FediFriend Amin wrote this in Early September:
Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.
I used to overlook issues I was seeing with the organization behind NaNo, but… this is too much …
Category: Writing Tagged: Ethics Non-religious post Non-technical post Writing WritingMonth
Read MoreIn Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes.
What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client?
Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity
Read MoreNow that I've piqued your curiosity with an reference to a children's book I've never actually read (because I'm an alien, apparently), let me pause the narrative train by carefully defining some terms:
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity
Read MoreA fedifriend mentioned me yesterday on a post about a recent kerfuffle regarding some decisions that Mozilla has been making, particularly in regards to buying an advertising company (and integrating advertising into the browser) and adding "A.I." features into recent builds of Firefox.
I had intended to reply with …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Non-technical post
Read MoreThere's been some kerfuffle today on the fediverse over the issue of toxicity in the Linux and Open Source community. "Toxic" is one of those trigger words that immediately gets fingers a-pointing. The great irony is that just to mention the word "toxic" can in itself be a toxic statement …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Ethics Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Life Linux Non-religious post Philosophy
Read MoreI thought I had a pretty fair grasp on the idea and archetypes of toxic masculinity. I am …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy
Read MoreCategory: Philosophy Tagged: Beauty Bible Christianity Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy Prose
Read MoreExactly a month ago, I wrote an article challenging the prevalent pragmatist-argument for choice in the digital world.
I'd like to refine that thought a bit further, based on recent experiences.
A little over a week ago, I started crafting an article covering FOSS keyboards for Android. This is one …
Category: Ethics Tagged: BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) FreeBSD Linux Non-religious post UNIX
Read MoreLast night, I re-watched The KGB, the Computer, and Me, a 1990 episode of NOVΛ chronicling Cliff Stoll's efforts to catch a West German hacker who was using the Lawrence Berkeley Labs' computer systems to hack into military computers in the late 1980s.
I say re-watched, because I …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics Non-religious post UNIX Video
Read MoreLLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...
Much like so many loud voices in society today, the LLM is incapable of discerning reliable from unreliable sources, identifying the origin and validity of a …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Philosophy Polemic
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