Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

what if we found a way to harness all the energy used by proof-of-work challenges in LLM countermeasures and directed it to a very large laser, which we then pointed at Sam Altman's head?

feel like this would solve so many problems!

Everyone believes learning how to computer is the kind of thing that only happens to other people

"feel unsafe? are you sure that's not just discomfort from having to face the fact that poor people exist?"

Wow, rare Hacker News W:

This is the true problem with AI. It's with who owns it, and what they will inevitably use it for. Whether it can do cool stuff with code or equal a junior developer is irrelevant. What it can do is less important than what it will be used for.

The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs, which from their perspective is a cost center and always will be. If you're not an owner, then you have no control over the direction or use of AI. You are doomed to have your life disrupted and changed by it, with no input whatsoever. To quote the article, your six shillings a day can become six shillings a week, and you are left to just deal with it however you can. You are "free" to go find some other six shilling a week job. If you can.

And if you think, "Oh, every technology is like this, it's always been this way", you are right. You have always been at the whims of the owning class, and barring a change towards economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives, it likely always will be.

It's early days and the project is still in beta but we have published an early version of a @coopcloud recipe (https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/lasuite-docs) that makes it easier to deploy Docs for smaller organisations (the La Suite deployment has apparently approx 15,000 users).

We are offering managed Docs instances with full support provided by us. Hosted in the EU by a worker owned tech co-operative.

No bosses, no CEOs and we pay all our taxes.

#foss #workercoops #coop #tech

The targets of the ICE raids are the heartbeat of our communities. They work hard for very little money just for a chance to give their families a better life. They are valued and appreciated and should not live in fear of federal goons. Fuck ICE.

QueerCoded Workshop at Quatrefoil Library

<p>Quatrefoil Library, Saturday, May 17 at 03:00 PM CDT</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-workshop-at-quatrefoil-library

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

>Their C-Suites and marketing teams form the autocratic clergy, and developers are the literate but subordinate monks. Most computer users are almost completely illiterate serfs with regard to the devices on which they depend both for social interaction and their livelihoods.

https://davelane.nz/current-digital-dark-age

Cyberia at People's Pride

<p>Powderhorn Park, Saturday, June 28 at 12:00 PM CDT</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-at-peoples-pride

There are so many fake quotes by me each week that I don't what to do about them. Someone just posted a medium article with another fake quote from me saying "Generative AI is not just about creating something new, but about capturing what was once impossible to express."

If you know anything about my work you know that I would never say something like this.

As @emilymbender said what so called Generative AI has done is basically the equivalent of an oil spill in our information ecosystem.

QueerCoded Learn to Code Workshop

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, May 3 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software<br><br></p></li></ul>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-learn-to-code-workshop-1

Cyberia Congress

<p>online, Sunday, April 27 at 12:00 PM CDT</p><p>Second Congress of Cyberia for 2025</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-congress