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jalcine

@jalcine@todon.eu

My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf/about.
I'm most likely reading, ranting or starting shit offline.
l talk politics a lot.

pfp: myself taking a selfie

header: myself at karaoke taken by https://union.place/@betsyvr

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jalcine, to random
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Seeing police in riot gear in person never fails to freak me out. Why do they have the kind of equipment that some country's army would use?

Granted, the other scarily quiet question is that why are some police departments in the United States more armed than other smaller countries?

jalcine, to random
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agh I feel like I'm overly verbose a lot but I don't know if it's legitimate or I'm such subjected to so much shorter form content more nowadays that I feel like I have to adjust what I say to fit that space

jalcine, to random
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Just saw a video of a crow and a baby playing together

jalcine, to random
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What does it mean to be a tech worker? https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/kDBb

jalcine, to random
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Didn't realize Chomsky was also a linguistics guy. Like the linguistics guy.

jalcine, to random
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I'm in volume 4 of Kernel, a techno-optimist magazine with contributions I'm more than glad to be next to.

You can get your copy at https://shop.kernelmag.io/products/kernel-4?variant=40975508635721

I was inspired to write for them after reading two articles in volume 3, namely "When the computer is the witness" and "No girls on the Internet"!

(also more people should try doing this! I didn't think it'd work out but here we are!)

jalcine, to random
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what happened with nixos?

jalcine, to random
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it's not really worth it to yell angrily, I guess. rethinking some approaches.

jalcine,
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Just really afraid of the Black Balaji to appear (and I'm personally eyeballing ~4 people who operate like him to a lesser extent) and the speed at which people will defend those people will be the basis of whatever next rift in the Black tech community will become.

The majority of Black tech folks are liberally aligned and have stronger ties to maintaining this ecosystem than attempts to actually change it (reform city). And this gets worse when you've decenter the Anglo-centric Black American tech scene (folks rising in the UK, Haiti by way of Florida, etc).

Having Black folks shill for cryptocurrency to the same communities that were affected by another industry-backed financial crisis in 2008 that still has people in shambles is SO wild to me but unsurprising (if you look at how whatever Black capital immediately left pre-integration communities to support white industries but then pointed back to tell poor Black folks to stand up for themselves, the echoes are loud).

It always devolves into an excuse for survival but it's an overtly an obsession with mirroring whiteness (in its obsession with wealth and individualism) that routinely gets me so mad and feeling powerless.

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What are some watchdog organizations you follow?

jalcine, to random
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Tech contractors are going to be a very interesting set of folks. With the capacity to supplant organized labor (as seen in other industries in the past and present). It's also very easy for laid off folks to fall into these pools of labor (as someone who's yo-yo'd into this).

There are contractor unions, but would tech contractors be willing to band together like this? What incentives would they have when employers could straight-out cancel or reject contractors who are affiliated with such a group.

Class consciousness is more necessary than ever — especially amongst those who are privileged and elevated. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/IPfp)

jalcine, to random
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Sigh. https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/112332180103290815. Another day, another use of American-centric stances to defend the use of gAI without looking at the systematic issues that, if solved, would be cheaper and less exploitative than the current state of gAI. Hire more translators instead of dehumanizing the process by throwing into a machine. Whole conversations on cost can be balanced here. Step back and assess what parts of the process optimize FOR English-speaking and/or English-centricity, instead of aiming to "decolorize" the process. We really need to move away English-centrism (and actually humanize people) in these labor spaces, pull in people who give a fuck and stop thinking that technology is this MAGIC solution that deletes everything else happening in the world (it's really giving PaulG/a16z techno capitalist optimism, and we know where that goes). (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/gof_)

jalcine, to random
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<flashes back to liberals and the angst to the Ferguson uprisings> https://todon.eu/@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io/112329768947570930

jalcine, to random
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Now IBM scooping up Hashicorp was not on my bingo list. https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-04-24-IBM-to-Acquire-HashiCorp-Inc-Creating-a-Comprehensive-End-to-End-Hybrid-Cloud-Platform. I'm looking at Ansible a bit more but damn. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/G-Mk)

jalcine, to random
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straddling the center is the easiest thing to do in these times, esp when you got mobility

