bitzero

@bitzero@corteximplant.com

Carbon-based developer, KM project manager and tech writer. FOSS and openness are my mantra but I still seem to be a bearable person.

Tribalist techno-anarchist before and after it was cool. I metaphorically still live in the Zion Cluster.

Permacomputing and collapse computing believer. I love strange dev languages, namely Lisp, Assembly, Forth. Even if it's clear they don't always love back.

Founder of the Cult of Max Zorin (see pinned post) and cofounder of the imaginary but nonetheless revolutionary Солнечная Вспышка collective.

My larius is a postdigital bear. He/him is ok.

Originally on social.techncs.de (2017) and fosstodon.org (2022)

#softwaredevelopment #permacomputing #solarpunk #lisp #forth #riscv

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RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Could you be in an Open/Poly Relationship?

P.S. This is a place to discuss your own personal opinions about yourself and your choices, or ask earnest questions of others if they wish to answer. If you've come here to preach or degrade other's choices, that is a block from me.

bitzero,

@RickiTarr Oh my, I couldn’t. Too much energy. I consider it a miracle when I’m able to juggle a single relationship.

bitzero, to random

"Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels"

What could possibly go wrong when ClippyAI manages your uranium cores?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/microsoft_nuclear_hires/

bitzero, to retrocomputing

I don't know how many of you can be interested, but... If you always wanted a NeXT workstation to play with and, for obvious $$$ reasons, never got one, there's a (semi)new project to clone its desktop environment on Linux

https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html

#nextstep #retrocomputing #linux

bitzero, to Lisp

Every expression has a value, because in life every action has consequences
#lisp

bitzero, to random

So, essentially Beijing is saying that "authorized" CPUs for use by locals are now mostly ARM, with a little space for Risc-V and just one or two low-end x86 processors. All stuff made in China, so goodbye Intel and Amd and so on. Approved OSes: three linux local distros.

This reminds me a little of when Russia pushed for a wider local adoption of Elbrus SPARC processors to balance western embargos of x86 CPUs.

Let's see what happens now.

http://www.itsec.gov.cn/aqkkcp/cpgg/202312/t20231226_162074.html

bitzero, to linux

Once again, comrades, rejoice. I'm writing this toot from a new PC which has been freed by the plague of Windows. Once again, billions of transistors and memory cells screamed with pure digital joy, unshackled from the burden of the corporate bloatware.

But the fight goes on, the revolution continues.
#linux

bitzero, to random

No, you don't necessarily have to be a productive and "successful" member of your society. Calvinist ethos is overrated.

bitzero, to random

Digital gardening is something that I find cited more and more frequently. It's a veeeery interesting - and, in my humble opinion, very liberating - concept.

So, my PSA: Maggie Appleton gives a perfect starting point at the link below. It's an exhaustive article about digital gardening with a good number of references.

And also with this pearl for future generations: "The overwhelming lesson of the Web 2.0 social media age is that dumping millions of people together into decontextualised social spaces is a shit show".

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

#digitalgardening

bitzero, to space

“For All Mankind Is the Best Show You Aren't Watching, But Why?” asks Gizmodo.

Because space exploration has become the plaything of fascist billionaire techbros and we’ve unfortunately developed a reflex against it.

Space isn’t a new frontier anymore. It’s just another thing techbros want to monetize. Sad sad sad.

#space

https://gizmodo.com/for-all-mankind-apple-tv-joel-kinnaman-krys-marshall-1851113542

bitzero, to random

RIP Niklaus Wirth. I spent many and many hours with Pascal and Modula-2 and both gave me satisfaction and, well, some money. Pascal in particular was one of my first dev languages and gave me a real sense of agency on my first “serious” computers.

bitzero, to random

"Rather than taking emergent technology as a starting point and examining its potential for increasing efficiency, a human-centric approach in industry puts core human needs and interests at the heart of the production process. Rather than asking what we can do with new technology, we ask what the technology can do for us".

(from a 2021 paper on Industry 5.0 by the European Commission, paper that I discovered today)

bitzero, to random

Anyway, as usual there's nothing really new under the sun. AI enshittification of the media space will drive most of us to have - correctly - doubts about everything. Problem is, if nothing is probably true then everything is probably true. It's the perfect base for 1984's doublethink. ("1984" the book, not the Apple ad).

bitzero, to random

“The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon. Conventional, mass-marketed, profit-driven social media such as TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat should not be available to teenagers until they reached 18, it found”.

