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janxdevil

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"Hey now. We devils can do a lot of damage in a classroom armed with nothing but the clothing God gave us. Sometimes all it takes is a carefully chosen pronoun or a noteworthy historical date and next thing you know it's blood and guts everywhere."

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JamesGleick, to random
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If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

janxdevil,
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@JamesGleick well you know how it is with a closely related thing: if you borrow $100K from the bank and you can’t pay it back, then you have a big problem, but if you borrow $100B from the bank and you can’t pay it back, then the bank has a big problem.

(And if you borrow $100T from all the banks in the world, and everyone knows you never had any intention of paying it back, then the whole world has a problem.)

tef, to random
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yesterday i said that building a whole app in rust reminded me of "let's build the entire plane out of the black box"

and like, i know my poetic license is still being renewed but at least one person decided to interpret it as literally as possible

rather than "aiming to build large pieces software in the most expensive way possible is not the most efficient use of engineering"

janxdevil,
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@tef @whitequark @unlambda Don’t ask me why I’m not agitating to rewrite the whole autonomous driving software at $EMPLOYER in Rust instead of C++. (I’m a manager in the core robot software engineering organization, so I have a real voice in that choice.)

Don’t ask, because I just don’t have time to explain real software engineering to people who don’t care to learn it.

janxdevil,
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@whitequark @tef @unlambda It doesn’t require much ego to recognize that you’re not going to replace millions of lines of C++ that required thousands of people to write and billions of dollars to test with anything you and anyone you could recruit to join you would write in Rust over the next few months.

I’d give almost anything to be working in Rust on this stuff, but it’s just not remotely feasible, and it’s pretty damned tiresome to be told that it would be simple as pie if I weren’t such an egotistical idiot standing in the way of progress. But thanks anyway.

janxdevil,
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@whitequark @tef @unlambda Not you. I have followed you long enough to know that’s not you. But I do, from time to time, encounter people who have never worked in a large software project, and who want to argue with me over why the choice to write the logic for the nine ton robot that can go 70 mph and drives on streets where lots of pedestrians are present is written in C++ instead of Rust (or whatever other new hotness they prefer) was a bad choice, and I’m a bad person for not resisting it more, and I just don’t have the time to hold their hand through all that. The recruiters screen most of them out before they ever get to me, but sometimes I find them in the social mix. Guys (they are always guys), do you understand the sheer volume of logic and the level of testing burden you’re talking about? This is not your hobby open source project.

ricmac, to fediverse
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Fascinating look at how is being used by the SFO art museum to help encourage revisiting its cultural objects. Still early days, but you can see the potential here -> “The reason I am telling you all of this is that SFO Museum has written it's own limited ActivityPub server implementation and we have, in fact, created an ActivityPub account – a social media, account – for every object in our collection.” https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/112339899293624779

janxdevil,
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@ricmac I am reminded of the time I was out for a stroll in Tufello, a neighborhood near our apartment in Rome, and I came across a set of tiles in the sidewalk that contained a URL, so I typed it into my mobile web browser and found the cultural heritage museum for the neighborhood. And I’m thinking now about the several million interesting little bits of Rome that are in the collections of a vast array of museums and museum adjacent institutions for which it would be cool to have an ActivityPub account I could follow. I feel a burning need right now for an official Pasquino account, for example.

b0rk, to random
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i uh spend a lot of time thinking about whether various surprising software design choices are

a) intrinsic to the problem domain ("it turns out it DOES make sense!”)
b) made sense historically ("this made sense in 1992, but it didn't age well”)
c) just a typo/mistake (the "Referer" header)
d) related to budget/time constraints (“well, prototyping with shell scripts is fast!”)
e) cultural/organizational (“well, Google is the main funder for this project, and…”)
f) something else

janxdevil,
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@b0rk Consider the reasons that IPv4 (and IPv6 too) have no functional security layer (authenticated headers, encrypted payloads, etc.) on the public Internet. IPsec works only on virtual private networks, despite the clear public interest in the welfare to be provided by a public Internet with a working security layer. There are discoverable reasons for it, and none of them are in your “mostly legitimate” categories.

