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astrojuanlu

@astrojuanlu@social.juanlu.space

On a mission to accelerate the Solidarity Economy through technology ♻️

Product Manager and Developer Advocate by day, rants about bad UX in F/LOSS by night. In love with SciPy, PyData, and all things Python. Luddite. Trying to make a positive impact.

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astrojuanlu, to random
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I think about this thread by @HeavenlyPossum almost every day of my life.

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110559936031725794

baldur, to random
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“Twitter reply guys were bad, but Mastodon is no better - localghost”

This is, unfortunately, absolutely correct and, if I get unpleasant reply guys, I have to assume that it’s even worse for people who are of a more targeted group or have more followers https://localghost.dev/blog/twitter-reply-guys-were-bad-but-mastodon-is-no-better/

astrojuanlu,
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@baldur It's almost as if the problem is not platforms, but people.

Or almost as if making a "Twitter clone but with CWs" and expect the culture to be completely different from Twitter just because it's Free Software(tm) was completely misguided.

All this is an expectations mismatch. People were promised heaven on Mastodon, hence the grief.

Free Software maximalists should learn to stop overpromising and then when confronted to the reality go full Steve "you're holding it wrong" Jobs.

anze3db, to random
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After trying to create an account and spin up an instance on the largest EU cloud provider I understand why nobody uses EU cloud providers.

astrojuanlu,
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@anze3db I have a few candidates in mind and... they are all problematic

astrojuanlu, to python
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Who will be at PyData Berlin/PyCon Germany next week? ✋🏼

thomasfuchs, to random
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People, always: Mozilla, please just make a web browser

Mozilla, 2014: here’s a phone!
Mozilla, 2018: all in on VR!
Mozilla, 2022: let’s do crypto!
Mozilla, 2024: hurrah AI!

astrojuanlu,
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@thomasfuchs Money doesn't grow on trees and they've taken heat for receiving Google sponsorship. What are they supposed to do to sustain themselves? Donations aren't enough.

baldur, to random
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Post-hoc explanations based on personal interactions with processes that are substantially random will generally be incorrect. The observed patterns will be random, not systemic

IOW, everything written about LLMs from the perspective of a single practitioner can be dismissed out of hand. The nature of LLMs makes it impossible to distinguish signal from noise in your own practice

I suggest not even reading these posts. Our brains are unfortunately wired to mistake confident writing for evidence

astrojuanlu,
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@glyph @simon @baldur @mms "Wildly overblown" is overly kind to LLMs here. Several energy operators have already said that the current uptake in data centers and energy consumption is delaying their plans to go carbon neutral or directly that the grid cannot hold it.

"Not as bad as crypto" doesn't mean anything.

astrojuanlu,
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@glyph @simon @baldur @mms

"Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions" https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-is-using-ai-to-get-its-nuclear-projects-approved-in-the-us

"in Northern Virginia, regional utility Dominion Energy has insufficient 500kV transmission lines to power new facilities" https://assets.iqt.org/pdfs/Workshop-Report_Data-Centers_Nov-2023.pdf/web/viewer.html (from https://mastodon.world/ by @Mer__edith)

"We figured at some point over the next few years, we'd start to see a downturn [in gas use]. I think that downturn has gone farther and farther [away] in time" https://www.ft.com/content/1f93b9b2-b264-44e2-87cc-83c04d8f1e2b (paywall)

astrojuanlu,
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@glyph @simon @baldur @mms Summary: more gas, private corporations going nuclear (what can possibly go wrong?), energy grids not keeping up. And these were just things that were off the top of my head.

I have more links in my "Tech won't save us" and "Ecoanxiety" Obsidian notes but honestly I'm not bothering keeping up anymore.

The last thing we need now is influential tech people saying that critics are overblowing tech energy consumption.

astrojuanlu,
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@glyph @simon @baldur @mms @Mer__edith What evidence would you need to be convinced? Honest question to weigh to what extent am I willing to drop everything else I'm doing and start shooting links, meticulously address your retorts, and spend an unbound amount of time arguing with strangers online, which is known to be among the most unproductive activities ever invented by humankind

astrojuanlu,
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@glyph @baldur @simon @mms @Mer__edith Regulation which makes all companies properly account for their externalities would end capitalism as we know it which is why it hasn't been implemented and the reason our planet is going to shit

astrojuanlu,
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@xgranade @KevinMarks @simon @baldur @mms @glyph Yes - I'd take anything Altman says with a truck of salt.

