good day to post this one again

The toilet paper at ETH Denver. Brilliant.

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

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.

Hello Fediverse. Goodbye walled gardens.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/

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.

Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Mozilla is our principal investor.

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

whoa

https://bird.makeup/users/zoeschiffer/statuses/1629917304799760384

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.

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!