Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 12:19:39 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
wasn't there some korean movie about that? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 07:25:03 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
yeah, brains are great pattern detectors -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 15:47:58 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
I can't access it for some reason, but I wonder whether those looking to feed their LLMonsters with Fediverse posts will be able to abuse it to get to posts that Fediverse servers wouldn't share with them. was this kind of concern taken into account? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 14:26:25 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
Na'vi was already taken -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:52:35 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
that problem sounds famliar
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2023-08-20-stochastic-parrots-vs-intelligence -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:29 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
no, it's really the user interface of specific implementations. one could modify the code running an instance to keep track of viewed posts and refrain from showing them again. an app could do that too, even if the instance kept on informing it of boosts.
ActivityPub will indeed flag boosts as you describe, but that doesn't have to carry over all the way to the user interface -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:27 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
if you will delegate to an instance the decision on what to show you on your browser when you connect to it, you'd have to pick an instance that does that for you. mastodon mainline could make that configurable. someone could patch mastodon in their instance to behave as you wish. you could run your own instance. you could run something other than mastodon that behaved as you wish. these are all in line with the notion of decentralization and browser-based UX. I sense there's some other unstated requirement. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 03:38:08 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
I wouldn't have used the term "sin", but yeah, users of nonfree software are victims of oppression, and that who denies them control over their own computing is an oppressor.
however, there's an element of accepting the condition of oppressed (though often without realizing their victimhood), to the point of reinforcing it by funding, supporting, and defending the oppressors and their methods, that resembles accompliceship.
in order to put an end to the oppression, we don't need wannabe-oppressors to stop trying to make victims, we need users to reject their offers and choose freedom instead, driving the market towards offerings that respect users choices, rather than towards enshittification -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 23:35:04 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
Billionaires at Davos don't think COVID is a cold
A few weeks ago, the New York Times called mask-wearers βthe last holdoutsβ. This week, the worldβs richest people went to great lengths to protect themselves from COVID
https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/billionaires-at-davos-dont-think -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-2022 23:16:20 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
congrats on the new release.
is there any improvement to the major problem that it's entirely useless and opaque without javascript?
I'd very much welcome the ability to see title, summary, maybe even a thumbnail, to decide whether or not to download it (with e.g. youtube-dl, that used to be able to download peertube videos, but not any more) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 04:25:01 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
librejs is enabled by default, and it blocks nontrivial js by default if it's not clearly marked as free software. it helps you audit and whitelist scripts you accept running on your computer. but most of the web has become toxic and dependent on installing and running hostile software on useds' browsers -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 11:15:08 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
the 20MB monster lio_23xx_vsw contains free and nonfree bits. the source for the linux binary is supposed to be available upon request; it wasn't at first, which was what caught my attention. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 11:14:38 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
it's still there, but now LICENCE.cavium_liquidio mentions a procedure to obtain its corresponding sources -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 11:14:32 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
IIRC one of them contains a linux kernel binary in it -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 07:18:08 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
make it MAMAA
as in "just killed a man" -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 06:42:15 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
I look forward to 2022-02-20 22:02 -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 01:53:36 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
I recall my daughter once implemented a Scratch game in which the player controlled a bat; IIRC she tried to duplicate a preexisting games
I recall the xcom series, and openxcom, had suits that enabled soldiers to fly, as in walk around without touching the floor -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 15:46:27 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
the text looks pretty good to me
one suggestion about the first paragraph under copyleft: after "when redistributing the program", make it "when distributing the program, with or without changes", since the requirements apply also to modified versions, and maybe add "(if you choose to distribute it)" so that the later paragraph on AGPL makes sense (to dispel the false notion that GPLv3 requires changes to be distributed or published)
thanks! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 00:21:48 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
> When is the chance for society to change its mind without violent revolt?
great question. can you name any jurisdiction that grants any citizen or group of citizens the right to fork the existing power structure and proceed independently from them?
AFAIK even inciting secession is criminalized most everywhere -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 04:05:30 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
nice request! it seems quite unusual and welcome for users to be interested in running GNU software on a distro that, for reasons I guess I'll never understand, prides itself for avoiding GNU. more so for being specifically a GNU kernel. how would we name the resulting operating system? non-GNU/kGNU? :-)
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