Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

I continue to be negative about generative AI assistants insofar as every time someone has written a piece of any length "co-written by an AI" it has all sorts of errors I point out the author hadn't even noticed were there

Most irritatingly is that MULTIPLE TIMES people have written drafts about my work that simply injected and made up history. If they had just published them, that history would be cyclically referenced in the future as if fact

That kind of thing just happens all the time now

love when people tell me I need to read up on bluesky and atproto vs activitypub, it's even better than being told what activitypub is

A leaked order shows the UK demands that Apple provide a backdoor into *all encrypted user data* (including outside the UK) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/

Proprietary software makes such a demand possible. Reject proprietary software, embrace FOSS and open hardware, while we still can.

I have my MNT Pocket Reform back with the RK3558 chip and I gotta say, it is really nice

@sam has been making progress on getting Guix running on it too, maybe I should try it out https://community.mnt.re/t/guix-and-reform/173/33

I'm pretty wiped, and I know the whole @spritely team is, but we got out two major releases that are a BIG FREAKING DEAL in terms of our vision of bringing the next generation of decentralized networks to users and I need to unpack that and why it is

... after I decompress, at last, for a bit ;P

Ordered an MNT Reform Next https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

The world really needs an open hardware laptop that can be repaired, understood, and has an actual community future. I think MNT's Reform Next is the best shot at that we've got. I'm excited about it!

listen the two upsides to all this drone stuff are that a) it's kinda fun to think about UFOs and b) finding out that you can scare donald trump to not going to visit your town by flying some drones around in it

ok the bad part though is that this would be literally the worst time in US political history to make first contact

*scrolls*
*keeps scrolling*
*presses the button on her mouse that removes friction and blasts her scroll wheel downward*

ok yes this is, once again, a lot of notifications, working on it

I love cute characters and mascots for FOSS projects but why did this project choose some AI slop of a sad emaciated cat

EDIT: this is the project, it's a rust rewrite of sqlite called Limbo https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite-of-sqlite-in-rust

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