Notices by Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)

@darnell I knew they were military vessels, but I had no idea they were outfitted with nuclear warheads. I always assumed “nuclear submarine” just meant “nuclear-powered.”

@darnell I think “nuclear submarine” means it’s nuclear-powered—not that it’s armed with nuclear missiles. Right?

We were told the same thing about the Facebook newsfeed and the Twitter timeline 15 years ago. https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114953048101069041

Punk is emphatically antifascism. I don’t understand people who identify with punk and support fascism.

“We don’t care if we lose fans, because when history’s said and done, we want it known that Dropkick Murphys stood with the people, we stood with the workers.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/dropkick-murphys-exit-punk-park-festival-founders-trump-campaign-donat-rcna220729

@feld @pluralistic @gidi I wonder if this is a legacy decision, left over from the time before Mastodon implemented ActivityPub support and had better control through the Mastodon API.

@cstross @inthehands How is this affecting the publishing industry? Do publishers understand the position this puts authors in? Are they considering standardizing on something other than Word files?

@cstross @inthehands Assuming they change policy, what would they switch to? I know a lot of the alternatives, but Word seems like the lowest common denominator in terms of access and ease-of-use for users. What else is popular among authors?

@Landa @cstross @inthehands I think version control would solve a LOT of problems in the world, but developers who use it daily have a hard enough time with it, as it is. I’d hate to introduce it to non-technical authors and editors.

@annika I did `brew install groff`, and it upgraded the whole world.

I think the issue was Python.

I made the mistake of installing a new Homebrew package.

@ricmac Has the OSI’s definition of “open source AI” helped yet? As far as I can tell, the answer is “no.” Meta still continues to describe Llama as “open source.”

libxslt project maintainer steps down, citing the amount of time it takes to triage embargoed security issues.

“I’ve been doing this long enough to know that most of the secrecy around security issues is just theater. All the ‘best practices’ like OpenSSF Scorecards are just an attempt by big tech companies to guilt trip OSS maintainers and make them work for free.”

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus I’m by no means an expert on anything remotely related to economics, but in my industry (software / web development), I think a lot of it has to do with resetting salaries and shifting power back to the employers.

Even well before 2020 (throughout the 2010s) software engineers enjoyed tremendous power in the job market and the ability to draw salaries traditionally reserved for upper management and VPs.

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus By artificially decreasing the job supply, companies have driven down salaries, and software engineers can’t just quit and go elsewhere, since it’s extremely difficult to find any jobs in the salary ranges previously enjoyed.

@jerry Yes. With Liam Neeson playing the son of Frank Drebin!

Does anyone know if the Mastodon Slowflake IDs are intended to be monotonically increasing? The hashing described here seems to break monotonicity, so I’m trying to understand if I should expect them to be monotonic.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/ed4788a342a7215ac87b8d34761f0a996c83e699/lib/mastodon/snowflake.rb

The subtext of King Charles’s speech is that the US had singlehandedly destabilized the global order. He has not mentioned the US by name, but it’s there. These are pretty strong words from a powerful head of state.

@chris I mean, I can’t do any server-side data processing with a static site, for one.

@chris I didn’t say anything was bad with using them, but they don’t solve the problems I want to solve.

@grmpyprogrammer I don't want to use a static site generator.