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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026

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

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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Lost the day to US taxes. Was a beautiful day.

Ahhh, the mountains I could have seen...

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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Kōkako photos in the press.

https://www.burntfen.com/2026-03-11/kokako-photos-in-the-press

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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?

Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

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."

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

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Essentially, their argument was that this would be a huge pain and expense to fix, and so we are all better off just keeping it on the down low. And that kind of worked, for about a hundred years, unt

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Anyway, my intent in looking at locks and publishing my paper wasn't to disrupt the lock industry. I believed, as I still do, that mechanical locks and physical security have quite a bit to teach comp

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I never did reach a truce with the locksmiths. A couple years later, I met Billy Edwards, the author of that editorial denouncing me, at a trade show, and when he learned who I was he refused to shake

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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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# OpenSource # OpenScience # OpenAccess , # birds and # birding , # inaturalist # ebird # Latin , # languages , travel and politics. - Co-Organizer of CURIOSS @ curioss , SustainOSS @ sustainoss , 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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@richlitt@mastodon.social · Dec 29, 2025

@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?

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