And yet, computing now emits more CO2 than aviation worldwide. Not to mention water consumption, biodiversity loss in data center construction sites (ask @tunubesecamirio), etc.

astrojuanlu, to random
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Been following the drama for some time. So sad to see a project with so much potential struggle so much. Hope a new maintainer is found soon https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/3621

(Previously: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/2442)

rysiek, to fediverse
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Happy seventh anniversary of "Six reasons Mastodon won't survive" to all who celebrate:
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

astrojuanlu,
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@rysiek Visionary https://twitter.com/LanceUlanoff/status/1755269069916315810

astrojuanlu, to random
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It's that time of the year again: if you support users online, and more so if you're part of an open source community, please take a deep breath and read @nedbat "How to be helpful online" guide

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202009/how_to_be_helpful_online.html

astrojuanlu, to random
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Hey @klove (I don't see Lacey here) do you happen to still have the designs for the "I code like a girl" t-shirt you made in 2015 for @djangogirls ? I think @humitos gave me a pink one which was awesome but I lost a piece of luggage in a trip and I no longer have with me... It was one of my favourite t-shirts, I used to wear it to every conference as well as special days at work 🥹

Peace and love 🩷

Me with said t-shirt and half a dozen other objects

hanno, to random
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Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource devs that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

astrojuanlu,
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@hanno cc @luis_in_brief

euklidiadas, to random Spanish
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El sábado fue un día caótico para mí. Tenía un par de cosas de trabajo que hacer, pero lo aparqué todo porque TELEGRAM CERRABA.

Ponte a llamar a gente, ponte a buscar alternativa, ponte a comunicar a cientos de personas vías alternativas de comunicación.

Me pregunto si es posible denunciar a Santiago Pedraz por el fin de semana que me hizo pasar, por la histeria que ha levantado su ignorancia. Agobio es poco.

astrojuanlu,
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@euklidiadas A mí me pasó exactamente lo mismo... El domingo tenía una cuestión urgente pero todos mis grupos empezaron a echar humo, a plantear irse a WhatsApp, abriendo salas en Matrix... escribí https://escritura.social/astrojuanlu/lo-de-telegram-explicado-para-humanos a la carrera antes de embarcar un avión y me tuve que contener de no levantar mi propio proxy, que ya me habría hundido el fin de semana. Luego @trankten hizo el suyo y lo empecé a circular. Un desastre pero en fin, nos pillará más preparados la próxima vez.

astrojuanlu, to Matrix Spanish
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Españita cuando empiece a probar como sustituto de

astrojuanlu,
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Para más información https://utopia.rosano.ca/encryption-rant/ by @rosano

jonny, to random
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So uh whats the profit story for astral.sh. I am not gonna be using any of that shit until I understand what the worst case is for capturing basic python infra. They say "we'll keep making FOSS but sell services on it" but what kind of services can you sell on a linter and package manager that would attract a couple million in VC?

astrojuanlu,
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@acdha @jonny Who do you think funds the PSF? Or the GIL removal? Or MyPy?

The Python ecosystem today is only made possible thanks to the most evil Big Tech corporations in the planet and so people freaking out at a specific VC-backed company makes my blood boil to be completely honest.

drewdevault, to random
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A new community space for discussing free software

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/community-discourse/

Please boost <3

astrojuanlu,
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@drewdevault Freedom 0 means software can be used for exploiting or opressing other human beings, and just for this reason I stopped identifying myself with the Free Software principles a long time ago.

astrojuanlu,
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@whynothugo @drewdevault One could contend that the copyleft provisions are also a futile exercise, especially given the fact that the FSF has given up defending the license and the SFC now changed doctrine for good and is using contract law, not copyright law, to litigate.

Futile exercises or people breaching the terms of the license didn't stop the Free Software movement, why should it be a deterrent for these post-F/LOSS movements?

astrojuanlu, to random
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Had my first interaction with an AI powered chatbot today. As expected, it was completely useless.

astrojuanlu, to random
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Is there an alternative to Google Groups that has reasonable pricing, unlike Groups.io, and that's exclusively a normal mailing list without bells and whistles?

astrojuanlu,
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@nemobis @Framasoft Ohh looks like might be the thing. I had a look at the mailman-as-a-service options, picked a few random ones and none convinced me honestly. Thanks a lot for the pointers!

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