this is a non-toxic place to collaborate on projects (programming, design, art, or otherwise) and share information; effectively, it's the awful.systems answer to Hacker News. this community has been in the planning phase for a long time, but the xz backdoor recently emphasized how severe the toxicity problem in existing open source communities is, and how important it is that we have a place to collaborate that isn't controlled by toxic personalities or corporate interests.
FreeAssembly is starting its existence as a Lemmy community that enables collaboration on externally-hosted projects, but that doesn't necessarily need to be its final form. as we figure out the needs of this community, we can grow to service needs like code hosting and design collaboration. for now, we recommend hosting code on software forges like Codeberg (and we recommend avoiding github if possible, though it's well-understood that this isn't easy for established projects). we also want to explore the best options for designers and artists to collaborate without making them dependent on large corporate infrastructure.
there are some expectations around posting to FreeAssembly. see the sidebar for details.
AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs
12d 7h ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from codeberg.orgthe Awful Systems list of LLM-tainted software needs a name
5mon 6d ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems
Confronting the Crises of AI Through Research | UCLA
1y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/nfultz in freeasm@awful.systems from livescu.ucla.eduFiring the Lorentz Plasma Cannon
1y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from www.youtube.com
"Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people’s faces while they’re speaking and you don’t know they’ve finished because there’s no semicolon."
1y 3mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from www.stilldrinking.orgOur Complicated Technological Civilisation is Coded by Dildo All the Way Down
1y 3mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from reddragdiva.tumblr.comA video I made about "do less" tech products that should have been software for obsoleted hardware
1y 3mon ago by awful.systems/u/fasterandworse in freeasm@awful.systems from www.youtube.com
Tech Under Fascism: Lessons from the first Trump term
1y 3mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from write.as
rpg.net gets caught being unfathomably based (2018)
1y 4mon ago by awful.systems/u/o7___o7 in freeasm@awful.systems from wandering.shopGive me your best software engineer blogs
1y 5mon ago by awful.systems/u/V0ldek in freeasm@awful.systemsThe System is Borked, We Need an Upgrade
1y 7mon ago by awful.systems/u/o7___o7 in freeasm@awful.systemsPost your IT redundancy tales here
1y 9mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systemsRandom Positivity Thread: Happy Computer Memories
1y 9mon ago by awful.systems/u/blakestacey in freeasm@awful.systems
Nix project: ban? What ban?
1y 11mon ago by awful.systems/u/antifuchs in freeasm@awful.systems from discourse.nixos.orgVulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month - this is cool as heck
2y 21d ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from rosenzweig.io
"So, rather than just tell students that they’re in for a rough ride if they cram my prompt through ChatGPT, I show them."
2y 1d ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from chelseatroy.com
El Reg gets around to Nix drama
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/flizzo in freeasm@awful.systems from www.theregister.com
Switching to Linux as a Game Developer: surprisingly workable
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from brodybrooks.com
Lix: a Nix evaluator fork focused on correctness and doing right by its community
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from lix.systems
The NixOS community is relitigating quotas, now on Zulip
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/pyrex in freeasm@awful.systems from nixpkgs.zulipchat.coman open letter to the NixOS foundation
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from save-nix-together.orgKai Lentit: Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 (video)
2y 1mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from www.youtube.comCMU SigBovik 2024 proceedings are up (PDF)
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from www.sigbovik.orga blind man stumbles into the activitypub
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/froztbyte in freeasm@awful.systemsthread your Philthy feature requests
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systemsDoes A Software Engineer Have Scorpion Nature?
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/dgerard in freeasm@awful.systems from ludic.mataroa.blog
ask me questions about awful.systems or NixOS!
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from codeberg.org
the r/SneerClub archive welcomes contributions
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from codeberg.org
Philthy, the awful.systems fork of Lemmy, is seeking contributors
2y 2mon ago by awful.systems/u/self in freeasm@awful.systems from codeberg.org