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dusnm

@dusnm@fosstodon.org

Hi there! I'm a software developer from Belgrade, Serbia, mainly dealing with distributed systems. An all-round nerd, minimalist and a tinkerer. I sometimes engage in political commentary. My opinions are my own. Besides computing, I'm interested in philosophy of religion, politics, psychology, biology and literature.

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drewdevault, to random
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What questions should go into the Hare FAQ?

dusnm,
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@drewdevault

Some I think could be valuable:

  • What problems is Hare designed to solve?
  • Why should you choose Hare over alternatives?
  • When is Hare not a good choice?
  • How to get started writing Hare programs?
  • Where can I interact with the community?
  • How to get help when you need it?
  • How to distribute software written in Hare?
dusnm, to random
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The reason you feel miserable on your job is that you're robbed of autonomy to make your own decisions on what needs to be done. You may have agency in deciding how to do something, but your actions are determined by your boss who assigns tasks for you to do in the first place. This alienates you from the products of your own labor, rendering the work you do mundane, repetitive and unsatisfying, external to yourself, rather than being a part of your character.

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dusnm,
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This idea isn't new. I'm afraid I tricked you into reading a primer on Karl Marx's theory of alienation. I'm (not) sorry.

This is a part of a mechanism of control designed to extract the maximum possible amount of work at the minimum price (wage) for that work possible.

Marx still being right about this almost two centuries after his death is a statement to either his incredible ability of foresight or an indicator of the timelessness of his ideas. I'll let you decide which one.

satan, to random

@phil

Fix your shit server and close registration please

dusnm,
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@satan @phil Is Satan having trouble with too many demons coming to hell?

dusnm, to random
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This person is deranged, if not a troll.

https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to_github_and_i_have_lots_to_say/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

dusnm, to random
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Use strong copyleft licenses for your software, please. When you use permissive licenses like MIT or BSD (2 or 3 clause), you're essentially giving up the premise that free software should remain free.

The fact that silicon valley tech companies avoid using software with strong copyleft licensing is an argument for, not against them.

sarahjamielewis, to random
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Really uncomfortable with (otherwise cool) organizations using the presence of cryptography to back up a security/privacy claim that is 100% policy based.

Just because they don't do a thing doesn't mean they can't do a thing.

"We don't know who you talk to" (because we don't log that information as it passes through our servers)

is a very different claim than...

"We don't know who you talk to" (because we physically and computationally will never have access to that information)

dusnm,
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@drewdevault @sarahjamielewis Care to clarify? I always "felt" there was something wrong with Protonmail, but I just can't put a finger on it.

mike, to random
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In case you were curious what a looks like in our metrics.

dusnm,
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@mike Thank you for donating your time to the community in this manner. 🙂

dusnm, to random
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Some girl: "I cheated on you"
Dave: "I actively dislike you"

  • Sick guitar solo *
  • More incredibly cheesy lyrics *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_CNDYpPE4

kev, to macos
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Fedi hive mind, lend me your grey matter…

Does anyone know of a way, on , to create a challenge when an app is launched?

Context: I want my laptop to have a barrier for entry whenever I launch Mona, so that when I come to the Fedi, it's a deliberate thing that I want to do, instead of a knee-jerk “oh I have 30 seconds spare, I'll doom scroll…”

dusnm,
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@kev Such a thing would require this program to intercept every running process, which I'm pretty sure constitutes malware. 🤣

drewdevault, to random
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It's fun to watch Apple bitch and moan and act like a petulant child because the EU told them to open their devices up, and I hope that the EU bitch slaps them into full compliance

Also I'm pretty sure you can argue that the DMA should apply to opening up the walled gardens of video game consoles

dusnm,
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@drewdevault I don't care about their whining, I only care about the absolute trash move to charge developers who dare use alternative distribution channels.

I'm an Apple customer, but if they think we're idiots I'm willing to reconsider my decision.

dusnm, to Korean
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How many languages do you speak? Do you feel your personality is expressed differently when you speak different languages?

