glitzersachen

@glitzersachen@hachyderm.io

#SoftwareEngineer, privately interested in #commonlisp currently, also #python and #emacs.

Views presented here are my own and not of my employer.

I have a degree in physics, too (and not the new fangled bachelor shit ;-), BTW).

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DieFurie, to random German
@DieFurie@mastodon.social avatar

Geschichtsbücher werden leider oft, gerade von Nazi-Sackwürsten, gemieden!
Ist alles voll komplex, geb ich zu. Und lesen muss man auch!

Karikatur: Marian Kamensky

glitzersachen,

@DieFurie

Geschichtsvergessenheit ist ein bisschen ein poblem in diesem Land. Aaandererseits habe ich zuweilen den Eindruck, dass oft zu sehr auf Geschichte geschielt wird und dabei nur auf's Unwesentliche. Man hat mit vor 40 Jahren im Geschichtsunterricht erzählt, dass ein 3tes Reich nimmer passieren kann, weil wir ganz doll auf Antisemitismus aufpassen und ausserdem andere Gewaltenteilung haben, ein Ermächtungsgesetz könne es so nicht mehr geben. (...)

dabeaz, to random
@dabeaz@mastodon.social avatar

I sometimes wonder if I should teach a project course (like raft or compilers) where you don't even know what programming language will be used until you show up. That would certainly be one way to make things even more exciting.

glitzersachen,

@dabeaz

In which way it gets exciting, depends on the language to be used. E.g. whether everybody is partying, whether there will be a schism and a civil war or whether there will be some lynching.

Take home message: There is a reason why PLs are announced with the course. Insurance comes into mind, too.

(SCNR)

thephd, to random
@thephd@pony.social avatar

It's time.

RAII in C, and why nobody's getting it right with the increasingly "simple" juggling that keeps getting tossed to me like table scraps for a dog.

The Pasture | Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C? | https://thephd.dev/just-put-raii-in-c-bro-please-bro-just-one-more-destructor-bro-cmon-im-good-for-it

glitzersachen,

@kornel @thephd

But then, why don't we just use Rust?

Len0w0ThinkBad, to random

It really bugs me how so many people act as if there's a magic "click here to implement [feature]" button, and completely discount the fact that Free Software like Linux is largely developed by unpaid volunteers.

Yeah, sure, they shouldn't need money and resources to implement accessibility features, they are super simple! Every other OS* has them!

*(Windows and Mac, both developed by small mom and pop shops)

glitzersachen,

@karolherbst @Len0w0ThinkBad

I have no problem with Redhat implementing accessibility features. After all they charge for their Linux related services.

glitzersachen,

@Len0w0ThinkBad @karolherbst

This was an attempt on dead pan humor. Not an attempt to pick up your point (with which I largely agree as far as I understand it).

afewbugs, to random
@afewbugs@social.coop avatar

"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

glitzersachen,

@afewbugs

The sad thing is, that people look at this in biased fashion. They recognize that "Just use Linux" comes with cost or effort, but ignore that the same applies to "Just use Windows". Or "Just drive a car".

It depends what kind of cost you want to pay. None of these options comes for free (only dying in cave and that if you can avoid well-meaning people calling the cops or social workers on you).

glitzersachen,

@afewbugs

I don't like the "just use" attitude everywhere, but also not "Just use the defaults" or "Just do what everybody does". These approaches totally ignore that people are different and have different capabilities of investing and that is not a linear scale.

glitzersachen,

@afewbugs

So I would even doubt that "using X" can be classified as privilege because s.b. the has "the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily".

A number of people (I come back to Linux) use Linux because it makes their life less complicated. I wouldn't call this the privilege "to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily".

Admittedly it's a privilege to make one's live less complicated (because you know how to and have no constraints e.g. from an employer).

glitzersachen,

@afewbugs

But this doesn't hang on using Linux or Windows or a bike or a car. It depends on context and situation of the user.

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

glitzersachen,

@evacide

Another point: "lawful interception".

glitzersachen,

@evacide And I wonder about corporate IT ...

glitzersachen,

@happyborg @evacide

The benefits are to users who are so disorganized they cannot find their data or formerly visited web pages any more. "A photographic memory". Which in an audited, open OS could be called a feature.

