Elder gods of FOSS & the Internet embracing generative AI as a tool sure looks a lot like a “how do you do fellow kids” meme, complete with a second skateboard for no apparent reason.
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Bryan Davis
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Angry cartoon unicorn. Geek-of-all-trades. Radical Left Scum. ACAB. Join a union. Opinions are my own or stolen from others.
Eli Schwartz@tiotasram @jonny @timbray @davidgerard
If you're using an LLM to write code and don't care about the ethics, copyright, deskilling, energy use, intentional RAM market attacks, or countless other issues...
... I'd generally want to assume you at least care about this popular fig leaf of "look, it's just a tool. Contributors are still responsible for understanding what they contribute, they are the accountable entity so everything's fine."
Which... requires one to polish what the LLM emitted.
1989-06-04 was 37 years ago. The CCP is still trying to hide what they did. Wikipedia remembers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
Evan ProdromouThanks to everyone who's connected their servers or personal accounts to #tagspub to share tagged content with the Fediverse. As of tonight, there are 5,456 servers with users whose content has been shared by a tags.pub hashtag bot -- about 1.86M total shares.
If you haven't yet, please check out https://tags.pub/#connect to connect your account or your server.
And if you don't understand why we need tags.pub, see https://tags.pub/#why !
Brooke Vibber 
I have just one thing to say for Pride month: you don't always know who your queer friends are, because the world might not feel like a safe place for them to exist. Help create that safety for all your friends and family, and you never know what you might discover about them one day. <3
JessamynHappy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded policies or laws, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program where they can get digital access to banned or restricted books thanks to the cooperation of larger libraries in more open-minded locations.
It's a great program that more people should know about.
New shirt about to arrive according to my shipping notifications. Support your local union and every other union too! (Except cop unions of course.)
https://shop.goodpress.coop/products/wxses-u-is-for-union-t-shirt-5051-kgr
MediaWiki👋 Saluton!
Today is @brooke Vibber Day 🎉.
Which commemorates the awesome works of @bvibber Vibber, our legendary longtime lead developer and the first @wikimediafoundation staff member.
#DidYouKnow that the awesome first Vibber Day was observed in 2004 and was proclaimed by Jimbo Wales?
ℹ️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Brooke_Vibber_Day
Happy Pride! Never forget that Stonewall was a riot. Organizing as a community to resist oppression is messy and hard and the most amazing thing you will do. It also changes the world.
Kunal MehtaHappy Brooke Vibber day!
Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.
https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/interview-with-brooke-vibber-2021.html
Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!
A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.
Interview with Brooke Vibber (2021) - The Lego Mirror
I had the pleasure of interviewing Brooke Vibber back in January 2021 for my story in the Wikipedia Signpost, The people who built Wikipedia, technically, which looked back at the technical history of Wikipedia to celebrate the 20th birthday. I was not able to use all of the responses Brooke…