arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

I'm declaring P8X8 good enough for public release! It's a tool to convert #pico8 carts to #picotron -- it's not perfect and it requires some manual intervention in most cases, but it's magical being able to play a bunch of games on the new system without much effort

https://github.com/pancelor/p8x8/

Wait, it's even worse. The dataset is based on @swheritage's archive, containing way more than just GitHub (e.g. @Codeberg is archived, too).

I assumed they were somewhat neutral, but they're praising the LLM usage of this unlicensed code:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/

Also, they're refusing to remove deadnames, even outright ignoring GDPR demands for it:

https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5169338-the-software-heritag

I can only conclude that they're a bad actor and should be considered harmful by the #OpenSource community.

sometimes the Steam Community pages are good

[from the Steam community page for alpha centauri uploaded by someone whose steam name won’t render in my client]

oh hey just as a PSA, any code any of y'all may have on github might have been scraped by @swheritage, a self-proclaimed "preservation" org which

- just hoovered up vast amounts of data without asking or telling anyone
- insists on deadnaming trans people forever for "integrity" reasons
- used it to build an LLM training data set

https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2 to check and for opt-out instructions

Every time I boot to a flash drive I'm reminded of Jersey Jack's pinball update process

You flash the new software to a flash drive, open up the coin door, put t' plug int' 'ole and wait a bit until it's done.

And then you IMMEDIATELY TAKE THAT FLASH DRIVE AWAY AND WIPE IT CLEAN right then and there before you do anything else

Because if you leave it lying around, and someone (MAYBE FUTURE-YOU) goes "Huh what's on this" and plugs it in, and then forgets to unplug it between reboots, it will format your hard drive and turn your computer into The Hobbit Pinball *completely automatically and without any input from you whatsoever*

@arborelia @swheritage

To the best of our knowledge, all files contained in the dataset are licensed with one of the permissive licenses (see list in Licensing information) or no license.

Emphasis mine.

What the cinnamon toast fuck?

i'm just going to point to this meme and like 90% of y'all

Digital pet-peeve - using flags to represent languages. Besides *maybe* a small island nation, no country in the world has just one #language. The #flag likely represents only the majoritarian or capital's language, often imposed, meaning you're erasing minority languages.

BREAKING: Politico reports that Senator Cantwell says she will delay hotlining the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) because of ongoing concerns around LGBTQ rights and the need for further changes.

This is an important win for human rights. But we have so much more to do