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mhoye

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Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin, messenger. Ludonarrative dissident, liminal space mercenary, lapsed pragmatist.

Hobbies include weaponized semiotics, operational hauntology, ambient symmetrism.

He, him. Co-chair, department of last resort.

Protect the person behind you.

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mhoye, to random
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There is only one thing that I disagree with in @baldur 's excellent article on "the deskilling of webdev" - https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/ - but I feel like it is a significant omission.

Baldur even touches on it here, earlier in the year, but doesn't explicitly connect the dots: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

It's the passive voice of the title.

Development isn't mysteriously becoming deskilled. It is actively being directed, to manage the employment market, by the largest players in that market.

mhoye,
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I mean, consider the mcrib:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200303060851/https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/

Consider, in particular, this sentence:

"Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of. What makes the McRib different from this everyday horror is that a) McDonald’s is huge to the point that it’s more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants b) it is made of pork [...]"

(@baldur)

mhoye,
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... Except instead of pig meat and bbq sauce it's your skillset and identity.

I think about this every day.

What am I subjecting myself to, what machine am I really putting my arm in, if I start to build a skillset around React, or Kubernetes, or AWS or GCP or any other skills that exist only in service of corporate infrastructure and will have me existing only in service of that infrastructure's owners until they get too bored or their shareholders get too greedy or I get too expensive.

mhoye,
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My pleas for the open software world to remember that one person in front of one computer is a constituency that matters are as much about that seemingly forgotten constituency as it is about the negative space around it, all the agency over how we grow and value ourselves that's handed off to machines churning out limited-liability slurry, made of the interchangeable molded parts we've unknowingly die-cast ourselves into.

mhoye, to random
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Getting an "unknown item compatible with the Find My network is with you" notification when I'm at home, at three AM, is... curious.

mhoye,
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Time to start working on the active drone shielding maybe?

mcc, to random
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I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".

But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it

mhoye,
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@mcc "SSL Added And Removed Here", 2013.

mhoye,
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@mcc

mhoye, to random
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I thought this was widely known, but I suppose not:

https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112507818857555419

There's also code built into printers, scanners and close-source image editors programs that recognizes currency and prevents you from scanning, printing or manipulating images of money.

Remember, there's no such thing as "printers" or "scanners". There are only computers, often network-connected, that happen to have printing and scanning features.

https://youtu.be/1c-jBfZPVv4

mhoye, to random
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If I say "kittens and pop tarts" and your mind goes here instead of nyan then you owe @jonrosenberg a few bucks of brain rent: https://www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

danyork, to random
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Anyone use a Blackstone griddle for barbecuing? If so, what do you think about it? Our 27-year-old Weber BBQ grill has finally died, and I have recently been cooking on a Blackstone griddle when I volunteer at the Snack Shack at our local baseball fields. We don’t honestly cook enough red meat where I might want the direct flame of a grill. I feel like the griddle might be better for some of the vegetables and other things we cook - and would also still work fine for hamburgers and hot dogs.

mhoye,
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@danyork Geez, if I had a grill last me 27 years, I would have a hard time convincing myself to do anything except buy that brand again immediately, probably the model up.

mhoye, to random
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!!??

mhoye, to random
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Incredible: https://newatlas.com/materials/concrete-steel-recycle-cambridge-zero-carbon-cement/

mhoye, to random
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Question: is there a linux installer out there that makes some effort to save or recover data from the target system?

I feel like an installer that branched off into something like, "backup one or more user accounts", "take a drive snapshot" or "please run PhotoRec" would be extremely welcome by people nervous about their first Linux install, I've just never seen anything like that. It's always "yup we're gonna just burn this to the ground and pave over it."

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When are we doing the install parties to help people get away from Microsoft's ever growing consumer surveillance?

mhoye,
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@jalcine I really struggle with a good approach to this. If we want people to experience agency in their computing, we really need to find a way to do this that isn't terrifying. Migration anxiety is very real, and I wonder what a better-crafted experience would look like.

I've never seen a Linux install experience that wasn't "burn it down, pave it flat and start over". An installer that lead out with "let's make sure you don't lose anything you care about first" could be revolutionary.

mhoye,
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@jalcine Whenever I think about this I'm reminded of how far from its ideals the linux world has fallen. Fedora's homepage reads "An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers". Ubuntu opens with "A guide to VMware infrastructure transformation".

These are not problems any human has. The number of people in this world who need innovative container anything is zero.

Far as I can see Debian and Linux Mint are the only two distros leading with "this is for people and communities."

mhoye, to random
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The article I was looking for a while ago about the feel of cutting - "kireaji", sometimes translated as the "flavor of cutting" - was this, from TW Lim, called "Forming An Edge"

https://www.scopeofwork.net/forming-an-edge/

This is, I think, a wonderful paragraph:

mhoye, to random
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Toronto friends: is any sort of industrial or commercial space out here always like $20/sqft/mo and always up in the thousands of square foot range? Does anyone rent out, like, 300sqft industrial spaces for non bonkers money?

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Please, if you have ever liked my comics and would like to support me in continuing to make them, throw a couple of bucks at my Patreon. I need your help.
www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

mhoye,
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@jonrosenberg The phrasing, though? I just wanted to give you a few bucks, this feels like a lot of commitment.

mhoye,
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@jrconlin @jonrosenberg

The new kids think that kittens and poptarts are a nyan thing but the old school knows what's up.

mhoye, to random
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"Every empire's fall begins with a peasant's hunger" is far too powerful a line to be a half-misquoted remark from a middling comic book villain in a middling comic book.

mhoye, to random
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I do love this city in the summer tho

mhoye,
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@bitprophet The full size pano is too big :(

mhoye,
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@bitprophet I know, I know.

I'm working on it.

mhoye,
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@cks @bitprophet Here you go: full res, straight from the camera: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhoye/53744750804/

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