@janl @icing

https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/

"The social contract. The relationship.

The thing that made open source maintenance joyful was that someone cared enough about your work to try to improve it. You mentored them. They learned. The code got better. The community grew. That's the social contract.

AI slop doesn't add work. It replaces human connection with mechanized noise."

Yeah, it is totally appropriate for an LMS to only allow uploading 10 concurrent files… W-T-F?

@alexisbushnell

This is delightful!

solarpunk.au keeps an open lobby here:

https://matrixrooms.info/room/lobby:solarpunk.au

if you have a mind, please join us for discussion on tech, politics, and ecology.

i have managed to get federation visibility fixed on the server, so it should show up in public indexing sites soon.

in this slide from his talk at the computer game developers' convention in 1989, doug sharp predicts that "interactive fiction storymaking" will plateau at around 500 'milliprousts' by the year 2010, but by the year 2030, when we reach 'computer-human equivalence', will finally be overtaken by "interactive fiction generation"

have managed to fix federation visibility issues for the BASIC Programming matrix room that this project sponsors:

https://matrixrooms.info/room/basic:solarpunk.au

please join the discussion there for everything BASIC and BASIC-adjacent, such as #retrocomputing and #retrogaming

we also have a (largely dead! please help keep it active!) web forum @ https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/

#permacomputing #solarpunk #basic

I think it sounds good only until put in practice.

If 99% is useful but 1% goes against the instance's philosophy, they have to accept this 1%. But if someone involved in picking what is put in this overarching moderation starts pushing this 1% to 2%, 4%, ever more through the Overton Window, it would deteriorate more and more the instances that had to accept the original 1%.

And even without the possibility of intentional sabotage, one rule being applied for every individual instance would still mean instances would need to adapt for the lowest common denominator, meaning a slow end of individuality. And if a small instance is no different than a big one, those bigger ones start canibalizing the userbase of the smaller ones.

What I expect to happen, and that already does to some extent, is to clusters of instances with similar interests to form, and by extension being prone to accept aligning moderation and philosophies with their direct allies.

But that's still mostly a bilateral move, not an one rule to govern them all, so dependence or independence is still tied to individual interests.

@milan schöne Gegend!

If you’re a #bandcamp user, make sure you’re following @GetMusic. They post stacks of codes for free downloads

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

if you're simply confused as to what my intent was, because my posts above are vague on the details: my only intent here was to state that I think the schism we're seeing in FOSS over LLMs is a broader and older disconnect boiling over rather than a new problem that came out of nowhere, which is to say whether or not FOSS should be a liberatory philosophy or is merely a libertarian philosophy. I don't expect everyone to agree on what "liberatory" means.

Ok, I hid my child(ren) from the Internet but not like this.

My kids are DATA sovereign, but not ... whatever downstream TESCREAL stuff this is.

https://archive.ph/SEofc

We'd seen a TV programme where a doctor drew lines on a patient where they were going to cut for some plastic surgery. Our dad was asleep on a Sunday afternoon after 5 pints of lunch. Pentel weren't lying about their markers being permanent. The marks stayed for days.

#AlexPretti