@Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 1mo ago

So I've been following AI coding development, and the newer coding workspaces I see coming out - T3Code and DeepSeek Harness, specifically - are all taking the position that coding no longer involves, like, looking at files, as anything more than a tertiary activity. And I'm just, like, what the fuck. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 3mo ago

Man, fuck youtube. It's outrageous that we've let a company gain such an important position in the distribution of information. Worse, they've managed to make it so that when I watch youtube videos on youtube, it sometimes crashed my computer. I was getting around this by watching them via Freetube instead, but it seems they don't like that... -_-

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 3mo ago

An excellent video on rural economies and rural politics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcVCDr6PZI

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 2mo ago

So, people complain about environmental reviews being expensive and time consuming - can we not just have the government do all the environmental reviews at once, ahead of time? Like, it should be possible to get some fairly significant economies of scale here... :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 4mo ago

And on another note: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h4SDmgb6F2s

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 8mo ago

Big video, I know, but I think it's worth a watch. If you're familiar with photovoltaics and batteries, you can skip past the fake ending for the spicier bits... :/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 14mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop Let's not give ICE ideas. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social Personally, I wouldn't mind taking a step back and funding an organization whose job it is to find problems like this and assemble solutions for them - find people to review all the core infra software and make sure it's supported, or assemble resources for the programmers of such, or a million other things. That's no small ask though - even just deciding what, exactly, falls within that area is quite a task. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social Is this a job for some non-profit foundation, maybe? Or just a whole gaggle of different people, all with their own crowdfunding or whatever? :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social @geomys@abyssdomain.expert @filippo@abyssdomain.expert This is a good step though, don't get me wrong. I just don't think it's sufficient.

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@mctwist@mastodon.acc.umu.se I wouldn't be so sure! I mean you can't do everything, but you can do some things! Maybe start it as like a side gig, give it a few hours a week, blog about it and look for feedback, see where that takes you?

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social @geomys@abyssdomain.expert @filippo@abyssdomain.expert A good start! I'd like to see more though - something to set up sister organizations in the same vein, and maybe supporting infra - organizations dedicated to checking open source projects to examine how well they're being maintained, or to finding security vulnerabilities in them, or to profiling their performance, or to creating organizations to provide support for particularly niche details details - the kind of thing that is suddenly urgent once a decade or whatever.

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social Thinking about this, and like - whose job is it, precisely, to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen? That core infra like this has more support? Do we expect the government to do it? Corporations? Or if neither of them, (Not keen on either, personally), then who? Is someone going to go "This is my job, I will systematically review all open source projects and make note of the ones that need more support"?

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 26mo ago

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@joepie91@social.pixie.town @dee@grafana.social Yup! It might also be responsible for setting up new maintainer organizations. And ideally, we'd have multiple of these things, and separate auditing orgs to make sure they actually do their jobs and don't just siphon off resources... It's a whole thing. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 27mo ago

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@dee@grafana.social I've been thinking about doing something like that for my game, once I get it going - aiming to have, not just modders and map makers and streamers and the like, but a whole ecosystem of people to provide support for them as well. No an easy thing to do though, so we'll see if I can manage it. XD

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 44mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Wow, that's so fucked up, its almost poetic. The police were so used to faking evidence to secure false convictions, they couldn't secure a true conviction. I guess the moral of the story is that if you have no respect for Justice, maybe Justice has no respect for you, and it slams the door in your face the second you actually want it. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 44mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Too bad they managed to shove all the blame on OJ and his lawyer though. I guess there really ain't no Justice.

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 3mo ago

Well that's eerie. Sure hope we don't end up hearing these sounds in the rest of the world... :/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UwKdBkJ8Tzw

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 4mo ago

Dunno if anyone here plays Gems of War, but I recently took over a community website and updated it for 9.2. You can check it out here, if you're interested: https://gemologica.herokuapp.com

gemologica.herokuapp.com

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 2w ago

Replying to on gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com

@decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com The state of the art has come a long way since 1997... As for slop tech debt, yeah, that comes from humans too. You just have to make sure you take time to review and refactor, both before committing changes, and then regularly afterwards as life throws new bullshit at you, that's just how software works.

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 38mo ago

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@thomkennon@mastodon.social @stevegrunwell@phpc.social ...What does it block that you want to open? Only thing I ever have that with is stuff that's not properly encrypted. :/

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Angle🖇 @Angle@anticapitalist.party

· 26mo ago

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@joepie91@social.pixie.town @dee@grafana.social Yeah I don't know. Funding for social goods like this is really hit or miss in general. In theory, this would make a lot of sense as a government program - but in practice, I don't think that's going to work for most countries. I suppose if this intermediary is able to connect funders and maintainers, then they should be able to pursue their own funding? That probably has it's own set of perverse incentives, though... :/

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