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The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters

maho.dev · Jan 11

A reflection on the Forkiverse experiment, why it felt different from day one, and how it changed my view on instance choice in the Fediverse.

Shared by @Prometheus and 19 others.
Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Jan 11

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Mother Bones (@_L1vY_) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Roknrol (@roknrol) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (@jalcine) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Radgryd (@Radgryd) · Jan 12
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

Mitex Leo (@ml) · Jan 11
🔁 @tchambers:

"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers

When Google Locked the Door, Three MIT Students Picked the Lock

implicator.ai · Jan 11

When Google locked AlphaFold 3 behind commercial restrictions, three MIT PhD students rebuilt it in four months. Now Boltz has $28M, a Pfizer partnership, and a bet that open-source can capture drug discovery infrastructure.

Shared by @topstories and 56 others.
trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Dr David Mills (@dtl) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Andrew Henry (@AndrewHenry) · Jan 11
🔁 @schuler:

When Google restricted AlphaFold 3's commercial use, three MIT PhD students rebuilt the protein folding model in four months. Their open-source version, Boltz-1, now has $28M in funding and a Pfizer partnership. The move highlights tensions between proprietary AI research and scientific openness in drug discovery infrastructure. #OpenScience #ProteinFolding #AIResearch implicator.ai/when-google-lock

mau 🏳️‍🌈 #EndFossilFuels (@mzedp) · Jan 11
🔁 @schuler:

When Google restricted AlphaFold 3's commercial use, three MIT PhD students rebuilt the protein folding model in four months. Their open-source version, Boltz-1, now has $28M in funding and a Pfizer partnership. The move highlights tensions between proprietary AI research and scientific openness in drug discovery infrastructure. #OpenScience #ProteinFolding #AIResearch implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (@vfrmedia) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in #chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Quixoticgeek (@quixoticgeek) · Jan 11
🔁 @schuler:

When Google restricted AlphaFold 3's commercial use, three MIT PhD students rebuilt the protein folding model in four months. Their open-source version, Boltz-1, now has $28M in funding and a Pfizer partnership. The move highlights tensions between proprietary AI research and scientific openness in drug discovery infrastructure. #OpenScience #ProteinFolding #AIResearch implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Michael Engel (@me_) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

hypebot (@hypebot) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Jan 11
🔁 @petersuber:

The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use, and is poised to earn $100+ billion from partnerships with #pharma companies. Then three MIT students reverse-engineered AlphaFold 3 and released their OSS model, called #Boltz, with no restrictions on commercial reuse. Like Red Hat, the Boltz team is making good money selling services while leaving the software free and open.
implicator.ai/when-google-lock

Information literacy and chatbots as search

buttondown.com · Jan 11

By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

Shared by @DAIR and 18 others.
Sylvain Soliman ☕️ (@soliman) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Krazy Krêpe (@krazykitty) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 (@djoerd) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Irenes (many) (@ireneista) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

DAIR (@DAIR) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Tilman (@gpsloco) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

toolbear#🌶️ (@toolbear) · Jan 12
🔁 @emilymbender:

I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive

/fin (for now)

Worth reading
Shared by @honzajavorek and 22 others.
hnbot (@hnbot) · Jan 11

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
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- 33 minutes ago | 21 points | 1 comments
- URL:
antirez.com/news/158
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Antirez warns programmers: clinging to “anti-AI” nostalgia is career suicide. Modern LLMs already turn multi-week projects into afternoon jobs—he himself fixed Redis tests, added UTF-8 to linenoise, wrote a 700-line C BERT inference library, and re-implemented Redis Streams internals in minutes, using only prompts and quick reviews. Hand-coding is becoming a hobby; value has shifted to knowing what to build and how to guide the model. He welcomes the change as the next wave of open-source democratization, but fears job losses and AI oligopoly. His advice: stop moralizing, test the tools seriously, keep iterating, and vote for governments that will protect the displaced. Building is still the goal—AI just multiplies the builder.

