leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
leinir
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"I do not want to be exposed to LLM output at any time." is the money quote, as far as I'm concerned, from https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/ ; the whole post is worthy reading.
leinir
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I see a bunch of "guys" discourse happening. Well, I talked with @Patricia (*seven* years ago already? OMG) at Foss North once, and she/they changed my mind about many things.
One of the things that came out of that sitting-at-a-bar was this lightning talk https://euroquis.nl/presentations/20191111-guys/#1 (like, a year later, at the Linux Application Summit).
So if you need a married, cishet, white, tall, blonde blue-eyed man to give a diversity talk, I'm your guy. Dude. Man. Whatevs.
I'm your Leonard Cohen fan.
leinir
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That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/
leinir
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This is one of the really cool things about online community, actually. You are whoever you say you are.
Your profile says poledancer42? Do you know how to dance? Do you even own a pole? Does it matter? You're poledancer42. That's what I know you as and that's how I'll interact with you.
Show up as a guy named James? Okay. Hi, James. Nice to meet you. We're you AFAB? Were you AMAB but named Ashley? I don't know and I don't care. You're James to me.
There's a reason so many of us trans folks come out online first. We can dip our feet into social transition without the risk that coming out to in-person friends and family often entails.
It's also why conservatives are so often focused on "real" identities online. They want to take away that safety and bring all the risk of in-person interactions to the Internet. They think that will make them (conservatives) safe because they can be all threatening and shit if they know your legal identity. They are often also weirdly obsessed with the idea that people have a single true identity and it's the one they were assigned by their parents.
But none of that's true. We are all of us different people in different contexts. The anonymity of the Internet simply allows that separation to be more complete.
And I think that's a good thing. If you're James in my discord then you're James to me. Why should I go hunting for other identities when you clearly want to be James to me?
leinir
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Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
