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I would never use OpenAI, and I think Sam Altman is a con artist, but I would be braindead if I refused a well structured security patch because someone happened to use tools I do not like to create it.
If you refuse ALL PRs aided by statistical models, regardless of FOSS or not, and demonize using that math itself as a tool in all circumstances, when you would never be able to tell if no one told you, then that is simply irrational.
Especially if you understand it is just math.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117079382220025772","date_published":"2026-08-11T23:06:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-11 23:06","date_timestamp":1786489596,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95606454","content_html":"@erstwhile I think literally every highly depended upon FOSS project should be deploying AI bots to actively scan for vulns and suggest patch PRs so we can get those landed as fast as possible.
Beyond that if people want to hand code everything else very slowly and deliberately to maintain high quality code, godspeed. That is fine with me.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117079353432296123","date_published":"2026-08-11T22:59:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-11 22:59","date_timestamp":1786489157,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95606374","content_html":"@erstwhile If someone refuses a security fix because AI wrote it, they are endangering their users for religious reasons rather than technical merits, in which case the project should be forked to responsible leadership.
AI is faster at producing security patches than humans, and speed matters more than ever these days, with AI also on the attack side of the equation figuring out vulns fast.
We need humans willing to review AI written security patches and release them quickly.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117079344259376209","date_published":"2026-08-11T22:56:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-11 22:56","date_timestamp":1786489017,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95474903","content_html":"@erstwhile So the crux of your argument is, that it is still wrong to promote local private and sovereign AI because AI as an industry is still mostly corrupt. That my use of atypical tools does not matter?
By that logic, we should stop recommend people use computers or the internet, because someone might take that as an endorsement to use MacOS or WIndows using Facebook instead of joining the tiny percentage of us that use Linux and Mastodon.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117067859268351997","date_published":"2026-08-09T22:16:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-09 22:16","date_timestamp":1786313770,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95370494","content_html":"@happyborg You original point only called out that I am ignoring unspecified harms.
How can I address harms you have not specified?
I am left only with the ability to point out specific benefits and ways of using these tools in the least harmful ways I am aware to do public good.
Sure, tech CEOs are using every new tool they can to maximize profits, but they did that with the internet too so nothing new to see there.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117056058051959012","date_published":"2026-08-07T20:14:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-07 20:14","date_timestamp":1786133698,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95209134","content_html":"@foone FWIIW I have never paid for tokens, and racked my own GPUs at home.
The setup is highly valuable as an automated debugging, research, and prototyping tool, and can automatically write things like tests etc. My god the chore of building kernels 50 times by hand for a once-ever task, is automated. Amazing.
And, yes, sometimes write scripts, which I review first.
For an experienced engineer, you can get exactly what you ordinarily would have typed yourself out of a local LLM.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117040469592558010","date_published":"2026-08-05T02:10:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-05 02:10","date_timestamp":1785895837,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95203027","content_html":"@bignose I exclusively use open source software, on the most open hardware I can afford, and have dedicated my life to producing FOSS and getting it adopted in places that help protect millions of people. In doing so I have also turned away tens of millions of dollars in funding multiple times because I would not agree to ever have any of my work proprietary.
But, clearly I belong on X with Elon, because I put a GPU in my computer and asked it to help me debug some errors messages, right?
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039637795036001","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:39:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:39","date_timestamp":1785883145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95202775","content_html":"@bignose I would challenge you to never use an assembler or compiler again, or you run the risk of generating the same machine code someone else did. Best to hand write all machine code.
Like, what is the outcome you actually want here? Everyone should just halt all progress, even progress using only FOSS tools and training data?
Fuck Anthropic, and Fuck OpenAI. Full stop.
They and their supporters have nothing to do with me or how I use local predictive tools to accelerate engineering work.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039624101206712","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:35:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:35","date_timestamp":1785882936,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95202513","content_html":"@bignose Yes, the human part matters, which is why people pushing slop they don't understand without review, and those of us using it to extend and debug existing projects written by hand in our own voice... is not the same thing.
In my projects -two- human reviews are required to cryptographically sign off on every change. Few projects mandate as much human energy as we do.
