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Michel Lind

@michelin@hachyderm.io

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#Meta production engineer working on #Linux userspace, longtime #Fedora contributor, #Debian maintainer. Artisanal coder, AI skeptic #NeoLuddite in my spare time. He/him. Born at < 350 ppm. Émigré in #Ireland #EU, mostly harmless. avatar: bespectacled man wearing a blue mask and a blue hat

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Joined August 03, 2023

Website:

https://michel-slm.name/

Migrated from:

@michel_slm@floss.social

Socio-economics:

@michel_slm@social.coop

OpenPGP:

openpgp4fpr:5DCE2E7E9C3B1CFFD335C1D78B229D2F7CCC04F2

@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org @cwebber@social.coop late to this, sorry - vacation. As someone who contributes to both Fedora and Debian currently, and am increasingly leaning towards dedicating some proper time to get into Guix, the 'vibe-check' concept sounds really appealing. The best listing of tainted software I know right now is https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware (I'm compiling a list of resources here: https://semble.so/profile/michel-slm.name/collections/3mqkd5nzyh22e) They do already have a tagging system in place with roughly similar colour-coding.

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Went to my first #Rust #meetup ever. It was fun, but very dismaying how a lot of participants talk more about #LLM than about language features or code written in it #AIslop #GenAI #NoAI

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@andrewnez@mastodon.social @gvwilson@mastodon.social @fedora@fosstodon.org is planning to use https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Adopt_PURL_Metadata which is at the very least SBOM adjacent. We find that otherwise each packaging ecosyatem has its own way of specifying dependencies, and this makes it harder for security teams to flag issues accurately

fedoraproject.org

Changes/Adopt PURL Metadata - Fedora Project Wiki

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@mdc@mstdn.ca @mttaggart@infosec.exchange I wish them as much success as the Ive-designed Ferrari Luce

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Hi, my name is Michel, and I (reluctantly) use #LLM

Since I'm about to announce the existence of some tools I wrote to help with some workflows in the Linux distribution space, I figure it's only fair if I first write about why I ended up (having to) use LLM.

https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-03-24-my-name-is-michel-and-i-use-llms/

This post is day 32 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. Visit 100daystooffload.com to get more info, or to get involved.

#blog #dayjob #foss #MetaInc

Hachyderm.io

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @BillySmith@social.coop I'm a happy user of Codeweavers' Crossover Office for these sorts of things Though it's been a while since I even needed to have it installed, so YMMV, but I have a lifetime license as a way to support Wine development

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bookwar the USA login.gov is actually very nice! But I don't know how much that is integration work vs developing key components In general I agree though, the recent EU forks seem completely unnecessary, and I say this as someone who agrees with the need for tech "sovereignty" (not sure I like the term)

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Announcing sandogasa (why? it's a Japanese straw hat often associated with post-apocalyptic robots) - a collection of tools and libraries for @fedora@fosstodon.org packaging workflows.

With emoji support!

Status: 🥱 out of hours

https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-03-24-announcing-sandogasa-for-fedora-packaging-workflows/

This post is day 33 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. Visit 100daystooffload.com to get more info, or to get involved.

#Fedora #LLM #PackageManagement #Rust

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@viraptor @Joshsharp I have to reluctantly find a balance on this too - for me, it's "if I don't do this I get fired" and "this community is pushing AI anyway and the battle is lost". But I'm increasingly looking to seek refuge in more AI skeptical communities - everything is tainted already (Linux kernel, curl, etc) but we need to maintain areas where people are not trying to make it worse. Those are increasingly rare 😞

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@az@scorpinc.social I feel obliged to mention @tg@indieweb.social and his excellent visual essay "The Last Quiet Thing" here https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing The terrible UX in modern consumer electronics... sigh.

The Last Quiet Thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

RE: @h2onolan@infosec.exchange

Ugh I might have to actually look at spinning up #VaultWarden now

infosec.exchange

a high doom: "Say it aint so, bitwarden Ready! Set! Enshittify!" - Infosec Exchange

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart because the security SIG in Fedora was defunct for many years and also there is no current infrastructure to do private builds

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Pepijn@mastodon.online @erpu@eupolicy.social OMG I missed that ERPU now has a Mastodon presence! Nice

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart I've gotten to the point where I think community run distros are just better to depend on going forward (I count Debian there, Fedora not so much)

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart Fedora doesn't have a way to work on embargoed security issues, and even on day zero, constraints imposed by corporate sponsors (eg supporting s390x) sometimes means official updates take a while to build

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bookwar@floss.social OMG finally

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange especially when there is already a widespread literacy problem to begin with. It's quite telling that the ruling class tries to limit screen time use for their kids, but pushing screen use to public school systems... https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-student-is-illiterate https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/technology/chromebook-remorse-kansas-school-laptops.html

persuasion.community

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@almalinux@fosstodon.org it absolutely is one, if you have sufficient automation! At a smaller scale upgrading in place is definitely preferable though

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ell1e@hachyderm.io @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org so this is not the LF policy, but for the Linux kernel, the policies came up in the debian-vote discussion https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00032.html Looks like https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst got applied 2026-01-06 but authored on 2025-12-23

lists.debian.org

Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@f4grx @pid_eins IDK, it's probably in the best interest of companies with big deployments in AWS or Azure to help out

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@EvolutionGnome@floss.social @fedora@fosstodon.org @centos@fosstodon.org @almalinux@fosstodon.org thanks to whoever asked during Troy Dawson's #CentOSConnect presentation whether Evolution is available - that's a powerful #nerdsnipe

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 21mo ago

Replying to

@Obdurodon@hachyderm.io he's also here on Hachyderm! @dfeldman@hachyderm.io

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 22mo ago

Replying to

@amyipdev @Jerry this is also inspiring me to try and fix my DKIM/SPF setup - I want to let some mailing lists that resend my mail as if it's from me to be allowed to do so, and then I can harden my DKIM settings to reject

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

OK, poll time! Which category do _you_ think represents you? Lawful to Chaotic dimension first

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

And Good vs Evil dimension now

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

And for where you think I stand, I guess just reply in the comments so I can "defend my honour" -- hah, just kidding! But yes, feel free to comment

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 20mo ago

Replying to

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social also, the model is definitely not open source.

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 38mo ago

Replying to

@major@fosstodon.org per @mairin@mastodon.ie 's research, which I concur with, any of floss.social (my old instance, moved because they blanket-ban my employer's IP address so it's inconvenient), social.coop (I have an account there and is sort of on their tech WG) and hachyderm.io (rip Kris Nova) would be fine. The first and last have more open source types, the second has non-techies in the cooperatives space as well.

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ell1e@hachyderm.io @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org the Linux kernel community and systemd has been quite open about using LLM. I think even Curl uses LLM but IIRC it's only for doing security assessment (since external parties are using LLM to find bugs anyway), not sure if they are already using LLM for writing actual code as well or not

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@josefbacik@hachyderm.io looking forward to trying this out!

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org hence the bitter Thank you for Smoking mortgage quote in the blog post. If I had been able to #FIRE and I'm just doing this for fun I'd be able to be more principled on this. So I mostly agree with you. "If you voluntarily use these systems" is key here - until the VC-driven AI craze meets its inevitable crash - maybe the energy crisis thanks to imperialistic hubris this year will trigger that - a lot of us are *coerced* to a greater or lesser extent to use these. I'm actually looking for AI-free projects to contribute to when I'm not being paid to do open source, so I'm watching the @debian@framapiaf.org and @guix@hachyderm.io discussions around AI policy with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation.

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@michelin@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@neal@social.gompa.me that I missed the mark and this is bleak? :P

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