flaviusb

@flaviusb@mastodon.social

While Dark/Magic is my headcannon, Dark/Fire is my OTP. Is it better to be the best ending, or to be the true ending? Social Justice Ur-Priest.

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whitequark, to random
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one of these days I'll take an evening or two to implement a real instant messaging system and then it's all over for Matrix

flaviusb,

@whitequark There is this really vexing thing where, in the heyday of xmpp (and back when the thought that 'productifying'/'startupifying' a thing would ensure income+project longevity+wider usefulness to humanity - like 'we can get rich developing the thing we love via private property relations and business ontology!' was seen as obviously true among 'programmer society') so many pretty cool looking xmpp based IM systems were developed and 'productified' and are now gone or effectively gone.

flaviusb,

@whitequark I have been looking at what would have to be done to get what I would consider a baseline 'good enough' IM system for the tech union I am a part of to move to - where eg it has to function in a way that a) we don't get 'cobblers children have no shoes-ed' b) it is actually useful as a space for organising c) it feels nice to use and not aversive d) we don't get instantly fucked using it e) it can't be bought out from underneath us or otherwise enclosed - and I weep.

flaviusb,

@whitequark But yes, if I ever get funded in such a way that I'm not spending most of my time-energy on my dayjob (and we actually get enough active volunteers at the tech union so I'm not spending most of the rest of my energy holding things together there, and my health issues don't flare up, etc etc) so I actually have enough left over to not have to funnel everything left to only one personal project, then 'actually good enough IM' would be one of the things I'd spend my life trying to make.

flaviusb,

@whitequark Anyway, the 'funny' part of this is that we are moving from Slack to Matrix some time soon (Slack always failed e, and has been worse and worse on points c, b, and a to the point it is a millstone around our necks). I was campaigning for XMPP, but we voted and Matrix won; I comfort myself that at least neither Discord nor Facebook won, even though the new committee member we just got was pushing both of those options very very hard.

mcc, to random
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Unpopular opinion: A lot of y'all are describing your (neurotype / algorithm / chord / biohazardous rocks) as "spicy" when what you really mean is some other taste qualia such as "tangy"

flaviusb,

@mcc "sour brain" hmm

grimalkina, to random
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I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

flaviusb,

@grimalkina Either Ioke: https://github.com/olabini/ioke (though installing it might be troublesome; I wrote Atomish https://github.com/flaviusb/Atomish/ in part so I could with only minor porting keep using the code I had written in Ioke, though it too is probably troublesome to build now and it is way less complete and has way more sharp edges than Ioke) or Ur/Web: https://github.com/urweb/urweb

flaviusb, to random

lrt: basically, the thing that gets me is that the people behind things like sci-hub, libgen, libz, the library of alexandria, the pirate bay, and so on, get hounded even to death for trying to help everyone and infringing on IP, as we are told that their infringing IP is so serious that they have to die regardless of them helping all humanity, whereas OpenAI and so on get gobs of money and praised to the heavens for shitting everything up and getting phenomenally wealthy while infringing IP.

flaviusb, to random

lrts: the Spotify thing is interesting because in so many of these cases, they will say 'oh, we need to do mass layoffs now because we just did so much hiring during the pandemic you know when capital was cheap, but now that capital is expensive we have to let go of the fat and get lean again' but when you look at their hiring, they have actually maintained a hiring freeze and often a wage freeze too all through the pandemic, so it is just lies.

eniko, (edited ) to random
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I know that unions are the in vogue solution to everything nowadays but I'm extremely confused how a union for indie gamedevs would help with anything given that a large proportion of indie gamedevs are in fact small business owners. I think I need someone to walk me through this because if I threaten to strike I'm only really hurting myself and also potentially the people who work for/with me

EDIT: For clarity people are proposing unionizing to help with the Unity situation and uhhh?

flaviusb,

@eniko So, the best answer I can think of is that the indie gamedev union affiliates/federates/forms a council with the various other game workers + tech workers unions, and then asks for solidarity actions from them in order to pressure Unity. But that has a lot of issues. A better solution might be to get indie devs to join existing game/tech unions with membership in studios + unity already, so that an action is within that union. Though getting programmers to do solidarity is... challenging.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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i'm working on a talk and here is a draft of a drawing with no context

will probably make the actual slides more constructive than this but I want to keep some of this energy

(also I'm talking about answering your coworkers' questions, not helping internet strangers who have no claim whatesoever on your time, that is a different thing, though you don't have to be a jerk to internet strangers either)

flaviusb,

@b0rk Part of this seems like a 'two sided problem + deflection' thing - like, meaning is something we have to cooperate to create, the asker + answerer both have to do their part to form two sides of a whole, 'doing your part' can be difficult + effortful but the 'other side' can ~ pick up the slack if they spend 100x as much effort as you would have to, so some people will see a 'here is how to do the other side well' and use it to deflect from their bad behavior and clobber the 'other side'.

flaviusb, to random

I do not want:

  • Spam
  • 'Content Marketing'
  • 'Growth Hacking'
  • 'Hustle'/'Grindset' Posting
  • What you might call 'Corporate Ads'
  • 'Corporate Fundraising'
  • Multi-level Marketing
  • 'Content goo'
  • Affinity Fraud

I do want:

  • Mutual Aid
  • Self promotion
  • Promotion of projects
  • Personal fundraising
  • Personal Opinions on companies/products

I am iffy on (but would not want to ban):

  • Promotion of Charities
  • 'Personal Brand'
  • Some kinds of 'promoted posts' (if clearly marked/regulated etc)
flaviusb,

Defining these various things is pretty difficult (I don't have potted definitions ready to bust out here); I feel like some of the discontent about eg the thing is people disagreeing on what they want, more of it is people disagreeing on definitions but not realising that (eg a particular kind of 'talking past each other'), and the few people who keep fanning the flames are doing a combo equivocation+ship of theseus type thing (+ lying about the facts on the ground) in bad faith.

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