Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:
@Cassandra Which is totally on brand for the company that ran a giant marketing campaign touting their commitment to personal information privacy by showing picture of people aiming their cameras at the viewer in a way that obscured their own faces.
@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@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.
@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.
@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.
Fascinating look at how #ActivityPub 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
@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.
@dcjohnson Assuming you mean “cryptocurrencies” and not “cryptography” the answer is that various private esoteric contractual arrangements involving high-speed exchange of legitimate financial derivatives denominated in multiple foreign currencies can use them to reduce costs, c.f. Stellar.
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
@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.