Notices by danjac (danjac@masto.ai)

@baldur and just when we start getting a handle on the transition to green energy, along come the tech bros with their crypto and LLMs to consume all the gains.

Waiting for Godzooky Minus One

"Open the pod bay doors Hal"

"I'm a Boeing, Dave, they've already fallen off"

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/boeing-starliners-first-crewed-mission-scrubbed/?guccounter=1

@aral it depends on *why* they are calling Biden good. Do they really believe it, or are they just trying to persuade some swing voters not to back Trump?

@aral the problem for decent Americans is that they don't live in a proper democracy, and have the choice between voting for a flawed president and continuing business-as-usual or choosing (either directly or by voting 3rd party or not at all) a full-throated fascist who will double down in support of Netanyahu, and quite possibly abolish whatever is left of US democracy entirely.

@aral I don't blame those who support Biden in that environment, because the alternative, as bad as the status quo is today, will be orders of magnitude far worse.

@Polychrome they should use the force field belts from the animated series

@cammerman if I see a critical bug in work code? I'll raise it, make a ticket, but unless it's something I personally caused then I'll let the manager prioritise it. My work there is done.

@cammerman I learned a long time ago that going the extra mile for an employer is a waste of time, energy and sanity, and if you have care for the craft then save it for open source and side projects you either care about or have some control over.

@aral that's kind of reductive. Zionism is a 19th century romantic-nationalist movement that at one time had socialist adherents, not unlike many other European nationalist movements at the time. And yes, like those other 19th C movements, colonialism is part of the package.

Sure, it's sold to Bible-bashers in the US as a requirement to the Second Coming, but that's pretty recent marketing.

It would be kind of darkly funny if Trump's re-election ends up reversing Brexit and creating that pan-European army the loons were frothing about

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/uk-europe-nuclear-shield-donald-trump-germany-nato-deterrent

For the UK, the strategic calculus hasn't changed since Harold Macmillan: without an empire, you are a mid-ranking power that has to choose between Europe - where you are among equals - or America, where you are a supplicant. And if America doesn't care about you any more, that decision kind of makes itself

One thing that is weird is when you hear some right wing American go on about how the Left dominates US companies, or the Left is anti-militaristic.

The "Left" is just something in their head canon that means "that thing I don't like" rather than any informed critique of left-wing politics.

@tante "who's on the hook to clean up the mess afterward?"

If there is any justice, the legions of laid off developers getting lucrative consulting gigs.

@phiofx @notroot @darnell @badtux @DopeGhoti ofc the reason for lack of libraries could be due to a poorly defined spec. Patching that up with more documentation etc is not really the solution.

@phiofx @notroot @darnell @badtux @DopeGhoti right - the problem is that people are diving into "ActivityPub for X" but perhaps they are working in isolation and the work doesn't feed back into common libraries/tools for that language.

Personally I tried building a simple AP implementation a year or so ago and gave up because of the overwhelming complexity (and I've dealt with complexity before e.g. SAML integration) and the lack of good testing tools.

@phiofx @notroot @darnell @badtux @DopeGhoti my concern with the Fediverse is that in general we need more libraries to deal with its complexity. I'm seeing a lot of wheels being reinvented and testing is way, way harder than it should be.

@carnage4life or maybe the aquihire model stifles innovation. Why worry about competitors when you can buy them up and close them down?

@phiofx I think there is also improvements in the original languages. For example Typescript or typed Python.

Rewriting from scratch even in a "better" language is expensive and fraught with problems - you risk reintroducing bugs without perfect understanding not only of the original code, but the original context. But gradual improvement over time is better.

Question is whether new ecosystems are adopted for new projects. Maybe that is more an economics question.

I wonder if the WSJ article on Musk's ketamine (well, more than just ketamine) is indicative of an empire about to collapse.

i.e. not only is there overwhelming evidence, but there is also no fear of legal retaliation from the billionaire, because things are about to fall apart very quickly