At some point the practice of encouraging everyone to have a therapist and get professional help became an expansion of market capitalism. People can talk to each other about their feelings without money changing hands, and if we can't learn to hear each other out without a college degree, how can we progress as a society? I mean I have a therapist, but the attitude that you must be a therapist to talk to someone is just demeaning.
I'm considering starting a guild for freelance software developers and will be doing a lightnign talk about the idea today at pyvo.cz in Prague. If anyone has time, could they look over my slides and provide feedback. You can find them here: https://fcsdg.org just hit 'view presentation'. Thanks #freelance#developers#software#contractlaw#unions#labor#labour
Question for those who know trains in #germany, when going from Berlin to Brussels is 1st class noticeably more comfortable than 2nd class? I'm heading to #FOSSDEM and have decided to try train rather than plane :).
I'm so confused, I have a VM on digital ocean that seems to be perfectly snappy over http but ssh is unusably slow. Even mosh is unusable. The shell in portainer works just fine 🥴
It took me far too long to see that there are two distinct groups of people who love open source/Free software:
Those who primary motivation is to build things together and create a more open and collaborative world.
Those who don't want to pay for anything or be told what to do.
The later motivation is not a bad motivation but it is a self interested motive. I continuously on find myself surprised when people from the later group are totally out of alignment with my own values.
I guess the interesting thing is that it is hard to distinguish between these two mindsets by simply looking at a person or seeing what stickers they have on their laptops. You really have to know a person. And of course, the line is often blurred, because no one likes to pay for things or be told what to do.
I find it weird that #spotify has added apparently unmoderated user created content to their podcast library. As far as I can tell there is neither the ability to hide, ignore, or report this content. I don't know much about Mr. Tate but my understanding is he is some sort of charlitan fraudster. It is downright bizzar to me that a paid subscription service would intentionally subject its users to such nonsense. Aren't paid walled gardens supposed to be safe? Isn't the whole point that I'm paying for good mental hygene? How is that supposed to work if I can't even mark content as unwanted?
Is there something like ublock for mastadon which could be configured to automatically hide softcore porn bots and mains stream media news bots in the global feed?
Any of my #vegan friends out there know where I could find a cook book that would provide an "Evidence based vegan liquid diet for weight gain after partial glossectomy"? Nothing seems to be coming up when I search for it on Kagi. I know it's super nitch, but it could be fore anytime someone is forced to have a cold beverage only diet and somehow survive on it. Mana drinks and Nutridrink plant based is really not enough variety for me, and this might have to pull me through months of radiation therapy if the oncologists impose that on me.
I wounder if "Python won" because it is so much easier to leetcode in Python.
Like maybe the whole "it's easier to hire for Python" is due to people "looking superficially smarter" when they code in Python than in other languages.
People sometimes ask me why I don't drink alcohol. And the answer is so I don't accidentally pre-order the Simula One Founders' Edition https://shop.simulavr.com/
While managed databases obviously make things easier. My longer term experience with PaaS services like Heroku and managed K8S have lead me to conclude that the basic premise of PaaS is wrong and that these services do not save engineering time.
The reason is obvious when you think about it. We already have great tools for setting up VPSes and automating their maintenance. For PaaS to work at scale its maintenance has to be automated. For PaaS to actually work, they would have to beat the existing linux tools at their own game. Head to head even Amazon doesn't have the resources to compete with the entire devops community.
Even when PaaS has been better in the past, it has been quickly overtaken by standard open source tooling. Years ago, one might have chosen Heroku because they didn't want to mess with HTTPS, now Caddy is far easier to set up and is massively more powerfull.
Miraculously, I'm back to eating solid food and I can talk more or less normally 🙂. I got very lucky when I compare myself to the videos of others who had partial glossectomies...
I find it very hard to find interesting music I haven't heard yet on Spotify. Am I doing it wrong? Home screen just has the same 30 songs and discovery weekly is only once a week. Is there an open source front end with better discovery or an alternate service?
Partial tongue removal is worse than I imagined. I can actually talk a little, but I woke from the operation in extreme pain with tubes going everywhere. Even opiates didn't kill the pain, only dulled it, but they made me extremely nauseous. I also wasn't allowed to have any water in my mouth for the first 24 hours. First night was an extreme form of torture. Endless thirst, pain, nausea, yet not being able to eat or to throw up. Doing better now, but still not sure if I want to live.
Ebay has a market cap of 21 billion, allegedly assets of 20 billion, a strong brand presence in peoples mind, and is laughably mismanaged from a technical standpoint. For example it only shows me intercontinental listings and listings which won't ship to my address here in Europe despite local listings existing when I log out. With a new CTO, the company could see rapid gains in revenue. They are losing so much money to simply buggy software. Bizdev people love to say that tech doesn't make or break a business, that 'market fundimentals do', but there are limits to how bad the tech can be.