So, the benefits are to 90% of windows users ... If you got anything to hide from your employer or your spouse or the state, then you thrown under the bus. The desire for privacy is anyway shady in the 2st century...

(This being the internet: Mark this as sarcasm).

glitzersachen,

@Oggie @evacide

I wonder how spyware works these days. Does it need physical access and password, too? Or is there no spyware on Windows these days?

I wouldn't know, not running it, 🤷‍♂️ but asking for a friend.

glitzersachen,

@TomSwirly @xyhhx @skry @GossiTheDog @evacide

Thanks!

nixCraft, to privacy
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

glitzersachen,

@nixCraft

It's worse than most people realize at first glance: It's the wet dream of the security apparatus, dictatorships and abusive employers.

I was not expecting this, since MS became much more mellow over the last decade, but obviously the AI brain rot that in the last year has infected so many C-suites has already progressed very far at MS.

Since they mostly failed with search engines on the desktop, they now seem to think they got the golden hammer which smashes all problems.

glitzersachen,

@nixCraft

Ah, yes, those, too. Consider how many people keep different accounts in a family. Not many.

glitzersachen,

@funbaker @nixCraft

I second this. Just in the last 60 minutes I got (for daring to mention that not all Newbies are actually willing to learn Linux) and that it's actually work to mentor people:

"(...) condescending assholery... no fucking empathy...
You're exactly the kind of dickhead that post is referring to,
(...)
don't make yourself look like a piece of shit to everyone other than your fellow incel trolls.
You're the kind of trash the Linux community as a whole needs to dumpster."

glitzersachen,

@funbaker @nixCraft

Well, that was a 2 days old account with 1 follower. And almost 70 posts in those two days.

I am undecided. I wonder if it's technically possible to hook up an LLM as mastodon client which at the occurrence of certain keyword just hoses away with the insults.

But would any corp dare to do so? If that comes out, it would be big trouble.

More likely the trolls (e.g. from 4chan) have discovered Mastodon now.

glitzersachen,

@funbaker

Yeah, probably.

glitzersachen,

@funbaker

I like my mentoring to be appreciated. If not, hey, why should I put in the effort? I have cats and a family. Those need my attention, too 😛.

glitzersachen, to random German

https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/112480588977913630

Of course it's all the community preventing people from migrating to Linux.

Not the entitlement of the newbies who expect me (and others) to put in a lot of free support hours and cannot themselves be arsed to put in some effort.

And (dear newbies) "But in Windows I can ..." is not a good dialog starter. I, personally, tend to answer: OK, why don't you use Windows, then? and call it a day.

<groan>

glitzersachen,

We cannot help those. For trying something new, a certain openness of mind is required.

Here, you don't get the same-old just from another provider. This is perhaps the topic that has to be discussed first. And I expect, when/if that happens, that a substantial fractions of Newbies feel rejected and want to tell us how not welcoming we are.

Unfortunately that is unavoidable: Letting them run into the knife of Linux being not Windows without a warning is irresponsible and (...)

glitzersachen, (edited )

(...) in the end makes for a disgruntled Linux mentor and a disappointed or worse Linux newbie.

So, sorry: Those ALL CAPS rules for "the community" (as if it was a homogeneous body) are not useful, they lack a model of what goes wrong and why and also the insight that not everybody can be accommodated.

They're also in this form very self-aggrandizing.
(...)

glitzersachen,

(...) Why I am not posting this under the OP?

Good question, but frankly, (1) I am only thinking loudly here FTM and (2) I can do without the rabid[*] mob of "the community has failed the newbies" disturbing my train of though.

[*] See the post quoted above.

unprovoked, to random
@unprovoked@petrous.vislae.town avatar

Just watched a three-minute video from the CEO of my administrative department and somehow managed to fill five Bullshit Business Buzzword Bingo cards at once.

glitzersachen,

@unprovoked

Aren't hese videos generated by "AI"? Can't keep them apart these days -- AI is so good, it sounds like the C-suite.

glitzersachen,

@unprovoked

LOL. I am still looking for the actual meaning of the I in "AI", too. It's also not intelligence, this much is sure.

I see a sort correspondence here. Telling.

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