Ryan J. Yoder

@david_chisnall What's amazing to me is that we already did this in the early 1900s in the Western US and the trains were electric.

@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com It makes me wonder who designed their sandbox ...

@paco@infosec.exchange How did you become aware of the situation?

@scott My hot take here is information is a public good and so we should start thinking of better ways than copyright to incentivize writers, artists, etc.

@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social This is similar to the "My parents worked two jobs to give us a better life." followed my "No one gave me a handout."

@latenightlinux Oops. Never mind. Aaron said it at the end. Gr😬 I guess there should be a cool down period for posts as well.

@simplenomad It's definitely valuable. It's just a funny idea to me because I've already seen devs rerun workflows to get tests to pass. And the stochastic nature of LLMs will make them prime targets for lazy devs that just want to merge their code.

@simplenomad Talk about flakey tests. 😂 "How did you fix that security warning?" "Oh I just rerun the CI when it fails."

@saja0486@mas.to It's a pretty amazing history. http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/red_electrics.html

@saja0486@mas.to Oh that'd be really interesting to know. Do you have a link? I'd be curious which line the cars were from.

@JoBlakely @scott I'd agree that public art is a public good. But physical art pieces in general are not. They're both rival and exclusionary. If I have it in my house, you can't see it and if you take it, I can't enjoy it. On the other hand digital art and information are not rival, nor exclusionary. If I download an image of a painting, it doesn't affect anyone else when trying to enjoy the same digital art piece. Copyright an attempt at making art exclusionary. I think there's probably a better way of finding artists writers journalists, etc. Maybe direct payments?

@linuxlads@mastodon.ie I had to go back to episode one after listening to #150. There was a funny little book end. In episode one the lads talked about Windows 10 being the last Windows version ever. And in 150 they talk about Windows 10 being EOL. 😂

@mhoye At the risk of getting roasted, let me ask a dumb question. Are you saying all software is inherently political? While I agree some software is political, I can think of some that I wouldn't necessarily clarify as political.

@suetanvil @mhoye I don't think I really disagree with any of these arguments. For me this boils down to semantics. The definition seems so broad it's hard to think of anything that wouldn't be consider political. If everything is political, then the word loses it's meaning.

@mhoye @suetanvil That's fair enough. I'm just saying anyone who disagrees with the original statement probably has a different definition of one of those words, because based on your definitions, it's clearly political.

@MarkHoltom I want to preface my question by clearly stating that this was unethical. From a legal perspective, would this be considered a war crime? They were defenseless, but at the same time it was a military target.

@JoBlakely @scott This wouldn't work for everything since not everything is a public good. This wouldn't even work for all art. Like a sculpture or painting clearly aren't public good since they are physical goods.

@JoBlakely @scott I'm just talking in terms of the economics definition of a public good. Non-rival and non-exclusionary. (I'm all for public art)

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social 😬 Maybe a hot take here, but I didn't find this video to be problematic. I'm assuming the man was in a public store. However I'd agree you should be really careful if you're going to post one of these and it might be a bit performative.

@nerdnz@cloudisland.nz Oof, this sucks. Sorry to anyone who has to rewrite git history.