Stop painting everyone that chooses to use a certain type of math to aid them in FOSS engineering with the same brush.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039611137675099","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:32:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:32","date_timestamp":1785882738,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95202345","content_html":"@happyborg I would love to see anything you can point out that I said that has contradicted past views.
I have never given an LLM provider money. I rack my own hardware as I always have, and use FOSS tools like llama.cpp.
I would hope to at least not be lumped in with the Anthropic/OpenAI slopcoder bros.
I get LLMs to auto-complete exactly what I want, and would have otherwise typed by hand, in my own voice and patterns, in much less time.
There is a lot of nuance here.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039592636523025","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:27:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:27","date_timestamp":1785882456,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95202152","content_html":"@bignose None of us humans have ever written any code, without statistically regurgitating parts of things we read and remember, and do not remember where we read them from.
Humans rip each other off all the time without even knowing it, because we forget the origins of the copyright training data in our brains.
Also, modern open weight models have been distilled and compressed so much that you will have to _try_ to get them to replicate copyrighted work at this point.
Update your arguments.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039575710546613","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:23:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:23","date_timestamp":1785882197,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95202061","content_html":"@erstwhile I will not go to X because that is a closed surveillance capitalism platform and I do not use proprietary platforms.
Can you tell me how modern approaches like OLMo that open source all their training data, and training tools, and tie all outputs back to the source training data is evil?
Those in your camp seem to think the math itself is evil, even when open and respecting all copyright terms.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039564015760887","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:20:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:20","date_timestamp":1785882019,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95201973","content_html":"@happyborg I for one actively use local models on my hardware that I own to reverse engineer and make open tech that was otherwise proprietary to share with others.
In ways I previously would not have had time for, since the models can handle the days and days of endless research, experimentation, and debugging that give me time back for the hard problems.
I want to beat the corpos, and \"all open source machine learning algorithms my enemies use are bad\" is not a logical strategy IMO.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039551561167694","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:17:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:17","date_timestamp":1785881829,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95201759","content_html":"@happyborg Your argument reads to me like we should not take control of or use any tools that our oppressors use, because the tools themselves are evil.
All the big corpos use all new compute for evil. We know this. Should we stop using the internet and CPUs because Zuck uses them to violate the rights and privacy of billions?
I say we use open, sovereign, and private versions of the weapons of our oppressors against them, as we always have.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039522778688856","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:09:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:09","date_timestamp":1785881390,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95201534","content_html":"@lexoyo @happyborg Was not aware of that one. Will keep an eye on it. There is also OLMo by AI2 which open sourced their training data so anyone can replicate their model if they have the training resources.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117039498205329257","date_published":"2026-08-04T22:03:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-04 22:03","date_timestamp":1785881015,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94993071","content_html":"@happyborg No one should apologize for using open source software on their own hardware to further open source work, and I will not.
I will however say everyone that gives Anthropic or OpenAI money is absolutely helping steer this tech to the worst timeline, and I remain critical of those that do that. I would vote to clip their wings immediately.
Using my own GPUs for whatever I want and hating the Corporate AI industry as whole, are not mutually exclusive.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117016508854898155","date_published":"2026-07-31T20:37:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 20:37","date_timestamp":1785530225,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94992816","content_html":"@happyborg Yes. To me it is the internet. The internet came with a lot of harms because of corporate greed, but we found plenty of other was to self host, and create choices.
Ignoring the problem, won't create choices.
For my productivity it is easily 2x+, given I can have long running experiments going while I sleep, 24/7, fixing bugs, that would take weeks by hand, etc.
It gives me a lot more time with my family, and dramatically faster progress on the monotonous work in security research.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117016492410338482","date_published":"2026-07-31T20:32:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 20:32","date_timestamp":1785529974,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94964062","content_html":"@bignose The legal copyright holder of the code is the person who directed their computer to generate that code for them provided they reviewed it first.
Just like if you let your assembler generate your code for you, you can publish that assembly with a copyright if you wish.
