Paul Visscher
paulv.canonical.org
Paul Visscher
@paulv.canonical.org
I am large, I contain multitudes.

Sysadmin for the Software Freedom Conservancy. Feminist.

He/him.
Coward!
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You should bring this up on discord.
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Whenever I see something like this I imagine one person noticing and desperately trying to get people to fix it but being told that "whatever, it doesn't matter". And then then seeing posts like this one and thinking "I TOLD THEM SOMEONE WOULD NOTICE"
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Have you ascended?
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Paul Visscher
Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I listened to some early episodes of his podcast and I remember it having this tone of "why aren't we friends" and "are you mad at me" and it was all kind of weirdly...neurotic, I guess? I could never figure out if it serious or a bit, but it made me kind of uncomfortable.
August 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
August 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Paul Visscher
There is a consistent pattern where people who are quite negative on the technology on many fronts find that adopting any position that is not uniformly negative provokes hostility that seems somewhat unwarranted, and I think this is not good.
August 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
...exploring.

Anyway. I realize I am posting this on social media. It just sucks that we can't have discussions where we assume everyone is arguing in good faith.
August 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
...to the way social media is used. But it fucking sucks that the possibility of nuanced discussion has been completely obliterated.

I do not like the way LLMs are being used right now. But I also think training an LLM on eg *only* what I have written, either code or prose, is worth...
August 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It felt like it was a bit faster than I remembered it being, though I haven't listened to that album in decades at this point. I thought it had something to do with the digitization process, so reading this is extremely cool.
August 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Damn, if only there was some phrase in the original post about having clean hands. Oh well!
August 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I liked it, but I will say the last season was...uneven.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Not sure how you'd put that on a sticker though.
July 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
One night in the late 90s a CRT that was plugged in to a (publicly accessible) server in my bedroom suddenly woke up with a thunk. Lost sleep b/c of adrenaline & also b/c I was trying to figure out why that would happen, or was it more likely that the server got popped and someone was fucking w/ me.
July 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This is a bad picture to use, it makes it look like Isa Briones is leaving.
July 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This was the same logic some friends used to argue in favor of :) instead of :-)
July 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM