Notices by tranny demon hacker (beka_valentine@kolektiva.social)

@Jain @kkarhan omg these are so good

now see, i wrote about this sort of thing like two or three years ago. mastodon fundamentally doesn't change the dynamic of centralization because it relies on centralized internet hosting, so instead of Twitter, Inc. being the power in control of things, it becomes the handful of hosting providers. instances are an illusion, the service is all running on a handful of cloud providers and now THEY have ultimate control. you are still powerless, but have an illusion of power, leading to absurd nonsense like this

https://zoner.work/notes/9r93j3gcwkl402zg

@ryanc the illuminati is after you

i've discusses this before in the context of decentralization and why so much of the web has become a giant pile of shit tools but it's worth repeating bits of it, so here goes

https://sfba.social/@marcidy/111964900301293558

i think there's at least two reasons here

the first is that in the 90s, The Web consisted of like, at most, a few tens of millions of users, and the problems that companies faced were mostly getting developers at all

but as tech evolved in the 2000s and 2010s, the web grew to BILLIONS of users and sites yearned to have as many users as the entire web did a decade or two prior

its a nightmare of tooling that makes even the most basic of things a horrible experience

but why is it like that?

nowadays even the simplest of tools is ensconsed in docker and and ansible and yadda yadda and you have to use NPM to manage your things and maybe you transpile your blah blah blah

this happened as well in other domains, such as deployment systems. it used to be that in order to set up a web server for some web app, you'd set up, i dunno, Apache with PHP or something, maybe some MySQL, and just point it at a directly and you're done

you *technically* still can, but today, there's so much framework nonsense that its functionally impossible to do so. in the 90s, there was none of that and so you could actually LEARN things, learn HTML, CSS, and JS, just from reading source

when you look at the history of the web, it used to be in the 1990s that most things were transparent in how they were working, at least the site itself

you could right click and view source, and see how the HTML worked, how the CSS worked, how the JavaScript worked

React is suited to the needs of Facebook, not you

Kubernetes is suited to the needs of Google, not you

Docker is suited to the needs of large corporations trying to scale to bajillions of people, not you

and this has had the consequence of making the needs of those Very Large Websites drive the development of some very specific tools

React, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform

these are systems no human needs, they are only needed by corporations. two of those came out of two of the literally biggest companies on the planet!

for the love of god people if you make a domain specific language, make sure you have validity checks in place. smdh

silent failures for invalid inputs is BAD and you should feel BAD

I mean, squatting whole buildings? imagine that being legal. in real live, the squatters would be violently arrested

even Star Trek's dystopia is utopian compared to real America

compared to America's current response to homelessness, Star Trek's Sanctuary Districts are actually a utopian fantasy. at least there, homeless people could camp on the streets and squat apartments and get food without the police throwing all their stuff in the trash

dr crusher is a great doctor but dr pulaski is a force of nature and i love her for it

@jenniferplusplus so true. like, i like crusher, you know? dont get me wrong. but pulaski is a bitch and i love her for it

@emilygorcenski @irenes its endemic now, not much we can do, shrug

@emilygorcenski @irenes wow are you saying Americans can't understand having bombs dropped on them? havent you heard of the MOVE bombing of 1985 when they dropped a home made incendiary device on a house in Philadelphia? that killed 11 people, which is literally the exact same thing as what's happening in Gaza right now

atlantans resisting cop city is good and important but to describe them as climate refugees and to describe the cop response as genocide is deranged aggrandizing