Fully autonomous machines creating code projects on their own without human direction or review... yeah don't publish that. Otherwise, carry on as usual.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117014207550680513","date_published":"2026-07-31T10:51:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 10:51","date_timestamp":1785495110,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94963958","content_html":"@happyborg Touche!
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117014191206745726","date_published":"2026-07-31T10:47:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 10:47","date_timestamp":1785494860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94963921","content_html":"@mattcen \"wholly by AI\". That bit is key. If you have an agent on a machine that authors code and pushes it straight to main on a repo with no human in a loop, that is a problem. Not just legally, but also for security, that is an insane thing to do.
As long as a human directed the work happen in the first place with some amount of specificity, and a human later reviews and \"adopts\" the resulting code as theirs, then it is theirs.
No legal issues for projects that do code review.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117014188262367931","date_published":"2026-07-31T10:46:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 10:46","date_timestamp":1785494816,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94963590","content_html":"@happyborg Whatever harms the outputs of an LLM cause, IMO, pale in comparison to the immense gains of faster life saving medical research, security research, and automated reverse engineering -everything- so even all the things not meant to be free, can be made free anyway. I hope.
Truly, I would have not opted to let this particularly unpredictable genie out of the bottle, but \"abstinence only education\" leads to no useful outcomes.
We must give people control of the means of production.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117014168943530844","date_published":"2026-07-31T10:42:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 10:42","date_timestamp":1785494521,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94963028","content_html":"@happyborg You can run a 27b model capable of image comprehension, translation, debugging, etc on a $400 used ebay gaming graphics card from 2020.
My new GPD Pocket laptop has an AMD AI 9 HX 370 in it capable of running shockingly powerful coding models in my pocket.
Smarter FOSS local coding assistants that empower research, security, bugfixes, and give humans more time for the hard problems, with no corpo dependence, or more hardware than we would normally use.
IMO, a valid third choice.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117014118823475731","date_published":"2026-07-31T10:29:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 10:29","date_timestamp":1785493756,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94943310","content_html":"@happyborg In summary, we should most certainly reject centralized proprietary surveillance capitalism at all costs, including losing out on tools they offer that are useful. The harms of centralizing this technology cannot be understated.
But, as usual, the job of the FOSS community is to make accessible sovereign and privacy respecting alternatives to anything big tech can create.
I was a published FOSS AI researcher 15 years before it was cool.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117011917403940709","date_published":"2026-07-31T01:09:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 01:09","date_timestamp":1785460165,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94941369","content_html":"@mattcen if an LLM generates it, then a human fully reviews it and claims it as their own, it is no different than when a president reads a speech written by a speechwriter including any modifications made by said president.
Every human that submits a PR is taking ownership for that contribution and its quality, whatever the tools. This is not in dispute as far as I am aware.
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A lot of people were upset in the industry when assemblers started producing better assembly than people could by hand. Especially when the only tools that do so were proprietary and when it was displacing jobs.
But do you write your assembly by hand anymore, or even review the assembler output? I know I rarely do.
","url":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/117011741012023612","date_published":"2026-07-31T00:24:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 00:24","date_timestamp":1785457473,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94933847","content_html":"I know a kernel engineer that is sitting on a bunch of Zig security patches they have not submitted because they were written with AI assistance, which is forbidden by Zig.
Policies like these endanger users.
Refusing AI contributions is just as brain dead to accepting them without review.
Any project that does either is now a hobby project I cannot take seriously.
Also just in: GCC now refuses AI contributions.
Whelp. Glad I switched stagex to be LLVM native.
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FOSS || GTFO
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116968625700663005","date_published":"2026-07-23T09:39:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-23 09:39","date_timestamp":1784799586,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90437779","content_html":"At the biggest Linux conference in the country right now.
Still not seen a single Linux laptop other than at the Framework booth, and the one in front of me I am using to type this.
