Lost the day to US taxes. Was a beautiful day.
Ahhh, the mountains I could have seen...
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Richard Littauer
@richlitt@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06#OpenSource #OpenScience #OpenAccess, #birds and #birding, #inaturalist #ebird #Latin, #languages, travel and politics.
- Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @curioss@fosstodon.org, SustainOSS @sustainoss@hachyderm.io, and OpenSustain.tech
- PhD student at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa NZ
- Professional conlanger
- Linguist, Latinist, and taxonomist
- eBird reviewer
He/him.
Grew up on unceded Abenaki land.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Thanks for sharing your story. I see a lot of similarities to an issue I face in some of my work.
I am curious: If you had known about the coming backlash, is there anything you would have done differently?
Ran an AGM today, and finished my six months of service on the exec committee for my postgrad student association. Happy to be just a member again. 🖖
https://www.burntfen.com/2026-03-16/te-herenga-waka-postgraduate-student-association
My add:
"Another wrinkle:
> [I] explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code
I don't know how much Claude can be trusted to have followed this instruction.
Further, many dependencies that may not have LGPL/GPL may have dependencies that do. Many code packages are not legally compliant all the way down their stack. I don't know of any LLMs or large open source stacks that have solved this issue."
Started a new podcast today. Emailing potential guests about it.
https://ossforclimate.sustainoss.org/
If you're interested in OSS for climate change, I think this could be interesting for you. Curious what people think.
Kōkako photos in the press.
https://www.burntfen.com/2026-03-11/kokako-photos-in-the-press
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@rachel@norfolk.social Not the first person to throw this my way. :D Wasn't me, still curious who it was.