Technologist who works in the macro aligned with FOSS, offline first, and anti-capitalism. Possibly human.
I post sporadically. Mostly bad takes on tech, but sometimes something useful.
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As some of you may already know, I'm finishing my Bachelor's degree this semester! 🎉
I'm already thinking about what my next steps should be, and I'm considering pursuing a Master's degree and/or looking for a fellowship of some sort. I was wondering, does anyone know any programs aligned with research in free and open source ecosystems _and_ technopolitics?
I could use some help, friends. I'd really appreciate sharing. 
If you can help out with the occasional pizza, that would really mean a lot to me. Monthly gifts would take care of a lot of my financial stress/anxiety as well.
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url
Progress: $557 / $2500 CAD (monthly goal)
If you aren't able help with PayPal, I have an Amazon .ca wishlist with some odds & ends, computer hardware: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom
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McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
Article on Repair Cafes and Repair Clinics.
If you haven't gone to a local one, I recommend it.
If you don't have a local one, I recommend spinning one up.
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century. Repair Cafes are free events where volunteers with technical know-how help neighbors fix household items. They started in the Netherlands with a single cafe in 2009 and grew to a global nonprofit. At a recent event in New Paltz, New York, volunteers helped attendees fix items from lamps and knives to sound mixers and balky zippers. There’s also the Buy Nothing Project and a growing number of tool-lending libraries. All are dedicated to repairing, trading, and giving instead of buying and selling.
And here’s @henry nailing the key point: it doesn’t matter if so-called AI “works.” What matters is that the value of your labor goes down, and workers are pushed further into precarity.
But what *really* matters, of course, is what we collectively decide to do about that.
Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453275.
Here we are. Let’s Encrypt is not trustable anymore. Any alternatives?
Feeling sad.
It's been a minute since I bothered having anything but a (now outdated) presentation on my website. Like, a pre-"AI" minute.
By now I realise all my work that has ever been online, visual and textual, has most likely been scraped to feed the glorified Tamagotchi. I hesitate putting anything new up for it to go through the grinder and train more idiocy.
Fellow neo-Luddites: what precautions do you take to make your words and images indigestible for the scrapers?
cc @stefan
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