Unimportant rant: I despise how web design has completely broken scrolling and scrollbars. It's terrible. I want a proper scrollbar back. I don't want them to randomly appear and then disappear. I don't want the browser to have to guess if I meant to scroll vertically or horizontally or which container inside of a container I meant to scroll. I also want my buttons to load more pages/content back.

One of those minefields which comes down to a guess to distract me from the news.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cararemixed/117548506533730288

I'm specifically trying to avoid scrolling uspol. Tomorrow will be a rollercoaster. So today was trying to run 9front bare metal instead of in VMs. Recommended if you need a distraction.

I spent all day on 9front... it was kind of useful not having working wifi till a moment ago when I hunted down an old firmware blob.

It might be appropriate to call voluntary AI users scabs. Stop feeding the machine dismantling our own labor! There isn't some basic income program. No utopia. Quality hasn't improved. Communities aren't healthier. The world isn't getting smarter.

Instead we have crumbling communities, loss of skill, a terrible job market, lack of trust with almost every interaction online, massive creative theft, and a dying planet. Yeah, these people are scabs.

While generative AI tools are what we push this onto, the culture of taking is something humanity needs to address in a larger scope. Techbros claim we need to move fast and break things. Well they broke things alright and fixing this one is far overdue. It's a conversation we can have without even involving AI (although that needs reckoning and restorative measures!!). We must repair our culture of sharing even if it's just in small pockets of the world at first.

You could be exploring something you find valuable for years or even most of your life and then some guy comes by and thinks, "I want that so I'll take it" and walks away with no conversation, attribution, or contribution (at least none in good faith). The entitlement to take makes sharing our labor/art/insight so painful.

Thinking back to Strange Loop (conf). How so many of the great talks would not happen in today's world? For example, talk to knitters about technology and they'll talk about how much they hate slop. The exchange of things we personally find inspiring was a critical aspect of what made that conference feel magical. Now, so many have closed that door because of the gross abuses that scrapers and plagiarism have brought to these communities. There is so much MORE friction to sharing now, not less.

While I've been working on things, I've been collecting ideas of how I might construct space both online and in person to be conducive to these goals. I had originally bought glitchwitches.org as domain meant to serve a community of like-minded individuals with a focus on learning and teaching but it was just a bit of glue to gather people in person, or so the idea went. I think I want to expand it and make something slightly broader which should still serve much of it's original intent as well.

I've been stuck feeling like I have *a lot to say* but *so little time and energy to do*. I've been quiet partly because I'm working towards things I hope at least help protect personal computing from my own perspective of what that entails. I hope this means sharing more eventually too but I'm trying to prioritize *doing not just saying*. I have scrapped a few ideas in the last month after trialing things but this is still progress: I've come away with sharper ideas and clearer motivation.

Take breaks. Read books. Write things on paper if you have to. Maybe even talk to people IRL to avoid feeling like you're missing out.

I occasionally check bsky to see specifics of NYC and US politics and it feels like that entire platform is under AI psychosis. Their brains are seriously cooked over there.

The fediverse has it's problems but one visit to the ATproto world cures me of those annoyances. It also reminds me that too much of this "social media' is not good for anyone.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cararemixed/117168201692620012

I love that I can just open books and read about things. Libraries are such a joy to have access to. Physical books are treasures.

While not directly applicable to ffs2 in OpenBSD, I'm quite amused by the way the inode got things tacked on over time, in this chapter from "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System 2nd Ed"

I spoke at a technical event tonight. I was the only one out of almost two dozen that didn't use AI to code. 😞 All the shop talk after was AI too. Many of these people can't even hold a conversation about code let alone write it anymore it seems.