Notices by Lykso (lykso@tiny.tilde.website)

@hellomiakoda Nazi is short for "national socialist."

Sometimes I'm overwhelmed by how awash in "compute" we are. People are literally throwing it away. I have more than I know what to do with myself, and I still struggle to refrain from buying cheap mini PCs from the local e-waste recyclers just to save them from destruction. Feels perverse that we spend so much in the way of energy and resources and then just... chuck it all into the bin after a few years.

@selfsame Almost as if class war is being waged whether we engage in it or not. 🤔

@ASegar @ct_bergstrom @inthehands @jenniferplusplus In 2006 through 2010, I was also taught this approach. I think it falls apart when one is inserted into a corporate machine as a code-writing cog, though. Only times I was able to actually practice it were as a freelancer or member of a small (2 to 4 person) software shop. Otherwise it was "write the syntax to make the stupid, fundamentally broken feature some suit wants so they can convince their higher ups to give them a bigger bonus."

@ASegar @ct_bergstrom @inthehands @jenniferplusplus The most galling, telling experience I ever had was being told to write a reporting tool that calculated success rates in a way that was wrong and could lead to success rates of over 100%. (I was told the client had no concerns about that ever happening, and that they had specifically requested this way of calculating the report because it would make them look better to their superiors.) I needed the money, but I still regret not quitting then.

"I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. [...] Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant."

https://aftermath.site/why-would-i-buy-this-useless-evil-thing

@akkartik Sounds like you're specifically looking for consumer coops as opposed to worker coops.