Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 30

I should probably re-brand #Mailpile's bayesian "auto-tagging" feature as "artificial intelligence", shouldn't I? 🤔

Gosh darn it.

I am subscribed to your mailing list.

You have your own website.

So why would your mall direct me to a Medium post?

What is wrong with you?

@cwebber @Greg Sadly I've always had this feeling that we were the last generation to have it on easy mode, and we're blowing it.

I know every generation feels they're the last ones, but I'm starting to suspect that we might make good on that promise.

@craigmaloney @Greg Yeah I hear that. Though I don't mean to leave this as pessimism or fatalism. Let me reframe what message I wish to get across:

We aren't the sum of our previous generation's fuckups. We *all* have a debt to the next generation, even if the previous generations didn't, as a whole, succeed for us. We can't use that as an excuse to care for the generations to come... that would be unfair to them.

@craigmaloney @Greg Yeah I hear that. Though I don't mean to leave this as pessimism or fatalism. Let me reframe what message I wish to get across:

We aren't the sum of our previous generation's fuckups. We *all* have a debt to the next generation, even if the previous generations didn't, as a whole, succeed for us. We can't use that as an excuse to care for the generations to come... that would be unfair to them.

@cwebber it's good stuff, btw: https://atmosphere.bandcamp.com/album/mi-vida-local

ostatus, my status

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

Code of conducts are not new mechanisms, but codifications of policies, which is not a new practice either; online communities have always established rules and policies. The free software community more so than others even: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00612.html

Teres laptop: DIY, open hardware laptop https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/

Someone wrote to the GNU Guix mailing list asking to drop the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct in favor of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines. I like Ludovic Courtès (Guix's founder/co-maintainer)'s response http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00436.html

A kind patch for GCC by Matthew Garrett https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-10/msg00399.html

I am extremely frustrated with the GNU "Kind Communication" announcement http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html

Extremely tone deaf (especially footnote 2); puts down CoCs and ignores their motivations; would have been better to say nothing than publish this right now.

Ludo' of GNU Guix project has a good reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275156

Especially frustrated with "people might have quit". I *did* quit g-p-d because of how *badly* the diversity conversation was going.