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know about US tech culture.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116597232651095594","date_published":"2026-05-18T19:29:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-18 19:29","date_timestamp":1779132578,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87942075","content_html":"It is interesting that seemingly every single one of the security celebs advocating we abandon the PGP Web of Trust that signs most of the binaries that run the internet, has a centralized trust system to sell you.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116377016084425689","date_published":"2026-04-09T22:05:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-09 22:05","date_timestamp":1775772340,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87936479","content_html":"X is now so useless that even the EFF, who remains happy to be on Tiktok and Facebook still, can't deal with it anymore: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116376619996348494","date_published":"2026-04-09T20:24:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-09 20:24","date_timestamp":1775766296,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87019807","content_html":"Anthropic just legally threatened Opencode to make them drop support for: https://web.archive.org/web/20260221041617/https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode-anthropic-auth/pull/15#issuecomment-3930558874
Archive link because they deleted the repo after to comply with demands.
In short, Anthropic only wants you using their official walled-garden clients to access the models trained on our open source code.
They are not a lesser evil. They are just as evil as OpenAI.
Stop giving these assholes money. Rent or buy hardware to self-host with privacy and freedom. It is not that hard, I promise.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116296815665909230","date_published":"2026-03-26T18:09:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-26 18:09","date_timestamp":1774548578,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86875624","content_html":"AI automated security review company that views human code review as unnecessary, gets hit by supply chain attack that their automation failed to detect. Beautiful.
How many more of these are required before we can seriously talk about Web of Trust, commit signing, and decentralized crowd-sourced FOSS code review?
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116285565091683852","date_published":"2026-03-24T18:28:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 18:28","date_timestamp":1774376908,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86704013","content_html":"Security celebrities have been shitting on the PGP Web Of Trust as an idea we should abandon in favor of centralizing trust on corpos.
Meanwhile the internet is filling with AI bots using fake corpo accounts and no one can tell who is human anymore. Huh.
WoT has never mattered more, and it is time we anchor modern tooling back to the human roots that built the internet.
My fellow https://stagex.tools maintainer Kron, Zoë Finja Emilia makes a strong visual case.
https://kron.fi/en/posts/stagex-web-of-trust/
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116270472748561048","date_published":"2026-03-22T02:30:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-22 02:30","date_timestamp":1774146617,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86263617","content_html":"As the founder of the Stagex Linux distribution and a California resident, my official position on operating system age verification mandates is that I would love to see someone try to make me implement it.
Our decentralized and multi-party cryptographic signing design means no single person or entity has the power to make changes to the distribution alone.
But please, California lawmakers, try to make me. I would get off on making you look like idiots in court.
That is all.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116234733775085480","date_published":"2026-03-15T19:01:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 19:01","date_timestamp":1773601284,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85453078","content_html":"If anyone would like to tip me for my work, I accept DDR5 memory.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116168218450015428","date_published":"2026-03-04T01:05:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-04 01:05","date_timestamp":1772586341,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85048901","content_html":"Veritasium just dropped a video on ethics of the FOSS movement, right to repair, digital sovereignty, and the idea that closed source software has absolutely no role in supply chain security.
In recent years my teammates and I have shifted our entire careers to FOSS supply chain security engineering in spite of constantly being told our work is a waste of time. We feel seen!
Shameless plugs @ https://caution.co https://distrust.co and https://stagex.tools
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116135224968146485","date_published":"2026-02-26T05:15:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-26 05:15","date_timestamp":1772082900,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84826232","content_html":"I wonder if there were people that thought Stallman was a bad person for using a proprietary compiler to build the first version of GCC.
I exclusively write FOSS, but sometimes I don't understand the purity tests of the FOSS community.
As long as a PR author fully read the the code, and it was not largely copied from any other project, I don't care what kind of autocomplete magic was used.
FOSS is at too big of a disadvantage to be picky about useful contributions that respect the license.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116117776726008911","date_published":"2026-02-23T03:17:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-23 03:17","date_timestamp":1771816661,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84476537","content_html":"When you work on OS development, you spend a -lot- of time waiting on compiling experiments. Wasted time.
So, finally broke down on a big workstation upgrade:
So I trained an LLM on myself, and it sounded like a complete idiot so I deleted it immediately.