Also, mobility. Same basic reasons.

janxdevil, to random
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Thinking about the theory in TECHNOFEUDALISM: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM by @VaroufakisDE and the narrative structure of THE BEZZLE by @pluralistic it occurs to me that we are now living through an epoch that I’m thinking to call The Ultimate Bezzle: the interval of time between when the neofeudalists have reduced the capitalists into vassalage, but the capitalists do not yet recognize it.

janxdevil,
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Also, just for kicks, check out this piece from the Carnegie Endowment that I randomly found when I went looking for a good explanation of the term “bezzle” — turns out to be a flying anvil of cluefulness, and I strongly recommend it.

https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/85179

jwz, to random
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How to make the upcoming Neuromancer adaptation not suck:

Go full Lisa Frankenstein, e.g. 80s as understood by TikTok kids.
Barbiemancer.
Muppets.
Jodorowsky's Dune's TRON.

I really think those are your only options.

I joked earlier that I hope...
https://jwz.org/b/ykNq

janxdevil,
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@jwz why would you do that when Abel Ferreira already did New Rose
Hotel?

nanographs, to random
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TFW you work on electron microscope controls with @whitequark and she immediately turns it all into a compiler problem. Watching her write Amaranth is something else, @isabel and I learned a ton!

https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/111987067448322106

janxdevil,
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@nanographs @whitequark @isabel I contend that the dirty secret of software engineering is that every program is some kind of compiler.

janxdevil, to random
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Denying people healthcare is “lawful use of force” not violence.

janxdevil, to random
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I’d be more sympathetic to arguments for making bridges out of fedspace opt-out rather than opt-in if they didn’t dismiss entirely the problem of how the bridge acts as a proxy in any and all moderation disputes between instances in each bridged network, and that’s not a role I want filled by some random techbro with a stack he’s desperately trying to find a way to monetize.

janxdevil,
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Seriously people. Stop huffing the paint thinner. Some random tech-dude sees a place to build a bridge where a bridge doesn’t currently exist, and the first question to ask them is about how they are thinking about the opportunity to charge a toll for crossing it. When the answer comes back “you’re already crossing it now, and I’m not even thinking yet about how to charge you for it,” the first thing to do is destroy the bridge.

DrALJONES, to uk
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    janxdevil,
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    @DrALJONES The good news is that with only very rare exceptions psychopaths are famously bad at social organizing. The “related information” is that a large fraction of the non-psychopath population is prone to self-organize around psychopaths anyway.

    hacks4pancakes, to random

    Gonna share some truths that are taboo to talk about, and everyone is gonna angrily at me about (I’m going to drink this mead then have a nap, don’t bother):glasses frames are a monopoly, but you can buy pretty nice glasses from China if you have a prescription for like $20, I have like 11 - look at Vooglam ~ nobody actually gives a shit if you go to the glamorous restaurant alone, as long as you tip well and are polite - in fact you’ll get better drinks at the bar~ the secret to doing a lot of stuff as an adult, like hobbies or going places, is just asking. Nobody gives a shit if you tip well and you’re polite. You can go almost wherever. You can finger paint. Whatevs.~ life is too short for shit beer & liquor~ life is too short for shit men, love~ there will be other loves even though it seems giant ~ trans rights are human rights and I’ll officiate your wedding ~ local elections matter ~ you should be seeing a therapist~ if you haven’t worn it in two years, donate it, darling~ people at bars want to tell you about their jobs and hobbies, and they’re all interesting~ video games and D&D are real life skills~ find the fitness that you can do long term~ no fad diets~ you don’t have to know how to code or watch Star Wars to be a great IT person~ if you ever have or think you have a serious health problem in America, understand our healthcare is shit and you need to research it yourself and then get like 3 opinions minimum. Nobody will look out for you like you do.~ you should probably wear the mask~ if you have ovaries that work you can just take birth control forever and never have a period, there are some health caveats but it’s mostly sorta kinda just a stigma not to. The military does this.~ if you have ovaries that work find an gynecologist who is generally not an asshole, life is too short for checking with your nonexistent husband ~ if your doctor harps on your bmi and nothing else, then get a new doctor, before you die. Literally.~ it’s a good night if you get home safe, brush your teeth, and take an aleve~ life is too short to penny pinch instead of living, because soon we’ll be gone~ you look perfect in that outfit to everyone except you ~ life is too short for shit jobs ~ ask how other people are doing, and listen~ genuinely care about what happens to other people because it will happen to you

