A JS minifier that, instead of reducing byte count, replaces identifiers with terms like "PipeBomb" and "meth_price" and so on, so that your code is likely to be filtered out from statistical models' outputs.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 20:11:47 JST Owen
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 06:49:53 JST Owen
A lot of particularly capital-brained projects for labour replacement rest implicitly on the assumption that _there will be jobs_ - somewhere else - for everyone displaced by whatever labour-reducing invention they're championing this week.
I really don't think that Khosrowshahi, for example, has any reason to _care_ whether Uber's investments into automating long-haul trucking will displace truck drivers, because surely they can find other work.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 06:49:52 JST Owen
This has never been fully true, but it's diminishingly true as more and more business categories come to be dominated by staunch labour elimination.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 06:49:51 JST Owen
But it'll take time - and probably violence, unfortunately - before the stakeholders in this labour-elimination project come to understand that they are threatening peoples' lives, and that the people they are threatening are not, in fact, going to take that calmly.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 02:48:11 JST Owen
@mcc How would you characterize the two types?
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 02:47:28 JST Owen
@mcc I disagree only in detail; I agree in the large.
All software is the realization of someone else's mental model. Since it's never your own (even if you wrote it, it was you last week or last month or last year), operating under that model requires learning it. However, software should embrace and facilitate that learning, rather than treating it like a chore to be avoided.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 09:57:04 JST Owen
@aphyr I am legitimately not sure where I am more annoyed by "here is our helm chart, good luck" or "here is a single static binary for you to run (assuming your system uses the same libc as ours) (assuming you trust blobs)" (looking at you here hashicorp).
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 09:57:00 JST Owen
@dalias Given the existence of services like nss and pam, I'm not sure statically linking libc is universally a good idea either. Discovering that one program disagrees with the rest of my system about how user IDs map to user names, or about how hostnames map to addresses, is intensely frustrating.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:10:58 JST Owen
The classic changelog serves, among other purposes, to persuade users of the importance of installing an update. The vestigial changelog - "Bug fixes and feature improvements" - is a frank admission that we no longer feel like there's any point in doing the suasion when users don't get to say no in the first place.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:10:16 JST Owen
I dunno, but I have a feeling that the normalization of automatic updates has relieved developers and their clients of having to consider a user's needs to a large degree. Software change is now something you do to your users, not something you persuade your users to accept.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 10:46:30 JST Owen
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my rough beast."
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my hour, come at last." -
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 19:44:16 JST Owen
@saddestrobots Speaking as someone who regularly considers black-holing m.social and _doesn't_ see a lot of value in the list in question, hard agree.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 19:44:05 JST Owen
@saddestrobots I only just now realized jorts dot horse is on that list, el em aye oh fuckin nerds
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 19:43:54 JST Owen
@saddestrobots yeah if you're gonna block jorts horsing then have the courage of your bad posts and don't make it about someone else's
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:40:07 JST Owen
You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?
Those books are just gone now, instead.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:40:05 JST Owen
The project was buried in litigation because Google and the publishers involved couldn't come to terms on allowing online distribution.
Of library books.
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Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 09:31:25 JST Owen
Something to keep in mind when hearing about hydrogen as a renewable or green fuel is that nearly half of hydrogen production, worldwide, comes from natural gas. Another 45% or so come from coal and oil sources. Renewable hydrogen - electrolysis, generally - is basically a blip.
Hydrogen is, in many cases, an attempt _by the fossil fuels industry_ to carry on business as usual in the face of carbon-reduction initiatives by putting the carbonaceous parts out of sight.