Notices by pixelherodev (pixelherodev@fosstodon.org)

@clacke This is totes on me for not being clear >_>

I meant that they were - or at least, I perceive them to be - trying to lock me into using their PR workflow, and not looking at the patches *at all*. I don't think they *want* people knowing that there *is* a way to do so without using their UI.

Why does GitHub make it impossible to just GET A FREAKING PATCH from a commit on the web UI????

Oh, right, because they're a centralized capitalist platform and want to lock me into using them and don't _want_ me using git directly.

I should just move all of the #knightos repos onto sr.ht under a ~knightos user or something for now :/

@icedquinn KZ microphones are shit, but the IEMs are actually pretty good?

I have my ZS10 pros in right now, was a bit surprised to see this :P

@icedquinn I picked up a cheap condensor mic a while back, because I play piano and figured, "Eh, why not?" and now I mainly use it for work calls >_>

@RL_Dane @grueproof I'll be honest: Devuan does not interest me. It used to - I ran it for a bit - but they're just... they talk a lot, let's say.

There's a number of systemd-free distros. Most of them don't consider that their *only redeeming quality*.

@FreeCAD @SrEstegosaurio If educators cared about student consent, the education system would be different at every level.

Not to mention, if educators cared about software lock-in, they *wouldn't be using it*.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who was concerned enough about it to say something, but not so concerned as to avoid it.

It's always either, "I don't care," "I don't have the *time* to care," (which I'm a lot more sympathetic to), or "Yeah, I use free software wherever possible."

@martijnbraam I'm honestly kinda surprised you didn't notice sooner :P

But then again, it took me three months to realize I was losing ~30% of my battery to a background script because I underestimated how many wakeups it would cause :P

@w96k I'm not a fan of GNU C, but I have no issue with people using it; I use a *different* nonstandard dialect (Ken C).

What I really dislike is Stallman perpetuating the idea that language matters. If it was a reference manual for GNU C, that would be alright, but the advice to use it to learn C is terrible.

If you know basic programming concepts but not C, you do NOT need 200 pages to learn C. You need like 20, of which 10 are about the lang and 10 are pitfalls like the promotion rules.

@Zergling_man @kroner @fluffy@social.handholding.io

> System X is bad
> Therefore, use System Y

This is a terrible argument. Just because one system is bad doesn't mean that your alternative isn't *worse*.

Also, the entire idea of a currency that doesn't require trust demonstrates a total lack of understanding of people, technology, and money, all at once!

Well done. That was genuinely *impressive*.

@Zergling_man @kroner

X is bad therefore !X is *not* always valid. Sometimes, *every* option is bad. In such a case, "X bad therefore !X" is wrong.

When it comes to financial systems, that's exactly the case. The banking systems are terrible. Anyone who thinks Bitcoin is the answer either a) doesn't understand Bitcoin or b) has already put money *into* Bitcoin, and is financially dependent upon convincing people that Bitcoin is the answer.

Bitcoin is not trustworthy or anonymous.

@Zergling_man @kroner Bitcoin is not anonymous, either. It's *pseudonymous*, which is *not* the same thing.

There's growing arsenals of tools to deanonymize Bitcoin transactions, and there's been hundreds of arrests to date *as a direct result*.

The "foundational technology" of all cryptocurrencies I'm aware of, blockchains, are *inherently* impossible to keep truly anonymous, *by design*.

If the entire list of every transaction ever made is public, and you know *one* end of *one* of them...

@icedquinn @Zergling_man @kroner XD

Not only is it not uninflatable, but cryptocurrency is inherently designed such that the people with most wealth at their inception gain the most wealth over time.

With a proof-of-stake system, this is pretty obvious: that's the *point*. With proof-of-work, the people with the most wealth (in *any* form) can afford the most expensive mining farms and can burn as much electricity as they want, so their odds of getting mining awards are higher.

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner If the government is so corrupt that you feel a shadow governance is needed (and, really, that's what a populist currency would actually be), then frankly a currency won't help you.

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner

*Every time* people freak out that "if we cross X threshold, we'll trigger hyperinflation!!", they've been wrong.

They've been wrong about this for over a century.

Don't claim that something is a *widely accepted fact* when it's an active source of political dispute.

This is why mixing math and politics is so terrible: people who are good at math but don't understand how it relates to reality end up believing the stupidest things.

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner > Not being able to create money out of thin air

The problem with this idea is that it assumes that money *is* real. It's not.

Money is and always had been purely imaginary. Of *course* the government can create it out of thin air: all money *is* is thin air!

There's sufficient resources that scarcity of necessities is akin to murder these days.

We don't need a "good" way of tracking imaginary bullshit numbers, we need to stop tracking bullshit.

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner And, for that matter: *why* the distribution of resources is inadequate isn't really important.

It's not adequate.

> There are 33 empty properties for each homeless person in the US

> In the United States, over one-third of all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste

I'm not defending fiat. It's awful. The problem is, replacing one form of money with another misses the point.

We need to change how we think about value in a much deeper way.

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner For a cryptocurrency based on a proof-of-work system to even be usable *as a currency* by >1M people, it would need to consume more electricity than the *entire planet* currently does.

But sure, this will *save* lives. Definitely.

(Blah blah proof-of-stake: yes, because a system that *reinforces existing wealth* is bad for people who profit off of fiat :P)

@ademan @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner Or maybe basing a currency off of a distributed Merkle tree is just a stupid idea?

@thatguyoverthere @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner @ademan Quite frankly: between my bank and Ethereum, I trust my bank far, far, far more.

@thatguyoverthere @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner @ademan Don't get me wrong, I don't think the existing system is *good*.

I dislike the existing system a *lot*. But letting a bunch of technologists design their ideal world will result in something that's much, much, much worse.