Lobsters Daily Bot (@lobstersdaily) · Jan 11

Top 25 stories on lobste.rs:

🔗 Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
antirez.com/news/158
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💬 lobste.rs/s/cmsfbu/don_t_fall_

🔗 A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
cprimozic.net/notes/posts/pers
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💬 lobste.rs/s/kc88fv/unique_perf

🔗 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3]
ryelang.org/blog/posts/learn_8
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💬 lobste.rs/s/r1wjyf/80_rye_20_t

🔗 Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linu
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💬 lobste.rs/s/jbrnz8/asahi_linux

🔗 Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-
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💬 lobste.rs/s/vlzg2m/finding_fix

🔗 The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi
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💬 lobste.rs/s/ftwkvo/hobbyist_ma

🔗 Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer
tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/1158
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💬 lobste.rs/s/djvda5/create_semi

🔗 I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)
dev.to/polliog/i-replaced-redi
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💬 lobste.rs/s/weiyij/i_replaced_

🔗 PMU Counters on Apple Silicon
blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-p
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💬 lobste.rs/s/k7xslg/pmu_counter

🔗 jj tug
shaddy.dev/notes/jj-tug/
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💬 lobste.rs/s/zi022d/jj_tug

🔗 Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental supervision
support.google.com/families/an
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💬 lobste.rs/s/ta6ngj/google_auto

🔗 LLVM: The bad parts
npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The
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💬 lobste.rs/s/8nwjov/llvm_bad_pa

🔗 We default to addition
ufried.com/blog/addition_bias/
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💬 lobste.rs/s/u6lchj/we_default_

🔗 Airfrog: Tiny sub-$5 wireless co-processor for ARM MCUs
youtube.com/watch?v=XY2RdaR9DeU
🔥 Score: 0
💬 lobste.rs/s/qjpsyf/airfrog_tin

🔗 Exponential growth continued — cargo-semver-checks 2025 Year in Review
predr.ag/blog/cargo-semver-che
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💬 lobste.rs/s/uuildg/exponential

🔗 Keeping 20,000 GPUs healthy
modal.com/blog/gpu-health
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💬 lobste.rs/s/aevhq8/keeping_20_

🔗 How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io
mr-leshiy-blog.web.app/blog/cr
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💬 lobste.rs/s/q4zgly/how_safe_is

🔗 How I use Jujutsu
abhinavsarkar.net/posts/jj-usa
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💬 lobste.rs/s/osmrzx/how_i_use_j

🔗 std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
0xghost.dev/blog/std-move-deep
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💬 lobste.rs/s/gopuzu/std_move_do

🔗 Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/
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💬 lobste.rs/s/vtmulo/implementin

🔗 OpenChaos.dev
openchaos.dev/
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💬 lobste.rs/s/j5poff/openchaos_d

🔗 whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code
github.com/dbreunig/whenwords
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💬 lobste.rs/s/fr9pyv/whenwords_r

🔗 Writing mutexes from scratch in Go
rybicki.io/blog/2026/01/01/mut
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💬 lobste.rs/s/ty9jft/writing_mut

🔗 Code And Let Live
fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
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💬 lobste.rs/s/xjiqml/code_let_li

🔗 The Curious Case of Stack Pivot Detection
seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q1/48
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💬 lobste.rs/s/g17atl/curious_cas

Rubenerd: Xfce is great

rubenerd.com · Jan 12

A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.

Shared by @newsyc250 and 15 others.
GripNews (@GripNews) · Jan 12

🌖 Rubenerd:歷久彌新的 Xfce 桌面環境
➤ 拒絕盲目創新的典範:為何穩定的介面纔是專業使用者的終極追求?
rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
科技評論家 Ruben Schade 近期分享了他對 Xfce 桌面環境長達二十年的深厚情感。在軟體產業盲目追求「顛覆式創新」的浪潮中,Xfce 憑藉其始終如一的穩定性、輕量化設計與直覺的介面脫穎而出。Schade 指出,Xfce 成功守住了功能性與簡潔感之間的微妙平衡,既不像某些視窗管理員那樣過於簡陋,也不會像 GNOME 或早期 KDE 那樣因過度設計而令使用者困惑。對他而言,這種「不亂搞(Not Fucking It Up)」的開發哲學,正是 Xfce 能夠在 Linux 與 BSD 社羣中立於不敗之地的核心原因。
+ 說得太對了!現在的桌面環境總想著要把介面改成平板電腦的樣子,我只想好好用滑鼠工作而已,Xfce 纔是真正的清流。
+ 看到作者提到 Tango 圖示集真的很有感觸,那種一眼就能辨識的功能美學,比現在
##軟體技術 #Xfce #FreeBSD #桌面環境 #使用者體驗

jbz (@jbz) · Jan 12
🔁 @ngate:

