Notices by Lykso (lykso@tiny.tilde.website)

@foone Not likely, but it'd be funny if so. It'd require a secret sibling to exist.

@foone Huh. My grandma was also the computer expert of the family, and my first code projects were also in DOS batch script. Wild!

@mntmn There's nothing like modern technology to make you miss retro technology.

Finally got a login prompt and serial output with Nonguix on the MNT Reform iMX8MQ. Did it in the most ham-fisted way possible, but I did it. Now to refine things down until it's a bit less clumsy, and then I'll publish a channel for it. Might take another week or so, given time scarcity.

My sodium ion cells arrived today. 😮

Gonna see if I can use them in my #MNTReform

"I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. [...] Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant."

https://aftermath.site/why-would-i-buy-this-useless-evil-thing

@aral Hey, what was that (federated?) streaming platform you were using to host streams a while ago? I've done some searching but can't seem to find it again.

@ramsey @Jdreben @alcinnz @flabberghaster I agree. A UBI seems like it'd be much harder to make happen politically, though. OTOH, maybe that's exactly the sort of "big, hairy, audacious goal" for which the present moment calls.

@Jdreben @ramsey @alcinnz @flabberghaster Might be a bit of a hot take, but regarding the economics: IMO, open source and libre software ought to be publicly funded, as it is a public good. Reallocate government budgets away from proprietary stuff from the likes of Google and Microsoft and put it toward developing the digital commons.