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Here’s the output from Chat-GPT’s new “describe-me” feature:
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April 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jehovah’s Witnesses came to the door today! First time since before COVID. *NOW* the pandemic is officially over.
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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This is the talk that threw my understanding of open source onto a completely different track, and I cited at least twice today at #monkigras. Keeping Linux Great, from @r0ml.net

https://youtu.be/i3nJR7PNgI4?si=l98Cz6cxo-AggVBm
March 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Well, my son applied to two schools for his undergraduate studies. He got accepted into the BFA program for one, and the MFA program for the other. Not one of the expected outcomes.
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My wife is running for town council, so I was out canvassing — in a townhouse development where every entrance was above the garage. Every visit required walking up a flight of stairs. So basically I climbed to the top of the Chrysler building today. And back down.
March 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Maybe instead of letting AIs have more access to copyrighted materials than humans (www.theguardian.com/technology/2...), we should let humans have the same access to copyrighted materials as AIs ( code.liberally.net/copyright-an... )
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
With Public Domain Day coming up, I think the time to make things better might be upon us…. code.liberally.net/copyright-an...
December 18, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I was thinking of calling my new project GNUTS (for GNU Translated to Swift), but most of the macOS sources are BSD-based, not GNU. Still, once the BSD versions are translated, the GNU versions could easily follow.
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I have a new project: code.liberally.net/retiring-c/ . I’m working on retiring C.
Retiring C
The time has come to convert all existing C code to something more modern. I have begun working on this effort in the context of the Apple ecosystem. My first stream of work is the POSIX commands that...
code.liberally.net
December 9, 2024 at 8:10 PM