    janxdevil,
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    @hacks4pancakes I miss having hair, but male pattern baldness is the new me I guess.

    pluralistic, to apple
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    This is how you know it's a cult. "If you want to read the Bible in the vulgate, why don't you become a Satanist? My faith requires that everyone who calls themself a Christian must worship as I do. Your choice to worship otherwise is an injury to me, even if I don't know you."

    janxdevil,
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    @brunogirin FreeBSD vs NetBSD vs OpenBSD.

    verge, to random
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    AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification?utm_content=buffer45a01&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

    janxdevil,
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    @verge oh that’s cool. Now let’s have a certification label for content made by humans that doesn’t violate copyright.

    janxdevil, to random
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    One of the things that happens to you after you watch enough of your family and loved ones descend into dementia is you start to lose your patience for the popular view that the body is a vehicle for the brain and the brain is a physical container for an immaterial mind. That is just quite obviously Not How Anything Works.

    And you start looking at problems like pollution and the climate calamity and biodiversity collapse and thinking about how there are definitely certain people who should never ever again feel safe appearing in public without a phalanx of bodyguards.

    janxdevil, to random
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    I also need to find a decent solution for hosting a website to be the home of my podcast. And I need to register a domain name for it.

    hacks4pancakes, to random

    Just a reminder that the US Air Force forced Chobani to change their yogurt formula to not contain any hemp seeds because some military people ate it, and if you’re not a white billionaire guy they’re that strict about something that might have contained something you could potentially have made pot out of but didn’t and in some alternate universe might trip a drug test.

    https://toot.community/@Bewickwren/111712433044579577

    janxdevil,
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    @hacks4pancakes wait, you can get a contact high from eating the rich? WHY HAVE WE NOT BEEN TOLD!?

    janxdevil, to random
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    This is also just to give thanks to @pinskal for contributing a curated steam of just excellent stuff. One of the heroes of the fediverse, you ask me.

    janxdevil, to random
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    Can’t help notice which profanities still get bleeped out in the NSFW versions of these.

    From: @dgar
    https://aus.social/@dgar/111697521167831684

    pluralistic, to random
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    Kid (15): Can I wear your Blogger shirt* to school today?

    Me: Sure, but why do you want to wear it to school?

    Kid: Because it's funny.

    • The original orange Blogger logo tee, given out at the first SXSW interactive festival in the early 2000s
    janxdevil,
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    @clive gopher://

    w7voa, to random
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    Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Koolau Ranch, which is to include a large underground shelter, will have its own energy and food supplies and, when coupled with land purchase prices, will cost in excess of $270 million.
    https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/

    janxdevil,
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    @Npars01 @w7voa does he have enough arable land and fresh water to support the serfs who will work his rice farms?

    mmasnick, to random
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    As I understand it, Meta has a phased rollout plan regarding ActivityPub. Its efforts today are little more than effectively reposting a few Threads accounts to ActivityPub, but it will start adding features for tighter integration throughout the course of next year. https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D

    janxdevil,
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    @mmasnick When do they plan to support it? What have they prioritized below it?

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