freakazoid

freakazoid, 8 hours ago to random

Umm, no.

"Anarchist, punk rock, cowboy. Who is also a Police Officer."

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@BlackDogActual

freakazoid, 11 hours ago to random

I had forgotten about Gerald Bull, his supergun, and his assassination, almost certainly by Israel.

The Tragic Story Of The Ill-Fated Supergun
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/28/the-tragic-story-of-the-ill-fated-supergun/

freakazoid, 5 days ago to random

iFixit's had enough with Samsung. That secret contract was only part of the problem.

Anyway, I've been saying Samsung sucks for years. Not sure why it wasn't obvious to anyone who's used one of their crapware-laden devices.

iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to self-repair program
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ifixit_samsung_repair/

freakazoid, 5 days ago to random

Let's start by degrowing the military, police, and prisons. No more using resources to produce negative value.

freakazoid, 5 days ago to random

The nobot hashtag in my profile means no bots boosting my posts either.

Why is it techbros are so completely incapable of understanding consent?

freakazoid, 6 days ago to random

This problem is why Arch Linux is both harder and easier to use: harder because you have to configure everything yourself. Easier because there's very little magic that's invisible until it's not.

https://mastodon.social/@jk/112485636960778400

freakazoid, 6 days ago to random

LOL imagine moving from Windows to MacOS because of Microsoft's AI fuckery. Almost as shortsighted of a decision as moving from Github to GitLab when MS bought the former.

Worse, really, because Apple's been progressively locking down MacOS for over a decade in the name of "security" but by sheer coincidence that also happens to shepherd people into their app store.

If you @ me with Apple defenses I will block you. I have no time for people who think it's a good use of their time to carry water for a trillion dollar company.

freakazoid, 7 days ago to random

$0.10 for a thin paper bag with no handles that broke before I got to my car. The bag obviously won't be reused and probably won't be recycled because of the likelihood of contamination in the shared bin & truck. Making the bag ban nothing but a tax on the end user that helps nobody, least of all the environment.

#CapitalismIsConsumingItself

freakazoid, 10 days ago to random

Funny how "Let's get as many people as we can hooked now and figure out how to monetize them later" has never worked out well for the people getting hooked.

freakazoid, 10 days ago to random

Maybe instead of swimming as fast as you can to stay in front of the enshittification wave, you should just get out of the water.

freakazoid, 11 days ago to random

I think Go must be part of a conspiracy to get us all using AI to do our programming. Because what human wants to be typing "if err != nil" blocks all day?

It's a programming language for machines, not humans.

freakazoid, 13 days ago to random

I don't have the attention span to be able to work on only one thing at a time.

I also don't have the attention span to be able to work on more than one thing at a time.

freakazoid, 13 days ago to random

The constant quest by capitalists and techbros to cut those messy unpredictable humans out of the equation.

freakazoid, 14 days ago to random

#Fediblock https://mstdn.social/@Smith007 bot or sock puppet account. All its posts that aren't pro-Israel are bland nonsense accompanied by an unrelated image with nonsense alt text.

freakazoid, 17 days ago to mastodon

Anyone know a tool for doing analytics on #Mastodon follows and followers? I'd like to prune truly dormant accounts (no posts or replies visible even on their own server, not just ones that have made it to mine if I don't follow them) and followers who never interact with my posts.

freakazoid, 17 days ago to random

Redistribution can only have so much of an impact on inequality. We have to eliminate the things that are producing the inequality in the first place: financialization, rents (in the economic sense, of which finance is a special case), and barriers.

The wealthy will fight this tooth and nail. If making them give in requires bringing out the guillotines, so be it.

freakazoid, 18 days ago to random

So wait did the storm go from G4 to G5 at some point?

freakazoid, 18 days ago to random

"The United States government and the asbestos industry have been criticized for not acting quickly enough to inform the public of dangers and to reduce public exposure. In the late 1970s, court documents proved that asbestos industry officials knew of asbestos dangers since the 1930s and had concealed them from the public."

When has a government or industry ever informed the public of a danger in a timely manner except when they were exaggerating the danger with the expectation of profiting from it?

Government works for industry, not the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos?wprov=sfla1

freakazoid, 20 days ago to random

This is where AI is headed, folks. Not replacing us; killing us.

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2022843

freakazoid, 21 days ago to random

As expected, TikTok and Bytedance are suing the US government. I hope they win.

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/tiktok_bytedance_sue_usa/

freakazoid, 21 days ago to random

Apparently some people think it's a good idea to generate internal Go structs and interfaces using protobufs? How shitty does a language have to be for people to reach for a completely different language to write their types and interfaces?

freakazoid, 22 days ago to random

Can't tell you. Temporal Prime Directive.

freakazoid, 22 days ago to random

The Emperor's Old Democracy

freakazoid, 25 days ago to random

I wonder how many projects end up shooting themselves in the foot when using an ORM because they fail to resist the temptation to let the ORM objects leak into their API?

I worked on one project that had to make DB schema changes every time they changed their API because of this. It made it very difficult to maintain compatibility across updates without complicating their schema, too.

freakazoid, 25 days ago to random

Is it still possible to obtain and use a cellular modem in a USB stick form factor? Everything I'm finding comes in a standalone WiFi hotspot form factor.