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@dthompson@toot.cat any suggestions for a replacement? I’ve heard good things about NetBSD

@davidho@mastodon.world worse news: no matter how bad the impacts are, the few people responsible for continuing to extract & burn fossil fuels will never stop

@pikhq@social.treehouse.systems if that’s who they’re hiring as developers, no wonder corporate “software engineering” makes no sense to me. (Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to make enough money by programming things that do make sense)

@zer0billionaires@mastodon.social also, that when we elect officials who want to help us, they will. We should elect more of them

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social @mcc@mastodon.social I kindof want to collect all of these in one place, in whichever file it is that all the “agents” look at in a repository for instructions

@bit@ohai.social @foolishowl@social.coop cellphones can do most of that now. My phone won’t ring for numbers that aren’t in my contacts - those calls go straight to voicemail. And if the caller blocks me from seeing their number, they don’t get to leave a message. It would be better to have the phone companies provide that service, but I doubt a new phone company that did could be viable

@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone also prosecutions, and new regulations to prevent this from happening again, and new taxes on extreme wealth to limit the withholding of resources from being used to benefit society

@t54r4n1@mspsocial.net @OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz I have in my head that “horns” (the instruments) have that name because the oldest ones were actually horns (the anatomical feature); I wonder if horn-shaped flowers got called horns too. Trumpets might be a different enough shape for a trumpet-shaped flower to not be seen as horn-shaped. It’s a really interesting question

@Jacob_Wren@mastodon.social cosplay as Babar, King of the Elephants

@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io they’re working on that. Maybe not specifically for alcohol, but generally. It’s going to be even worse than the ads in search results

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I wonder if there are existing tools that could help the well-meaning among those people. Like something where you can schedule an occasional public code-review hour, and people can request a review of their code, but also vote for which other requests should go first (as well as collaborate and such, maybe tied to codeberg). Or if there are many similar requests, a set of standard tests for those topics that can check whether submitted code handles reference scenarios correctly

@JorisBohnsonPM@mastodon.social @infobeautiful@vis.social then it’s good that Armenia and Azerbaijan get to reap the rewards of having at least the minimal amount of political stability

@jake4480@c.im now I want to play this game

@infobeautiful@vis.social are there transit fees for flying through their airspace?

@rosaaeterna@transfem.social @zzt@mas.to I think the free license should ban all commercial activity, and there should be a convention of offering the same software under at least two licenses - the strictly non-commercial free license and a commercial-permitting paid license. If corporations want to use the software, they have to give back, either by paying or by actually contributing to the commons. We could call them the “enhance the commons” license and the “fuck you, pay me” license

@marshray@infosec.exchange @petealexharris@mastodon.scot @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz “They’re us” “We’re them”

@Kroc@oldbytes.space @mhoye@cosocial.ca @mcc@mastodon.social we lost a lot when software distribution got cheap and fast. I expect there’s a substantial amount we could regain by consistently maintaining archives of build dependencies. Seems like the sort of thing that could be required if software engineering were a real engineering discipline

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social so, their new privacy policy is you don’t get any?

@Bwee@meow.social apparently this has a whole story I don’t know about, but it just looks like an improvement on Windows

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social the first thing we should do is treat using investments as collateral as realizing the gains, thus making them taxable. The second thing we should do is change the tax rates so dividend income is taxed at a higher rate than employment income

@ZLabe@fediscience.org this may belong in a different organization, but in addition to tracking the state of the climate I’d like to know how to convince our elected officials to stop making it worse

@lumiukko@metalhead.club @stekopf@mstdn.social @royaards@newsie.social before any “grand plan” we need one really simple rule: prohibit all extraction and cross-border trade of fossil fuels (crude and refined), and subsidize the refitting or replacing of personal fossil-dependent machines to be fossil-free. The basic problem is the increase of carbon in the carbon cycle, so the critical first step is to stop that, and since people are dependent on it we need to enable them to move away from it

@josh@masto.byrd.ws I still want to use economic indicators of how things are for ordinary people https://mastodon.social/@ShadSterling/112492660762950665

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange in my high school student center a group of us played Star Control 2 so much that eventually we were less playing the game and more running experiments on their physics engine, and while the ship’s rockets couldn’t go backward they did have speed limits - which didn’t apply to other sources of acceleration. I’d call that the same category of bug, and it was fun to see which ship could go fastest with it’s unique capabilities

@chrisdenton@hachyderm.io @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange If your actual goal was to make a policy of the one thing there was agreement about, I guess my inclination now would be to reject that PR and make a new one that opens with that goal and proposes the same policy. Tho even then, restricting the projects ethical stance to what you can get consensus on with people who want unethical policies is at best wishy-washy; it would be better, but not great 🧵⏹️