I speak two languages fluently. My native Serbian and English (by necessity).

I can tell you my English persona is a lot more confident and slightly more arrogant. I don’t know how to explain that.

dusnm, to random
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I tear up every time I watch this scene. So powerful. I didn't understand it when I watched The Lion King as a child. Now I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWKvvXzlyg

jookia, to random

the sighted developer/sysadmin cycle:

  1. ignore accessibility during development
  2. ignore accessibility during testing
  3. roll out inaccessible code
  4. respond to complaints with your own complaint nobody is writing accessible solutions
  5. ignore all your blind users leaving
  6. go back to step 1
dusnm,
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@jookia It's sad, because, at least on the web, the defaults are already pretty accessible and you have to actively work to change them to make your application inaccessible to visually impaired people.

Most "good practices" in design, come at the expense of accessibility.

dusnm,
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@jookia We put a lot of emphasis on using proper semantic HTML tags and providing alternative text for images, audio and video.

You have to be pretty bad or ill informed to write inaccessible HTML these days.

dusnm,
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@jookia JS makes it worse. The browser has a lot of predefined functionality attached to default HTML elements. Form controls with non-trivial keyboard interactions, underlined links that change color if you've visited them and stuff like that.

A lot of developers use JS and inadvertently end up discarding a lot of that functionality.

drewdevault, to random
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Hot take: video games have peaked in terms of resource requirements and there's not much need to keep making better and better GPUs etc. Hardware has been more than enough for several years now

dusnm,
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@drewdevault Games on the Switch tend to target people from all walks of life, casual and hardcore gamers alike. The other platforms have a reputation of being made for "capital G" gamers and their attempts to break into the casual market have been less than successful. Remember Xbox Kinect?

Nintendo also holds a tight grip onto their IP, even more so than Sony. You can only play Zelda or Mario on Nintendo consoles.

All of this contributes to the record breaking sales of the Switch.

dusnm, to random
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The hard ones are diabolically hard.

godlessmom, to random
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Fellas, what's your excuse for not swimming like this? https://amzn.to/3SI3qYA

dusnm,
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@godlessmom Half of all water molecules would disappear every time I went into the ocean. 🤣

yassie_j, to random
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Journalists (and corporate techy types) are really so obsessed with quote posting for some reason

I mean, it’s obviously a very nice feature, but it’s also a failure of these people to think Mastodon is the only game in town on AcPub

And I still see people on Mastodon regularly claiming they they NEED quote posting for whatever spurious reasoning

Like, you just need to shut up and move to Fish/Key or Akkoma if you’re so obsessed with the idea of your precious quoting

dusnm,
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@yassie_j All other platforms are fringe compared to Mastodon, which is already on the fringe of the mainstream itself. It's no wonder nobody's heard of them.

dusnm,
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@yassie_j You're underestimating the power of the networking effect. The more users use the platform, the more they tend to mention it, the more the platform grows. It's a positive feedback loop that is hard to ignore once it kicks off. Kicking off is the hard part.

dusnm,
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@yassie_j Also, quote posting is relevant through sheer inertia. Twitter has it, why would Mastodon not have it? Oh, it doesn't have it, I'm not going to use this platform.

dusnm,
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@yassie_j Reporting on the alternatives of an already fringe platform simply doesn't bring clicks. Nobody reads those articles and there is no revenue to be made in writing them. It's what is, not what should be.

Mushroot, to random

"Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that."

—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

dusnm,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @HeliaXyana @Mushroot @pluralistic That's just not true. It's a myth. Pornography was readily available on Beta as well. VHS won because JVC realized that people cared way more about recording time than quality.

dusnm,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @HeliaXyana @Mushroot @pluralistic I think that's a gross oversimplification. Stop me if this isn't supposed to be a serious discussion, but to say pornography was a major reason for the success of the web alongside everything else that made the web great is misguided.

Yes, a lot of people consume pornography and sex sells, but it can't be "the" reason for the success of either VHS or the web.

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