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CW: tech, ai, feminism
i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.
i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.
but consider.
it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.
maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.
maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.
maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.
and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.
what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?
perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?
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CW: tech, ai, feminism
i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.
i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.
but consider.
it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.
maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.
maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.
maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.
and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.
what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?
perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?
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CW: tech, ai, feminism
i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.
i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.
but consider.
it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.
maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.
maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.
maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.
and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.
what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?
perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?
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CW: tech, ai, feminism
i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.
i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.
but consider.
it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.
maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.
maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.
maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.
and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.
what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?
perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?
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These companies are becoming scummier and scummier. Unfortunately, benchmarks reveal that their models are still be State-of-Art (SOT) when it comes to LLMs... Do you think Chineses companies in the AI world would even dare to do the same? I'm not so sure... Only if forced by the state.
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security."
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These companies are becoming scummier and scummier. Unfortunately, benchmarks reveal that their models are still be State-of-Art (SOT) when it comes to LLMs... Do you think Chineses companies in the AI world would even dare to do the same? I'm not so sure... Only if forced by the state.
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security."
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These companies are becoming scummier and scummier. Unfortunately, benchmarks reveal that their models are still be State-of-Art (SOT) when it comes to LLMs... Do you think Chineses companies in the AI world would even dare to do the same? I'm not so sure... Only if forced by the state.
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security."
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These companies are becoming scummier and scummier. Unfortunately, benchmarks reveal that their models are still be State-of-Art (SOT) when it comes to LLMs... Do you think Chineses companies in the AI world would even dare to do the same? I'm not so sure... Only if forced by the state.
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security."
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These companies are becoming scummier and scummier. Unfortunately, benchmarks reveal that their models are still be State-of-Art (SOT) when it comes to LLMs... Do you think Chineses companies in the AI world would even dare to do the same? I'm not so sure... Only if forced by the state.
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security."
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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots - Ploum.net Blog
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Proof that "purist anti-AI" are toxic absolutists and their happiness lies on terrorizing people.
1. Not once in my entire life did I threaten anyone of doxing. You're not worth my time.
2. "Mistaken or malicious list"? I was mistaken to add them to "they blocked me first"?
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Proof that "purist anti-AI" are toxic absolutists and their happiness lies on terrorizing people.
1. Not once in my entire life did I threaten anyone of doxing. You're not worth my time.
2. "Mistaken or malicious list"? I was mistaken to add them to "they blocked me first"?
#Defamation #Abuse -
Proof that "purist anti-AI" are toxic absolutists and their happiness lies on terrorizing people.
1. Not once in my entire life did I threaten anyone of doxing. You're not worth my time.
2. "Mistaken or malicious list"? I was mistaken to add them to "they blocked me first"?
#Defamation #Abuse -
Proof that "purist anti-AI" are toxic absolutists and their happiness lies on terrorizing people.
1. Not once in my entire life did I threaten anyone of doxing. You're not worth my time.
2. "Mistaken or malicious list"? I was mistaken to add them to "they blocked me first"?
#Defamation #Abuse -
Proof that "purist anti-AI" are toxic absolutists and their happiness lies on terrorizing people.
1. Not once in my entire life did I threaten anyone of doxing. You're not worth my time.
2. "Mistaken or malicious list"? I was mistaken to add them to "they blocked me first"?
#Defamation #Abuse -
AFP: Robots protest rampant AI in Poland. “Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday, waving flags and ‘chanting’ slogans as part of an unusual protest calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and protections for workers threatened by automation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/08/afp-robots-protest-rampant-ai-in-poland/ -
AFP: Robots protest rampant AI in Poland. “Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday, waving flags and ‘chanting’ slogans as part of an unusual protest calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and protections for workers threatened by automation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/08/afp-robots-protest-rampant-ai-in-poland/ -
AFP: Robots protest rampant AI in Poland. “Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday, waving flags and ‘chanting’ slogans as part of an unusual protest calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and protections for workers threatened by automation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/08/afp-robots-protest-rampant-ai-in-poland/ -
AFP: Robots protest rampant AI in Poland. “Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday, waving flags and ‘chanting’ slogans as part of an unusual protest calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and protections for workers threatened by automation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/08/afp-robots-protest-rampant-ai-in-poland/ -
AFP: Robots protest rampant AI in Poland. “Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday, waving flags and ‘chanting’ slogans as part of an unusual protest calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence and protections for workers threatened by automation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/08/afp-robots-protest-rampant-ai-in-poland/ -
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Recently two new categories were added to noailist.org #NoAI #AntiAI #WithoutAI :
1. https://noailist.org/education/
2. https://noailist.org/band-or-musician/ -
Recently two new categories were added to noailist.org #NoAI #AntiAI #WithoutAI :
1. https://noailist.org/education/
2. https://noailist.org/band-or-musician/ -
Recently two new categories were added to noailist.org #NoAI #AntiAI #WithoutAI :
1. https://noailist.org/education/
2. https://noailist.org/band-or-musician/ -
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
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*Here's Mohandas Gandhi ludicrous pretending that his homespun, hand-made Indian threads somehow make better clothing than sophisticated, intelligent, gigantic British industrial fabric factories
*He pretends this, and the British lose and they leave India #AntiAI -
*Here's Mohandas Gandhi ludicrous pretending that his homespun, hand-made Indian threads somehow make better clothing than sophisticated, intelligent, gigantic British industrial fabric factories
*He pretends this, and the British lose and they leave India #AntiAI -
*Here's Mohandas Gandhi ludicrous pretending that his homespun, hand-made Indian threads somehow make better clothing than sophisticated, intelligent, gigantic British industrial fabric factories
*He pretends this, and the British lose and they leave India #AntiAI -
*Here's Mohandas Gandhi ludicrous pretending that his homespun, hand-made Indian threads somehow make better clothing than sophisticated, intelligent, gigantic British industrial fabric factories
*He pretends this, and the British lose and they leave India #AntiAI -
Thank you to all 261 respondents! That's more than I expected.
