Proud that @fsfe volunteer @nicolef went through this whole process with #sumup about the #GNU #GPL.

Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to further develop the #FreeSoftware movement in a positive direction.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250820-01.en.html

Thanks also to @conservancy and @LaF0rge for all the work they do / did on this.

GoToSocial allows you to take a copy of your toots when you move servers.

“Importing your posts is quiet by design: imported posts don't get pushed to your followers on remote instances, aren't inserted into timelines on your instance, and don't generate notifications for your subscribers. This means you can import a large set of posts without annoying your followers. However, once posts are imported, you can boost them or share their URLs like any other post of yours.”
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/stable/user_guide/importing_posts/

There are of course limitations. Read the post for more.

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

Editing to add my library's Seed Library web site: https://www.librarypoint.org/seed-library/

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay

🏦 💰 Taxpayer money should fund public goods.

When governments invest in software, it should be #FreeSoftware: software that gives the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share.

Sign the open letter to support this principle:
🔗 https://publiccode.eu

#publiccode #SoftwareFreedom

#flohmarkt v0.10.1 is out including

* accessibility refinements
* few bugfixes
* performance improvements for start page

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/releases/tag/0.10.1

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

in other news, we released a #flohmarkt bugfix release 0.10.1 at https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt :)

You can now support #Phosh, the desktop for #MobileLinux with donations, because there is a formal organization:

https://ev.phosh.mobi/

#linux #phone #FOSS #opensource #DigitalSovereignty #BanBigTech

Reparar es cuidar /// Repair is care.

…but happy the shell/console would just be a single touch away and that the system is introspectable without any hackery.

Another day out with #phosh and the #OP6

- Woke up with #gnomeClocks ⏰
- Looked up the address of the 🍟 via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to 🎵 via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen 📆 plugin backed by #eds
- Checked 💗 pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short 🚶

No console needed.

#LinuxMobile

Wer Dänisch (übersetzen) kann, kann bei Wikipedia Hintergrund finden.

Das Telefon ist schwer. Ob es noch funktioniert ist unbekannt.

Es diente lange Zeit als Erkennungszeichen für ein Treffen im Umfeld der Mailbox Link-Goe.

Der Kaufpreis geht als Spende an einen gemeinnützigen Verein aus dem Umfeld von Open Source und Mobile Linux.

Ich werde den Preis gelegentlich reduzieren, bis sich ein Spender/Käufer findet.

Preis: 5000 € :: Dies ist ein Kleinanzeige auf dem Flohmarkt Weende. Der Inhaber kann per privater Direktnachricht im Fediverse erreicht werden.