and I want to be really really clear here: good software is not a label. you do not label a thing as good software. no committee or organisation decides that a thing is good software or not. break out of that mindset.

good software is the process and philosophy of making software that is good and does good.

if a grid misaligns
with a grid right behind,

that's a moiré

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

@libreoffice @Jeff Have you had the experience of people submitting code they totally wrote themselves only to find that they have no idea what it does because it in reality was llm generated ai slop? if so, how common is it?

sentimental duck

‘Frightening and Unacceptable’: Black UNC Students’ Campus Event Erupts Into Chaos After White Intruder Storms In Shouting Racist Slurs.

#blackmastodon
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/09/03/black-unc-students-campus-event-erupts-into-chaos/

This Is For Everyone is now available in paperback.

You might recognise the face on the cover...a younger me at MIT in 1998 when 150 million people used the web. Today it's roughly 6 billion.

Read about how the web came to be and where I think it's going ➡️ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/

#ThrowbackThursday

Four years ago today

📍 George H Sparks Reservoir, GA

#dogs #dog #rescuedog #AdoptDontShop #DogsOfMastodon #photography #fujifilm #memorium

Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/09/03/2023242/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Projection defined.

We are indeed out of weapons especially mid to high grade ammunition. Trump has been told there isnt enough for this war or the next one he is planning with Canada.

We do not PRODUCE munitions at an accelerated level. Munition manufacturing TAKES TIME which is why normal people dont just use up their entire supply and then demand more made quickly. Quickly made munitions, is not a thing.

We have used up our ENTIRE STOCKPILE which is being mentioned as being rejuvenated but when you are using them as fast as you can make them, the stockpile dwindles as ours HAS. We have nothing left to send to others now, but no one should know this because we need that leverage----that we no longer have.

Biden Administration lives in Trump brain rent free along with Obama and anything and everything Trump does wrong will be blamed on someone else, so it doesnt matter what the facts are, we just make shit up now so we feel better about ourselves. Not to mention ANYTHING that happened BEFORE Trump is utterly moot at this point in time since it is he that is using all the munitions willy nilly on FISHING BOATS. And of OF COURSE....GIVE THAT MAN MORE MONEY and GOLD and OIL and COOKIES.................

@mattblaze Congressional. Stupid fingers.

we need to start a new movement called good software. software that is good, and does good, for the public good.

the freedom part is the wrong focus. it's a misaligned value judgement. you can write free software that bombs children. you can have a free software project maintained by a fascist or a rapist. software that bombs children, by the very definition, can never be good. projects where fascists and rapists are allowed into positions of power are, by the very definition, not good.

I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. today is the day that my husband and I could harvest the carrot

not a typo. There is just the one

the others fell victim to the raccoon and to other .. perils (#picathecat )

I had such high hopes for this carrot! I knew that we’d need to cut it in half and share it so each of us could get a little bit of the nourishment, but it had grown quite thick … but now having lifted the carrot? I wonder will we survive?

@mntmn drip amiright? 😜

so remember all those years I spent saying that the people in charge of big foss projects were elitist creeps who were, ironically, mostly interested in being the arbiters of what software you are and aren't allowed to use on a computer, and building cults of personality and dogmatic quasi-religions around licenses to keep themselves relevant and powerful despite being deeply odious?

you'll have to excuse me for gloating but I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

In other words, no matter what the courts rule, the reality is that there is simply no way for this to happen before ballots go out for the November election. @heidilifeldman

I'd call that a feature.

@eff ”copyright” was what Russia used to band the anti-war Yabloko party, btw