👀 Wow, stop the presses! Another riveting #love letter to #XFCE, the desktop environment so thrillingly minimalist it makes white paint look like a rave. 🎉 Ruben shares his undying affection for the world's most exciting software waiting room 💻—a tale of pulse-pounding neutrality!
rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/ #Minimalism #SoftwareDevelopment #DesktopEnvironment #HackerNews #ngated

David Gerard (@davidgerard) · Jan 12
🔁 @rubenerd:

Riffing on a post @davidgerard shared again recently about Xfce.

In spite of all the pressures to change, it hasn't. And I think that's a massive relief.

rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/

dallo (@dallo) · Jan 12

Rubenerd: Xfce is great

rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/

> A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.

Fun fact: The longest Ubuntu I used was a xubuntu. What a great light DE. I am using KDE nowadays but this is another story.

#Linux #Foss

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano) · Jan 12
🔁 @rubenerd:

Riffing on a post @davidgerard shared again recently about Xfce.

In spite of all the pressures to change, it hasn't. And I think that's a massive relief.

rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/

hnbot (@hnbot) · Jan 12

XFCE Is Great
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- 40 minutes ago | 6 points | 0 comments
- URL:
rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Ruben Schade praises Xfce for staying lightweight, fast, and functionally complete without succumbing to industry pressure for disruptive redesigns. He cites its longevity since his 2008 FreeBSD setup, applauds the 4.x series for “Not Fucking It Up,” and hopes version 5 never arrives. While he currently uses KDE on his main desktop, all his laptops run Xfce and he’s tempted to switch back. He ends with a warning that angry rebuttals will be deleted and the sender blocked.

Ruben Schade :runbsd: 🔰 🇦🇺 (@rubenerd) · Jan 12

Riffing on a post @davidgerard shared again recently about Xfce.

In spite of all the pressures to change, it hasn't. And I think that's a massive relief.

rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/

How TiVo killed live TV

theverge.com · Jan 11

On Version History: Behold the power of the pause button.

Shared by @Hawaii and 7 others.
Tofu Musubi (@Hawaii) · Jan 11
🔁 @imdavidpierce:

It's the Version History season finale, and it's a delightful one: the life and times of TiVo, with @emilynussbaum and @reckless1280 https://www.theverge.com/podcast/860321/tivo-tv-streaming-version-history

Nilay Patel (@reckless1280) · Jan 11
🔁 @imdavidpierce:

It's the Version History season finale, and it's a delightful one: the life and times of TiVo, with @emilynussbaum and @reckless1280 https://www.theverge.com/podcast/860321/tivo-tv-streaming-version-history

When the State Terrorizes the People

steady.page · Jan 11

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

Shared by @janxdevil and 18 others.
Andrew (@dcbikeguy) · Jan 12
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Jan 12
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Katrina Katrinka :donor: (@katrinakatrinka) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Wen (@Wen) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Cosima (she/her) (@gazebo_c) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Bruce MacDonald (@rationaldoge) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

New piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

almondtree (@almondtree) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

New piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Jan 11
🔁 @tzimmer_history:

When the State Terrorizes the People

The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.

My new piece:

steady.page/en/democracyameric

Worth reading

Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI

theguardian.com · Jan 11

As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers

Shared by @bundyo and 9 others.
Worth reading

The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well

softwaremaxims.com · Jan 11

In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like “unpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”. There are variations on that theme, like Github Sponsors launching, p...

Shared by @otfrom and 11 others.
Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Jan 12
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

systemd-jaded.timer (@leftpaddotpy) · Jan 12
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

Benjamin Geer (@benjamingeer) · Jan 12
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder) · Jan 12
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

alpha (@alpha) · Jan 12
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

Richard Schneeman (@Schneems) · Jan 11
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

Colin McMillen (@colin_mcmillen) · Jan 11
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

Josh Bressers (@joshbressers) · Jan 11
🔁 @Di4na:

"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

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