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I've spent a long time asking …

I've spent a long time asking myself why open source matters so much to me, why I keep coming back to it. I once joined a company purely because they promised I could do open source full-time (it didn't turn out well). Before that, I was doing open source inside and outside of regular jobs. And now, in the age of LLMs, when the value of code itself seems to be declining, I'm still here, still doing this. Recently it clicked. I do open source because it's social work—in the sense that it lets me participate in society. Everyone wants to belong to some community, to connect with others. But I was never good at the usual ways of doing that. Social activities that came naturally to others were difficult for me. In school, I had few friends. After class, I'd stay home assembling Lego or reading books alone. Then I discovered coding. Coding was a wonderful hobby for me, especially because I encountered it at the dawn of the internet era. The first programming languages I properly learned were Perl, PHP, and JavaScript—all languages of the internet age. The synergy was something else. Gradually I fell into the world of open source. And there, even someone like me—awkward at conventional social interaction—could be social. My code helped people. I could collaborate by exchanging code. I could have conversations, mediated by code. IRC, mailing lists, forums—these became my social media. Over time, “the group I wanted recognition from” became the people in the open source world. I didn't care much about being recognized by classmates, but I wanted to be recognized by these people I'd never met face to face. That mindset still shapes me now, approaching forty. I still care more about recognition from open source programmers than from colleagues. The social activity that happens in open source communities is, after my family, the most important social activity in my life. The specific things I build, the technical details—those matter less than I used to think. I just want to do the kind of social activity that suits me, and open source happens to be the way I do it. That's all, really.

hollo.social

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我判斷一個人係咪真係open minded嘅方法係,當聽到啲脫離佢地認知嘅嘢嗰陣,佢地嘅反應會係好奇地想知多啲,定係一嚟就反對話:無可能。

後者點話自己open minded 我都唔會信😂

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@: 자 뉴진스 얘기가 그냥 단순 연예인 가십이 아니고 대중들이 관심을 많이 가져야 하는 이유를 보자 길어도 읽어줘 1. 광고주인 애플, 민희진의 어도어, 광고제작사인 돌고래유괴단 3사가 뉴진스 ETA 뮤비 디렉터스컷을 유튜브에 개시하기로 합의함 2. 그런데 민희진 해임 후 짭도어가 디렉터스컷을 내려달라고 돌유단에게 통보함 3. 짭도어 vs 돌유단 소송으로 갔고 애플 측에서는 돌유단 말이 맞다는 사실확인서까지 보내줌 4. 오늘 재판 결과 짭도어가 일부승소해서 돌유단이 10억원을 배상하라는 판결이 나옴 (?????????????)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mceg4vw6n22a

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@: 돌고래유괴단은 어도어로부터 승낙을 받고 유튜브에 감독판을 업로드했다. 그런데 현 어도어는 서면동의가 아닌 구두동의였다는 이유만으로 11억원 규모의 소송을 제기했다. 승낙 자체는 법원도 인정했다. 그렇다면 핵심은 이것이다. 자사 아티스트의 뮤직비디오 디렉터스컷을 유튜브에 게시한 행위가 어도어에 구체적으로 어떤 피해를 입혔는가? ‘ETA’라는 작품의 세계관을 완성하는 조각을 대중에게 공개하고, 뉴진스라는 IP의 가치를 높인 이 행위가 어도어에게 무슨 손해를 끼쳤는가?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mceftxz7zs2a

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I've spent a long time asking myself why open source matters so much to me, why I keep coming back to it. I once joined a company purely because they promised I could do open source full-time (it didn't turn out well). Before that, I was doing open source inside and outside of regular jobs. And now, in the age of LLMs, when the value of code itself seems to be declining, I'm still here, still doing this.

Recently it clicked. I do open source because it's social work—in the sense that it lets me participate in society.

Everyone wants to belong to some community, to connect with others. But I was never good at the usual ways of doing that. Social activities that came naturally to others were difficult for me. In school, I had few friends. After class, I'd stay home assembling Lego or reading books alone. Then I discovered coding.

Coding was a wonderful hobby for me, especially because I encountered it at the dawn of the internet era. The first programming languages I properly learned were Perl, PHP, and JavaScript—all languages of the internet age. The synergy was something else.

Gradually I fell into the world of open source. And there, even someone like me—awkward at conventional social interaction—could be social. My code helped people. I could collaborate by exchanging code. I could have conversations, mediated by code. IRC, mailing lists, forums—these became my social media. Over time, “the group I wanted recognition from” became the people in the open source world. I didn't care much about being recognized by classmates, but I wanted to be recognized by these people I'd never met face to face.

That mindset still shapes me now, approaching forty. I still care more about recognition from open source programmers than from colleagues. The social activity that happens in open source communities is, after my family, the most important social activity in my life.

The specific things I build, the technical details—those matter less than I used to think. I just want to do the kind of social activity that suits me, and open source happens to be the way I do it.

That's all, really.

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"AI", good news

living in the era of "AI" makes me feel insane in a way I can only compare to covid caution or to trying to convince people of the rise of fascism in 2018-2022. (the silver lining of the current state of the world is that people believe me now when I talk about the nazis.)

so it's a relief for my psyche to see stuff like:

- GamesWorkshop bans genAI ign.com/articles/warhammer-mak

- bandcamp bans genAI brooklynvegan.com/bandcamp-not

genAI will only pop when investors start calling for ROI and the massively subsidised prices get closer to what all those queries actually cost. but the more the culture shifts, the sooner will that moment come.

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이거도 마찬가지. 허위협박신고가 X으로 보이는 애들 vs 군사분계선이 X으로 보이는 꼴통? 모든게 X으로 보이는 놈들이야말로 X라는 것을, 진짜 X되게 만들어버려야만 알려줄 수 있음. 북한이 시비거는 말을 긍정해주는 건 대단히 마뜩찮지만 '민간이 했어도 국가가 설명책임'이라는 건 맞는 말이고 바로 그렇기 때문에 이딴 짓을 하는 건 불법인 거임. 잡아 족쳐야.

[단독] 북한에 무인기 날린 민간단체 특정…관련 수사 ...

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