Notices by Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io), page 2

@aral does that make neoliberalism a coping and survival mechanism under fascism, and in US politics a reaction to Nixon and Reagan's promotion of fascism at the national level.

@liztai that super sucks, glad you are taking it in stride though. Forgetting something important like that is my nightmare because I know it's possible and it's so embarrassing. I'm always a wreck before any travel more than an hour or two away worrying that I won't get up on time or I forgot something.

@inthehands @JuliusGoat that's hard because voting is a collective activity and you rarely get everything you want. The feedback loop is too long for most people to correlate cause and effect, especially when there is an industry of propaganda throwing chaff to ensure that people don't. An unrealistic expectation that people feel is that they elect their fave and all the problems are solved; the bad guys go to jail the good guys win, the crowd cheers. That's not real life, that's a movie.

@inthehands @JuliusGoat I think one thing that drives the sentiment to refocus on Trump when Biden faces legit criticism (Gaza) is that people don't know what leverage they have that isn't electoral, "vote the bum out" when that would be a _disaster_. What public check exists when you can't afford to withdraw your vote for Biden/Dems? Good people worry that being too critical will scare away needed voters.

@thomasfuchs haven't read the article but are they wasting the cooling water? Water used in a cooling loop or chiller should not get contaminated and could still be used for drinking or agriculture, right? Fresh water shouldn't be allowed to be wasted where it is scarce.

@Lehmanator @inthehands this may be more or less true in different cultures depending on what values parents reinforce in their children and what children pick up from the media, but it is definitely something seen in the US not only with tech bros and nerds but with doctors/surgeons, actors/musicians/artists, sports players/coaches, politicians, etc. You might find example in those fields who _you_ find distasteful for their dickheadedness, but they _are_ famous so plenty of others adore them

@Steveg58 @inthehands

> "It took a couple of years of to-ing and fro-ing before they called a formal fault resolution meeting and the existence of the unsupported interface specification came to light."

_Years?_ ... UuuuughhhaaaaAAAAARRRRGG!!!....<screaming continues silently>

@Josh @cy @GossiTheDog I understand your response but this is pissing in the wind at best, of all the billions of applications developed, and the amount of code re-use via libraries, who has time to read, audit and monitor diffs of every library dependency you use in addition to maintaining the application that the library is used for (that you don't have the resources to implement yourself) in the first place? That's effectively saying to almost never practice code re-use, which isn't viable.

@Josh @cy @GossiTheDog And I'm not saying you aren't responsible for what you ship, or that performing due-diligence on your dependency tree isn't a reasonable standard, just that it's an unfunded mandate in most cases that isn't going to actually happen reliably/commonly/unexpectedly absent some government regulation or software engineering licensure to fundamentally change the culture and incentives for software development.

@thomasfuchs Apple gets to have some enshittification, as a treat. I miss equipment companies who just wanted to make a good product, at a profit, rather than middlemen who just shave coins that pass through their hands to keep the value for themselves and impoverish everyone else.

@thomasfuchs @mbrailer I think at some point you could achieve the complexity of a human brain, which is itself not made of magic but of complex physics processes that could be emulated and modeled, but only at _enormous_ expense with silicon. All of the computer neural networks in the world put together can do, what, a tiny fraction of what _anyone_ can do with a kilo of grey matter and less than 100 watts, their approach will _never_ achieve the power efficiency that biology has done.

@emilygorcenski @Sharksonaplane I always hate this framing, while the GOP has a lot of dark money candidates decided in smoke-filled rooms, and sometimes they even win something, the Dems tend to have _volunteers_ and the voters who show up in the primary pick who runs in the general. I won't say never, but there are very few smoky rooms, and there is no "they" secretly running things in the vast majority of cases. Talk to your fellows if you don't understand their choices.

@emilygorcenski @Sharksonaplane That kinda goes back to the main point, there is no universe where Trump should be winning the majority of the white vote, and white people talking to other white people can pick up far far more votes than squeezing out the last drops of participation from minority communities. We need fight the culture of white supremacy as too many whites are insane with irrational fear to have sanity return to politics. We can't keep making Africans do the work for us...

@emilygorcenski @Sharksonaplane then the loss of some constituencies due to policy disagreements wouldn't be so impactful. The Democratic coalition is a big tent with a large collection of minority people who have different and opposing wants/needs/ideologies, no policy is going to make them all happy at the same time, so having support of the majority of the majority is important to be able to absorb the constant loss and gain of small factions of voters.

@thomasfuchs I think the actual number of hippies are greatly over-represented in media, the vast majority of that cohort were Reagan conservatives, but also a lot of hippies dropped out of popular culture and created insular communities that stopped having much influence on the greater world.

@thomasfuchs @breiter @konnorrogers 16G is maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but it is an order of magnitude heavier than vim or emacs for sure, 1/2 GB to startup and about 1GB while being used, but even my development workstation from 10+ years ago had 16G of RAM in it, only the most budget of development computers will have less than 8G today. I will say having multiple Electron apps for communication gets ugly quickly, I miss the days of XMPP and iChat and Psi.

@thomasfuchs this was from the era of removable batteries, you could buy extra battery packs and swap them while the laptop was asleep, there is a capacitor or something which keeps the ram alive while you swap batteries, to extend runtime, so the spicy battery has long since been removed. I do need to get all the old batteries out of the house though, they are stored in a way to minimize fire risk, but the best would be to not have them at all 8-)

@thomasfuchs @breiter @konnorrogers Why build cross-platform applications using web technologies, which are some of the most well known, optimized, security audited, fastest do develop, performant and feature rich cross-platform environment? That you could eventual integrate directly into your web-based development platform as the web client matured? Strategically the web is eating _everything_, why not software development too, especially when you can rent hosting time at a profit.

@konnorrogers @thomasfuchs VSCode is a fork of Atom, afaik Electron and Atom were created together, to provide a one-stop-shop for code within the Github ecosystem, which the integration of VSCode and Azure Codespaces completes. Gitlab now does the same thing, their in-browser editor is based on VSCode, which is now one of the more popular code editors on the planet.

@thomasfuchs that PowerBook g4 was my first work laptop that replaced my desktop, the battery is a spicy pillow but I think it still boots with the power brick. One of the best of the era, it had every port built in, the screen res is low by today's standard but I used it for sysadmin work for years and years of until my boss forcibly replaced it with an Intel macbook. Nice keyboard and touchpad too