Every day I see the words enshittification in ever dumber contexts. Rent seeking platforms? Enshittifying. Open-source? The origin of enshittification. Fuck you Doctorow. You gave people a vague concept to be mad at instead of being mad at capitalism being capitalism.
Could we maybe have a little purity politics please? So that self-described left wing parties don't have fucking bigots that manage to be more regressive than the average tory in charge?
@alda the SNP is to my understanding a party that has generally leant left in recent history, especially in economic and social terms, rather than being a purely nationalist (in the self-determination sense) party without further aims.
This makes it seem like they're trying to mimic labour's bullshit...
labour is totally going to incorrectly relate their local elections wins to them taking an anti trans stance and run on a queer bashing platform for the general election because the current party is a fucking joke where the only unsettled question is whether starmer is a spineless coward or a plant
"Layoffs are happening because of remote work" wow people really will write any fucking excuses for capitalist greed won't they. Outsourcing only started in 2024, no one ever worked with teams across continents before remote work, which itself was invented in 2020.
lol, GitHub just notified me they accidentally deleted my passkey which I guess explains why I've not been able to use a passkey for any auth for about a week
Is there a backpack brand that people don't regret buying? My current backpack is falling apart and I need a new everyday bag (laptop, camera, battery, occasionally some shopping), and it seems hard to say that any of the popular brands care about making bags that last more than a year or two?
By far the best way to resolve a really tense situation that's been building up for months and months is to tell everyone to chill out and step take a break, this definitely achieves exactly that, rather than furthering the frustrations. It's good that this is how people work, it would be terrible if the practical reaction to telling people to calm down in response to a massive breach of trust actually had the opposite effect long term.
I really hope Wayland accessibility support progresses cause I would like to set something like Talon up for bad wrist days, but going back to X is just not a trade-off I'm willing to make (and decreasingly able to, really)
I know that gnome has made great strides on that front thanks to STF grants (I think that's the main driver), hopefully that work leads to better all around support for such 3rd party tooling, or another project popping up to fill that gap
The way people aligned with literal nazis during the nix communitty fuck up keep saying they're made to feel unsafe because of demands to exclude them is just an irritating example of how you cannot reason with a fascist, you cannot point out their hypocrisy, there's no "small steps" to take.
People who equate not permitting bigots with bigotry are actively a danger, as much as those bigots who are funding, campaigning, supporting the would be dictators that capitalist democracies create.
There's enough essays written on this topic, this isn't a new concept, it's just a shame people keep needing to relearn it.
There's no magical balance, and there is no gotcha that will make people who think like that suddenly reconsider. Someone who views rightist ideology as innate but innate identities as choices won't reconsider, because they're entire worldview is built to accept logical conflicts. Same as the freedom crowd who platform nazis and are pro restricting bodily autonomy.
You cannot argue away something as innately contradictory as fascist beliefs. There's no logic or reason to any of it, there's no scientific underpinnings, it's reactionary and regressive beliefs of people who are terrified of the reality in which the world changes for the better because all they expect is those they mistreated doing the same to them.
It is really hard to come up with even just a semi functional two AP layout in this apartment with how thick the concrete walls are. ~5m from both APs and parts of the kitchen still end up being a deadzone, even on 2.4GHz. Sadly I don't think there is a good solution with several walls that are 12-15cm thick...
I will continue saying that free software would suck less if free software had more ideology, not less. If free software embodied more leftist beliefs, it would find itself probably less funded, but also much more resilient against such garbage infiltration.
Of course instead what we got is the open source movement, because what free software really needed was less ideology, that's really helped things
@weddige Correct, it is a right wing talking point, that's the point. The right does not fund anything that it finds threatening, but through historical power and inheritance, that's where money has remained concentrated.
I disaggree that corporations would fund anything they find threatening, and there's nothing more threatening to capital than conscious and organised workers.
The right wing propaganda is obvious lies, but it also accurately represents centuries of decision making.
@maxine my point is, that the Right and the capital do not have to be the same thing. But as long as we treat them as the same thing, the Right will claim the power, that comes with capital, for them.
The idea of socialism is to give the means of production to society, which is the realization that it matters who controls the capital.
Stop threatening the capital and start threatening those, who own and misuse it.
People made fun of the bixby button, but after 4 years of using an iPhone I still haven't figured out how to remember the convoluted button combo to force restart it for it's once a week deadlock
The courage in turning a power button into a complex input method should not have been rewarded
It's not that tech has a unique fascism problem, it's that the mainstream has a cowardice problem and no one is willing to call a spade a spade as long as it's polite and keeps its nazi shit outside professional circles.
Tech people often refuse to acknowledge their job/hobby is highly political
What we build potentially has a major impact on a more and more tech-oriented world and we need to be made more conscious about this
We should stop to pretend we “just” deliver code and feel concerned how our code may impact the world
And as we build something political, we also need to feel concerned with or for who