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Di4na

@Di4na@hachyderm.io

SRE. Elixir Dev. Learner in Resiliency. French.
All Opinions are my own. And i have a lot.

Co-Founder and President Haruspex.dev

dom. He/him.

Blog: Softwaremaxims.com

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luis_in_brief, to random
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This sentiment is such a recurring sentiment for so many people who try to work in good faith with open communities. That sucks.
https://mastodon.social/@migurski/112360700602208937

Di4na,
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@luis_in_brief @grimalkina This is a well-known thing at this point. Openness can cost a lot; the moderation problem is not limited to FB. But we rarely equip our FOSS teams, especially the ones backed by big companies, with moderation teams and support.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @luis_in_brief I do not disagree, but I also think that this is only the visible part of the iceberg.

A frigton of opensource, by far the vast majority of it, is a person doing this a couple hours a month in the middle of nowhere, with a really niche skillset.

And in this situation, it is not "saintly appointed few", it is whoever had enough free time and mental space and privilege and interest in a really "hobbyistic" thing that end up the few.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @luis_in_brief and then that model is reused in vastly different situations, and we get into what you really well describes.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @luis_in_brief like, it is not because I am scared of not being techy that i had problems going against the great man in my domain. It is because noone else than this great man had the privilege to spend time on it. Going against him would have achieved nothing.

And at some point i became the part going against him and the current expected result by everyone is that the tech that seemed able to make things better will disappear.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @luis_in_brief If we want the system to change, and I want to, we need to go deeper than "cultural". There are systemic reasons we end up in these toxic and harmful patterns.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @luis_in_brief (and by moderation, i mostly meant being able to push out the Appointed Few)

mcc, to random
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Just opened my ThinkPad and for the second time in three days the act of closing the laptop to sleep it, then opening it again had caused Ubuntu to hardlock. This time I got a very brief small printout about "amd ring 0 error", then it went back to a black screen and I had to hold down the power button again.

I thought getting a ThinkPad, getting AMD cpu/gpu and picking the Linux distro Lenovo lists as supported would mean I got a minimally functioning computer but I guess not.

Di4na,
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@mcc tbf. This is not a linux problem. Windows get fucked the same by Modern Standby!

Di4na,
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@mcc I mean, Linux is better than it used to be, so I would argue it was ruined from the start and is slowly unruining itself :D

cstross, to random
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My current nightmare is that the Tories will be hammered so hard this Thursday that the back benches will run a leadership challenger against Sunak ...

… And the party rank and file will then vote Liz Truss in again as party leader.

She's had a year to lick her wounds and work out what she did wrong, and in her tiny mind it can only be that she didn't do everything fast enough and hard enough.

So we'll get a Liz Truss equivalent of the US Republicans' Project 2025.

Di4na,
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@cstross I mean, would she survive to day3? because "fuck pension funds" sounds ok until that starts to happen....

Di4na,
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@cstross Not wrong, but also the moment your pension fund calls you to tell you, "So you will not get a payment ever anymore", it kinda focuses the mind. And after the last time, I am not sure the funds would not do that.

Also technically, you only need enough MP to panic to block her. It is not like it is a big majority rn....

mcc, to random
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Does anyone want to take this moment to convince me that I should use Guix instead of [Nix or a Nix hardfork]? Or otherwise, convince me that I should use [Nix or a Nix hardfork] instead of Guix? It is okay to be a Reply Person about this. I am giving you an invitation.

https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112355361353931366

Di4na,
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@mcc If you are happy about Scheme, I don't think one is far different from the other. I consider Lisp a really cool idea not great for mass use, but that is personal. So honestly, just use whatever ?

Di4na,
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@mcc I mean that is a fair one. I think it is a strange mix of ML and JSON. But I cannot not like an ML. (do more things like ML other languages please)

It is not bad, but some days I would love to have something a bit better specified (Dhall is a direction that point to interesting things).

But well. Scheme :D

coni2k, to opensource
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Tragedy of the Digital Commons by Chinmayi Sharma 💯

One of the most extensive analyses discussing the issues around the open source ecosystem and why governments should get involved to address them effectively. It places a solid and much-needed emphasis on the prevalent Free-rider problem in providing public goods.

"... interventions that rely on voluntary participation have not and will not succeed." 💯

1/3

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4245266

Di4na,
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@coni2k I will be honest. I understand the moral appeal to the free rider point.

But it is a dangerous and bad idea to bring it as a legitimate problem.

The free rider way is the only way for FOSS infra to work sustainably. Bringing corp in destroy the efficiency of the model at the engineering level. And it destroy the efficiency of the model at the economic level.