-> requires minimal effort
-> profits from centrist (and right-leaning) platforming
-> allows for cannibalizing leftist stances for social capital laundering

the list goes on.

jalcine, to random
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there's a really weird sci-fi energy to govt's thinking about criminializing homelessness, increased surveillance in every metro area (and now in more suburbs) and the capitalist markets just ejecting people en masse.

everyone's going to experience the new jim crow machine at this rate

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Today's random wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

stemming from recent thoughts I've had wondering what makes a programming language more "internationalizable". I consider myself very grateful that English is my first language and thus the barrier to entry and progression is much lower, but what about the rest of the world?

jalcine,
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@andrew_chou I think about this a lot. It'd be a Herculean effort to translate things but I considered writing about code in other languages and trying to keep it as if one knew little to make it easier.

But time + skill

jalcine, to random
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Like omg none of this shit had to happen. Violence is a phenomenon that never needs to occur and periodically does when one party wants to enforce its will on another.

And the horrible thing is that once it begins, it repeats until its underlying parasitic goal of contamination of the mind is complete.

It's not an inevitable thing but defending violence from parties who revel, profit and dance in it is a disgusting character trait I can never comprehend.

jalcine, to random
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Nah the mainstream news ignoring the actual genocide and just calling an anti Israel protest is so excellent of a morphing of public sentiment.

And with it being solely driven by corporate interest, the only real ways to break through are by talking to people and providing actual journalism and not repeated government cables.

jalcine,
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The Chicago-based, working-class oriented magazine In These Times is not only a way better outlet for information, it's affordable to the people who need to know.

Like a NYT subscription is comparable to Netflix and gives you less value (and Netflix not even it for $15/mo now)

jalcine, to random
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Three countries had a chance in the nineteen century to push for a global Black nationalistic agenda and it was demolished for one because of the addiction that Europeans had for coffee.

Economics can be a silent tool of murder when deployed against a country. It gives me more confusion now when looking at things like the IMF and the World Bank and their roles in financing the neocolonialism agendas of the West.

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The concept of federation has won the popular debate of the open social Web. I don't think the IndieWeb is going to be able to put itself in a place that makes the "indie" part attractive anymore, and the slow encroaching need for funding of the open social Web is going to push that even further away.

It's not a prerogative of the IndieWeb (in the sense of reading the Wiki, not speaking on behalf of the community) and I think that it's a routine failure of the space and community. I've yoyo'd on working on something to alleviate that, but I hadn't the kind of time necessary for it. Critical critique is always necessary (and without it, things can't grow — atrophy becomes the method of progress).

I don't know what I'll do with myself or my site — I've already sunk a few years into it (and I learned a lot — grateful for that). But I sorely wish the "Web" part of the "IndieWeb", in the sense of building collective tools that lift all the boats instead of individual yachts being propelled, were something that was focused on more and not left to the rest of the world to just "adopt".

This has been something on my mind for a year now and I'll expect that I'll be writing more on it soon. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/GXB6)

jalcine, to random
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https://jacky.wtf/2024/2/G7It feels relevant again.

"Despite what the media industry has repeated on behalf of the government, national security does not mean the security of life and stability for those outside of the realm of the political industry, but more on the ability of a nation to maintain its ability to continue its behavior with no restraint."

Yes, I'm quoting myself (I'm tired of repeating it!)

zachleat, to random
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The light/dark mode switcher on https://2024.xoxofest.com/ is a mini-game!

Incredible work @xoxo, @andybaio (et al?) 🙌

jalcine,
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@zachleat @xoxo @andybaio I am embarrassed to say I've played it for way too long ha

jalcine, to random
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Using Discord on a Debian machine outside of Flatpak makes me want to pull one of their release engineers to the side and tell them to stop.

jalcine,
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I'm half tempted to write a package that does the work similar to the Steam installer for Discord (has someone done this already?)

inb4 stop using Discord: I use it because there's activists groups who find these platforms usable and I don't have the spoons to suggest a mass migration to something like Mattermost.

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