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@aral My main dev environment is a bigass nano window over an SSH session through the Tilda terminal with Audiowide font :)

I might pop a couple tabs open in Tilda but that's as advanced as it gets over here lol

@jonathanhogg There's also the duplicated effort problem. Pick any large company...McDonald's for example. I'm sure they've got a bunch of coders building their app and their website and controlling the POS or whatever other gadgets in the stores. And Burger King probably has a very similar team writing very similar code. And Wendy's, and Jack in the Box, and on and on and on.

If you've got two competing factories that each produce a hundred cars a day, at the end of the day you have two hundred cars. But when you've got two teams writing the same software? You could just copy and paste. Half those people are entirely unnecessary, just wasting their time and wasting their labor because grown-ass adults can't figure out how to share.

So now we build these "AI" tools that gobble up everyone's code and spit it back out again just to launder the IP infringement and call that progress!

The "efficiency gains" of LLMs are just a matter of disguising collective action as rugged individualism.

@futurebird So I had an idea for this for ages that I would occasionally post and always get a couple boosts and favorites so I finally started making it a thing: @FediMatch

@kaia OK but that is actually when I purchased my last PC and pretty close to when I'm expecting to buy my next one. I'm already on that ten year upgrade cycle and it's kinda nice tbh. Unlike Dell and HP and such, System76 does not produce instant e-waste. We need a whole lot more of that in this world...

@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder Not everyone has the time to do that research. It ain't always easy. I'm regularly voting based on literally nothing more than a four year old interview on local radio from when the person was running for some different office. And for some races even that would be a lot of information. In at least one election all I could find to go on were photos of the candidate putting up yard signs! You only even get *claims* about what they want to accomplish at the highest level races, and even those require carefully watching their past history to know if they actually believe a single damn word of it. I struggle to figure this shit out and I'm invested enough to be taking classes on how to research candidates!

It'd be great if we had a party that actually held their candidates to some standard; an organization to do some of that vetting for us; instead of Ds and Rs that switch parties like an NFL draft without actually changing their positions...

Running under either party is basically just running with a corporate sponsor at this point. The only thing it proves is money and/or connections. And if you truly believe that people can all independently determine and vote for the best candidate then why does it matter which party? Why do we need parties at all? These organizations are either irrelevant or failures. Or they're highly successful as gatekeepers against us.

@bweller Seems like pretty obvious bullshit to me. There is no logical reason for them to do this, and the cartels are not stupid. And there's no evidence beyond statements from frequent liars in Trump's admin. This is the same "violent paid protesters" shit they've been trying to sell for years. Just more fabricated justifications for their own brutality.

@fkamiah17 @aral Any idea if Fair Lady was captured? They were having engine trouble and were literally sailing, and were one of the last still going last night...but they were in the back of the pack.

According to Al Jazeera, Israel says one boat still sailing that will be stopped if it attempts to breach the blockade -- implying they haven't even tried. Feels like either an insult to sameone far behind or they're just referring to one of the legal support ships.

@BeAware they also said bluesky was decentralized...

@maj “They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no constitutional rights at a point of entry"

That's not exactly false. That's been the situation for a LONG time now.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

@vkc Voted for KDE although I gave up on both of them a couple years ago for Enlightenment which is SO MUCH BETTER! ;)

1) I dislike Gnome because I don't want to have to rely on a bunch of third-party extensions from god only knows where for crap that should just be a checkbox in the settings app.

2) Last time I used Gnome I couldn't even use the system settings app anyway -- it was taller than my screen, it wouldn't let me move it, it wouldn't let me shrink it, I couldn't hit the apply button because it was off the screen and about 80% of that vertical space was just empty space between options. They prioritize obnoxious unnecessary white space over basic accessibilty.

3) I gave up on KDE shortly after 4.0 not because it lacked any features or functionality, but because it was a bit slow and a bit unstable. So if forced to choose I'd just hope those issues had improved.

Christ when did utility poles become cache that needs to be constantly refreshed??

These executives must be *freaked* if they're sending goons out to rip paper off poles every day...

@lauren stumbled into this lovely example of that at work recently...and no, I was not trying to use any AI:

@bmacDonald94 I have Signal on my Android phone without any Google account connected...?

@lfa What server software are you running?

What's the current consensus on secure decentralized chat apps? We still on IRC/Jabber/Jitsi or is that all old news?

Apparently people are thinking that storing a copy of the Signal app will be enough to prevent fascists from shutting down secure comms. But of course, Signal is centralized so it'd be relatively easy to shut it down server-side. And while the code is all open, Signal has gone out of their way to shut down other projects trying to build on that code, so it probably would not be easy to make use of that at this point...

So should I just back up some Jabber apps and throw a server together or what? :)

Corporate putting in all of these extra hoops to jump through for "security" just to have the admins responsible for these systems go "I dunno what you're talking about, I'll just give you root access and you can do it yourself."

Lovely, even after explaining that corporate policy prohibits me from knowing the password to this account the admins are demanding that I be the one to choose the new password. OK then, I guess I'll take that secret unauthorized privilege escalation if you're just handing them out like fuckin candy...

Our unix admins seem very confused by the concept of FUCKING SSH

We've been trying to get this issue fixed since last week. It's fucking Thursday. "This issue" is a goddamn expired password on a service account whose password should not ever expire it the first place (it shouldn't allow you to login with the password, we don't need that, but now we can't login even without the password because it's expired.)

BUT PRIVATE CORPORATIONS ARE SOOO EFFICIENT!

Oh god I fear I've gone full middle-aged suburban white dad. For a minute there I was seriously considering trying to 3D print some kind of utility belt for holding a coffee cup.

But like...it's cold, so I want to bring some hot tea for the walk. But it's cold, so I would like to put my hands in my pockets not have to be holding the cup! I mean I could modify a bag to keep the cup upright easily enough but it'd still be a two hand operation to get it out and put it back...with a belt clip it could pop right off with one hand!

Sometimes I can just pocket that shit...but only if those aren't already filled with books and electronics...