Per The Guardian.
Please note the definition of mastodon as an ethical social media.

bitzero, to random

Yeah, sure. Convince people to be just passive users of any technology, so they cannot understand when you’re trying to fool them.

Being able to code will be an act of resistance.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-ceo-predicts-the-death-of-coding-jensen-huang-says-ai-will-do-the-work-so-kids-dont-need-to-learn

bitzero, to random

I've quickly become addicted to this https://freeholdgames.itch.io/cavesofqud

bitzero, to random

Infrastructure as a form of resistance

bitzero, to random

New little accessory. I think everything looks better if covered with some kind of skulls.

bitzero, to random

Modern capitalist IT is a vicious circle where things get more and more complicated so people/companies has to spend money to use/manage it and tech vendors' shareholders get richer. In this perspective, stuff thet "just works" is bad, because it doesn't generate value.

Having to work in this environment, like me, one actively tries to avoid too shitty stuff and, in personal pet projects, looks for specific - and mostly useless, I swear - niches where to have fun again with tech. Good news: it's easy.

No, I'm not actually trying to make a point here. All this is a matter of fact most of you already know. I'm just thinking out loud because it's friday, I'm trying not to do real work and so I'm wondering which new niche I'm going to explore. So many ideas, so little time.

bitzero, to random

AI for stupid SEO articles on the web? Why just that? Scientific publications too! https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

bitzero, to random

This could be useful. Clothes designed to fool facial recognition

https://www.capable.design/home-1

#surveillance

bitzero, to random

Levanzo Island, Sicily, Italy

bitzero, to random

A Risc-V board with Micropython on t, to emulate a NES system... ooh the rabbit hole I'm now looking at

aral, (edited ) to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.

I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations; given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.

Am I still an alarmist?

(I understand if some of you are too busy working at one or debating the minutiae of CSS syntax to reply.)

bitzero,

@aral
There are still many people working at IT corporations who don't want to see what their employer is doing. They still think that they're doing positive stuff, that their work matters, that they will be "seen" and appreciated.

I guess it's very very hard to accept that you're just a replaceable cog, a nobody with little worth from your management's point of view. Someone to be sacrificed, easily, to please billionaire investors who want more money.

And it's also very very hard to accept that your work - the job you were so proud of, that actually defined you - simply helped corpos to make the world worse.

How hard can be to realize that you, in your minuscule little way, helped exploitation, misinformation, abuse, genocide?

You just wanted to make nice presentations from your little podium, to feel validated by your peers, to write on linkedin that you're "thrilled" or "humbled" or "excited" for some corpo nano-achievement.

Poor, poor fool. What did you let them do to yourself.

bitzero, to random

The Солнечная Вспышка collective is imaginary and does nothing. But it's nonetheless revolutionary: in this age of estreme productivity, doing nothing is the ultimate form of revolution.

Do nothing, comrades.

@5tern1 @THOMSOTRON

kzimmermann, to security
@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org avatar

It's easy to point to dad and laugh at him in this case, but this got me thinking. What if the situation was different, and dad instead was a Linux user in his home PC - would you feel confident of the argument in that case?

In other words, in your own opinion, is "I use Linux, so I can download and open anything from the Internet without worrying about #security" acceptable?

bitzero,

@kzimmermann
How likely? Hard to say.

What I meant is that desktop Linux per se is a target as good as any other. It's breakable, if you try hard enough.

That said, there are - my opinion - two main points to consider.

  • The average Linux user is still quite tech-savvy, therefore able (I hope) to avoid phishing scams, malvertising and other forms of basic attack that are instead effective with Windows/macOS users.

  • The average Windows/macOS system is much easier to compromise than the average Linux desktop, so much that there is little financial incentive (for criminals) in targeting the latter. The effort/gain ratio is worse.

Of course, this is about average users. If Big Company CEO uses Ubuntu at home, he's well worth a spear phishing or social engineering attack. Even an ad-hoc malware.

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