@dr2chase@ohai.social @futurebird@sauropods.win not just that, but uniformity. I want my site to be orderly in my particular way, but even other people who want orderly things should be free to make them their own way

@stekopf@mstdn.social @Pamela1960@kolektiva.social @royaards@newsie.social heat pumps also move more energy than they consume, so anywhere they can be used they’re usually the better option

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I was very confused by the way people were using “POC” at a web developer conference; I’d always heard it used for “person/people of color”, they assumed everyone understood it to mean “proof of concept”. Apparently in other contexts it can mean “plan of care” and at least a few other things

@mike@sauropods.win @TCatInReality@mastodon.social disappointing; I was tempted to look for company names for the whole alphabet

@violetmadder@kolektiva.social @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone if we keep electing people who want to stop crushing orphans, and keep constantly telling all our elected officials to stop crushing orphans, it is possible to stop crushing orphans. I dunno what’s actually going to happen, but I vote for and tell my elected’s about what I want to happen, because doing so makes it just a tiny bit more likely that some of what I want will happen - and the more of us do that, the more likely it gets

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt huh, maybe I’m right-eared or something, I’m right handed, but holding the handset with my left hand feels really strange. Most of the land-line phones I’ve used have been the kind with the buttons on the handset, or under the handset, maybe I just did the first step with my right hand and got used to it

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt why does this look to me like the left-handed version? Did they make them both ways?

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ok I know it’s a “murder” of crows, is it a “conspiracy” of ravens?

@jannem@fosstodon.org @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems so you want the few scientists who can write correct code to replace it with probably-incorrect code from an LLM? I don’t see value in that either

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I keep seeing references to Macklemore that assume readers already know what happened. What was it that happened?

@brainwormqueen@woof.tech @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems when hardware support refused to act on anything involving a different distro than their favorite, I booted a live image which had a gnome desktop, and couldn’t figure out how to do basic things like shut down. Eventually I found a terminal, and after using that to confirm that the hardware problem is in the hardware, I also used it to shut down. I’ll never use Gnome enough to write post like the OP, but I have been forced to use it briefly

@pizzapatch@pdx.social where “sufficiently advanced” is “it works at all”

@dalias@hachyderm.io @veil_im@infosec.exchange so the user just has to notice, which maybe the UI could do more to help with. Could the police also use the new device to remove the original?

@violetmadder@kolektiva.social @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone one key feature of the system is that it can be changed through nonviolent civic action, and tens of millions of us are going to continue that work with or without your help. Of course it’s not as simple as voting alone, and some nonviolent civic actions will be met with a violent response, but the system has only been broken by its own mechanisms so the goal is to influence the changes those mechanisms bring

@FrightenedRat@mastodon.scot @falcennial@mastodon.social @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @jameshowell@fediscience.org that particular one is a bit easier; talk to an author for 5 minutes about their story and they’ll talk your ear off for an hour about all the things they thought were neat and/or didn’t make it in, but talk to someone who wrote a prompt and they won’t have much to say

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social The third thing we should do is tax long-term unrealized gains for assets where the short-term unrealized gain is positive - so if you had $1000 of stock at the end of 2023, and its value was up to $1100 at the end of 2024, and up further to $1200 at the end of 2025, then the 2024 gain of $100 should be taxable in 2026, but if it went down in 2025 then the 2024 gain would not be taxed. So the tax applies to ongoing unrealized gains, not to intermittent gains

@hadon@mastodon.social is that Major Toht?

@chrisdenton@hachyderm.io @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Instead we got what reads like an announcement that you’ve decided to set policy in a way that disregards any consideration of whether that policy is unethical - and that ethical concerns were raised in a private (hidden) discussion and your response to that was to disregard those concerns. 🧵▶️

@jannem@fosstodon.org @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems we already have a problem with scientists who are not programmers writing unintentionally and non-obviously incorrect code, and getting non-obviously wrong results published. I don’t see value in replacing code that represents their intent and that they could explain to a programmer who could improve it, with code that doesn’t represent their intent and they can’t explain

@jannem@fosstodon.org @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems sure, s/want/see value in/. I expect that to lead to more incorrect code with incorrect results that get treated as correct, making the problem worse

@lumiukko@metalhead.club @stekopf@mstdn.social @royaards@newsie.social I’m pretty well convinced that we don’t have the political will to do anything comprehensive, and trying to require it will lead to continuing to do nothing at all. I’d much rather do the one key thing than do nothing

@noh8campaign@mastodon.social is that an “anti-book” “ban bill”, or is that an “anti-book-ban bill”?

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social any calls to boycott Kraft’s events & venues?

@dalias@hachyderm.io @veil_im@infosec.exchange hmm, that sounds like the user should be able to tell the primary device to shut down that relay

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social “fold like a paper map” - never quite back to how it was before