I am starting to consider that it might be a me problem.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116042230541238873","date_published":"2026-02-09T19:05:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-09 19:05","date_timestamp":1770663918,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83751149","content_html":"The biggest life lesson I have internalized this year:
The greatest skill in the world without sufficient motivation as a catalyst can accomplish nothing, but with enough motivation one can pick up just enough skills as they go to accomplish almost anything.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/116026446719564609","date_published":"2026-02-07T00:11:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-07 00:11","date_timestamp":1770423076,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83676527","content_html":"An insane amount of personal data is getting routed to proprietary LLM providers directly and indirectly.
Worse, all that personal data is going to get used to sit on the scales of otherwise \"fair\" weights to produce an entirely new form of toxic and manipulative targeted advertising.
Since we can't un-invent LLMs, the way forward is to make sure they exist with provable privacy and integrity.
We just released the first FOSS stack to do exactly that.
https://caution.co/blog/verifiable-llms.html
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Stagex is the first production ready Linux distro to be:
- 100% deterministic
- 100% full source bootstrapped
- Maintainer signed on every commit and review
- Reproduced and signed by multiple maintainers on every artifact
- OCI container native
- LLVM/compiler-rt/libunwind native
https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/pulls/757
All the confs that turned us down and the people who said it could not be done can eat my entire ass.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115971880005974213","date_published":"2026-01-28T08:54:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-28 08:54","date_timestamp":1769590454,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82933227","content_html":"I was listening to Live 105.3 this morning, easily the most popular radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I heard the host, Marci Wiser say something close to the following: \"I know we are limited in what we can say on the radio, but this has to stop. Regardless of what side you are on in regards to things going on in the world, it is not okay that we are feeling this way.\"
And then it went back to some music.
Shortly after, the station went dark.
https://www.audacy.com/stations/live105
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That being said.
Fuck ICE, and fuck anyone still trying to defend them.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115962636773862858","date_published":"2026-01-26T17:43:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-26 17:43","date_timestamp":1769449413,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82761523","content_html":"I just went down a rabbit hole exploring the Amiga games collection for the first time.
I am now proud to announce that I now identify as a cybergoth.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115950297364577394","date_published":"2026-01-24T13:25:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-24 13:25","date_timestamp":1769261129,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82719751","content_html":"We got our first PC at home when I was maybe 8 years old. My parents told me not to touch it, so I waited until they went to sleep and disassembled it, laying all the parts neatly across the living room floor.
I made sure they saw that when they woke up.
\"You have two choices. Let me touch it to put it back together and let me use it whenever I want, or this can be your problem\"
They chose the former.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115946417592970783","date_published":"2026-01-23T20:58:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-23 20:58","date_timestamp":1769201928,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82607371","content_html":"The bare minimum for running security critical services is multi-party verified deterministic builds running on remotely attestable enclaves.
My teammates and I at Distrust have been helping teams architect and build this way for 5+ years now.
It was tough watching people repeatedly struggle to do everything from zero.
So we built the first 100% FOSS general purpose verifiable compute platform: Caution.
For prioritized early access join #caution-platform:matrix.org
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115938654280693199","date_published":"2026-01-22T12:04:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-22 12:04","date_timestamp":1769083469,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82581484","content_html":"If you claim to be building decentralized FOSS for censorship resistant finance, privacy, or communication and you collaborate via Zoom, Slack, Telegram, Twitter, Github, or Discord: you are full of shit.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115936124329061385","date_published":"2026-01-22T01:21:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-22 01:21","date_timestamp":1769044865,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82147317","content_html":"Hot take: Using nixpkgs in production is negligent.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115901334246680226","date_published":"2026-01-15T21:53:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-15 21:53","date_timestamp":1768514011,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"81922205","content_html":"It is downright offensive and laughable that so many crypto founders, which supposedly built their offerings under anti-authority, decentralization, and cypherpunk ethos, continue to bring eyeballs to a centralized heavily censored platforms like Youtube and Twitter that are inherently authoritarian by design.
This is why I will never post content on Youtube, Twitter, TikTok, etc.
If you ever see any of my work or content published on proprietary platforms, it was because others put it there.
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/115884717076931266","date_published":"2026-01-12T23:27:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Lance R. Vick","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.mastodon.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F929%2F154%2Foriginal%2F873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lrvick@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-12 23:27","date_timestamp":1768260453,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}