AI in FOSS projects is not just an annoyance. It is a campaign. Deliberate, specific and coordinated.

The goal is simple: convert, collect and capture. Those who trust AI to run their security will eventually depend on it. And Big Tech holds all of the cards. The price to keep up will keep rising, and when projects can't afford to keep up, the winners get free operating systems and programs to take control of, and the end users lose. Less power. Less freedom. And if AI Boosters have their way, users all eat from the same trough, one token at a time.

Ask yourself: If you didn't like computers in the 1980's and 1990's, you could do without. Then the Internet came along, and you embraced it. Not because you had to, but because you can. Checks didn't go away. Music is still available on CDs. Movies still have theaters to play in. So why when it comes to AI that nobody has a choice?

Consider the following:
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
https://www.osnews.com/story/144547/the-great-license-washing-has-begun/
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/06/chardet-dispute-shows-how-ai-will-kill-software-licensing/4118822

They aren't "just asking questions" anymore.

This is a siege.

#fuckAI #breaktheloom #fightthefuture

"...But Dell and CloudFlare also donated to DHH's Omarchy."
"#FuckDell and #FuckCloudFlare as well."
"...And Dropbox..."
"...Also #FuckDropbox. What is so hard about understanding this?"

As of two days ago, Loudermilk is no longer legally streaming ...anywhere.

Glad I picked up this DVD set. Too bad they never released Season 2 & 3 on disc.

If I cared to make a bot on the Fediverse...

Buckaroo Banzai without Context

Sometimes I see something I am impassioned about and want to reply. But when I write a thing, before I press toot, I ask three questions.

-- Who wrote what I am replying to?
-- Are they an expert in the subject? If so, what am I going to contribute that they don't already know? (Nothing? Then cancel, but if you still feel strongly about it, post it on your own timeline. Don't @ them, they're busy.)
-- Has someone else replying already said what I did? (If so, back off... And don't post "Me too!")

If I can do this, I know more guys can, too. Don't be a reply guy.

Sorry, but Los Angeles is close to my heart. I am boosting #USPol, whether the posts have CWs or not. I can and will CW my own. But this is timely in occurrence.

If you have to, mute boosts from me. Getting info to loved ones out there from afar, and we're three days from a major turn or a huge whiff. Not sure yet.

There are no good billionaires. A good billionaire doesn't exist. No matter how they became one.

Because if they did what they're supposed to do and give money to literally anything that needs funding, and if they did it enough, they'd stop being billionaires. (There are good millionaires, possibly. Most are bad. Hell, the majority of them are.)

But there are zero good billionaires. Because nobody in existence needs nor deserves ever a billion dollars to live.

Take a look at this exchange here:
https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114662735719743302

Ericka Simone, who needs no introduction, is not a dumb woman. So when people pop off about "you are a bootlicker" and "that's not what anarchy means" in a post showing people meeting needs, performing mutual aid, and not being fascists prove they didn't watch the video, they only want to "score points". Everything you read does NOT need a reply.

Those two interjectors really remind me of people like Richard Stallman: "please stop your dialogue and speak how I want you to speak before we continue..." is HOA bullshit. White folks fighting people on here with "you're doing it wrong" makes Trump win because they want us to disagree on how to tie our own shoes right when they're stealing our neighbors and family off the street.

You have your own timeline to rant semantics all you want. Click Home. Type a post. Press Toot. (Just like this rant right here! No @s of the people involved, no call outs. I want this to stand on its own.) Use that for your soapbox, if it's good it will get boosted. If it's not, it won't.

But popping into replies with demands and ultimatums means people who you might understand better if you listened instead of speaking first will block you and not waste their energy.

That's it. Know the fight, think before you type, and if you really need to come into someone else's space with a reply, start with respect. Do that, and you'll be ahead of a lot of people.

#Introduction #NobodyNewtoFed

Hello, I'm Tock. Used to be on Universeodon (left before Byron did), and Firefish (Still like Misskey, just haven't found a instance I liked yet that wasn't a stretch on my part to try to fit in.)

Yeah, white male IT professional. There's a million of us on Mastodon, figuratively. I'm trying not to be that "tech bro". Trying not to be that performative ally who runs when their friends are in trouble. Trying not to be that mansplainer who talks over women. Trying not to be that guy I've been the last thirty years... Even if it's no longer the goal of men like me under US Fascism.

This can't be the world we made. There has to be something better than this.

I am a #BlueLivingInARedState and making plans to leave it (Texas) soon. I look forward to living in a place where 50% of the people voted for Kamala instead of 50. Fight fascism. It might be the last fight left for many of us.

If I follow you, I like what you have to say. You don't have to follow me back.

Interests: #Writing #RetroGaming #Art #Music #Travel If you watch Futurama or Dr. Who, we are friends even if you disagree with everything I say.