Guillaume @guillaume@aleph.land

Dear Fediverse,

Criticising @purism
is fine, but remember their prime motive is not to be a social media giant. They intent was to provide libre hardware and software (gnu/linux) to the masses. Something that is missing right now with Android and iOS oligarchy. Let them do that and do not undermine their progress. As for #libremone, Give their code of conduct a chance, and don't get enraged before something actually happens.

Wow, I am a bit overwhelmed by the current reactions in my timeline about the recent #Firefox disaster.

Yes, it sucks. Yes, this shall not happen. Never. There is no good excuse.

But, hey changing now towards a browser developed by the largest advertiser and tracker on the planet is not the right solution. They already dominate large parts of the web so helping them by leaving the last Browser bastion is not a smart idea!

Does anyone own a Purism laptop? Are they actually sturdy? How's the battery life?

thought experiment: a cat is in a box containing decaying nuclear material and poison gas. the box is on some trolley tracks. as the trolley approaches the box, it has all its parts systematically replaced so that no original part remains by the time it strikes the box. inside the trolley is a man receiving instructions on levers to pull in Chinese. do you take the money?

I have so many seeds I want to plant all of them & have a bountiful harvest

Installed a Firefox extension to put tabs to "sleep" if left inactive for a few minutes. Saves CPU and reduces tracking risk!

ok, time to put on cute socks and do math

so we have a student who we asked to train a VAE to generate memes. he was showing us his newest model, which has problems with mode collapse, and was only outputting one thing over and over again (I swear I am not making this up):

"one does not simply make memes"