Posts by carmenbianca@todon.eu
(DIR) Post #AY95L0ddJObO2WRUfo by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2023-07-27T21:07:09Z
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I'm going to try _a thing_. There are two related phenomena regarding #cars and #PublicTransport that I basically never see discussed. I wrote an article about these two things which includes two very clear definitions. I want to see if I can get some reach to disseminate these two things like a mind virus.Boost if you like. Or don't. I'm not your boss.The premise: when you own a #car, it is cheaper to drive the car. But: we want to get people out of their cars, even while they still own cars.The definitions:- Sunk cost discount: for as long as you own a car, it is cheaper relative to public transport to use that car for individual journeys, even though you would save money if you got rid of the car and exclusively used public transport.- Trip cost scaling problem: for each additional passenger taking a journey together, the cost per passenger becomes lower when travelling by car, but higher when travelling by public transport.The article: https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2023-07-27-the-sunk-cost-discount-and-the-trip-cost-scaling-problem/Shamelessly tagging @notjustbikes @TheWarOnCars @ianwalker #cycling #bancars #urbanism #train #bus #metro #tram #SunkCostDiscount #TripCostScalingProblem
(DIR) Post #AY95L2p3BuvIoVndkO by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2023-07-27T22:34:58Z
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Oops. Reminder to self to proofread. The public transport cost per passenger doesn't increase when travelling with more people. Rather, it stays the same! It's the total cost that increases.
(DIR) Post #Ab3oBMnySIgnjvKAka by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2023-10-23T11:36:04Z
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@Codeberg I just started a #FreeSoftware change log generator project and decided to host it on Codeberg/#Forgejo, sticking with the #Esperanto naming scheme. Progress is coming along nicely; it'll probably be functional within a week, and see a release before Christmas.https://codeberg.org/carmenbianca/protokolo
(DIR) Post #AiHolkPhJB6otR3urI by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-04-18T15:10:18Z
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So I've heard like a bajillion talks on #AI at this #freesoftware conference, with legal experts trying frantically to make sense of AI in the context of free software licensing. Ignoring the nitty-gritty details, the big ever-present elephant in the room is 'how do we do AI, but #FOSS?'And I'm not sure that doing AI-but-open would get close to solving the ethical questions surrounding AI. All these very smart people are expending so much energy on making this thing work, with the implied understanding that 'making this thing work' is an endeavour worth pursuing.But is it really? If I write a program that steals work, destroys the environment, outputs unreliable rubbish, and does a racism embarrassingly often, does it matter whether the user has the four freedoms that they can hypothetically exercise if they can download half the internet and foot the bill of a powerful GPU cluster?
(DIR) Post #AiHolmuxztJGezhusK by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-04-18T15:12:39Z
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(The answer is 'no'.)
(DIR) Post #An6tKRRCSGJpqyx6Po by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-10-17T20:51:08Z
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https://stallman-report.org/The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.
(DIR) Post #An6tKTidyNScvf83sm by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-10-17T21:02:50Z
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Harping a little more on one point—some people (Reddit commentors, who am I kidding) will often retort that 'Stallman was right', and that he and the FSF are the only ones with the right zeal and conviction in the struggle for software freedom and opposition to non-free software.And it's bullshit. There are _so many people and organisations_ who are every bit as dedicated to the project of software freedom. This movement has so long outgrown this one weird man, but if we are to believe his cult of personality, software freedom dies with him.
(DIR) Post #AnbgfvHH7AvSvKbJHU by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-11-01T17:20:08Z
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this is my new favourite #websitehttps://genders.wtf/
(DIR) Post #AoPB77OVmNuy41Ho4u by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-11-25T13:55:34Z
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god i loathe the #gpl sorry not sorry. this document reads like sandpaper. the whole #copyleft virality thing depends on like one or two vague sentences.i love what this licence stands for, but i loathe reading it so much.can we switch to the eupl or something already
(DIR) Post #AoPB79kZ1MkJMzcRjE by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-11-25T15:09:27Z
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i've gone off the deep end. the lgpl and agpl are not compatible.
(DIR) Post #AoPHKsH1OVzOwkj2Po by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-11-25T15:38:39Z
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@SuperDicq i don't disagree, but i can read the eupl and understand it 😫
(DIR) Post #AoQs6hMR3skWVeJyjY by carmenbianca@todon.eu
2024-11-26T10:53:26Z
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@SuperDicq i understand what you are saying, and to some extent i echo that sentiment, but while theoretically the most important utility of a licence is to hold up in court to defend software freedom, there are far far far more scenarios where the licence must be read and understood by people who aren't legal experts trying to learn if something is possible or not.in my case, i needed to:- double-check whether people can use an agpl module on an lgpl server software;- and verify whether people can use an agpl module on the non-free version of that lgpl server software.this was absolutely painful to research, and the fsf (for good or for ill) is very little help when it comes to any matter involving compatibility with non-free software.a better licence wouldn't be such a pain to read.