Notices by aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)

@dalias @itamarst I think Itamar's point is rather that whatever the manual-memory-management type of excessive verbosity of today is, we should be reasoning out ways to eliminate it and make our languages more expressive, instead of just hand waving it away because LLMs can (supposedly) do the expressing for us

@dalias @Gina @khm @lulu @hipsterelectron I'm not sure that's fully true. I try to cw upsetting politics but don't always take the time and I don't worry about it when boosting. As with everything, it remains to be seen how the rule will be applied, but it seems very open to de-welcoming people who want to talk about systems and trends affecting communities in tech, which (dalias' musl account aside 🙃) is what actually makes up the server

@dalias @Gina yeah it's the classic civility trap where abusers or oppressors stay calm while doing bad shit, so anyone who speaks up is labeled the bad guy for making a scene. Kudos to you for trying to write the ship, but "no politics"/"no advocacy" is not going to work

@dalias yeah, it was really weird to see them say "well we haven't seen him do any nazi things while moderating? 🤷" like... folks can be evil *and* subtle, and going with the nazi bar analogy it doesn't even matter

@dalias the two admins left, and this is what the new admin said https://hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-community-statement

@inthehands I feel like this is going to go the same way as the NYT a few years ago trying to hire an "acceptable" conservative columnist or two (before the management changes and they went full mask off). They kept hiring someone that they thought was sort of centrist enough, then going all shocked Pikachu and firing them when their history of being a racist shit bag came out

@inthehands @kims can't imagine why people who don't think universities should exist don't want to work in them!!

@dalias @CavedaleRhones @PamelaBarroway @ai6yr they already sold out to AI hype a while ago

@dalias I've been using ticket IDs as opaque error codes in crash messages

@dalias there's also the fact that Amazon likes to juice their shipping times by predictively staging products in warehouses all over the place, so it could be quite some time before the shortages hit

@dalias yeah but if you order any of those Amazon products do they actually arrive?

@inthehands @infobeautiful well, spoken French is highly compressed. You don't have to pronounce a good 50% of the letters in each word /s

@dalias @servo left a comment on the github proposal

@dalias would that it were always simple to determine the difference...

@inthehands what is the difference between the three?

@inthehands yep. And I have to imagine a lot of people are thinking at the moment "well, the leopards would never revoke MY degree... right?"

@inthehands problem is who wants to be the first to call for heads on pikes, when they've already demonstrated willingness to revoke degrees for wrongthink

@inthehands @SaltySolomon it's a bus lane though...

@inthehands probably, but also they haven't made that much headway?

@dalias @unlambda @khm @HeavenlyPossum when this discussion you always get veterans talking a big game about how basic training covers legality of orders and I don't mean to disparage them at all since I have no relevant experience, but my hunch is that ambient fascism, pressure to conform, and paychecks are a fucking hell of a drug