And I do not mean that paying devs would be too expensive.

But the work to make it legible to corp would be far too high.

Di4na,
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@coni2k what made foss work is that devs at the lowest level of corp can use it without talking to legal or procurement. Reversing that, even a little bit, would make software orders of magnitude more expensive.

Di4na,
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@coni2k I do not disagree but I will simply add again. You do not need to invoke the (highly dubious) "free rider problem" for that.

I would also recommend something else than VAT, as VAT is paid mostly by end user and is highly regressive.

But that is a different discussion.

edcrypt, to elixir
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If a long time Pythonista wants to finally dive into , where should they start?

Di4na,
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@corpsmoderne @edcrypt this. Really. They work

NanoRaptor, to random
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As I just posted elsewhere online:

“Oh my fucking god is this how thinking should work?!? What the hell. What the fuck. You all didn’t have this all the time did you? And not tell me?”

First adhd medication dose. This is really, really clear.

Di4na,
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@NanoRaptor yeaaaaaaah. I went to cry when I realised.

krusynth, to random
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Everyone is talking about fast fashion, but no one is talking about the plague of fast furniture. It’s impossible to find true durable pieces that can last for generations anymore, even the so-called “Amish made” pieces are typically cheap stuff being bulk produced in one of a dozen massive factories.

I can’t even find a solid wood panel bed at any of the vintage or resale shops anymore. Particleboard is the only choice we’re being given. It’s tragic.

Di4na,
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@irenes @krusynth my partner is a classically trained woodworker.

We did the maths the other day. A good gaming table would cost, purely time and materials, around 5k to build. Maybe 2k by cheapening everything. And that would be minimum wage for her, barely breaking even. Bad social protections too, because self employed.

There is not enough people with that amount of money. The purchasing power collapsed too fast.

Di4na,
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@irenes @krusynth oh the wood went up but it is the hours that raise the price.

Inflation was applied to furniture, but more generally the reason we got purchasing power parity is that we got cheaper stuff made with more efficient mass production. For woods, that means particles board. And more hardware for joints (not a bad thing!)

Fundamentally without mass producing (and hard wood hard for mass prod) no reduction in labour cost for woodwork. And it ships badly if not flatpacked

Di4na,
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@irenes @krusynth flatpacked stuff wins because you are not shipping air through the whole logistic, so can reduce labour cost by going to cheap labour country (and you can pay above living wage there and still win. So even ethically...)

Di4na,
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@irenes @krusynth the other aspect we forget is purchasing power.
I strongly recommend watching
https://youtu.be/ZuXzvjBYW8A?si=RH3tWUAj7p4cPcWx

I do not agree with all he offers,UK centric, but quite true all over the Western world.

Salary have not grown but rental cost grew massively in the mix. For less housing space. Result is a drastic collapse in purchasing power starting in the early 00s.

Plus productivity in manufacturing in Western stagnated, which compound with inflation.

Di4na,
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@irenes @krusynth said otherwise. It is not that expensive. We are just really poor and our societal price scale model is out of line with reality.

hazelweakly, to random
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It's absolutely unreal to me how much my brain on estrogen absolutely lives and dies on carbs.

Before transition? Eh

After transition? CARBS

FEED ME

CARRRRRRRRBBBSSSSSSS

I NEEEED IT

NEEDS THEM

SOAK MY BODY IN THE CARBOHYDRATES

But, like, I have no idea where this came from. Legitimately. Wtf is going on here

Di4na,
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@hazelweakly metabolism changes too. Fucked over by hormones. Also check your general blood levels.

I am working on energy level and general tiredness problems my partner is having rn and just starting hormonal contraception (micro dosed) had a positive impact. Endocrine are a whole shitshow.

ChrisMayLA6, to science
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Meanwhile, the Science journalists wonder how they might catch your attention this (local election) week.

(from the New Scientist archive of Tom Gauld cartoons)

#science #news

Di4na,
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@ChrisMayLA6 *in mice!

bert_hubert, to random
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Recently places like @SIDN (Dutch national operator of .NL) have been claiming that nobody in Europe can deliver their computer needs, and that they are therefore forced to outsource operations to American cloud providers. Meanwhile our own IT industry denies this. Here I delve into what's going on, and how Europe is being Cloud Naïve instead of Cloud Native.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-naive-europe-and-the-megascaler/

Di4na,
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@bert_hubert @huitema it is not a lock in.

The problem is that changing provider gives you basically nothing. None of them massively undercut price, because the price are not as extravagantly high as it looks.

There are no move between them because why the heck would you do that?

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