Notices by James Widman (jameswidman@mastodon.social), page 2

@whitequark @malwareminigun cmake in particular exists because there are currently zero (0) standards for build systems.

related:
https://mastodon.social/@JamesWidman/114921402893969872

@whitequark @Soblow it seems like bazel is so awkward outside of google that, if a project is built with bazel, then it probably also ought to ship with at least one justfile:

https://github.com/casey/just

...with just-recipes defined for common tasks.

maybe worth a bug report?

@Soblow @whitequark google probably doesn't have an incentive to make it work nicely for people who don't work at google (which, if you're at google, then you have access to a lot of internal tooling & documentation, and i would bet that some of those tools/docs makes it easier to use/learn bazel)

@whitequark i wasn't aware!

do we... should we set up lamps, or...?

@dalias @futurebird "actively collaborating with the regime" seems to increase the chances that you'll eventually end up on trump's shitlist, but somewhat less so if you also add "continuously subservient"

@whitequark @mcc i thought things were generally migrating toward treesitter...? (though maybe that's mostly only in neovim land)

@whitequark @mcc this is reminding me that i should probably learn the ATS language someday

@whitequark @joe some people wonder why there haven't been more LIPSs but the embarrassing truth is that we're trying to avoid another infinite-fractal-butt scenario

@whitequark @joe most programmers aren't aware that the majority of time spent on language design is spent trying to avoid inventing syntax that looks like buttholes

@whitequark aiui this is exactly the problem with which teachers & professors are currently wrestling

@lanodan @0x47df ...like motorcycles!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Down

@GossiTheDog request for clarification: is there an option to install windows 11 *without* installing Recall?

If it's optional: is it an opt-in thing or an opt-out thing?

@nyquildotorg @glassresistor @aeva @nat @mcc @nullagent

between this and:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114079708836192752

...i've accepted that we can't have a total ordering, but it definitely sounds like we need some wiki/site that lays out the current options, the fire-emblem-style weapons triangle, and the state of the shortcomings of every browser that isn't actively trying to sap & impurify all of our precious bodily fluids

@mcc @nyquildotorg @glassresistor @aeva @nat @nullagent right, linux isn't an advertising company, but Linux does get some funding, probably because each of the "platinum members" of the linux foundation maintain a lot of critical stuff running on linux in-house, so they view the $500,000 membership fee as a tech support fee.

In that case, they can probably see a clear connection between "spend $500k per year" and "receive maintenance of large & critical business systems".

@nyquildotorg @glassresistor @aeva @nat @mcc @nullagent everyone who suggested a firefox-based thing (e.g. floorp) should read this:

https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114082823521695617

fundamentally, what we're missing is an organization with a stable, long-term source of funding that *isn't* based on advertising.

Development probably needs to be funded by the government(s) of one or more countries that stand a good chance of not turning fash in the foreseeable future.

@regehr @jrose @steve @porglezomp @bob ooh, i wasn't aware of this:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-Og

quote:
> It [-Og] is a better choice than -O0 for producing debuggable code because some compiler passes that collect debug information are disabled at -O0.

but this is gcc's documentation, not clang's. Unfortunately, clang doesn't seem to document -O options at all, so i don't know whether this aspect of gcc's -O0/-Og is also true of clang's -O0/-Og.

@altruios @dalias @woe2you @tante if an instance of technology is designed to serve investors at any cost, then, sure, the overall system that prioritizes the wants of the investors is the root problem; however, that by itself does not mean that the *specific* aforementioned technology is capable of doing good in this world. And we've already seen, for *at least* all the reasons mentioned above, how it's doing uncountable harm...

@dalias @woe2you @altruios @tante and some of us may appreciate the convenience of controlling home automation with natural language, but i'd suggest that the benefit does not outweigh the costs that we've learned about so far (which is probably not the complete set of costs).

@dalias @woe2you @altruios @tante and on top of *that*, both academics and students have been reporting a rise in dependence on fake literature & fake chats, to an extent that people try to use it as a substitute for critical thinking:
https://ohai.social/@resuna/113533400798237448

...which seems like it would lead to an atrophy of critical thinking skills and research skills.

@dalias @woe2you @altruios @tante 100%
On top of that, the output of gen-a.i. (namely, fake literature, including fake websites) has been reducing the usefulness of search engines over time, as Freya Holmér explained in detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY

...to the point where, in many cases, the only potentially-useful & potentially-legitimate thing on the first page of search results is a link to wikipedia (and the rest is links to fake literature).