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@tj I’m personally pissed off at browsers for giving web authors this ability. The browser is supposed to be the user agent! My features! Not yours!
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@slowenough@mastodon.social @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com I love the idea of neighborhood IT co-ops. Fo any actually exist? Are there resources to help set this sort of thing up?
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange see also Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy
The film was cynical, sure, but it seems like a time where that cynicism was, umm, not as societally determinative. These days, I wonder if Harry Lime's crime would be considered a great business idea, shrinkflation for medicine. #MovieClub
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@tarajdactyl Ahem, I’m new to mastodon, but have good experience in Rust and networking. What’s the best way to reach out? Like this??
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@stefan There's a forcing function for products that don't come with relationships: they're easy to break up with. If a seller then wants to maintain a relationship, the onus is more on them, and they're encouraged to align to your interests. Relationships in late-stage capitalism enshittify.
I remember thinking in the late ‘90s that the NNTP protocol was better suited to discussion than the web was. I thought, “with Usenet, your ISP pays once to bring the discussion close to the reader, while with the web, the site owner must pay for everyone who wants to access their server.” It recently struck me that thing I thought was a cost is a big part of why the web took everything over: it says, “for access, you have to come through me.” Not the only reason the web won, but maybe part.
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I've come to view Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy as the most evil iron law I know. Institutions led by folks aiming to increase the power of the institution have an end goal of the institution becoming (as Cory says) too big to care. Humanitarian societies require our institutions to be accountable.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/podcast/frankly
I listened to the April 10th and 11th episodes of this podcast, highly recommended.
@AlSweigart@mastodon.social My 10-11yo's like fantasy. Rick Riordan books, The Ranger's Apprentice series, Janitors, Septimus Heap. The Wayside School series.
It's not obvious that LLMs (with current architectures) can solve current software engineering concerns, fully. It *does* seem clear to me that LLMs can solve *personal* engineering concerns with much less friction than the general-purpose, long-lived, maintainability-oriented software we're used to using.
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@rysiek @david_chisnall
It’s probably easier to explain as class warfare from the billionaire and temporarily embarrassed billionaire classes.
https://catandgirl.com/cat-and-girl-are-power-broke/
“Fuck you” money is anti-social
The markets are Goodhart’s Law
Why hasn’t anyone named their AI “Shoggoth” yet?
@jalefkowit@vmst.io I remember the $100 videos as being licensed to be rentable, as opposed to the more common $20-or-so price for VHS tapes licensed to watch privately, in a single home.
It’s eerie to watch every part of Universal Paperclips coming true
One must correct for grammar in dead languages, but I strongly suspect that “Tekeli-li” is how the Old Ones would have said, “It’s not X, it’s Y”