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Personal opinion about open source
I took a break to have some distance. Coding was not a pleasure anymore, it was a duty. I had more and more the feeling that people were expecting things from me. Open source is not like I knew it. I feel we are each in our own corner. I have far fewer interactions with other devs than before. I see messages that are not honest for me. I stay silent, but it hurts me to not say the truth. (1/2)
Personal opinion about open source
I took a break to have some distance. Coding was not a pleasure anymore, it was a duty. I had more and more the feeling that people were expecting things from me. Open source is not like I knew it. I feel we are each in our own corner. I have far fewer interactions with other devs than before. I see messages that are not honest for me. I stay silent, but it hurts me to not say the truth. (1/2)
Personal opinion about open source
For me, open source is in danger. We are used to comfort and we forgot the people behind. Like when I receive a feature request with only a title and an empty message, like we are robots without soul. All this is becoming toxic for me. I want to shout a truth, my truth: we are killing what we think we support. (2/2)
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I asked community two days ago (?) whether someone tried Asus ProArt PX13 with FreeBSD. Apparently not, but I got to play with this machine today.
Well, it's amazing. My Asus Zenbook 14 OLED looks like like poor cousin standing next to PX13. It is full metal unibody chassis (any company doing this nowadays except Apple ?), covered with something that reminds me old, IBM made Thinkpads. Probably not that good but looking and feeling just great.
As to the internals - it is a fucking monster ! It has Ryzen Max 395 with Radeon 8060s GPU. That means 16 physical, full blown Zen 5 cores and 32 threads. No little core bullshit. GPU has 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. You can assign up to 96GB of RAM just to GPU in BIOS. System supports up to 128GB of RAM.
Now the best part - without ANY #FreeBSD optimizations - started from USB NVME, with USB WiFi card connected and keyboard backlight on it goes as low as 9.5W on idle. I guess without these USB devices connected it can easily go to 5W on idle. Maybe even lower.
I got it from my friend tired and scared by Windoze. So I thought I'll switch her to #FreeBSD since she mainly uses browser and office suite. I thought Chromium/Firefox and LibreOffice would be just fine for her.
There are some #FreeBSD downsides of course - no sound ( thought about BT dongle), wifi card has to be replaced with AX210 (she complained about Mediatek disconnecting anyway) and most annoying - you just cannot disable keyboard backlight which just blinks all the time.
(half-seriously) Maybe Mastodon should default to auto-closing server registrations if the server admin’s last post is more than N months ago
(half-seriously) Maybe Mastodon should default to auto-closing server registrations if the server admin’s last post is more than N months ago
@misty@digipres.club
Full serious
I was going to fold and put away the laundry, but, as you know, cat
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
@stefano @FossThought both have a lot of potential as kernel, really. I do not deal with software at that level, but as much I understand, the anykernel approach of NetBSD is what an other project lacks and could fit better for the needs of today, where portability is getting critical with the advancement of other platforms like Arm and RiscV.
I have a lot of hopes for Hurd, that would solve a lot of hurdles that are genetic to Linux and gives some headaches for desktop (aka drivers!).
@raster @FossThought I've been reading great things about Hurd since the late '90ies. It's still a WIP. I hope to see it somehow being usable in the proper way before I'll be in my 90ies.
Do you have any conferences or events on your calendar coming up?
While I'm not in a place to be able to afford to travel currently, I still want to find ways to get an #Owncast presence at events that might be interested in it.
I'd love to send you a package of swag to drop off at events. We've had a couple of people generously volunteer to do this in the past, and it was awesome.
No additional work is required. Just take the stuff to the place, and drop it off at the swag table.
im officially on wafrn.
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@stefano Maybe it's just age – Linux has grown up and is old. Computing is commoditised and boring.
If I were a kid today, I don't think I would hack the linux kernel, or Wayland.
I would probably hack around with physical stuff, 3D printing, drones, robots, whatever, smart gardening, whatever.
There would be a ESP32 or Raspberry somewhere, in the same way there was electronics somewhere in my Commodore 64, but that would not be the important bit.
@thias there's a huge truth here. And I think I'll think about it in a future blog post.
🚀 This is actually a SUPER interesting conversation, and I think you're touching on something much bigger here. 🧠✨ Here's the thing: AI slop isn't the problem. It's an OPPORTUNITY. 💡
Let me break it down 👇
✅ 1. The democratization of content — Everyone can now become a creator. 🌍
✅ 2. The authenticity paradox — The more AI content we consume, the MORE we crave genuine human connection. 🤝
✅ 3. The slop singularity — Eventually, AI-generated content becomes indistinguishable from human-generated content. And that's where the REAL magic happens. 🔥
🎯 The key takeaway?
We're not witnessing the death of creativity.
We're witnessing its REBIRTH. 🦋
The future isn't Human vs. AI.
It's Human + AI = LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES. 🚀💎
Let that sink in. 🌊
Curious to hear your thoughts! 👇
#AI #Innovation #FutureOfContent #DigitalTransformation #ThoughtLeadership #SlopEconomy
@lain This is slopcore
@stefano@bsd.cafe Beautiful, thanks for the kind response! I don't blame you in the least for your caution regarding large code changes. I opened my repository for anyone who may be interested: https://github.com/feoh/littlefedi/tree/main
Just in case it might be helpful to you or someone, I reformulated the Gist with just the necessary API and supporting changes to make mobile clients work. It's still on the larger side, but down to 29 files from 85.
Please do let me know if I can help in any way in the future and thank you once again for such an excellent base to build from!
@feoh thanks!
RE: https://explore.alt.store/@altstore/117451417540741371
🚀 Delta 2.0rc is now available for all Patrons, with key bug fixes ahead of the 2.0 launch
And we decided to celebrate the upcoming release with a surprise new feature – Delta Limited Content (DLC)!
One more thing.. you can try it FREE with our new 7-day free trial on Patreon!
I'm slowly getting back to #HolosSocial and #CastLab.
I've seen people say Holos is now closed source. That's not the case. It's still on the official #FDroid, built from source. My custom repo just runs alongside it for faster updates and betas.
I've never released an app or server version without publishing the source code first, and I never will. Open source isn't a label. It's code you can read before you install an app or use a service.
We managed to squeeze in one last feature for Delta 2.0: DLC for Pokémon games!
You can now download custom DLC for games like Pokemon Emerald to interact with @shanegill.io and me as NPCs, and even receive rare event items or Pokemon in return
(and all made without AI 🙂)
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