The results were somewhat surprising! Goes to show that the masses aren't so easily predicted. Now, I think we all expected that the majority would be #AntiAI — we are on the #fediverse after all — and in this case that expectation was confirmed with 87% of respondents indicating that they avoid #AI.
I also expected that a minority would be #vegan or #vegetarian, but that we would see a larger share than we would expect outside of the fediverse. The share we saw was 36%, which is honestly more than I had expected.
The main reason I had run the poll in the first place was because I had expected that those people who were #noAI would be more likely to be vegan or vegetarian, and I wanted confirmation of this assumption. As it turns out, the opposite might be true! 34% of respondents who avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian, whereas 48% of respondents who don't avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian.
The reason I had expected some correlation between veganism/vegetarianism and avoidance of AI was that I figured that people who identify immorality in a normalised activity are more likely to identify immorality in other normalised activities. The results seem to suggest that there is little connection between people who avoid AI and those who avoid animal exploitation.
There is also the possibility that people who both are not vegan/vegetarian and don't avoid AI are less likely to respond to the poll at all, which could at least partly explain the discrepancy.
Still, I think it's safe to say that my assumptions were wrong. Please let me know what you expected, and whether those expectations were confirmed.
Thanks for playing,
— bemmesr -
Thank you to all 261 respondents! That's more than I expected.
The results were somewhat surprising! Goes to show that the masses aren't so easily predicted. Now, I think we all expected that the majority would be #AntiAI — we are on the #fediverse after all — and in this case that expectation was confirmed with 87% of respondents indicating that they avoid #AI.
I also expected that a minority would be #vegan or #vegetarian, but that we would see a larger share than we would expect outside of the fediverse. The share we saw was 36%, which is honestly more than I had expected.
The main reason I had run the poll in the first place was because I had expected that those people who were #noAI would be more likely to be vegan or vegetarian, and I wanted confirmation of this assumption. As it turns out, the opposite might be true! 34% of respondents who avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian, whereas 48% of respondents who don't avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian.
The reason I had expected some correlation between veganism/vegetarianism and avoidance of AI was that I figured that people who identify immorality in a normalised activity are more likely to identify immorality in other normalised activities. The results seem to suggest that there is little connection between people who avoid AI and those who avoid animal exploitation.
There is also the possibility that people who both are not vegan/vegetarian and don't avoid AI are less likely to respond to the poll at all, which could at least partly explain the discrepancy.
Still, I think it's safe to say that my assumptions were wrong. Please let me know what you expected, and whether those expectations were confirmed.
Thanks for playing,
— bemmesr -
Thank you to all 261 respondents! That's more than I expected.
The results were somewhat surprising! Goes to show that the masses aren't so easily predicted. Now, I think we all expected that the majority would be #AntiAI — we are on the #fediverse after all — and in this case that expectation was confirmed with 87% of respondents indicating that they avoid #AI.
I also expected that a minority would be #vegan or #vegetarian, but that we would see a larger share than we would expect outside of the fediverse. The share we saw was 36%, which is honestly more than I had expected.
The main reason I had run the poll in the first place was because I had expected that those people who were #noAI would be more likely to be vegan or vegetarian, and I wanted confirmation of this assumption. As it turns out, the opposite might be true! 34% of respondents who avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian, whereas 48% of respondents who don't avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian.
The reason I had expected some correlation between veganism/vegetarianism and avoidance of AI was that I figured that people who identify immorality in a normalised activity are more likely to identify immorality in other normalised activities. The results seem to suggest that there is little connection between people who avoid AI and those who avoid animal exploitation.
There is also the possibility that people who both are not vegan/vegetarian and don't avoid AI are less likely to respond to the poll at all, which could at least partly explain the discrepancy.
Still, I think it's safe to say that my assumptions were wrong. Please let me know what you expected, and whether those expectations were confirmed.
Thanks for playing,
— bemmesr -
Thank you to all 261 respondents! That's more than I expected.
The results were somewhat surprising! Goes to show that the masses aren't so easily predicted. Now, I think we all expected that the majority would be #AntiAI — we are on the #fediverse after all — and in this case that expectation was confirmed with 87% of respondents indicating that they avoid #AI.
I also expected that a minority would be #vegan or #vegetarian, but that we would see a larger share than we would expect outside of the fediverse. The share we saw was 36%, which is honestly more than I had expected.
The main reason I had run the poll in the first place was because I had expected that those people who were #noAI would be more likely to be vegan or vegetarian, and I wanted confirmation of this assumption. As it turns out, the opposite might be true! 34% of respondents who avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian, whereas 48% of respondents who don't avoid AI are vegan or vegetarian.
The reason I had expected some correlation between veganism/vegetarianism and avoidance of AI was that I figured that people who identify immorality in a normalised activity are more likely to identify immorality in other normalised activities. The results seem to suggest that there is little connection between people who avoid AI and those who avoid animal exploitation.
There is also the possibility that people who both are not vegan/vegetarian and don't avoid AI are less likely to respond to the poll at all, which could at least partly explain the discrepancy.
Still, I think it's safe to say that my assumptions were wrong. Please let me know what you expected, and whether those expectations were confirmed.
Thanks for playing,
— bemmesr -
True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm