Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Now that #GoToSocial v0.19.0 is out, we're going to start the process of transferring our coding workflow from Github over to #Codeberg (@Codeberg), to get away from Microsoft's endless parade of crapola.

This means that some time in the next week or so, we will "lock" the Github repository so that only superseriousbusiness.org members can create new PRs and issues etc (similar to what we do when we're on holiday).

Then, we will migrate the repository over to Codeberg, using Codeberg's migration functionality to keep issues, pull requests, comments, etc intact.

Once we've validated that everything is in order, we will mark the Github repository as a read-only mirror of the Codeberg repo, and start using Codeberg for issues, pull requests, CI/CD etc.

To avoid breaking people's automated builds that rely on that Github repo, we are planning to keep it as a read-only mirror for a while (eg., 6 months or so, not sure yet) . At some point though we will fully remove it, to avoid contributing our code to Microsoft's "ai" garbage. But we will warn in advance about this so that people can update their scripts and stuff in time.

There will probably be some turbulence in our CI/CD pipelines and workflow and whatnot during this transition period, but nothing that should affect end users of the software: releases up to v0.19.0 will remain available on Github and Docker as normal, and snapshots should remain up to date on our Minio S3 bucket and Docker.

We're looking forward to the move, and to putting the sloth in its new home and seeing it wander around sniffing the furniture and exploring Thanks for reading!

Today I got a personal message from a co-worker that was in large parts written by AI. We had a short back and forth.

My concerns regarding personal messages that are written with the help of AI:

Who wants to read what somebody else didn’t want to write? It feels like receiving a birthday card with no handwritten notes on it.

In our culture, we value authenticity. What does that mean in the age of AI? It feels like receiving a serial letter.

When receiving a text that seems personal, I feel betrayed by the part that was written by a machine. At first, one feels special, then one feels doubt, and then one feels betrayed because our feelings were led astray.

How do we feel about people who want to make their personal interactions more efficient? It feels somebody who would like us to invest more into the relationship with them even though they don’t want to invest much. It feels exploitative.

How do we feel about getting a message that required a lot of extra energy to make it longer for all the wrong reasons listed above? As the Earth is burning? All of the electricity demands, economic disruptions, exploitation of the creative and the poor, and many more things besides, all to deliver the kind of message I didn’t want.

Don't write your personal messages with the help of AI.

How is Mozilla doing you ask? Firefox VCS has completed the move from their own infra to checks notes oh yeah, GitHub dot com

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox

is there precedent in the linux kernel for how to treat Signed-off-by lines wrt plurality

anyway so bluesky continue not to fix this nonsense so i am going to keep abusing it until someone does something about it

If he's ever called one of his ex's a "crazy bitch", do not have sex with him. Do not have children with him.

Do not move in with him.

Do. Not. Have. Sex. With. Him.

Ghost him immediately and don't walk home alone at night for the next few months.

He's not safe and he doesn't respect women. He's dangerous. Treat him as such.

Also I've met a lot of people who are like
Surprised and delighted or sometimes alarmed when I do this

Like their only experience of friendship is through the lens of trying to meet the expectations put on them, live up to standards that they have to guess at

People who apologize for liking things that they expect I won't think are cool

People apologize a lot for being themselves, especially trans people

Our survival can depend on meeting other people's expectations

Hey y'all I'm gonna strongly recommend that when you date or make friends with someone that you uh

Listen to them, watch them, learn who they are and take joy in that process

I see so many people trying to find someone who matches their idea of who they want to date, and then learn a little bit and make up the rest

And when it turns out that the rest of their partner doesn't match the made up person, they get scared or angry or resentful

I love learning new things about a person??
Do that

#Benefits #Disabled #Welfare #Poverty

Oh shit happy 45th birthday Pac-Man

(it was yesterday)

Any tips for a privacy respecting, free event organization platform? I'm thinking about features like:

- Some rich text + images hosted online for the event
- Subscription form to get updates
- Stats about expected attendance
- ??? (this is my first time)

Edit: I don't charge anything for the event, so percentage commission can work.

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

I am releasing this public-domain/CC0 font based on the drawings in Rudolf Koch’s A Book of Signs. I have called it Koch Up.

Although the repertoire is limited, it has contextual alternates for EFHMPZ and some cross-stream kerning (generally following /R).

It is a little strange to release my whimsical font the same week as Poem releases the beautiful Offenbach, both based on Koch’s work. I hope you enjoy both.

https://drj11.itch.io/koch-up-font

Please Boost and download.

#FontDesign #Koch